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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

My piece, “The Diagnostic State: Police Discretion and the Securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States” just dropped. This one started in graduate school so I’m happy it’s finally out in the world. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The diagnostic state: Police discretion and the securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States - Pyar J Seth, 2026

How do law enforcement agencies shape public health responses during epidemics? While scholars have examined the role of established medical institutions such a...

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thank you to @pyarseth.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about my book at the Reilly Center @notredame.bsky.social ! Students & faculty had excellent Qs for me about art & plastic surgery; I had a blast visiting Hip Hop Public Health class; and I loved spending time at the Raclin Murphy Museum.

The famous "Touchdown Jesus" mural on the Notre Dame library against a bright blue sky. The mural includes a haloed Jesus in white robes at the top with his arms held aloft. Figures surround him to the sides and under him.

The inside of the basilica on Notre Dame's campus, resplendant in blues and golds, with white columns, angels on the arched ceilings, and brown pews.

The outside of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art with a sign saying "150 Years" out front. The building has white Ionic columns on either side of the tall, arched door and the façade is white marble. The sky above is bright blue and there is a sunburst to the right of the photograph.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

"Was George Floyd killed by a police officer?The official answer, according to a newly revealed set of federal government records, is no."

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Honored to be in the Hip Hop South special issue! Big love to my brotha Corey J. Miles for curating something so beautiful. This piece about grandma was probably the hardest thing I've written - very grateful Southern Cultures allowed me to share her light with y’all

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"With great respect and meticulous research, [Dana] Williams reveals Morrison as a hard worker, a devoted literary citizen and one of the most important book editors of the 20th century." -- Martha Southgate www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

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You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

“The water in us has perfect memory,” wrote Alexis Pauline Gumbs in our Floods issue last summer. Water, she writes, is both an ancestor and a mirror. On floods, both literal and metaphorical, and what to learn from rising water.

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Sea Grape Consciousness

The trees teach us to unlearn the fear of change

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Thank you for articulating this so well, Kelly Hayes and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social ! "_You struggle with the people who are there and who are willing to lock arms._ "

KH: I really appreciate what you’re saying about taking mass politics seriously, and taking what we believe it takes to win seriously, because, as a jumping off point, I don’t think everyone does. I think that some of the politics of disqualification, where people kind of wear ideologies and ideas as merit badges, and strut around saying, “Behold my righteous politics,” and vote people off the island all day — I think that shit’s often, really, a form of surrender. It’s a resignation, a shrinking down of what it means to do politics to the scale of maybe winning arguments or coming off as better than someone else. It’s about having a righteous political identity rather than winning a political battle, and I think that often, the object of winning doesn’t even enter into the calculus, because there’s no theory or vision of that — other than maybe, at best, the bad guys will eventually crumble on their own, and personally, I can’t accept that as a game plan. Even if I were to accept that as inevitable, the costs along the way are too damn high.

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I absolutely agree. We need to question AI and its impact. But some of this “crisis of humanity” stuff is overblown. Students have always cheated. Cut and paste from Wikipedia. SparkNotes. Answers on the back of the calculator. Different forms but reflect a view many have always had of education

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Join us on May 14th at Who Owns Black Vol. 2: The Past in Danger for a dynamic keynote conversation featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham, with an introduction by Kim Gallon. Register here❗️ www.eventbrite.com/e/wobd2-rece...

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts

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Medicine on a Larger Scale

Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Medicine on a Larger Scale

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Anthros- do your future self a favor and put this book on your syllabus as soon as you can. Will fit with intro to cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, economic anthropology, ethnographic methods, care theory, kinship theory, & much more.

A photo of the book cover of Tackling The Everyday: Race and Nation in Big Time College Football by Tracie Canada.

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Tracie Canada @traciecanada.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

this week! if you're attending @appliedanthro.bsky.social's #SfAA2025 in portland, come check out my #SANA book panel on friday morning i'm thrilled to be joined by five brilliant colleagues and to learn how they read my work. hope to see you there! #SfAA #anthropology #appliedanthropology

A flyer announcing an "Author Meets Readers" panel at the SfAA Annual Meeting in Portland on March 28 at 9am. Includes photos of contributors: Tracie Canada, Myeshia Babers, Chelsey R. Carter, Lexi Holloway, Maurice Rippel, and Pyar Seth

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LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Learn more about the artists we celebrated at the Baltimore Museum of Art for their works for Slavery in Motion with remains // an archive with a new in-depth interview on our Substack! lifexcode.substack.com/p/diving-dee...

