Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Proud AERA member indeed! 0156
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/06/2025EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-... 130162064477
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaAndrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 22/06/2025“And war intervened, and once again as so often in the past, the future of mankind was ruined.” -W.E.B. Du Bois 096
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaACLU @aclu.org · 21/06/2025After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son. 2256601234
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaIndivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 17/06/2025We always appreciate @bradlander.bsky.social but never more than when he shows up to protect people. We are horrified that masked federal agents are targeting our neighbors and our electeds. Call YOUR electeds and demand they show up, too! @indivisible.org 1336108
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Such an important piece! And entirely too timely. Thank you for doing this work @jackiepedota.bsky.social ! 011
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards 195224407216
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025ICE crossed a line in LA 7822460411916
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaJean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 29/05/2025quoted in this!! 0114
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Think tanks, please stop making me embarrassed to have written something for you. Yesterday, today, and every day, trans rights are human rights. 06510
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I feel like a corporate baddie when I'm on slack. Then I'm like, I am not about this corporate baddie life. 000
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaTeen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 29/05/2025At least 31 gender and sexuality based resource centers have shuttered across 23 college campuses. Read the full story here ⤵️teenvogue.comThese Colleges Are Shuttering Their Women’s and LGBTQ+ CentersHere’s what to know. 416076
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaDr. Terrell Morton @drtrmorton.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Thank you @tennesseelookout.com for including my thoughts in your recent article on Federal Grant cancellations that impact the state of #Tennessee We need more local reports of the federal impact to show that these cuts impact everyone! tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/27/s...tennesseelookout.comSee what research at Tennessee universities was defunded in Trump’s federal grant cuts • Tennessee LookoutAmong the federally funded grants at Tennessee universities terminated by the Trump administration is one for rural mental health programs. 0134
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Somebody is gonna name their race and racism course "Is the Pope Black?" and I'm here for it 29410
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 11/05/2025"We fall in love, we Critical Race theorists, because human beings are the end of our struggle. Nothing in any of our theorizing is worth one peppercorn if it does not make life better for our beloved community" - Mari Matsuda 000
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025It's funny because sometimes people make it clear they think I act the way I do because I work at UD but I was the exact same when I worked in Texas because this is just me and what the hell is tenure for if not to make good trouble 3262
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaDr. Golden @ginasnow.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Sharing an interview where I discuss how girls can thrive in higher ed 🚨Spoiler alert: it takes a mix of personal accountability and community care. Thank you to Ashley Felts, MS, CSM and Girlhood Explained for the invitation! #Girlhood #HigherEd #PhDG youtu.be/N46z5f2D--o?...youtu.beGirlhood Explained | Dr. Gabrielle Golden,YouTube video by Girlhood Explained 011
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaWilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · 01/05/2025"I'm just trying to tell the truth and I think in order to do that we will have to invent, in addition to new forms, new modes and new idioms." —Toni Cade Bambara Honored and humbled. My book received the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from AERA Division B.🖤 Save 30% on the paperback until May 31st! 👇🏿 162
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Data centers are the new sacrifice zones 6341200
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 22/04/2025"We have no reason for being, no right to walk on this planet if we are takers and destroyers. We are justified in our existence by the righteousness we bring" - Mari Matsuda 010
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Some reminders for reviews just make me want to take even longer 000
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 10/04/2025This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...cbsnews.comCarnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanationLocal universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked. 452456899
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Windbreaker truly is all hands, no plot, and I'm here for it. But when do they actually go to class?!!?! 000
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaVanessa Miller @vanessamiller.bsky.social · 09/04/2025New publication! Thank you to the outstanding student editors at the Mercer Law Review for including our article, Race Centers as Critical Curriculum Spaces in U.S. Law Schools, in Volume 76, which features work on the intersectionality of law. digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol...digitalcommons.law.mercer.eduRace Centers as Critical Curriculum Spaces in U.S. Law SchoolsBy Katheryn Russell-Brown and Vanessa Miller, Published on 04/01/25 195
