liz m-d
@lizmasdes.bsky.social
translator // counter-cartographer // feminist geographer
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https://www.commonnotions.org/the-home-as-laboratory
https://territoriodeideas.com/
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
This song is at the top of my "sad Sunday songs" playlist.
No one captured the sadness of working-class life like John Prine. Here are lyrics from his song “Souvenirs.”
I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they robbed me
Of my childhood souvenirs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOTb...
I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they robbed me
Of my childhood souvenirs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOTb...
John Prine steve goodman Souvenirs
YouTube video by translateslowly
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December 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This song is at the top of my "sad Sunday songs" playlist.
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"As old systems fail...the question that matters is how we live in the shadow of collapse, and what forms of care, solidarity and resistance can emerge."
Mikkel Krause Frantzen writes on care and survival in the 'climate endgame' 👇
Mikkel Krause Frantzen writes on care and survival in the 'climate endgame' 👇
Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame
During the climate endgame, our survival hinges on rebuilding the systems of interdependence that make life in the ruins possible.
www.break-down.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"As old systems fail...the question that matters is how we live in the shadow of collapse, and what forms of care, solidarity and resistance can emerge."
Mikkel Krause Frantzen writes on care and survival in the 'climate endgame' 👇
Mikkel Krause Frantzen writes on care and survival in the 'climate endgame' 👇
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"The report estimates there are roughly 39,000 fewer foreign-born child care workers since Trump took office in January. There are also 77,000 fewer American mothers of preschool-aged children in the workforce since that time, a result that researchers found is tied to the impact of ICE arrests."
A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...
ICE arrests are forcing American moms to leave their jobs
A new analysis shows that increased immigration enforcement is reducing labor in the child care workforce. The ripple effect is impacting mothers with young children.
19thnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"The report estimates there are roughly 39,000 fewer foreign-born child care workers since Trump took office in January. There are also 77,000 fewer American mothers of preschool-aged children in the workforce since that time, a result that researchers found is tied to the impact of ICE arrests."
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Today, Andrew Anastasi and @benchansfield.bsky.social discuss the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.
The Business of Arson: An Interview with Bench Ansfield
An examination of the wave of landlord perpetrated arson in the Bronx during the 1970s presents an untold story of racial capitalism and financialization. Andrew Anastasi interviews Bench Ansfield…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today, Andrew Anastasi and @benchansfield.bsky.social discuss the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.
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"Many of us believed we were simultaneously impersonating chatbots and teaching them how to replace us."
🚨NEW INQUIRY!
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Many of us believed we were simultaneously impersonating chatbots and teaching them how to replace us."
Really powerful piece about translating from Gaza and the power and ethics of translation. Translated into 16 different languages by actual human translators.
The double life of a Palestinian translator: A bridge between wounds and words – Encounters in translation
This essay examines the act of translation from Gaza as a form of bearing witness to a disappearing world, where language itself becomes both a vessel of survival and a site of struggle. In the face o...
publications-prairial.fr
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Really powerful piece about translating from Gaza and the power and ethics of translation. Translated into 16 different languages by actual human translators.
Appreciated how this piece puts these books in conversation to build a historical perspective on care struggles. I also think there's a lot that could be learned by looking at the feminist strike efforts lead from Latin America that have addressed many of these questions very concretely.
In 1974, Rose Craig had an idea. If factory workers could strike against their bosses by downing tools, then women should strike against the state by abandoning their dependents. “How much is it going to cost the government after four or five weeks?” she asked. “They’ll have to give in to you.”
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
www.bostonreview.net
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Appreciated how this piece puts these books in conversation to build a historical perspective on care struggles. I also think there's a lot that could be learned by looking at the feminist strike efforts lead from Latin America that have addressed many of these questions very concretely.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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RIP to Asad Haider— a great excerpt I came across earlier today from another individual below
December 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
RIP to Asad Haider— a great excerpt I came across earlier today from another individual below
Been trying to process the news about Asad for the last 36 hours and not sure I ever will. I will always be so grateful for his invitation to participate in Viewpoint and I learned so much from him about writing, editing and political commitment. Hold your friends and comrades close. ❤️
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Been trying to process the news about Asad for the last 36 hours and not sure I ever will. I will always be so grateful for his invitation to participate in Viewpoint and I learned so much from him about writing, editing and political commitment. Hold your friends and comrades close. ❤️
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This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
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I think about this a lot. As a slightly younger queer person, hearing older queer friends talk about the 80s was so formative to my politics. But now it seems like everyone's memory is so much shorter, people often seem surprised when I talk about friends who died from Covid just a few years ago.
So true.
2 days after my kid was born in 2020 the NYT devoted its front page to listing some of the 100,000 ppl in the US who had died of Covid at that early point. I saved the hard copy. An awful memento of the world he was born into but a quilt of sorts. (My eye always goes to John Prine's name.)
2 days after my kid was born in 2020 the NYT devoted its front page to listing some of the 100,000 ppl in the US who had died of Covid at that early point. I saved the hard copy. An awful memento of the world he was born into but a quilt of sorts. (My eye always goes to John Prine's name.)
I don't know if ppl under 30 even know about the quilt. That was such a BRILLIANT tangible display of how many ppl were lost. You know how covid deaths are still so unbelievable to most ppl bevause thwy cant SEE whos gone? A quilt makes that impossible. Traveling w portions of it was also brilliant.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I think about this a lot. As a slightly younger queer person, hearing older queer friends talk about the 80s was so formative to my politics. But now it seems like everyone's memory is so much shorter, people often seem surprised when I talk about friends who died from Covid just a few years ago.
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NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health.
Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health.
Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
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Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
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AND running unpermitted, polluting gas turbines AND sited in the predominantly Black Memphis community of Boxtown, which already faces some of the highest rates of asthma in the nation time.com/7308925/elon...
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
AND running unpermitted, polluting gas turbines AND sited in the predominantly Black Memphis community of Boxtown, which already faces some of the highest rates of asthma in the nation time.com/7308925/elon...
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Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
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The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
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Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
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The courage to withstand, as feminists, the reformulated myth of the black rapist at the core of Zionism’s femonationalist gambit is also a profound antifascist commitment. We are, quite simply, drawing a line... - me on the NYT contributor strike/boycott for New Arab www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...
No Opinion for Gaza: Why we are boycotting the New York Times
Sophie Lewis explains why she & 200+ former New York Times contributors are boycotting the outlet until it addresses its anti-Palestinian bias.
www.newarab.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The courage to withstand, as feminists, the reformulated myth of the black rapist at the core of Zionism’s femonationalist gambit is also a profound antifascist commitment. We are, quite simply, drawing a line... - me on the NYT contributor strike/boycott for New Arab www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...
some good news
Overseas bases come with social, economic & environmental costs for host countries so kudos to the people of Ecuador, who rejected a proposal to start hosting the US military again after it was kicked out in 2008. Maybe makes it a little harder for the US to launch a monstrous war on Venezuela too.
Voters in Ecuador reject return of foreign military bases
Count of more than 90 percent of ballots show two-thirds rejecting the proposal to host foreign military bases.
www.aljazeera.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
some good news