Anjali Vats
@raceip.bsky.social
Associate Prof @PittLaw. She/her. || Critical race theory, intellectual property, rhetoric, media e.g. music, pharma, seeds. Also politics, technology & octopi. 🐙
Try to live your life in such a way that when you die, sitting members of Congress do not immediately, publicly call you a stain on your profession and the office you held ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/roger-tane...
So many of you get your authority by being white. That's it. You don't know any more than I do. You're not smarter than I am. You're just white and that grants you a level of authority that I am not granted without proving myself. You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · last yr.Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
Flashback to April when we did a Race + IP thing! I haven't logged into bluesky since. But since people are in the streets, it seemed like high time! Stay tuned for more #CRTIP news!
Dj Ripley@djripley.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat does abolition have to do with Intellectual Property law? @raceip.bsky.social starts us off
“Who has the capacity to create?” Julia Nguyen (ucla) interrogating traditional IP concepts of creatorship at this weekends @raceip.bsky.social Race IP conference at Pitt Law (organized by my colleague Anjali Vats!)
Spotted at #LSAChicago2025: Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social's Color of Creatorship. Now added to my summer reading list!
We knew this was coming but also 😱
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y agoGroups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
Oh hey Race + IP '25: Abolitionist Futures is LIVE! We're so ready to celebrate our fifth anniversary. 🎈 You can register here: www.raceipconference.org/2025 As always, the event is free to attend, with in person and virtual options. Everyone is welcome.
Race + IP 2025
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White people as a whole could stop this madness anytime...
This is really really bad because when I was at big law in 2001, a lot of people were repping patriot act detainees pro bono. This is how Trump makes sure no lawyers step up the way they did in airports in January 2017 when he issued the Muslim travel ban EO
Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2y agoTrump’s retaliation against law firms is having its predictable chilling effect. Punishing law firms for representing clients the president dislikes infringes on the 6th Amendment right to counsel of one’s choice and the 1st Amendment right to free association.
Move right and lose.
Adam Wren@adamwren.bsky.social · 2y agoNew: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback. We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
Louder for the folks that haven't taken it in: THE US ISN'T A STARTUP!
Roses are red And measles are too. Thanks to RFK Jr, Outbreaks just grew.
Something I read today: “Loving Corrections” by adrienne maree brown. #booksky @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social “The good news is that we don’t need to be experts on every region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.”
Here are flyers for Monday’s protests - one at Harrisburg and one at Philly City Hall. Follow @50501movement.bsky.social for more.
While 'warrior tech bros' are apparently all the rage, we'll need a different kind of technologist if we want to survive as a species and inhabit a livable world. We'll need #DesignJustice.
Sasha GO VOTE Costanza-Chock@schock.cc · 2y ago#Introduction Hi! I'm Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/they/ella/elle). Researcher & designer, focused on a just transition to a regenerative democratic economy. Research Director, OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (MIT press): design-justice.pubpub.org. Web: schock.cc 🇵🇸🍉📚🎶😻❤️🔥🌈🏳️⚧️
As the gutting of the federal workforce continues, including federal lawyers, one way state bars can help is providing waivers or provisional licensing for attorneys that will mostly be barred in DC.
READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
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new york please i beg, i want to see you break the streak of each nyc mayor being worse than the one before him in my lifetime