The 2027 Decolonial Conference is now accepting proposals on US Imperialism and Anti-colonial Resistance. Consider joining fellow scholar-activists in LA or online! 🔗 Full CfP below

Decolonial Conference@decolonialconf.bsky.social · 3d ago

Check out the CfP for the 2027 Decolonial Conference! We invite proposal submissions to our theme "US Imperialism and Anti-Colonial Resistance." Proposals are due January 10, 2027. On Oct. 8-9 we will have the in-person conference in Los Angeles, and Oct. 2- 3 will be fully online.

The Decolonial Conference is back next year (the first one was 🔥)! Consider joining this crossing, built by and with scholar-activists and movements committed to decolonisation beyond the academy. Anyone keen to co-write a proposal on US Empire and Indigenous resistance in the Philippines?

Decolonial Conference@decolonialconf.bsky.social · 3d ago

Check out the CfP for the 2027 Decolonial Conference! We invite proposal submissions to our theme "US Imperialism and Anti-Colonial Resistance." Proposals are due January 10, 2027. On Oct. 8-9 we will have the in-person conference in Los Angeles, and Oct. 2- 3 will be fully online.

check out this call for proposals!

Decolonial Conference@decolonialconf.bsky.social · 3d ago

Check out the CfP for the 2027 Decolonial Conference! We invite proposal submissions to our theme "US Imperialism and Anti-Colonial Resistance." Proposals are due January 10, 2027. On Oct. 8-9 we will have the in-person conference in Los Angeles, and Oct. 2- 3 will be fully online.

Check out the CfP for the 2027 Decolonial Conference! We invite proposal submissions to our theme "US Imperialism and Anti-Colonial Resistance." Proposals are due January 10, 2027. On Oct. 8-9 we will have the in-person conference in Los Angeles, and Oct. 2- 3 will be fully online.

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 By majority vote, the Tenure Advisory Committee at Texas Tech University determined that probable cause exists for my allegation of improper denial of tenure. Soon, I will have a hearing.

I fear that, in order for the US & Israel to avoid further retaliation & humiliation by Iran, they may see the use of a nuclear weapon as the only way to hide the weaknesses Iran revealed & reestablish a position of strength that’s clearly dwindling. A dying empire has no limits.

Whether Netanyahu is dead or alive won’t change the fact that Israel is a genocidal settler-colonial state. But don’t think I won’t celebrate the day he joins Kissinger in hell.

“if language is the means of the exploiter, what then can serve as the defense of the exploited? And if the exploiter goes beyond the exploitation of language used to obtain his own objectives, then what is to be the strategy for the exploited?” www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/ghassan-ka...

Ghassan Kanafani and the Co-Optation of Radical Thought

On March 11, 1968, Ghassan Kanfani delivered a speech later translated under the titled Thoughts on Change and the ‘Blind Language’. Although his focus was not academia, many of his arguments against ...

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I’m appealing my tenure denial.

It is standard for Western academia to support imperialist aggression. —Ali Kadri

What is happening now is only the labour pains of something great that will be born from the rubble of defeat like a volcano born from under the cold ashes of a forsaken mountain. —Ghassan Kanafani

There’s nothing like looking at the list of those who got tenure and realizing that your publication record is stronger than most of them yet you’re the one who was denied tenure. So much for the meritocracy administrators love to defend.

We're trying, compañero! Always open to proposals, suggestions, collaborations, and donations! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought

The ICCT is an independent forum for intellectual and artistic study and experimentation, devoted to the speculative and critical exploration of potentials in the fissures of the planetary present.

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academia will not save us, so we better start creating autonomous spaces to think, organize, and fight against these fascist and genocidal institutions that will dispose of us once we step out of line.

This.

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academia will not save us, so we better start creating autonomous spaces to think, organize, and fight against these fascist and genocidal institutions that will dispose of us once we step out of line.

Academia will not save us, so we better start creating autonomous spaces to think, organize, and fight against these fascist and genocidal institutions that will dispose of us once we step out of line.

I’ll never regret speaking out against genocide. These institutions on the other hand are complicit and active participants.

Academic freedom is not an abstract concept

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Less than two years ago, Texas Tech University suspended me for speaking out against genocide. Today I found out I was denied tenure.

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I was denied tenure.

Academia in the West is a racist institution that seeks to protect colonialism via oppression.

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I was denied tenure.

The denial of tenure was never about scholarship. It was a retaliatory move from @texastechlib.bsky.social to send a chilling message: dissent that threatens institutional power will be punished. Shame on Ron Hendrick, Brendon Creighton, Lawrence Schovanec turned tenure into a political tool!

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I received over 90% of the votes at the department and college levels, yet the provost denied me tenure. I met and exceeded the promotion and tenure guidelines and expectations as well as my annual and mid-tenure reviews.

Come along on Friday and show solidarity with Palestine, with decolonial and global south scholars whose work comes from their lives, and with @insurgentthought.bsky.social whose work with @anadiazbetran is a model for us all 👇🏽❤️‍🔥

Kerry Sinanan@kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

U Winnipeg is pleased to host the Canadian virtual launch of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2025) Friday 20 February at 11am(CST)/12pm (EST). Join us we discuss the volume & commitments to decolonization and their importance in a Canadian context. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I received over 90% of the votes at the department and college levels, yet the provost denied me tenure. I met and exceeded the promotion and tenure guidelines and expectations as well as my annual and mid-tenure reviews.

Truly sorry! Absolutely dispiriting.

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I was denied tenure.

With relentless attacks on academic freedom @ttu.edu has positioned itself to perpetuate harm against scholars whose use their academic freedom to provide dissent against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This denial targeted one of the brightest minds in the Curriculum and Instruction department.

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I was denied tenure.

Tenure has never been a measure of merit, it is a carceral logic used to discipline and control. Sending lots of solidarity your way.

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I was denied tenure.

Less than two years ago, Texas Tech University suspended me for speaking out against genocide. Today I found out I was denied tenure.

I was denied tenure.

I was denied tenure.