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Dr. Donna Auston

@tinymuslimah.bsky.social
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Publicly intellectual. Race, gender, activism, and all things Black/Muslim. Anthropologist. Dr. Auston if you’re nasty.

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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At some point the tree in front of my old house started growing this—my first impression was that it was a brain. This pic has only solidified that idea 😭
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please consider submitting and share with your networks! We would love to receive your proposal. If you have questions, please reach out.
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Check out the organizer's statement from the WG symposium, The Past, Present and Future of Eugenics, held in March of this year. wennergren.org/symposium-se...
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
There is still time to submit a proposal! If you have an idea that seems promising, please reach out. Details for crafting a competitive submission are at this link. Please share with your networks.
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Our call is still open! Please reach out if you have questions about submitting a proposal. And please share with your networks!
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Take control of AI at your uni! @aaup.org now compiles guidance and tools for artificial intelligence, including working group reports, bargaining and union resources, auditing and public records request tools, and sample syllabus language. Please share widely: www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
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Artificial Intelligence
The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Please join us if you can, and share with doctoral students in your network!
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Our most recent seminar brought together a global cohort of scholars thinking through “Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st Century.” These meetings provide great opportunities for generating meaningful insights. There was even a cat! We’d love to receive your submission 🙂
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#anthrosky
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Association for Feminist Anthropology @femanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The AFA is thrilled to announce that we are soliciting nominations for the following awards. afa.americananthro.org/grants-and-p... - AFA Senior Book Prize (May 4) - Dissertation Write-Up Grant (June 1) - Sylvia Forman Prize for Graduate and Undergraduate Papers (June 1) #AFA #femanth
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Our most recent seminar brought together a global cohort of scholars thinking through “Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st Century.” These meetings provide great opportunities for generating meaningful insights. There was even a cat! We’d love to receive your submission 🙂
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We would love to receive a proposal from you! Please get in touch if you have questions.
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 09/03/2025
Toni Morrison:
“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: 

“Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple:

1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war.

2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists.

