UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy
@challengeineq.bsky.social
Celebrating 10 years of organizing knowledge to challenge inequality. We seek to advance radical democracy through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements & racial justice activism. https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/
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We invite you to join us in-person on Friday, November 14th for a convening to discuss our newest publication, BEYOND SANCTUARY, and its relevance to the moment at hand. RSVP>> beyondsanctuary.eventbrite.com
Grateful to our partners who are supporting this Friday's "Beyond Sanctuary" event. At a time of resurgent white nationalism, these dialogues are intended to resituate the imperial West in the global histories and possibilities of decolonization and abolition. RSVP>> beyondsanctuary.eventbrite.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Grateful to our partners who are supporting this Friday's "Beyond Sanctuary" event. At a time of resurgent white nationalism, these dialogues are intended to resituate the imperial West in the global histories and possibilities of decolonization and abolition. RSVP>> beyondsanctuary.eventbrite.com
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📣 JOIN US for our FREE monthly Tenant Rights Clinic 📅Thursday NOV 6 @ 5:30-7:30pm! 📣
Renters can walk in & receive free legal advice. Spread the word! #legalaid #tenantrights #rentersrights
📍Inner City Law Center Offices @ 1309 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Renters can walk in & receive free legal advice. Spread the word! #legalaid #tenantrights #rentersrights
📍Inner City Law Center Offices @ 1309 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
📣 JOIN US for our FREE monthly Tenant Rights Clinic 📅Thursday NOV 6 @ 5:30-7:30pm! 📣
Renters can walk in & receive free legal advice. Spread the word! #legalaid #tenantrights #rentersrights
📍Inner City Law Center Offices @ 1309 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Renters can walk in & receive free legal advice. Spread the word! #legalaid #tenantrights #rentersrights
📍Inner City Law Center Offices @ 1309 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
📖Congratulations to @challengeineq.bsky.social Associate Faculty Director @kiangoh.bsky.social whose book, "Form and Flow," has been awarded the 2025 Paul Davidoff Book Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). luskin.ucla.edu/book-by-kian...
Book by Kian Goh Honored by Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
“Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice” is winner of the 2025 Paul Davidoff Book Award.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
📖Congratulations to @challengeineq.bsky.social Associate Faculty Director @kiangoh.bsky.social whose book, "Form and Flow," has been awarded the 2025 Paul Davidoff Book Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). luskin.ucla.edu/book-by-kian...
"Migrant movements" is a term used in the book, Beyond Sanctuary, that describes movement across borders, but also describes powerful organizing via migrant squats & cross-border solidarity action networks. Listen to the interview with Institute Director Ananya Roy @kpfa.org kpfa.org/episode/agai...
Beyond Sanctuary | KPFA
If sanctuary and asylum policies and practices don’t do enough to protect immigrants, how is justice achieved? Ananya Roy’s focus is on how poor and vulnerable migrants are viewed and treated, and on ...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Migrant movements" is a term used in the book, Beyond Sanctuary, that describes movement across borders, but also describes powerful organizing via migrant squats & cross-border solidarity action networks. Listen to the interview with Institute Director Ananya Roy @kpfa.org kpfa.org/episode/agai...
📌REMINDER>> Application deadline>> Wednesday, October 29th for the ninth cohort of the #UCLA Activist-in-Residence program. LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists are welcome to apply>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...
📣Announcing the 2026 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence CALL FOR APPLICATIONS in partnership w/the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Spread the word to LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists. Deadline is Oct. 29>> Learn more & apply 👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...
Activist-in-Residence | Challenge Inequality
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October 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
📌REMINDER>> Application deadline>> Wednesday, October 29th for the ninth cohort of the #UCLA Activist-in-Residence program. LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists are welcome to apply>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...
TODAY, October 17 at 12noon PT via #Stanford Global Studies Division>> Hear from #UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel. More info + RSVP for this online event>> events.stanford.edu/event/sgs-gl...
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
TODAY, October 17 at 12noon PT via #Stanford Global Studies Division>> Hear from #UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel. More info + RSVP for this online event>> events.stanford.edu/event/sgs-gl...
Looking forward to this in-person event at #UCLA via @archhousinglab.bsky.social featuring UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Founding Director, Ananya Roy. Learn more & RSVP>> aud.ucla.edu/news-events/...
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Looking forward to this in-person event at #UCLA via @archhousinglab.bsky.social featuring UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Founding Director, Ananya Roy. Learn more & RSVP>> aud.ucla.edu/news-events/...
