Dr. Susmita Rishi (Sush)
@susmitarishi.bsky.social
Lover of Cities | Engaged Critical Urban Scholar | Planner, Urban Designer, Architect | Associate Professor | Focus: Urban global South, Informality, making Home, Urban Design Equity, and Justice
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This is a bit last-minute, but I’m looking for a PhD student to join a newly funded project at SUNY ESF starting Fall 2025. The work focuses on racialized ecologies, reparative land governance, and the layered histories and politics of plantations and forests in New York State.
June 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is a bit last-minute, but I’m looking for a PhD student to join a newly funded project at SUNY ESF starting Fall 2025. The work focuses on racialized ecologies, reparative land governance, and the layered histories and politics of plantations and forests in New York State.
This is some "but have you tasted cake" shit to defend "but, let them have cake". Precisely why they are so out of touch, they don't get that for most people, that is not a priority because the priority is keeping our jobs so we can have a roof over our head and food on the table.
Gayle King Defends 11-Minute Space Flight After ‘Disrespectful’ Backlash:
"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"
"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"
Gayle King Defends 'Expensive' 11-Minute Space Flight After 'Disrespectful' Backlash
Gayle King defends Blue Origin space flight after herself, Katy Perry, and the other participants received backlash for going to space for 11 minutes.
rollingstone.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is some "but have you tasted cake" shit to defend "but, let them have cake". Precisely why they are so out of touch, they don't get that for most people, that is not a priority because the priority is keeping our jobs so we can have a roof over our head and food on the table.
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A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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“I cldn’t invent any better demo of how you can expect universities to act in coming yrs than what Columbia is doing right now… Whenever 🇺🇸 safely emerges from the current dark age, those uni’s will be able to safely publish histories of the time that nod obliquely to their own possible mistakes.”
The More You Have, the Less You Fight
Who will and will not save us.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“I cldn’t invent any better demo of how you can expect universities to act in coming yrs than what Columbia is doing right now… Whenever 🇺🇸 safely emerges from the current dark age, those uni’s will be able to safely publish histories of the time that nod obliquely to their own possible mistakes.”
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Going back to Neil Smith for his original definition of revanchism for a project I'm working on, and wow, does that sound relevant:
"It was a right-wing movement built on populist nationalism and devoted to a vengeful and reactionary retaking of the country."
"It was a right-wing movement built on populist nationalism and devoted to a vengeful and reactionary retaking of the country."
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Going back to Neil Smith for his original definition of revanchism for a project I'm working on, and wow, does that sound relevant:
"It was a right-wing movement built on populist nationalism and devoted to a vengeful and reactionary retaking of the country."
"It was a right-wing movement built on populist nationalism and devoted to a vengeful and reactionary retaking of the country."
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“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”
― Cecil Day Lewis
#WritingSky
― Cecil Day Lewis
#WritingSky
February 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”
― Cecil Day Lewis
#WritingSky
― Cecil Day Lewis
#WritingSky
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"I previously wrote that Democrats are bringing a teaspoon to a gunfight. But it’s unclear if most Ds even recognize they’re in a gunfight." from @davidcorn.bsky.social
Democrats are MIA—just when the country needs them to counter the Trump-Musk blitzkrieg
Why are they bringing a teaspoon to a gunfight?
www.motherjones.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"I previously wrote that Democrats are bringing a teaspoon to a gunfight. But it’s unclear if most Ds even recognize they’re in a gunfight." from @davidcorn.bsky.social
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If you think the headline is good, you should read the copy.
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
theonion.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you think the headline is good, you should read the copy.
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Vaccines are good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
"But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.
Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
"But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.
February 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Vaccines are good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
"But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.
Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
"But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.
Oh but what about the "gentlemen's agreement" and being "bipartisan"?
Here's something Dems can consider doing right now: Band together and tell Trump and the GOP that they will not get *a single vote* for any legislation or nominee until he ends Elon Musk's illegal mission to gut our government.
My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
February 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Oh but what about the "gentlemen's agreement" and being "bipartisan"?
For all those saying that "No one voted for [The Tech Bro]," you are wrong. They voted for him. He was front and center, and they voted for him. He might not have run for election but that does not mean they didn't vote for him.
February 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For all those saying that "No one voted for [The Tech Bro]," you are wrong. They voted for him. He was front and center, and they voted for him. He might not have run for election but that does not mean they didn't vote for him.
"But HER emails?"
Exclusive: Federal workers have filed an emergency motion requesting a restraining order to disconnect the DOGE server that's being used to conduct Trump's "deferred resignation program." The workers had previously accused DOGE of illegally bypassing a mandated privacy audit.
