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Sara Smith

@geogsara.bsky.social
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Love. Intimacy. Geopolitics. Political geographer at UNC-CH. Author of Intimate Geopolitics & Political Geography: a Critical Introduction. Insta @geogsara and @landbackabolition. Free 🇵🇸 linktr.ee/geogsara

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 25/05/2026
In a state that’s already short on the resource, Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to double water use.
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Nukes and AI require 1.4 million gallons of water a day at New Mexico lab - High Country News
Los Alamos National Laboratory plans to use over a million gallons of water per day for A.I. and nuclear weapons research and production.
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Stephen Legg @stephenlegg11.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I am incredibly grateful to Chris Philo for organising a book forum to discuss "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities". 50 free downloads of "Writing the anticolonial: between postcolonial and decolonial geographies" at... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/B7CBR...
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Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I think about this all the time and bring it up in every class. Think of the position this puts mourning relatives in. 💔 down with empire.
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Don’t forget to mark your calendar! 🗓️ In addition to specialized student offerings throughout the week, join a day-long program on Wednesday, March 18, dedicated to student research, development, workshops, and activities for all levels of education.  Log in to check out offerings: buff.ly/gGH7kk7
Three circles with photos of students participating in three annual meetings with text: #AAG2026 Student Day. Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Specialized student offerings dedicated to student research, panels, and activities for all levels of education.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
all time photo editor performance
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
A child’s illustration, made in what appears to be crayon, of more than a dozen figures standing together. It’s titled “Mi Familia” and credited to “Luisanney Toloza, 5 años.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.” From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days
The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.”The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
With commentaries by Madiha Tahir at Yale, Lisa Bhungalia at UW Madison, Craig Jones at Newcastle University, and @geogsara.bsky.social from UNC Chapel Hill. Author Rhys Machold at the University of Glasgow provides a thought-provoking response
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Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A powerful forum on Rhys Machold’s book Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel is now available. Mark Griffiths writes that the book “addresses crucial questions on the workings of right-wing populism, authoritarianism, and weapons capitalism.”
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Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 26/01/2026
Border Patrol in Minneapolis are being sent home. If true, it means that broad-based local response to heavy immigration enforcement has real effects.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026
Good. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reports
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Deb Krol @debkrol.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ICE agents detain Navajo man in Arizona, ignoring US, tribal IDs by @abecenti.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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ICE agents detain Navajo man in Arizona, ignoring US, tribal IDs
Peter Yazzie was held for several hours in metro Phoenix, but there are reports of Native people detained in Minnesota and elsewhere.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/11/2025
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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Laura Eccott @lauraeccott.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year” A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
SHARE OF GLOBAL POPULATION BY INCOME VS SHARE OF CONSUMPTION-BASED CO2 EMISSIONS, 2023
TOP 10% (TOP 1% WITHIN)

The richest 10% are responsible for 48% of emissions

MIDDLE 40%

The middle 40% are responsible for 44% of emissions

50% BOTTOM (10% WITHIN)

The poorest 50% are responsible for 8% of emissions
Source: Oxfam
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dylan m. harris @dylanmharris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation? thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work! here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jenifa Zahan @jenifazahan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
‼️ New article ‼️ I and Raajorshi conceptualise "everyday carcerality" to articulate how life is lived at the intersection of State-Capital-Land-Housing nexus in Delhi's urban margins. Open access link 👇 @urbanstudiesfoundation.org onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Production of Everyday Carcerality in State‐Led Redevelopment of Informal Settlement in Delhi, India
This paper focuses on the everyday experiences of carcerality of a community, known as Kathputli Colony, that has been waiting to be rehoused by the state for over a decade in Delhi, India. We draw o....
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Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Come out to @scrapexchange.bsky.social today for a Handcrafts for Palestine fundraiser 12-5pm ♥️🇵🇸
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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Hey geographers #geosky: What is your favorite political ecology piece (academic article or other) to teach undergrads these days? Looking for syllabus recommendations that resonate really well, generate good discussion, and are clear and accessible. #politicalecology #geography
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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Intriguing new article by Danielle Purifoy, James Bryan, & Sara Smith examining the Landback Abolition Project at UNC & asks ‘how do faculty, students, staff, & community of a 234-year-old colonial institution create the conditions for a structural shift in our relations toward land & education?’
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Call for Abstracts: The inaugural Special Issue of “GeoHumanities” invites emerging geographic scholarship situated at the crossroads of Solidarities, #Humanitarianism, and #Scholarship-Activism. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by October 6, 2025: buff.ly/zt8LYcF
Cover of the journal "GeoHumanities" with description of a call for abstracts.
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Deadline Approaching: The Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference (REP) takes place November 5-8 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sponsored by the University of New Mexico and the AAG. Register and submit your paper, panel, or poster before August 31. Learn more about how to get involved: buff.ly/AOPikkl
Greetings from Burque!
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Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Intro to Environmental Justice let’s goooooo ♥️🔥
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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Deadline Extension!! Call for Proposals! Are you a librarian, archivist, historian, or memory worker preserving LGBTQ history? Join us for the 2026 Queer History South Conference! Submit a proposal by visiting invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026.
Deadline Extension!! Call for Proposals! Are you a librarian, archivist, historian, or memory worker preserving LGBTQ history? Join us for the 2026 Queer History South Conference!

