brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comThe university is the crisisThe crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ... 010
Reposted by brandi t. summersMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...lexacademic.comThe Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic® 8716207
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Read the latest from THE Jafari S. Allen on the dismantling of Black Studies www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comThe Dismantling of Black StudiesEveryone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act. 001
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026aje.news/e470nmaje.newsCuba sent doctors. Washington sent a destroyer.The US blockade is killing not just a failing state, but six decades of a small island extending global solidarity. 001
Reposted by brandi t. summersPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026"The ghosts of Oakland’s Black past are remembered and mobilized by different constituencies for different political ends, as the vampiric appetites of gentrification feed on the blood and bones of culture and infrastructure." @drbrandi.bsky.social, on the specter of Blackness haunting Oakland, CA:placesjournal.orgOakland and the Ghosts of UrbicideA specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders. 0228
Reposted by brandi t. summersPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026"It is eerie and jarring to walk around this city and imagine how it used to be Black, and now is not. I never imagined that Oakland would stop being a Black city...would stop feeling like a Black city. How, now, do I deliver the attention this haunted landscape solicits?" — @drbrandi.bsky.social 0124
Reposted by brandi t. summersTom Holub @bike-lab.org · 01/04/2026I've been drawn into a number of pieces on the Black geographies of Oakland this week. @drbrandi.bsky.social's piece here fits with @oaklandreviewofbooks.org review of Freaky Tales. dr. brandi writes, "what I remember most about Oakland is what I call 'the lost years', the 1980s and ’90s". 161
Reposted by brandi t. summersPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2026"The logic of urbicide in the continuous rebuilding of cities necessitates the destruction of Black place. I'd add that urbicide presumes as its justification a preexisting placelessness, an expectation that Black and poor people are ontologically predisposed to do without." — @drbrandi.bsky.socialplacesjournal.orgOakland and the Ghosts of UrbicideA specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders. 0174
Reposted by brandi t. summersMarthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026New essay by @drbrandi.bsky.social on the Black ghosts that in their haunting traces define the Oakland we live inside. 2104
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026My latest… It was an honor to get to write a bit about my late grandmother and my family’s journey to and through Oakland. 1176
Reposted by brandi t. summersPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025“By reassembling lost urban histories, the people involved, and their networks of relationship, we can see a layer of community organizing that has held a neighborhood and a city together.” This is the ethos animating community archival work. Read more from @drbrandi.bsky.social & Moriah Ulinskas. 0226
Reposted by brandi t. summersZachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 07/04/2025.@criticalsoc.bsky.social just ran a great critical review forum on my 2022 book 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, including contributions from @juliango.bsky.social, @drbrandi.bsky.social, Alex Loftus, and Crystal Eddins, with a response from me. Free PDF version in the thread. 1105
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 28/04/2025hammerandhope.org/forums/georg...hammerandhope.orgAmerica Is Demolishing Antiracism Five Years After the George Floyd UprisingsHammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump. Their responses, some... 010
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They DareIt’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works. 020
Reposted by brandi t. summersSimbones @hellsprout.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The way Columbia students have held it down >>>> 043
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/m...nytimes.comAmerica’s Hidden Racial Divide: A Mysterious Gap in Psychosis RatesBlack Americans experience schizophrenia and related disorders at twice the rate of white Americans. It’s a disparity that has parallels in other cultures. 120
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...kenklippenstein.comExclusive: Luigi's ManifestoRead the manifesto the media refused to publish 010
Reposted by brandi t. summersPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui... 392180413787
Reposted by brandi t. summersPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.wdbj7.comWell-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81. 32394982502
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...nbcnews.comWhat the recall of progressives in the Bay Area says about Asian American views on crimeOakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County DA Pamela Price were ousted last week as many locals, including Asian Americans, shift toward tougher crime policies. 010
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...bostonreview.netThis, Our Second Nadir - Boston ReviewWe need a restoration of historical thinking. 001
Reposted by brandi t. summersPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 14/11/2024And just like that, there's 3! The THIRD installment of "Field Notes: Repair" is out now. Read dispatches from dozens of scholars, designers, planners & activists who share their observations on the issues they find most relevant in practices of repair, maintenance & care. A new series in Places:placesjournal.orgField Notes on Repair: 3The third installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, and activists share observations on practices of repair, preservation, and care. 0145