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Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) @hprscholars.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"Thinking doesn't happen in isolation - it happens between people." See how HPRS builds community for doctoral scholars pursuing health equity: youtu.be/qLnbVwFl3FU Apps close for our FINAL cohort in just 5 days on March 11! Apply now: rwjf.org/cfp/hprs9 @rwjf.bsky.social @bsph-hpm.bsky.social

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Community and Belonging at HPRS

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Postdoc Opportunity! The Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to be located in the Department of Africana Studies, beginning in August 2025. raceandresilience.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Initiative on Race and Resilience

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Never imagined I’d write a book but I’m thrilled to be working with @nyupress.bsky.social The Spectral Defect: Clinical Afterlives of State Violence coming to shelves near you!

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’m honored to be part of For the Wild’s Earthly Reads Series and podcast. You can listen this beautiful conversation about a blackness that precedes all, an earthliness that is divine through the lens of Audre Lorde & learn more about the upcoming live events here forthewild.world/listen/earth...

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Jessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com · 12/02/2025

Baltimore is so Black and queer and I am really obsessed with the beauty of it

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over your shoulder, you'll never write. ~ Nikki Giovanni ✨️✨️

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Lawd my Ravens finna do it to me again 😪

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

With the end of the semester approaching, and the passing of Nikki Giovanni, my students and I crafted a poem to sum up our time together. And, well, I’ve been crying for the last hour 😂 Idk, I thought I’d share…. Rest easy. Thug life (iykyk)

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

you know those people that ones that make you feel at home in your own skin sometimes our heroes suck and sometimes they save lives Thank you. Rest. www.publicbooks.org/nikki-giovan...

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Nikki Giovanni on Rest, Love, and Care

“There is nothing supreme about being white.”

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Full scholarships for Black UK-domiciled PhD students, for research in any field, at Univ of Glasgow. Deadline 31 Jan. Details at this link: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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mamamoo @thelovelymc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

seek out moments of stillness & silence to recharge

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

New piece of mine dropped in Qualitative Inquiry! “Condensed Eulogies: On Biology, Brutality, and Blame.” Been experimenting with tone and prose a lot lately; hope some of it resonates. Check it out and lemme know what you think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm excited for this Intellectual Publics @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social conversation between Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús & @dryofiggy.bsky.social on Beliso-De Jesús' "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease." Mon Dec 9 at 6:30pm ET Via Zoom. RSVP bit.ly/exciteddelir...

Poster for webinar with pictures of two speakers, women with dark curly hair and engaging smiles, the top one wears a pink jacket over a white shirt, the bottom person wears a blue patterned jacket over a black top.

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Writing a book is hard. Really hard.

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Tracie Canada @traciecanada.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

check out my newest article ✨✨ i’m so proud of what @audretaughtme.bsky.social and I accomplished with this piece about “weathering in sport”

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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Kendrick! So much West Coast hip-hop history and culture in this video. I could create an entire class around it.

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squabble up

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at @UChicagoPress. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Serious question - why do some teachers/profs share grade distributions with their classes? (i.e. the # of As, Bs, etc. on a test) To me, it feels WILDLY unnecessary. Students need feedback, of course, but feedback should be related to their OWN performance, not the performance of others.

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I will never stop pulling all-nighters. Some of my best, most chaotic, experimental work happens at night. 🌛

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is a pretty bad-ass op-ed by the students who pushed for the new Critical Diaspora Studies major at Hopkins, offering a vision of higher ed that puts social justice at its center. www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2024...

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The new Critical Diaspora Studies major empowers students to take political action

In the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election, even the shock, fear, anger, and fatigue has taken on a horror-like, deja vu quality. It’s the same queasiness we felt after the 2016 presidential e...

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Alex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

what if your ideas are as in love with you as you are with them? what if your creativity spends its days dreaming about you too? what if art is a co-creation between you (the vessel) & the eternal source of all things? what if this act of making is the universe experiencing itself through you?

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A 13-Year-Old With Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside. | @propublica.org Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law www.propublica.org/article/tenn...

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A 13-Year-Old With Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside.

Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law. And they tried to push for a broader exception for kids with other kinds of disabilit...

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What’s good, y’all! Excited to connect with everyone up here! A little about me: I study how medical and scientific ideas change over time, particularly as they are deployed across different geographic contexts. I also run a research lab on Hip Hop @hiphoprx.bsky.social

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Emergency medicine physicians have played a big role in using bad science to defend deaths-in-custody. 1/2 apnews.com/article/poli...

California became the rare state to pass a law limiting police tactics that could result in death due to the positioning of someone’s body. One intent was to limit the use of prone restraint. Yet AP found instructors at several state-certified training centers continue to teach — wrongly — that holding someone facedown doesn’t cause death by what’s known as positional asphyxia, which happens when the chest can’t expand, starving the body of oxygen.

That message traces back to a small group of police-aligned lawyers, physicians, experts and academics who authored studies they have used to defend officers facing wrongful death lawsuits.

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Pyar Seth @pyarseth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote and tell me: 1) a project you’re working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) medical diagnoses that have been used to justify state violence + transatlantic pathologies 2) Rest, death, and marronage

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