Submit a proposal by visiting invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
this Transactions piece had been in the slow cooker for many years I'm so glad that it's out!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This workshop is today! Don’t miss it. Support grassroots mutual aid networks on the ground.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
if you set the distribution of harms from pollution (e.g. cancer and asthma rates) next to the distribution of benefits from economic cooperation (e.g. income/wealth gaps) then the narrative that environmentalism is for the rich is the thing we should find surprising!
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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A new paper by my wonderful colleague Joanna Allan and her co-author Moiti Mohamed Azrouk, "Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara," looks fascinating! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoin....
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵
3. UPDATED: What types of awards are being terminated? 

Awards that are not aligned with program goals or agency priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), environmental justice, and misinformation/disinformation.
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Me: I love teaching! Also me, preparing my classes:
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Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
White people enacting violence after violence instead of grappling in earnest w history & how how it shapes us. Also frustrating as a teacher because many white students absolutely are capable of growth if you hold them to that standard. There’s a reason white supremacists find these bans so urgent.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This statistic blew my mind
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Come join us ♥️🇵🇸
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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Horrified by this. Reverent Barber is the closest to MLK this movement has - he emanates goodness and loving kindness. His care for all of humanity is the biggest threat they face.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts. chuffed.org/project/work...
Image of a beautiful Black woman with black glasses and long grey locs head titled towards the camera and smiling, wearing cowry shell earrings. In yellow against black background the poster reads Workshops4Sudan The Soviets and Abolition, Monday, May 5th, 12-2 pm EDT. Virtual (via Zoom) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a Writer, Abolitionist and Scholar from New Haven, Connecticut. Workshops4Sudan.
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Brandon Silverman @brandonsilverman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Think the site is pretty much good to go at this point! trackingourinstitutions.com
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Tracking Our Institutions
Which U.S. institutions are resisting pressure from the Trump administration—and which are capitulating?
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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Congratulations to Shakirah E. Hudani on her book Master Plans and Minor Acts winning the ISA Peace Studies Section, Best Global South Scholar Book Award and being shortlisted for the ISA Global Development Studies Book Award. Learn more here: bit.ly/UCPEXAAG. #AAG2025
Text: ISA PEACE Best Global South Scholar Book Award Winner.
Image: book cover of Master Plans & Minor Acts.
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Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Mahmoud Khalil asked for permission to attend the birth of his child under any conditions. His request was denied within 30 minutes. apnews.com/article/mahm...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal immigration authorities denied Mahmoud Khalil’s request for a temporary release from detention to attend the birth of his first child, who was born Monday in New York, according to emails shared with The Associated Press.

Khalil, a Columbia University activist who has been held in a detention center in Jena, Louisiana for six weeks, requested a two-week furlough on Sunday morning, noting that his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, had gone into labor eight days earlier than expected.

His lawyers said he would be “open to any combination of conditions” to allow the release, including wearing an ankle monitor and attending regularly scheduled check-ins with immigration authorities.

Around 30 minutes later, Mellissa B. Harper, the New Orleans Field Office Director for U.S. Immigrations and Customs, wrote back: “After consideration of the submitted information and a review of your client’s case, your request for furlough is denied.”
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