3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”
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Laurian Bowles PhD @drlaurian.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A consistent truth, cops lie. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Unmasking the spy cops: how women found the truth about men who tricked them into relationships
Credit cards, passports and ingenuity led to the identities of undercover police who were loved under false pretences
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
So you don’t know anything at all about the type of preparation (mental, logistical) that it takes in order to actually pull off long term action, do you? Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma didn’t just happen out of the blue. Getting people to the point of sustained collective action takes practice.
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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
True values come out in times of crisis. Some organizations are leaning in, others are leaning out.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/02/2025
A group of mostly Quaker religious organizations succeeded in temporarily preventing federal immigration agents from operating around their places of worship across the U.S.
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration Policy Allowing ICE Raids in Certain Places of Worship
Religious organizations are challenging a Trump administration policy that allows ICE to conduct operations in sensitive locations. The judge declined to pause the policy more broadly.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Please feel free to get in touch if you have questions. We’d love to receive your proposal! #anthrosky
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Recent events have reminded me once again how ridiculous it sounds when I hear folks complaining that “Defund the police” is not a viable or realistic political message.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists, seeks to advance scholarship across the four fields of anthropology and beyond. www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/tra...
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
More of this please: CA State Superintendent saying, “Not today, Satan.”
"In California, “all” still means all. While the Trump Education Department announced that they will no longer protect all students from discrimination, California law is unaffected by recent changes to federal policy and continues to provide safeguards against discrimination and harassment based on gender, gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation. While federal guidance devolves, our commitment to safeguarding the rights of all students persists. To any students, families, and educators who may be fearful today: in California, schools are still a safe place to learn and play.” -State Superintendent Tony Thurmond
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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
JOB: The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Social Justice, or Africana Studies. Deadline: 2/27
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Assistant Professor - Philosophy and Religion (Religion)
The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Soc...
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I need to find a dabke class. They be getting it!
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a group of men are dancing together on a dance floor in a room .
Alt: a group of men are holding hands and dancing dabke in a line/circle
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about reports that AI tools are being used with federal data noting that this is occurring without transparency, consent, or attention to privacy and security concerns, and heightening the American public's mistrust of AI www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
Department of Government Efficiency workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 05/02/2025
Palestinians have a right to their land, a right to return, a right to self-determination, and a right to liberation.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Somebody had to say it. This is at the heart of why it’s so difficult for so many people to get enthusiastic about supporting the Democratic Party. They simply don’t do enough when push comes to shove to distinguish themselves from the folks they (rightly) demonize.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, before she was known as an author, Toni Morrison was a Random House trade editor who almost singlehandedly introduced black radical activists to mainstream American readers.
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The Other Toni Morrison - Boston Review
A timely new documentary celebrates Morrison’s novels but downplays the enduring power of her work as an editor and essayist.
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Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.” www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...
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40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
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Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
When it comes to these executive orders, I need more states with Democratic governors and majorities saying, simply, “That shit is illegal. We ain’t doing that. Sue us,” and go on with business as usual.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Everyone can organize. Everyone can contribute to social movements. Everyone can do something, from somewhere. None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic. Everyone can organize and has something to offer.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It’s that time of the year again! #Ramadan is coming up quickly (I can’t believe it either!) and many of us are looking for ethical dates. I love this Black-owned California date farm: www.samcobbfarms.com/PRODUCT.html Pesticide-free, and you can’t get his Black Gold dates anywhere else.
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Sam Cobb Date Products
We are the home of farm-fresh-dates! We grow what we sell! Medjool, Black Gold, Barhi and Safari dates and more.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I keep saying this…
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
NEW: workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods won the first major union election of the second Trump era. They told me about the work it took to get there—and the ways Amazon-owned Whole Foods tried to stop them. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Inside the fight for the first Whole Foods union
Philadelphia workers become the first to unionize at an Amazon-owned store.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I generally shoot a healthy side-eye and stone cold heart at repentant cheater songs, but nobody can resist Mr. Kenny Edmonds singing “Never Keeping Secrets.” That man was begging for his life and it’s highly effective 🤣🤣🤣
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is only the beginning.
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I wonder how much of that 40% feel like they've failed, when they absolutely haven't because a vast majority of career advice is still coming from academics that "made it".
Diagram in which red dots stand for places where surviving planes were shot. This only tells you where planes can get shot and still come back to base. Survivorship bias: your only information is what has survived.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Most people who use these stores and have access to both probably use both, often for different things. Their inventories don’t perfectly overlap. Also, though I carried a Costco membership for many years, at this point in my life I don’t need to buy in those quantities anymore.
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
As much as I love Tabitha Brown’s public persona—what good to us is her individual success if the price of it is our collective silence? I ain’t mad at folks for trying to make a living in general, but this is one reason why we can’t “entrepreneur” our way to liberation.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies
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Costco successfully defends its diversity policies as other US companies scale theirs back
Costco has claimed victory in pushing back on a shareholder proposal that urges the wholesale club operator to conduct an evaluation of any business risks posed by its diversity, equity and inclusion ...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...
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"Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant.
One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned. This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees 'the right of the people be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
"Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized. I will be holding a press conference in alliance with partners ready and willing to defend and protect civil and human rights. Details to come."
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
THANK YOU NEW JERSEY for full service gas stations. Cause this cold? No ma’am 😭
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a close up of a man 's face with a beard
Alt: Kit Harrington as Jon Snow standing in the snow and wind, looking rather miserable
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
If you got your PhD in the last 4 years, these look good:
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Dr. Donna Auston @tinymuslimah.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
We should not be the least bit surprised when people who’ve built entire careers out of calling Black women bitches and hoes show us (once again) that they do not have liberatory politics.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
We must all strenuously fight the horrors of anti-Palestinian racism.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 18/01/2025
A deeply moving conversation about the incredible losses we’ve seen here in LA due to the wildfires, how they’ve disproportionately impacted Black and Asian communities, and the pain of losing history and seeing beloved memories go up in smoke. Give it a listen.
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They Call Us Bruce: They Call Us Los Angeles Wildfires
Jeff and Phil welcome friends, author/podcaster R Scott Okamoto and filmmaker/professor Renee Tajima-Pena to share their reflections on the devastating wildfires that have ravaged parts of greater Los...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.
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