Antar A. Tichavakunda
@tichavakunda.bsky.social
Crazy | Scary | Spooky | Hilarious
EXCLUSIVE — 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-...
“And war intervened, and once again as so often in the past, the future of mankind was ruined.” -W.E.B. Du Bois
“The cause of war is preparation for war.” -W.E.B. Du Bois
After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.
We 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
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
Such an important piece! And entirely too timely. Thank you for doing this work @jackiepedota.bsky.social !
Proud to share this important piece at a time when identity centers are being defunded and dismantled—largely based on mischaracterizations unsupported by research. Huge thanks to the JDHE reviewers, @tichavakunda.bsky.social, and @garceslm.bsky.social whose feedback made this piece even stronger.
“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
Think tanks, please stop making me embarrassed to have written something for you. Yesterday, today, and every day, trans rights are human rights.
I feel like a corporate baddie when I'm on slack. Then I'm like, I am not about this corporate baddie life.
At least 31 gender and sexuality based resource centers have shuttered across 23 college campuses. Read the full story here ⤵️
These Colleges Are Shuttering Their Women’s and LGBTQ+ Centers
Here’s what to know.
teenvogue.com
Thank 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...
See what research at Tennessee universities was defunded in Trump’s federal grant cuts • Tennessee Lookout
Among the federally funded grants at Tennessee universities terminated by the Trump administration is one for rural mental health programs.
tennesseelookout.com
Somebody is gonna name their race and racism course "Is the Pope Black?" and I'm here for it
"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
It'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
Sharing 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?...
Girlhood Explained | Dr. Gabrielle Golden,
YouTube video by Girlhood Explained
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"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! 👇🏿
Data centers are the new sacrifice zones
NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma. www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
"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
Some reminders for reviews just make me want to take even longer
This 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...
Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation
Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.
cbsnews.com
Windbreaker truly is all hands, no plot, and I'm here for it. But when do they actually go to class?!!?!
New 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...
Race Centers as Critical Curriculum Spaces in U.S. Law Schools
By Katheryn Russell-Brown and Vanessa Miller, Published on 04/01/25
digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu
there'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?
More 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