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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Much gratitude to reviewers Priscilla Ferreira, @nik-heynen.bsky.social Nik Heynen, Eric Sarmiento, and Luke Bergmann for their engaging commentaries! It was great honor to participate in this conversation. #SolidarityCities Published by the @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excited that The AAG Review of Books by @geographers.bsky.social just published our book forum Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/283E6.... Reviewers Priscilla Ferreira, @nik-heynen.bsky.social, Eric Sarmiento, and Luke Bergmann.

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Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Great question! Tables, narratives, and maps are all useful. Maps uniquely get a message across. We immediately grasp a pattern by looking at a place and connecting to it. It is both visual and data-based, art and science. Maps make things “real” or can erase them by excluding…

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Absolutely! Creating the language, categories, and mapping solidarity economies as parts of our cities changes the economy. It helps create the common sense of the already widely practiced solidarity being a norm and displace the narrow manufactured neoliberal common sense that benefits only a few.

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Hmm. Do they breathe different air? E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

‪Also huge thanks to Penn Loh for a thorough review of our book "Solidarity Cities" in Economic Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... My co-authors are @msafri.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social, and @stephenhealy72.bsky.social Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Thanks to Nick Clare and Joe Kearsey for a generous review and appreciation of the use of mapping as an ontological practice in Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation. academic.oup.com/cdj/advance-...

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Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Capitalism reproduces and relies upon racism. This much we know. But what if our efforts to push back against and move beyond capitalism do the same? This

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

As of today,it was not shortlisted but it was a great honor to be in the long list!

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thanks to Nick Clare and Joe Kearsey for a generous review and appreciation of mapping that we used as an ontological practice for landscapes of solidarity economy in Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation. academic.oup.com/cdj/advance-...

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Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Capitalism reproduces and relies upon racism. This much we know. But what if our efforts to push back against and move beyond capitalism do the same? This

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

not as an exception from the universal rule of racial capitalist and patriarchal extraction. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791602... Collectively authored with Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy , and Craig Borowiak , published by University of Minnesota Press Code MN92000 40% off through Dec 31, 2025

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Solidarity Cities

Mapping the transformative effects of America’s urban solidarity economies Solidarity economies, characterized by diverse practices of cooperation and mutu...

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This original reading of human history resonates with our “Solidarity Cities”book’s argument that people have built cities with the solidarity economy as both the collective means of resistance and a human way of life rooted in solidarity, www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I love this video! Right to the point. #SolidarityCities

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Would be eye opening to many US parents. No federally funded parental leave - shockingly. It is time to go back to the 1971 Comprehensive Child Development Act, passed by congress and killed by Nixon. We could have had federally subsidized daycare. Also note that corporations resent this idea.

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She compared motherhood in four countries. The US isn’t looking good

A new book examines childcare policies across the globe – and asks whether parenthood in the US needs to be so hard

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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She compared motherhood in four countries. The US isn’t looking good

A new book examines childcare policies across the globe – and asks whether parenthood in the US needs to be so hard

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The mayor of Newark was arrested today while protesting at a federal immigration detention center operated by GEO Group — a private prison company and major Trump donor. Kudos to Ras Baraka for standing up to this authoritarian regime.

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I hear that the mapping workshop with my #SolidarityCities book co-authors Craig @craigborowiak.bsky.social and Maliha @msafri.bsky.social was awesome. Great job and thank you!

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Prompted by conversations on here, I asked ChatGPT what my most recent book was - sounds like a great book, but I did not (yet!) write it...

“Play, Space, and the Politics of Urban Life” (published in 2016).

In this book, Stenning looks at the intersection of play and urban space, focusing on how people—especially in post-socialist contexts—engage in playful activities in the city. She examines play not just as a recreational activity but as a social and political practice that can reveal deeper truths about how space is used, contested, and lived. It's a fascinating exploration of how informal, often unregulated spaces in cities provide opportunities for resistance, creativity, and expression, especially in rapidly changing political and economic environments.

In this book, she argues that play and leisure activities aren't just passive or frivolous—they're deeply connected to broader social dynamics and the ways people make sense of the spaces around them. This can include everything from informal games to larger cultural movements in the city.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/05/2025

I want to give credit to Metz/Weise here for stating plainly that LLMs cannot decide that something is or isn't true or false. Stating the actual, real limitations of these models is necessary, and it's good to finally see this happening in the mainstream media without any throat clearing

Today’s A.I. bots are based on complex mathematical systems that learn their skills by analyzing enormous amounts of digital data. They do not — and cannot — decide what is true and what is false. Sometimes, they just make stuff up, a phenomenon some A.I. researchers call hallucinations. On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent.

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YES! Media @yesmedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thank you to all of our readers, viewers, and followers for your support over the years. In the coming days, we'll share how you can support each of our staff members in their next adventures—because the industry needs them. Stay tuned. And never forget that a better world is possible. 🥹 💔

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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Broken Windows/ Quality of Life policing is making a come back. We should keep in mind it's toxic origins. www.gothamgazette.com/authors/130-...

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The Neoconservative Roots of the Broken Windows Theory

Professor Alex Vitale traces the neoconservative roots of Broken Windows policing, a philosophy and practice championed by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton.

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Tariq Jazeel @rikjaz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Very lovely to work on this with @lbnaylor.bsky.social & great to see this conversation taking stock on decolonizing geography now published in @acme-geography.bsky.social

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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GC Writing Center @writingcentergc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Important conversations about academia are happening @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! Hear from some key leaders and scholars at tomorrow's event on "The Future of Higher Education," co-hosted by Public Programs, @futuresed.bsky.social , and @humanitiescuny.bsky.social : buff.ly/KwjL15A

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I hear that the mapping workshop with my #SolidarityCities book co-authors Craig @craigborowiak.bsky.social and Maliha @msafri.bsky.social was awesome. Great job and thank you!

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation" collectively written by @msafri.bsky.social, @craigborowiak.bsky.social, @stephenhealy72.bsky.social, and myself.

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

my latest piece of writing about COVID is out now. lots of wisdom from nurses in this one, but I think the most powerful thing is realizing that organizing is the only reason nurses ever got masks and supplies in 2020 -- and we can still organize for better now, too. truthout.org/articles/ami...

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Amid Growing Health Threats, Nurses Are Still Fighting for Basic Protections

Health care workers know from experience that only organizing will lead to enforceable standards and better conditions.

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Great to see another facet of a solidarity city in action!

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Exiting union station in DC which has a direct view of Capitol Hill but I was only interested in this Solidarity City project!

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Thank you! Hope you like it and find it useful.

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Geospatial Professional Network @gpn-org.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

What are you doing tomorrow to celebrate #EarthDay?

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Book "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" collectively authored with @msafri.bsky.social, @craigborowiak.bsky.social , and @stephenhealy72.bsky.social. Published by The University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Many thanks to @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social at George Mason University for hosting a discussion of our book #SolidarityCities at Online Convergence conference. Here is the video from this session: youtu.be/8kqsl16fSRE?.... Thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for organizing the panel!

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Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

YouTube video by Next System Studies

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