By me at @wired.com:
By me at @wired.com:
Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server
Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Musk’s associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order.
www.wired.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"But HER emails?"
Exist. Persevere. Survive.
"I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times."
—Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
—Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Exist. Persevere. Survive.
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It feels like there's a program running in the background of my human CPU that's draining the battery and I can't force quit it.
February 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It feels like there's a program running in the background of my human CPU that's draining the battery and I can't force quit it.
This is what is most frustrating to me. The rolling over that we are seeing from the Dems. They have shown a complete lack of understanding of their base and continue to show a lack of strategy and honestly a moral backbone. So much for your ideals and values.
New: There's a clear connection between the Democrats' shrunken resistance and the fact that Republicans think Dems will help them pave the way for Trump to steal and wreck things unobstructed. www.offmessage.net/p/dont-prop-...
Don't Prop Up The Corrupt Trump Regime
The moral hazard of median-voter pandering and limp Democratic resistance.
www.offmessage.net
January 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is what is most frustrating to me. The rolling over that we are seeing from the Dems. They have shown a complete lack of understanding of their base and continue to show a lack of strategy and honestly a moral backbone. So much for your ideals and values.
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I answered a reporter's question: "The long-term well-being of our climate system is incompatible with the short-term gains of shareholders." I stand by that statement.
January 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I answered a reporter's question: "The long-term well-being of our climate system is incompatible with the short-term gains of shareholders." I stand by that statement.
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i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
January 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
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"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
Happy MLK Day.
Happy MLK Day.
January 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
Happy MLK Day.
Happy MLK Day.
Just coz a billionaire looks like you doesn't mean they are any different from the others. They all work in service of acquiring more and more of the same thing and you are just a means to an end. Hope those that drank the "Tech firms with save the world" coolaid realize that they are corporations.
January 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just coz a billionaire looks like you doesn't mean they are any different from the others. They all work in service of acquiring more and more of the same thing and you are just a means to an end. Hope those that drank the "Tech firms with save the world" coolaid realize that they are corporations.
I am looking for recommendations on a guide or book on how to write qualitative research for journal publishing. I know there are many books out there, but I am looking specifically for something that provides help for writing qualitative research for journals. Do you have any recs?
January 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I am looking for recommendations on a guide or book on how to write qualitative research for journal publishing. I know there are many books out there, but I am looking specifically for something that provides help for writing qualitative research for journals. Do you have any recs?
As a female academic in her 40s, I think it is extremely important to pay attention to ways in which you get worn down by the constant mini-struggles. As you age, it accumulates and you get to a point where you just can't anymore. This is not just about the extra mentoring or household labor.
“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪
#AcademicSky 👩🏽🔬
#AcademicSky 👩🏽🔬
Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields
Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.
www.nature.com
January 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
As a female academic in her 40s, I think it is extremely important to pay attention to ways in which you get worn down by the constant mini-struggles. As you age, it accumulates and you get to a point where you just can't anymore. This is not just about the extra mentoring or household labor.
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Narratives take over quickly in a disaster. Yes, wealthy and powerful people are losing their homes. Pacific Palisades also has a large mobile home park, and undoubtedly other lower cost housing.
January 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Narratives take over quickly in a disaster. Yes, wealthy and powerful people are losing their homes. Pacific Palisades also has a large mobile home park, and undoubtedly other lower cost housing.
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The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people passed $2 trillion last year.
12 people. $2 trillion.
Meanwhile, U.S. homelessness increased 18% in 2024.
Our problem isn’t an issue of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.
12 people. $2 trillion.
Meanwhile, U.S. homelessness increased 18% in 2024.
Our problem isn’t an issue of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.
January 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people passed $2 trillion last year.
12 people. $2 trillion.
Meanwhile, U.S. homelessness increased 18% in 2024.
Our problem isn’t an issue of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.
12 people. $2 trillion.
Meanwhile, U.S. homelessness increased 18% in 2024.
Our problem isn’t an issue of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.
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Really happy to see this out! Draws on conjunctural and pragmatist methodologies to develop a more nuanced account of the possibility and politics of justice-based climate resilience through research into the Justice40 initiative in the United States.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
On the possibility of ‘Just Resilience’: A pragmatist approach to justice-based climate change governance
Scholars have afforded much attention to environmental justice issues amid the recent global surge in climate resilience efforts. And yet our analysis…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Really happy to see this out! Draws on conjunctural and pragmatist methodologies to develop a more nuanced account of the possibility and politics of justice-based climate resilience through research into the Justice40 initiative in the United States.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...