We invite you to join us in-person on Friday, November 14th for a convening to discuss our newest publication, BEYOND SANCTUARY, and its relevance to the moment at hand. RSVP>> beyondsanctuary.eventbrite.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We invite you to join us in-person on Friday, November 14th for a convening to discuss our newest publication, BEYOND SANCTUARY, and its relevance to the moment at hand. RSVP>> beyondsanctuary.eventbrite.com
Tenants around the country are being taken advantage of by giant corporate landlords — but we have the power to fight back. Join @debtcollective.bsky.social on Oct. 1st @ 5pm PT/8pm ET to learn more & shift tenant power for the better: debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...
October 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Tenants around the country are being taken advantage of by giant corporate landlords — but we have the power to fight back. Join @debtcollective.bsky.social on Oct. 1st @ 5pm PT/8pm ET to learn more & shift tenant power for the better: debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...
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Tenants around the nation are being deceived, taken advantage of and abused by their giant, profit-driven corporate landlords.
We've had enough.
Join us on October 1st as we announce a new legal-tech tool that could shift tenant power for the better.
debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...
We've had enough.
Join us on October 1st as we announce a new legal-tech tool that could shift tenant power for the better.
debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...
Debt Strike! Abolish Corporate Landlords & Build Tenant Power
The rent is too damn high — and corporate landlords are to blame! Join the Debt Collective as we make a huge announcement: we’re launching a national Back-Rent Debt Strike against the fifth largest…
debtcollective.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Tenants around the nation are being deceived, taken advantage of and abused by their giant, profit-driven corporate landlords.
We've had enough.
Join us on October 1st as we announce a new legal-tech tool that could shift tenant power for the better.
debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...
We've had enough.
Join us on October 1st as we announce a new legal-tech tool that could shift tenant power for the better.
debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...
📣Announcing the 2026 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence CALL FOR APPLICATIONS in partnership w/the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Spread the word to LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists. Deadline is Oct. 29>> Learn more & apply 👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...
Activist-in-Residence | Challenge Inequality
challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
📣Announcing the 2026 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence CALL FOR APPLICATIONS in partnership w/the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Spread the word to LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists. Deadline is Oct. 29>> Learn more & apply 👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...
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"The rental debt strike borrows from the successful student debt playbook: small groups generating national media attention, moral framing that shifts blame from individuals to institutions, and strategic targeting of powerful actors’ alleged misconduct."
www.vox.com/policy/46235...
www.vox.com/policy/46235...
Tenants say it’s time for landlords to cancel back rent debt
Tenants are going on strike against their landlords.
www.vox.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"The rental debt strike borrows from the successful student debt playbook: small groups generating national media attention, moral framing that shifts blame from individuals to institutions, and strategic targeting of powerful actors’ alleged misconduct."
www.vox.com/policy/46235...
www.vox.com/policy/46235...
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New: We're sparking a coordinated form of economic resistance that has never been done in the housing space.
We're organizing a debt-strike.
Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord.
And we're going to win.
We're organizing a debt-strike.
Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord.
And we're going to win.
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New: We're sparking a coordinated form of economic resistance that has never been done in the housing space.
We're organizing a debt-strike.
Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord.
And we're going to win.
We're organizing a debt-strike.
Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord.
And we're going to win.
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I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print.
Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.
Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.
Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion
The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state powe
read.dukeupress.edu
August 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print.
Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.
Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.
Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
As we gear up for the academic year, we're looking back at the 2025 capstone research projects supported by @challengeineq.bsky.social. We're endlessly impressed by the research questions our grad students take on & develop. Read the full reports👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/student-rese...
August 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As we gear up for the academic year, we're looking back at the 2025 capstone research projects supported by @challengeineq.bsky.social. We're endlessly impressed by the research questions our grad students take on & develop. Read the full reports👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/student-rese...
📖Just out from @dukepress.bsky.social>> Thinking across the U.S. and Europe BEYOND SANCTUARY critically examines liberal democratic policies of sanctuary and asylum and foregrounds migrant movements, those that demand a world beyond borders>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/08/20/b...
Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion | Challenge Inequality
Book via Duke University Press co-edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky
challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu
August 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
📖Just out from @dukepress.bsky.social>> Thinking across the U.S. and Europe BEYOND SANCTUARY critically examines liberal democratic policies of sanctuary and asylum and foregrounds migrant movements, those that demand a world beyond borders>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/08/20/b...
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Joel Montano (@challengeineq.bsky.social) shares best practices for following capital through land, how to connect firms to individuals, and how to map out real estate empires. 🏠📊
August 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Joel Montano (@challengeineq.bsky.social) shares best practices for following capital through land, how to connect firms to individuals, and how to map out real estate empires. 🏠📊
🕊️Rest in Power Benito Flores
‘Reclaimer’ Benito Flores dies while resisting eviction from El Sereno home.
