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Matiangai Sirleaf

@matiangai.bsky.social
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Scholar. Writer. Teacher. Advocate. matiangai.com Order Race & National Security (OUP 2023) global.oup.com/academic/product/rac…

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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Interview on moving beyond recognition toward repair for chattel enslavement, the trade in African peoples, and their enduring legacies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltc7...
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Beyond Recognition, Toward Repair: A conversation with Professor Matiangai Sirleaf
YouTube video by The Resistance Bureau
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Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Latest episode out now! Ft. @matiangai.bsky.social discussing how the interests of whiteness have often dominated global public health policy and how the long shadow of medical colonialism shows up today. www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/leg...
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Legacies of Colonialism in Public Health — Public Health is Dead
Can public health break from its colonial past for a different future?
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Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Re: Ebola, travel bans, anti-Black racism, and how white health dominates the global public health regime, here is a great paper by @matiangai.bsky.social “White Health and International Law” www.matiangai.com/pubs/white-h...
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White Health and International Law | Matiangai
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Reparations are overdue. International law needs to move beyond legal recognition of the wrongfulness of chattel enslavement and the trade in enslaved people, toward repair and remedy. The UN's recent resolution represents a step toward global racial justice. www.justsecurity.org/138316/beyon...
Hands breaking shackles
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is not a drill! Part I of Global Health at a Crossroads Symposiumis out in the American Journal of International Law Unbound. My intro. to the symposium is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/service... Check out all the insightful contributions below! #globalhealth #internationallaw
First page on introduction to Symposia on Global Health at a Crossroads
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
For its 80th anniversary, the U.N. asserts we are "better together." Since its founding, the U.N.'s survival has depended on how it positions itself in situations of injustice. The story of the U.N. is the story of Congo. Read my latest in @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/123129/unite...
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The United Nations and a World in Pain
The U.N.’s survival depends on how it positions itself between the elephant and the mouse, in South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond.
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The national racial gaslighting is at an all time high. I thought they had reached their peak already, but they are aspiring to higher heights.
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/06/2025
administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Also this morning the Maryland Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission held a hearing at the Reginald Lewis museum in Baltimore. Lovely to reconnect with old friends & colleagues & to meet new friends committed to the work of true repair.
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Register for Maryland's Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission hybrid public hearing on April 4th and 5th: mdlynchingmemorial.networkforgood.com/events/79416... Expert witnesses will give tesimony on how MD can address its legacy of racial terror and potentially prevent harm in the present.
The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission will hold a public hearing in Maryland on April 4th and 5th, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to bring awareness to Maryland's history of racial violence and to foster reconciliation in the present.  

HEARING DETAILS

When: Friday, April 4, 2025 and Saturday, April 5, 2025

Time (in person and streaming): 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Where: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 830 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202Reparations as Justice: Economic, Legal, and Social Pathways to Repair. Photographs from right to left: moderator Comissioner Dr. Nicholas Creary. Panelists: Dr. William Darity, Prof. Joel Edward Goza, Dreisen Heath, Prof. Marcus Anthony Hunter, Prof. Matiangai Sirleaf
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Britta Redwood @britta-redwood.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
As someone who’s always been critical of Pax Americana, I’m nevertheless terrified by how swiftly it is ending. A thoughtful essay (and great reading list!) by the brilliant @matiangai.bsky.social is a guide on how to keep dreaming (and working) in this moment. www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...
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Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire
Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.
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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Tour de force by @matiangai.bsky.social now up on @justsecurity.org “The world worth fighting for is a radically transformed one.” www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...
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Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire
Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 06/03/2025
Pax Americana and the rules-based international order have always been built on flawed foundations, writes @matiangai.bsky.social “The world worth fighting for is a radically transformed one.” www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...
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Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire
Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Hope for realizing a healthier world and transformation in global public health: social movements, young minds, innovation from the Global South, capacity for learning, and compromise. ICYMI @roojinhabibi.org @fifarahman.bsky.social @clarewenham.bsky.social Dr. Andraghetti & I 👇🏿 youtu.be/pS80uVTSEmU
Flyer announcing Towards Transformation in Global Public Health Panel on Feb. 27th with pictures and titles of the four panelists and moderator: from right to left Roberta Andraghetti, Technical Officer World Health Organization, Roojin Habibi, Assistant  Professor, Univ. of Ottawa, Fifa Rahman, Principal Consultant, Mathari, Clare Wenham, Associate Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science, Matiangai Sirleaf, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of LawPicture in MD Carey Law stairwell in front of symbols of justice from right to left: Connor Lemma, EiC Maryland Journal of International Law (MJIL), Professor Habibi, Professor Sirleaf, Professor Wenham, Halla McDermon, Symposium Editor, MJIL, Dr. RahmanPanelist seated at table from right to left: Professor Habibi, Dr. Rahman, Professor Wenham, Professor Sirleaf
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
ICYMI @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on global health's past, present and potential futures is available here youtu.be/7JjUTi0q9OM?... We discuss how zones of sacrifice, power, privilege, racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze, White supremacy & saviorism shape global health then and now.
Image of the globe as a virus with the bottom two-thirds of people in the Global South falling off or barely hanging on, while the top third of people in the Global North stand on gold waiting in line to get vaccinated. Image of Matiangai Sirleaf, her institutional affiliation and title of talk White Health as Global Health.Image of Matiangai Sirleaf and Seye Abimbola
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Happening today a convo at 4 PM EST on zones of sacrifice and how power, privilege, racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze + White supremacy & saviorism shape global health. Register: umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...
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White Health and International Law - Center for Global Engagement
Matiangai Sirleaf, professor at both the Carey School of Law and the School of Medicine, and Dr. Seye Abimbola, a health systems researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney's Sc...
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Join @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on White Health & International Law Wed. 12/4 at 4:00PM EST. This is not a drill calling all #globalhealth #internationallaw #racialjustice #publichealth #academicsky #blackademics Hybrid event register: umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...
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White Health and International Law - Center for Global Engagement
Matiangai Sirleaf, professor at both the Carey School of Law and the School of Medicine, and Dr. Seye Abimbola, a health systems researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney's Sc...
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Selective prosecution convo missing the reality of over policing of people singled out routinely based on class, race, addiction, housing insecurity etc... Where are their pardons? What of the efforts to break the millions ensnared in this unjust legal system? When will enough be enough for them?
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Finally for my latest piece for the Arab Center, I wrote about the perils of understanding the crisis of displacement in Sudan solely as a "humanitarian" tragedy rather than a politically manufactured horror of racial capitalism that values profit over human lives. arabcenterdc.org/resource/war...
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War and Displacement in Sudan
In April 2023, violence broke out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in a power struggle between Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti...
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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Matiangai Sirleaf (Ma-tee-ahn-gay Sir-leaf). I am the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the UMD School of Law. I hold a secondary appointment as a professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health at the UMD School of Medicine. Views are mine 👇🏿
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