Interview on moving beyond recognition toward repair for chattel enslavement, the trade in African peoples, and their enduring legacies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltc7...

Beyond Recognition, Toward Repair: A conversation with Professor Matiangai Sirleaf

YouTube video by The Resistance Bureau

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Latest episode out now! Ft. @matiangai.bsky.social discussing how the interests of whiteness have often dominated global public health policy and how the long shadow of medical colonialism shows up today. www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/leg...

Legacies of Colonialism in Public Health — Public Health is Dead

Can public health break from its colonial past for a different future?

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Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus]@sharpflower.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Next episode in the works — Epidemiology developed, at least in part, from the massive data potential of captured + subjugated populations. What do legacies of colonialism in public health mean for addressing ongoing and future pandemics? How does entrenched white supremacy dictate access to health?

Re: Ebola, travel bans, anti-Black racism, and how white health dominates the global public health regime, here is a great paper by @matiangai.bsky.social “White Health and International Law” www.matiangai.com/pubs/white-h...

White Health and International Law | Matiangai

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Reparations are overdue. International law needs to move beyond legal recognition of the wrongfulness of chattel enslavement and the trade in enslaved people, toward repair and remedy. The UN's recent resolution represents a step toward global racial justice. www.justsecurity.org/138316/beyon...

This is not a drill! Part I of Global Health at a Crossroads Symposiumis out in the American Journal of International Law Unbound. My intro. to the symposium is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/service... Check out all the insightful contributions below! #globalhealth #internationallaw

AJIL and AJIL Unbound@ajil.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🌍 Global Health at a Crossroads — Part I New AJIL Unbound symposium on global health law, equity & pandemic governance. 👉 Check it out now:https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/ajil-unbound-by-symposium/global-health-at-a-crossroads-part-i

For its 80th anniversary, the U.N. asserts we are "better together." Since its founding, the U.N.'s survival has depended on how it positions itself in situations of injustice. The story of the U.N. is the story of Congo. Read my latest in @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/123129/unite...

The United Nations and a World in Pain

The U.N.’s survival depends on how it positions itself between the elephant and the mouse, in South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond.

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The national racial gaslighting is at an all time high. I thought they had reached their peak already, but they are aspiring to higher heights.

Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

Edward Wong@ewong.bsky.social · last yr.

A State Dept. cable says the Trump administration might add up to 36 countries — most in Africa — to a list of 21 countries on which it imposed a full or partial travel ban this month. Citizens can't get visas to the US. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Also this morning the Maryland Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission held a hearing at the Reginald Lewis museum in Baltimore. Lovely to reconnect with old friends & colleagues & to meet new friends committed to the work of true repair.

Register for Maryland's Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission hybrid public hearing on April 4th and 5th: mdlynchingmemorial.networkforgood.com/events/79416... Expert witnesses will give tesimony on how MD can address its legacy of racial terror and potentially prevent harm in the present.

As someone who’s always been critical of Pax Americana, I’m nevertheless terrified by how swiftly it is ending. A thoughtful essay (and great reading list!) by the brilliant @matiangai.bsky.social is a guide on how to keep dreaming (and working) in this moment. www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire

Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.

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Tour de force by @matiangai.bsky.social now up on @justsecurity.org “The world worth fighting for is a radically transformed one.” www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire

Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.

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Pax Americana and the rules-based international order have always been built on flawed foundations, writes @matiangai.bsky.social “The world worth fighting for is a radically transformed one.” www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire

Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.

justsecurity.org

Hope for realizing a healthier world and transformation in global public health: social movements, young minds, innovation from the Global South, capacity for learning, and compromise. ICYMI @roojinhabibi.org @fifarahman.bsky.social @clarewenham.bsky.social Dr. Andraghetti & I 👇🏿 youtu.be/pS80uVTSEmU

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

ICYMI @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on global health's past, present and potential futures is available here youtu.be/7JjUTi0q9OM?... We discuss how zones of sacrifice, power, privilege, racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze, White supremacy & saviorism shape global health then and now.

Happening today a convo at 4 PM EST on zones of sacrifice and how power, privilege, racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze + White supremacy & saviorism shape global health. Register: umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...

White Health and International Law - Center for Global Engagement

Matiangai Sirleaf, professor at both the Carey School of Law and the School of Medicine, and Dr. Seye Abimbola, a health systems researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney's Sc...

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Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on White Health & International Law Wed. 12/4 at 4:00PM EST. This is not a drill calling all #globalhealth #internationallaw #racialjustice #publichealth #academicsky #blackademics Hybrid event register: umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...

Join @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on White Health & International Law Wed. 12/4 at 4:00PM EST. This is not a drill calling all #globalhealth #internationallaw #racialjustice #publichealth #academicsky #blackademics Hybrid event register: umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...

White Health and International Law - Center for Global Engagement

Matiangai Sirleaf, professor at both the Carey School of Law and the School of Medicine, and Dr. Seye Abimbola, a health systems researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney's Sc...

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Selective prosecution convo missing the reality of over policing of people singled out routinely based on class, race, addiction, housing insecurity etc... Where are their pardons? What of the efforts to break the millions ensnared in this unjust legal system? When will enough be enough for them?

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wow. Biden has decided to pardon his son Hunter.

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Finally for my latest piece for the Arab Center, I wrote about the perils of understanding the crisis of displacement in Sudan solely as a "humanitarian" tragedy rather than a politically manufactured horror of racial capitalism that values profit over human lives. arabcenterdc.org/resource/war...

War and Displacement in Sudan

In April 2023, violence broke out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in a power struggle between Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti...

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Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Matiangai Sirleaf (Ma-tee-ahn-gay Sir-leaf). I am the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the UMD School of Law. I hold a secondary appointment as a professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health at the UMD School of Medicine. Views are mine 👇🏿