I am on the train to Oxford for #PSA26. Would love to see you if you are around! I'll be speaking today at 1:30pm for the RMI panel, and chairing a panel at 3:30pm. Do join if you have a free slot on your agenda!

PSA Race, Migration, & Intersectionality@psa-race.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The RMI group is looking forward to hosting three panels at #PSA26. Join us Monday afternoon at St. Catherine's college for 'Future Agendas in Intersectionality' and 'Novel Approaches to the Growing Scholarship on Race'. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

The Bank of England is now on TikTok. … I was not prepared to comprehend Andrew Bailey justify the rate change to me on my FYP.

We are Hiring! We have a 3-year teaching fellow position in IPE. Come and work with an amazing group of IPE scholars and fabulous students in the Department of Politics and International Studies. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... deadline is approaching - July 31st. Please spread the word

📢 Workshop: Call for Papers 📢 Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality
Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025. Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

There is so little language to accurately reprimand such cruel and hateful practices.

Deadline to submit your abstract is TOMORROW! Don't miss your opportunity to contribute to this symposium with a view to publish in @psrjournal.bsky.social! Find the full call for papers and abstract submission link here: bit.ly/42tgmYC Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their support!

PSA Race, Migration, & Intersectionality@psa-race.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...

My terrific colleague @josephineharmon.bsky.social at the @psaamericanpol.bsky.social has a call for papers for the APG ECR conference- A New Era in America. Looks so good- get involved! Full CFP here mcusercontent.com/8ba9bc605e8e...

a large american flag is flying in the wind against a blue sky

ALT: a large american flag is flying in the wind against a blue sky

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Still figuring out your schedule? See our six panels below! Our first is this afternoon at 1:30 at Lib of Birmingham room 102!

PSA Race, Migration, & Intersectionality@psa-race.bsky.social · last yr.

Planning your #PSA2025 agenda? Be sure to add the Race, Migration and Intersectionality panels to your agenda! All of our sessions will be @ Library of Birmingham Room 102 - head that way to meet up with other RMI members and co-convenors @mikebankole.bsky.social & @jessunderwood.bsky.social!

I’m in BHam for #PSA2025! If you’re around, it would be lovely to see you!

Priya@priyamatta.bsky.social · last yr.

The deputization of whiteness as discussed by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social … they’re signaling that it’s ok to break the law and in fact you won’t be punished but actually rewarded.

Listened to this interview with Oren Cass @vox.com where he's described as 'somewhat unusual for an economist'. Yes, in that he is not really an economist. Maybe a petty insight, but when asked what data supports his argument, he was like 'that's the wrong question.' www.vox.com/politics/407...

Would you pay more for an American-made TV? This influential thinker thinks you will.

A conversation with Oren Cass, the right’s point person on tariffs.

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“A truly open concept of ‘the people’ could be precisely what is needed to account for the injustices produced by the intersections of race, class, gender etc., which are often marginalised.” Well said.

Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New blog📢 Our member, @alexyates2000.bsky.social, discusses the construction of 'the elite' and 'the people' in anti-populist discourse and whether or not populism is still a useful term in political studies. Check it out below! reacpol.net/anti-populis...

Really excited to be chairing three panels next week in my first PSA conference as a co-convenor for the RMI specialist group. Come and visit me if you have a minute! @psa-race.bsky.social

PSA Race, Migration, & Intersectionality@psa-race.bsky.social · last yr.

Planning your #PSA2025 agenda? Be sure to add the Race, Migration and Intersectionality panels to your agenda! All of our sessions will be @ Library of Birmingham Room 102 - head that way to meet up with other RMI members and co-convenors @mikebankole.bsky.social & @jessunderwood.bsky.social!

Trump is not an aberration is American democracy. He is the embodiment of a tradition older than the nation itself - cruelty and violence towards minoritised groups with a promise of economic gains for the country’s racial majority.

Jamila Michener@povertyscholar.bsky.social · last yr.

Compelling perspective from the reliably incisive Christina Greer. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

“Vichy on the Hudson.” 👀 If the shoe fits…

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

Must-read from Mahmoud Khalil: “It is incumbent upon each of you to reclaim the University and join the student movement to carry forward the work of the past year.” www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

I was trying to explain to my British husband that Trump voters may not even know this is happening. Fox News are running the stock market as the 11th story on its website. I couldn’t even find it on OANN.

Jace Nalaar@jace-nalaar.bsky.social · last yr.

Fox News sure knows how to manipulate their followers. FOX removed their stock ticker, can't let the ignorant fools see the damage being done by Trump's tariffs. Fox knows that they create an alternative reality for their viewers, and they refuse to let actual reality ruin that. #tariffs

CfP: Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotions! Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online Limited ECR travel bursaries available Please share widely! Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

NYT publishing these opinion pieces effectively equating 'pressure to conform' in universities with differently racialised people literally being deported, detained and driven into hiding by the US gov't. Author writes 'a caricature is an exaggerated portrait of something real'. Some caricatures:

once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

Ben Wikler@benwikler.bsky.social · last yr.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

Read the OpEd that Rumeysa Ozturk and her fellow graduate students wrote that led to her arrest. ‘We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people.’ This is what they are afraid of—the recognition of equality and dignity of all humans. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

I’m really fascinated by people who are now saying they won’t travel to the US because of border detainments. Each time it’s ’this poor girl from Canada’ or ‘that tourist from the UK’ or ‘the conference attendee from France’. *clutches pearls* Dear Lord, not the white people! 😲

🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

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When political pundits tell social justice activists that we should reconcile ourselves to 'the reality that mass immigration is unpopular, that being tough on crime is a winner, and that the language of “wokeness” goes no further than the faculty lounge'...

The 1923 Oregon legislature was colloquially known as the "Klan legislature" because the majority of members were either Klan members or sympathizers. One bill they passed required that history education be suitably patriotic, outlawing materials that spoke "slightingly" of the founders.

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

FWIW, the reason "academia had it coming" is usually some thinly veiled version of (1) my colleagues keep making fun of my shitty race science, (2) people called me an asshole for saying false things about COVID, or (3) mommy says I'm a very clever boy but my professors didn't appreciate my genius.