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 03/04/2025there's a tragic equivalent of Bell's "Space Traders" to the times and universities in particular. Who and what are universities willing to discard and abandon for the sake of their own existence? 000
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 03/04/2025More and more I understand why Derrick Bell just stopped talking about law and started talking about theology because faith, not laws, is what we can rely on 000
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaDara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Me reading Val Kilmer obits that don’t mention Tombstonemedia.tenor.coma man in a cowboy hat says come on in yellow lettersAlt: Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone — a forgettable 1990s movie in which he gives an indelible performance — saying, and gesturing, “come on” 1726924
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 28/03/2025"Powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness too. I want to ask, what specifically are you going to do? What’s your 'I am Spartacus' move to protect the more vulnerable?" writes Kaveh Akbar.thenation.comWhat Will You Do?What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list? 8300120
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 27/03/2025"Bending the knee and precomplying will not stave off these attacks. Acquiescing to censorship will not stop the threats. Only engaging in collective, bold, public, strategic struggle and disruption has the potential to do so." #AcademicSky #EduSky www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comLetter to Faculty on Self-Censorship and Boldness (opinion)In a letter to fellow faculty, Nolan L. Cabrera argues that self-censorship is not a strategy for self-preservation. 0111
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaUC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement @ucfreespeech.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Former fellow @jackiepedota.bsky.social and Liliana Garces dive into how silence in the face of anti-DEI laws only serves to compound suppression. Read more:buff.lyThe Coalitions We Need to Defend Open Inquiry (opinion)Our research shows that silence in the face of anti-DEI laws only serves to compound suppression, Jackie Pedota and Liliana M. Garces write. 012
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Disappearing people to avoid the jurisdiction of the court in which they were taken by the state is authoritarian to the core and runs afoul of the spirit of Article III, the Due Process Clause, and the principles that emerged from the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution. Arbitrary rule. 482753966
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaKatie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Kudos to the student journalists at The Tufts Daily, who crashed a last-minute issue of the paper to cover the outrageous arrest and detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk: issuu.com/tuftsdaily/d...issuu.comThe Tufts Daily - Thursday, March 27, 2025 by The Tufts Daily - Issuu 131647539
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The Trump regime’s secret police continue to kidnap people across the US. Here they kidnapped a PHD Student Rumeysa Ozturk in broad daylight for publishing an article last year, critical of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. People across the US have reportedly been tortured by the regime. 23824111183
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The fights are way too short in Solo Leveling but this episode was super fun. All the aura farming 000
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I spoke with @audiosand.bsky.social for @npr.org All Things Considered about the fact that the "Anti-DEI" movement is an anti-Civil Rights Movement. www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...npr.orgExperts worry that DEIA bans are part of a push to undo the 1964 Civil Rights ActCivil rights experts worry bans on DEIA in education and government are part of a larger, ongoing push to undo the country's 1964 Civil Rights Act. 32707260
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16/03/2025"[Baker] began her [chair comments] by acknowledging that the US 'no longer has an effective federal apparatus for education policy' and discussed how a diminished department will affect the policy implications outlined in the papers presented at her session." www.chronicle.com/article/i-wa...chronicle.com‘I Want to Stand Up for Higher Ed’: Protesters Rally Against Education Dept. CutsAs demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., researchers met across town to discuss the toll that drastic reductions at the agency would have on their work. 15818
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 15/03/2025SOLO LEVELING DOES IT AGAIN, MY GOD!! WHAT AN EPISODE!!!!! 010
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaBrilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 13/03/2025REST IN PEACE TO BREONNA TAYLOR (June 5, 1993 – March 13, 2020) 1937361431
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Today would be yet another good day for university presidents to loudly, collectively, & publicly start defending our institutions & industry. The silence is deafening & frankly, incomprehensible. What exactly are you waiting for? How many Columbias, Maines, & Johns Hopkins will it take? 462338561
Reposted by Antar A. TichavakundaYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil. 17158142715
Antar A. Tichavakunda @tichavakunda.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Where all them free speech folks writing for the Atlantic right now?? 010
Reposted by Antar A. Tichavakundajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens 4334851010698