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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Wait, I thought AI and suicide was in the news for something else recently 🤔

Screenshot of a military.com daily brief for Dec. 1. Photo of a bold, bearded veterans with a backpack and a US flag. Lawmakers to VA: Use AI to help prevent veteran suicide.

Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Nov 13: honored to be invited by the talented and committed @lizbethdsantana.bsky.social to participate in a panel on deported veterans at Baruch College, drawing on my research for Green Card Soldier.

Honoring Our Own. Veterans Day Event Program. November 13, 2025. 12:30-2:30. Baruch College NVC, Multi-purpose Room 107. 12:30-2:30 deported veterans photo exhibit by Dr. Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana. 1pm-1:30pm Bring Them Home (2022) film screening 1:30-2:15 hybrid panel with Juan Garcia (deported veteran), Rob Young (Excuse My Accent), Dr. Sofya Aptekar (CUNY), Margaret Cargioli (Immigrant Defenders Law Center), and James Smith (Black Deported Veterans of America), Background of the flyer is a photograph of the border wall painted with names of deported veterans and crosses.

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

How are we already entering November... Amidst it all, it feels a bit weird to do normal things like talks, but here I go: 11/3: Wake Forest sociology department visit 11/13: Baruch College panel on deported vets 11/14: Boston University Law Review Symposium More details in thread

Speaker Series: Technologies of the State. Green Card Soldier: Betwen Model Immigrant and Security Threat. Professor Sofya Aptekar. CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. November 3, 2025. 3:30-5:00pm ZSK Room 404.
In the corner, there is a photograph of the speaker, white woman with long gray-brown hair against a black background and image of the book cover in a circle, black outline of the United States against a camo background

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A colleague sent me this photo of Green Card Soldier in the wild at Barnes and Noble. 😊 And 25% off, too.

Dark wood bookshelf in a book store, labeled Social Science. Book spines and covers visible. Cover of Green Card Soldier is green and brown camouflage with a black cutout of the united States positioned as a dog tag. Small sign says everything 25% off.

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Excited to join the board of an org Ive been involved in for over a decade, Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse. With a vintage photo from my second ever Manhattan circumnavigation www.bbpboathouse.org/about-us

White person in a yellow kayak on water, holding a yellow paddle, wearing a white shirt, light blue vest, and gray hat. Background is a highway ramp and brick apartment buildings.

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Looking forward to co-facilitating one of the virtual events as part of the Day of Action for Higher Education. Check it out. 1pm ET on zoom us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @actioninhighered.bsky.social @commonnotions.bsky.social @cunyslu.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org

Doing University Debt Reveals Workshop. In this workshop, members of the Coalition Against Campus Debt and authors of the book Lend and Rule will share tools for revealing the debt on your campus, connecting institutional debt to student debt, and organizing against both. April 17 1pm ET on zoom

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Another Turning an Issue into a Campaign @labornotes.bsky.social training with workers in healthcare, journalism, retail, education, government and more at the NYC Troublemakers School. Not just skill building but solidarity across unions and sectors.

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Standing ovation for the amazing @labornotes.bsky.social keynoter Olivia Swisher, running for UFT president on the ARISE slate. And my former student @cunyslu.bsky.social. 🤩

Large school auditorium, people standing up and applauding, four women on stage.

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

NYC folks, join us for this Education Against Enclosure event at the New School on April 7. RSVP bit.ly/41zklBa

Education Against Enclosure series presents a book talk with authors of Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities. Featuring Sofya Aptekar (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies), Jason Wozniak (West Chester University and Debt Collective), with Mizue AIzeki (Surveillance Resistance Lab) and Martina Meijer (MORE-UFT), moderated by Ujju Aggarwal (The New School) and Lucien Baskin (CUNY Graduate Center). April 7, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. The New School. 6 E .16 Street (Wolff Conference Room)

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Looking forward to learning more about podcasting and radio appearances this Friday from someone who is great at both. You don't need to be an SSN member to come. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/SSNpodcastworkshop

A black and white photo of Matt Katz, short dark hair, glasses, dark button down shirt. Green and blue background. Flyer text: podcasting and radio tips for engaged scholars featuring investigative reporter, journalist, and podcast host Matt Katz.

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

That feeling when you didn't want to be part of breaking peer review but you didn't keep track when saying yes and then you go thru your emails... 🫠 Also 2 book reviews because I'm a book review editor and I know how hard it is to find reviewers. So I cave immediately.

Blue Post-It note with purple ink handwriting: C&C, IMR, IM, Urban Studies, Gender, Place & Politics

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Once upon a time, Caroline and I were fighting to build a democratic faculty union at UMass Boston. It makes me so happy that she is now president, with a team of amazing activists in leadership.

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is from a 2023 rally commemorating a year of CUNY faculty, staff, and grad students working without a contract. And we are still without a contract. I am ready for raises that exceed inflation, job security for adjuncts, and a new deal for CUNY! Photo by @oliviawood.bsky.social

White person wearing a keffiyeh facemask and black hat holding a sign that says: How can we win a new deal? Strike! Strike! Strike!

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Sofya Aptekar @sofaptekar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I finally made the move. Thanks to everyone who followed even though my timeline is blank. It feels a little daunting to start from scratch but I promise to post soon. Meanwhile, a supermoon in Brooklyn.

Bright moon just over a dark tree line casting a trail of moonlight over the surface of a lake. Road, dry grass, and a do not enter and one way signs in the foreground.

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