Paula C
@paulachak.bsky.social
Prof in New York, studies broken media, capitalism and anti-colonial futures.
Amar mayor! Tomar mayor! From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support.
Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
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Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)
Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · last yr.We’re reporting from outside of 26 Federal Plaza where comptroller Brad Lander was taken into custody by masked federal agents. His wife, who was with him, has spoken about the arrest the immigrant Lander was accompanying when federal agents moved in.
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
As for so many across this country, Bernie Sanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life. As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud.
With Tish James as our Attorney General, New Yorkers have a champion for the rule of law, a fighter who stands up for working people over greedy corporations, and a leader who has taken on Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo—and won. I am so proud to have her support.
Government services undoubtedly have their flaws, but DOGE's disinformation-driven approach to data and "reform" has made Social Security demonstrably worse--creating chaos, driving away experienced expert staff, and jeopardizing benefits that millions depend upon. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
No Kings, No ICE, No Bans on Stolen Land and Free Palestine! A little rain couldn’t stop tens of thousands in New York this afternoon. A few of my favorite signs.
Not saying we jinxed it. But I do think it's funny that the Musk/Trump breakup comes the same week @paulachak.bsky.social's and my piece about their collab dropped. academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism
Abstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern
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Mis/Disinformation Studies folks! This is an excellent meditation on the political limitations of debunking and on how we might respond otherwise. Even if you're not a queer/trans studies person, this piece is well worth the read!
Communication, Culture & Critique@ccc-journal.bsky.social · last yr.🚨OPEN ACCESS🚨 As part of our new forum on "Media and Fascism," @cassiusa.bsky.social writes about how trans cultural production might best answer the ascendant fascist aesthetics of nonsense and sensation. There's no paywall, check it out! academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
Our June issue is now live! It kicks off with a forum on Media and Fascism, featuring a star-studded list of contributors. Get started with this introduction by forum editors @paulachak.bsky.social and @ajbauer.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...
Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism
Abstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern
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Check out CCC’s latest forum on “Cruel Capitalism: Media and Fascism” co-edited with @ajbauer.bsky.social in @ccc-journal.bsky.social! Essays on trans culture, the central role of Christian Zionism, masculinity and alt media, reparative and abolitionist futures, and more! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism
Abstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern
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Read our latest article by @chaficnajem.bsky.social'on smuggled digital technologies and how incarcerated people in Lebanon make their voices heard. With lessons for those interested in abolition media everywhere! Now available from @ccc-journal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
Prison media mobilization: smuggled technologies and media practices in Lebanese carceral spaces
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A judge in Vermont has ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately released from ICE detention. Öztürk has been held in a notorious prison in Louisiana. She still faces the threat of deportation, apparently in retaliation for co-authoring a piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.
Read our review by critical Kashmir studies scholar Ather Zia's of "Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media," edited by Dina Mater and Helga Tawil Souri (Bloomsbury, 2024) here. Read and engage in the on-going violence in Gaza. doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
The urgency of producing Palestine
Palestine has long been in the global conscience, especially for many, a beacon of a decolonial struggle for liberation. Today, there is a new urgency to u
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If you are trying to figure out how to make sense of authoritarian turn, read this thoughtful review by @jfarkas.bsky.social and @bilgeyesil.bsky.social new book on Turkish mediated authoritarianism and how to contest its hold..
Communication, Culture & Critique@ccc-journal.bsky.social · last yr.See Johan Farkas' review of Bilge Yesil's "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (University of Illinois Press, 2024) here: doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
The CCC Editorial Collective is excited to highlight our new and selective “Book Review” section, which features what we see as necessary and critical scholarship that we should all be reading.
The death throes of American Empire: some visual evidence from downtown Manhattan.
NYU has closed off every space for student protest, thereby criminalizing the very act of dissent on campus, bowing down to Trump. Today, student activists organized a “Melt ICE” rally protesting sadistic deportations by federal ghouls. In response, NYU reinforced cops & checkpoints. Disgusting!
🚨 JUNE ISSUE PREVIEW 🚨Read latest article on the limits of US and UK public media coverage of the on-going genocide in Gaza, published thanks to our Editorial Collective from @ccc-journal.bsky.social Congrats Authors @sydneyforde.bsky.social and @desfreedman.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
Arm’s length or joined at the hip? Public service media’s coverage of Gaza
Abstract. Critiquing normative articulations of a public versus commercial media binary, we explore the contradictory juxtaposition of democratic expectati
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Join the NYU branch of @aaup.bsky.social and some 20+ academic labor orgs on Thursday afternoon. It’s time to hit the streets to protest the terrorizing and kidnapping of our anti-war students and fascist backlash against science and all critical thought. Please share and see you Thursday!
“If the administration’s lawless & unconstitutional attempts to control speech & governance at Harvard are allowed to proceed, then any one of our institutions could be next. The impact would be catastrophic – crushing freedom of speech and academic freedom as hallowed ideals in our democracy.
AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.
Check out the latest in critical global feminist media studies from @ccc-journal.bsky.social, @hoornazkeshava.bsky.social and @nicolestewart.bsky.social, "Make Iran Great Again: Apolitical Influencers and the Revival of a Romantic Patriarchal Nationalism"! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
“Make Iran great again”: Apolitical influencers and the revival of a romantic patriarchal nationalism
Abstract. The Woman Life Freedom (WLF) Movement in Iran represents a longstanding struggle for social justice, gender equity, and civil rights. Our study d
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The Office for Civil Rights has requested the names & nat'lities of students & faculty..involved in alleged Title VI violations. Today, the AAUP wrote to college & universities to clarify that they are under NO LEGAL COMPULSION to comply. Doing so enables deportations. www.aaup.org/news/institu...
Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
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We are planning to honor Jonathan’s significant intellectual legacy in critical media and cultural studies in future CCC issues. More on that in the months ahead.