Roxanne Shirazi
@roxanneshirazi.bsky.social
Archives and dissertations, labor and libraries. Too much service. Shepherding CUNY history at @cdha.bsky.social
She/her, white/Mexican. Not actually Iranian. Queens is the future 💫
https://roxanneshirazi.com/
She/her, white/Mexican. Not actually Iranian. Queens is the future 💫
https://roxanneshirazi.com/
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Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.
December 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.
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This happens every day with a collective shrug from most in NYC - particularly the cops and elected officials - while every single crime that happens in the subway is put under a microscope.
A pedestrian was killed by the driver of a massive SUV while crossing the street on the Lower East Side on Thursday night. buff.ly/Pp5HbJ6
Pedestrian Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver on Crowded Lowest East Side Street - Streetsblog New York City
The driver kept going. EMTs took the badly injured woman to Bellevue Hospital, where she died.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This happens every day with a collective shrug from most in NYC - particularly the cops and elected officials - while every single crime that happens in the subway is put under a microscope.
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NYC teachers and friends of same - please share this great learning opportunity. A day at the NY Historical Society to invigorate and expand how you teach Civil Rights Movement history. #nyc #nyccivilrightshistory #maemallory #harlem9
Civil Rights and Schools: From Little Rock to NYC
This workshop focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 and in Harlem in 1958. This event will be in-person.
www.facinghistory.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NYC teachers and friends of same - please share this great learning opportunity. A day at the NY Historical Society to invigorate and expand how you teach Civil Rights Movement history. #nyc #nyccivilrightshistory #maemallory #harlem9
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The AAUP is seeking transparency & accountability on the extent of Palantir’s role with the Department of Education.
Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.
Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.
December 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The AAUP is seeking transparency & accountability on the extent of Palantir’s role with the Department of Education.
Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.
Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.
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why is it always “the president is late” and never “the late president”
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
why is it always “the president is late” and never “the late president”
ok the new iOS isn’t all bad if it makes my lock screen do this
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
ok the new iOS isn’t all bad if it makes my lock screen do this
I was not one of the people who talked to the mayor (elect) in his homage to Marina Abramović, but I very much appreciated this write up in the New Yorker
Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line
Preparing to take office, the Mayor-elect dabbles in performance art at the Museum of the Moving Image.
www.newyorker.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I was not one of the people who talked to the mayor (elect) in his homage to Marina Abramović, but I very much appreciated this write up in the New Yorker
Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Want to Talk to Zohran Mamdani? Get in Line www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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This is why I remind my students to be careful of using the phrasing "of course"—and why historical consciousness is important as well. There were generations of artists, from Ashcan School to Abstract Expressionists to East Village artists in 1980s, who found NYC an affordable place to live & work
December 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is why I remind my students to be careful of using the phrasing "of course"—and why historical consciousness is important as well. There were generations of artists, from Ashcan School to Abstract Expressionists to East Village artists in 1980s, who found NYC an affordable place to live & work
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Rob Reiner gave us a lingua franca that connected us to fellow travelers for DECADES.
He made American culture classic, memorable, accessible, poignant and unpretentious in a way few have. Devastating.
He made American culture classic, memorable, accessible, poignant and unpretentious in a way few have. Devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Rob Reiner gave us a lingua franca that connected us to fellow travelers for DECADES.
He made American culture classic, memorable, accessible, poignant and unpretentious in a way few have. Devastating.
He made American culture classic, memorable, accessible, poignant and unpretentious in a way few have. Devastating.
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just horrible that you can put so much good out in the world and just get the absolute worst the world has in return.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
just horrible that you can put so much good out in the world and just get the absolute worst the world has in return.
Holy shit, Rob Reiner. What is happening
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Holy shit, Rob Reiner. What is happening
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My mother's response to me telling her Pete Alonso left the Mets:
"Maybe with a new set of people they will win."
Damn Ma
"Maybe with a new set of people they will win."
Damn Ma
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My mother's response to me telling her Pete Alonso left the Mets:
"Maybe with a new set of people they will win."
Damn Ma
"Maybe with a new set of people they will win."
Damn Ma
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Every org has a couple of old heads in nondescript positions that functions as the organisation's memory. "Susan will know". Until Susan retires or is replaced with a generative AI...
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Every org has a couple of old heads in nondescript positions that functions as the organisation's memory. "Susan will know". Until Susan retires or is replaced with a generative AI...
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“Wages for housework was a means, and its end was the destruction of capitalism.” 💪💪💪
While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining.
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:
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 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“Wages for housework was a means, and its end was the destruction of capitalism.” 💪💪💪
I can’t do a pull up AND I am definitely trying all the cookies. But I did the reading before opening my mouth, and if I didn’t I’m keeping my mouth closed, so score one for me
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I can’t do a pull up AND I am definitely trying all the cookies. But I did the reading before opening my mouth, and if I didn’t I’m keeping my mouth closed, so score one for me
“Trust is a cultural expectation for us, and that expectation reaches each member of our community and into our shared governments. If it needed to be said explicitly: surveillance kills the faith that students are expected to invest into this institution.”
I'm really happy to see this level of smart attention to surveillance practices on college campuses by students.
Esénia Bañuelos, the President of Bryn Mawr College’s Self Government Association, has written a powerful letter about the current climate on campus:
“This Is Bryn Mawr College”
“This Is Bryn Mawr College”
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
“Trust is a cultural expectation for us, and that expectation reaches each member of our community and into our shared governments. If it needed to be said explicitly: surveillance kills the faith that students are expected to invest into this institution.”
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it’s weird to have people — students, colleagues, randoms — tell me that genAI is inevitable so why bother helping people understand how bad it is. like are you not fighting or shouting about, I dunno, climate change? fascism? do you not understand how genAI is aligned with both? get a fucking clue
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
it’s weird to have people — students, colleagues, randoms — tell me that genAI is inevitable so why bother helping people understand how bad it is. like are you not fighting or shouting about, I dunno, climate change? fascism? do you not understand how genAI is aligned with both? get a fucking clue
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This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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This! Take time to plan and fortify and relish the world we want to build. Libraries can be such a central piece of that.
If you are a justice-minded person in Chicago, there's a good chance you are exhausted and catching your breath in the wake of the CBP surges here in recent months, but we can't just fight what's evil in these times. We must also fortify and defend what's good. We must defend our libraries.
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This! Take time to plan and fortify and relish the world we want to build. Libraries can be such a central piece of that.
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Roxanne Shirazi (Associate Professor, Graduate Center Library) is an elected PSC Delegate to the AAUP and a member of the College and University Governance Committee that produced the report. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
This report, prepared by a subcommittee of the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance, reexamines the necessity of strong faculty senates through the lens of the Statement on Government...
www.aaup.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Check out @aaup.org's recently published report, "In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates."
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Check out @aaup.org's recently published report, "In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates."
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Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...