Corrie Decker
@corriedecker.bsky.social
Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, history, African studies
What happens when singeli, a genre born in Dar es Salaam’s working-class underground, becomes a symbol of national culture, embraced by the very state that once distrusted it? africasacountry.com/2026/05/tanz...
Tanzania’s national sound?
What happens when singeli, a genre born in Dar es Salaam’s working-class underground, becomes a symbol of national culture, embraced by the very state that once distrusted it?
africasacountry.com
The normalization of state repression seems to be a theme in my news update today. This one from Uguanda's proposed "sovereignty law"
Ouganda : le projet de loi sur "la protection de la souveraineté" fait polémique | Africanews
En Ouganda, un projet de loi suscite une vive inquiétude. Ce texte reprend la notion d’"agents étrangers", déjà utilisée en Russie pour faire taire les opposants.
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Call for Statements of Interest: African Studies Review Editor-in-Chief. ASA is particularly interested in ASA members that are established scholars with editorial experience and proven leadership capacity including financial stewardship. Apply by May 31 https://ow.ly/MthV50YNrHL
‘Most of all, though, he says he worries about how AI reliance will transform individuals’ sense of confidence and worth as they struggle to think through problems independently.’ By @mharrisondupre.bsky.social
AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.
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Friends at ASA: I’ll be doing a short book-signing tomorrow at 1pm at the University of Wisconsin Press Exhibit!
If you work for or have studied at any University of California campus, you are invited and encouraged to sign this letter of support for UCLA, where faculty learned yesterday that Trump illegally froze $200M in funding. tinyurl.com/ucstandup Pls share widely!
This special issue of Girlhood Studies looks awesome! It has so much on East Africa! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Available now! Happy publication date to @corriedecker.bsky.social, whose new book The Age of Sex is out today. Details: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/The-...
My book is now available for a hefty discount with the code AA259, bringing the cost down to $30! uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/The-...
The Age of Sex
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Don Romesburg, Historian and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies @ Sonoma State University, will discuss his new book, Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025), Wed, 5/21, 4pm, 3201 Hart Hall!
Professor Stacy Fahrenthold & California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) deputy director Beth Slutsky discuss bringing "academically grounded lessons about Middle Eastern history into K-12 classrooms." diversity.ucdavis.edu/news/bringin...
Bringing Middle Eastern History into K-12 Classrooms
A historic collaboration between the UC Davis Department of History, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) is helping bring academically gro...
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Can’t wait to host Don Romesburg to talk about his new book!!
Once anchored in mass struggle and socialist politics, the feminist movement in Nigeria now navigates the contradictions of donor dependency, digital activism, and elite capture. On the podcast, The Nigerian Scam crew unpacks: what happened? africasacountry.com/2025/04/what...
What’s left of Nigeria’s feminist left?
Once anchored in mass struggle and socialist politics, the feminist movement in Nigeria now navigates the contradictions of donor dependency, digital activism, and elite capture. On the podcast, we un...
africasacountry.com
I shared some thoughts on the supreme court, EHRC's interim guidance and the feminist dystopia some call 'gender critical' feminism yesterday. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/meaningles...
Meaningless Sex
Some thoughts on the Supreme Court, The EHRC and other feminist dystopias
feministkilljoys.substack.com
One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....
"The notion that whites are suffering at the hands of Blacks in South Africa has captured international headlines for weeks now. And yet as indicated in the outlines of this story of land and poverty and racial traumas that remain unaddressed...the ghosts of apartheid roam far too freely"
On Trump and the invention of white victims in South Africa
Occasionally a display of racist violence is so brutal and grotesque that it forces South Africans to time travel.
sisonkemsimang.substack.com
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention
On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...
actionnetwork.org
This is a very funny satire of the situation of universities under Trump. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations
“[T]he University of North Texas administration recently censored the content of more than two hundred academic courses, including by mandating the...
mcsweeneys.net
Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.
The Resistance is alive and well and angry
Reports of our demise might have been premature
thealtmedia.com
"Congolese Are Paying the Price" for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda's Paul Kagame
“Congolese Are Paying the Price” for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda’s Paul Kagame
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents, who have already taken two key cities in the mineral-rich eastern part of the country, is triggering panic. Reports...
democracynow.org
This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
nbcnews.com
"Grand Theft Government": Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts
“Grand Theft Government”: Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts
Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs,...
democracynow.org
Ugandan health authorities have closed all the clinics that focused on patients with HIV and TB. Staffed by health workers who over time developed deep expertise in sensitively managing infectious yet stigmatised diseases, the clinics were key to cutting HIV infection rates.
The cost of Trump’s executive disorder is measured in lives
The closure of clinics is just one example of the disruption and confusion surrounding the near-total freeze on US aid and development funding ordered by US President Donald Trump
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