Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Beyond excited to be in community with these scholars and artists next year (and to finally finish this book manuscript)! 1162
Reposted by Monica C. BellRahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Blurbs for Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing are in! I'm so grateful to the wonderful scholars who have written them, including this generous first blurb by Monica Bell (thanks @monicacbell.bsky.social!). The book is out in June: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe... 0152
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025It is amazing how well growing up in the Black Pentecostal tradition prepared me for these dastardly days. Some of us have been preparing for the End Times since the 1980s 🙌🏿 090
Reposted by Monica C. BellJust Security @justsecurity.org · 24/12/2024[1/2] A favorite tradition, the Just Security year-end book recommendations, is here! Our editors recommend a mix of books to learn more about some of the issues we cover, and to unwind and recharge for the year ahead. With thanks to our readers and to ... www.justsecurity.org/105991/just-...justsecurity.orgThe Just Security 2024 Year-End Book RecommendationsJust Security editors recommend books they read this year, including those that illuminated world issues and brought joy into their 2024. 35815
Reposted by Monica C. BellJosh Page @joshpage.bsky.social · 10/12/2024In our forthcoming book, @joesoss.bsky.social and I argue that corporations routinely find ways to profit off the needs, desires, and vulnerabilities of incarcerated people & their families. Tablets are a prime example. #LegalPlunder 0152
Reposted by Monica C. BellRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Here is a somber truth of creative life. If it goes well, people will begin to ask you for things. Each of those things, no matter how kind or flattering or genuine or even beneficial to your own career and finances as well as someone else's, will pull you from your true purpose. 201108130
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I have been quite vexed by all of this post-election analysis of “shift” that doesn’t report the baseline. Example: Couldn’t this Atlanta outcome be because white Atlantans were already relatively pro-Trump, thus there wasn’t as much *shift* as in other cities and among other groups? 150
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Carrying a nation on our backs #photography #streetphotography 0220
Reposted by Monica C. BellNate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Together with @jtsimes.bsky.social I'm organizing a panel on "Law and Environment" for the #Sociology of Law section at #ASA2025. Please spread the word to law-people working on environmental topics, and environment-people working on legal topics! CFP in the image below: 32316
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Just got home from Thanksgiving excursions and couldn’t help attempting the Cynthia Erivo version of that iconic last riff from “Defying Gravity”… The agitated barking from my neighbor’s dog tells me about all I need to know about how that sounded 😭 #wicked #holdingspace #defyinggravity 070
Reposted by Monica C. BellEve Brensike Primus @primuseve.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Do you know about social science that you think criminal defense attorneys should be incorporating into their arguments? Have you written a criminal defense motion incorporating social science? If so, please help us create a national network. Upload your studies and motions to datafordefenders.org 0176
Reposted by Monica C. BellStephanie Didwania @didwanias.bsky.social · 25/11/2024For my first post here: come work with us! Northwestern Law is hiring for our VAP program in the 2025-2026 academic year. This position is a fantastic opportunity for folks planning to enter legal academia. Please reach out with any questions. careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hr857prd... 03019
Reposted by Monica C. BellJean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 26/11/2024www.propublica.org/article/pors...propublica.orgA Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages. 175
Reposted by Monica C. BellTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/10/2024Academics in their forties 42807128
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Sociologist of law: What’s important isn’t the cup on the books, but how it is used in the real world 0173
Reposted by Monica C. BellSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/11/2024By the way, #ToniMorrison recorded the audio versions for a lot of her books. And, of course, she was incandescent reader. Lately, I’ve been listening to her read “Beloved” on my walks to campus. 40110066
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024A sweet family photo from Herbert Von King Park in Bed-Stuy, one of my favorite places to hang out in Brooklyn We will survive these crises by leaning and loving on each other #photography #streetphotography 1161
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I’ve taken up street photography to expand my work and force myself outdoors. I love it, but I underestimated the harassment aspect If I got paid for every time some strange man has yelled “Big Sexy!” and/or followed me muttering disgusting things, maybe I could get that Hasselblad X2D 100C 050
Reposted by Monica C. BellRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024robertreich.substack.comHow to hope in a near-hopeless time?Thoughts on our horrendous loss two weeks ago 691594386
Reposted by Monica C. BellSandile Hlatshwayo @femmeeconomics.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I believe in that too, @nikitagill.bsky.social. 0185
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Fantastic news! Embry and I do not always agree—indeed, during law school he was one of my favorite sparring partners—but he is a fair-minded person and delightful friend. I am utterly thrilled to see him on the Eleventh Circuit. 050
Reposted by Monica C. BellJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/11/2024A small but non-trivial hill I am willing to die on: The abstract of every empirical paper should include the core empirical findings--numbers included! Not "we find police reduce crime," but "we find that a 1% increase in police yields a 0.4% drop in crime." The abstract isn't clickbait. 611417
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Excited to finally be here on Bluesky! The other app had become so toxic that I pretty much stopped posting and engaging there altogether. I look forward to hopefully changing that here. First post is this interesting image I shot in Brooklyn yesterday 2261