An organizer remembers Flores as “ a beautiful human being who wanted nothing more than to … not have to worry about being displaced.”
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/recl...
An organizer remembers Flores as “ a beautiful human being who wanted nothing more than to … not have to worry about being displaced.”
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/recl...
‘Reclaimer’ Benito Flores dies while resisting eviction from El Sereno home
An organizer remembers Flores as “ a beautiful human being who wanted nothing more than to … not have to worry about being displaced.”
lapublicpress.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🕊️Rest in Power Benito Flores
Brilliant organizers & artists make for brilliant discussions. Shoutouts to #UCLA Activists-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales & @jaisuazo.bsky.social for bringing light💫 to struggle @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social. The "(Dis)placement" 📽️series continues thru August>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...
July 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Brilliant organizers & artists make for brilliant discussions. Shoutouts to #UCLA Activists-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales & @jaisuazo.bsky.social for bringing light💫 to struggle @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social. The "(Dis)placement" 📽️series continues thru August>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...
📽️Looking forward to this on Friday, July 18 @ 7:30pm 👇
“Razing Liberty Square” director Katja Esson & “Moonlight” co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney in person Fri 7/18!
This program focuses on the historically Black neighborhood of Liberty City, Miami, and the fight against gentrification.
Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social
Free: ucla.in/4lpdaUE
This program focuses on the historically Black neighborhood of Liberty City, Miami, and the fight against gentrification.
Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social
Free: ucla.in/4lpdaUE
July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
📽️Looking forward to this on Friday, July 18 @ 7:30pm 👇
REMINDER: This Sunday @ 7pm>> "Fluctuations of Home: Short Films From LA to DC" feat. #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limon Corrales. Proud to co-sponsor this @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social film series, "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." cinema.ucla.edu/events/fluct...
July 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
REMINDER: This Sunday @ 7pm>> "Fluctuations of Home: Short Films From LA to DC" feat. #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limon Corrales. Proud to co-sponsor this @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social film series, "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." cinema.ucla.edu/events/fluct...
If you missed this fascinating talk organized by @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social, tune in at your convenience👇
Featuring our very own Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel, this brilliant trio explore how the legacies of imperialism & debt continue to shape the world order.
Featuring our very own Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel, this brilliant trio explore how the legacies of imperialism & debt continue to shape the world order.
On Monday we have an event.
A talk with Michael Hudson, Steven Keen and Hannah Appel! They will discuss Debt, Empire and the Future of the economy.
It will be streamed live on our Youtube page.
www.youtube.com/live/FAgj66z...
A talk with Michael Hudson, Steven Keen and Hannah Appel! They will discuss Debt, Empire and the Future of the economy.
It will be streamed live on our Youtube page.
www.youtube.com/live/FAgj66z...
Michael Hudson in conversation with Steve Keen & Hannah Appel
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
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July 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If you missed this fascinating talk organized by @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social, tune in at your convenience👇
Featuring our very own Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel, this brilliant trio explore how the legacies of imperialism & debt continue to shape the world order.
Featuring our very own Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel, this brilliant trio explore how the legacies of imperialism & debt continue to shape the world order.
📻Interview w/@challengeineq.bsky.social researcher, Alex Ferrer>> Data from the #TenantPowerToolkit along with interviews reveal significantly disproportionate evictions of Black tenants in LA by REITs which have long-lasting effects on tenants' credit & housing access. www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...
‘Wall you can't get over’: When corporate landlord denies relief payments
Some Black tenants are disproportionately being evicted by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in LA, a new UCLA study finds. KCRW hears from two sisters who’ve experienced this.
www.kcrw.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
📻Interview w/@challengeineq.bsky.social researcher, Alex Ferrer>> Data from the #TenantPowerToolkit along with interviews reveal significantly disproportionate evictions of Black tenants in LA by REITs which have long-lasting effects on tenants' credit & housing access. www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...
Thx to @reporterliz.bsky.social for this coverage. Meaningful relationships w/communities on the frontlines of struggle along w/public scholarship are key to abolishing structures of inequality. Full report co-published w/Venice Justice Committee👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...
July 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thx to @reporterliz.bsky.social for this coverage. Meaningful relationships w/communities on the frontlines of struggle along w/public scholarship are key to abolishing structures of inequality. Full report co-published w/Venice Justice Committee👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...
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“(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home”
Jul 13–Aug 17
The films in this series examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory — in Los Angeles and global contexts.
Free: ucla.in/43Pmv0H
Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social
Jul 13–Aug 17
The films in this series examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory — in Los Angeles and global contexts.
Free: ucla.in/43Pmv0H
Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home”
Jul 13–Aug 17
The films in this series examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory — in Los Angeles and global contexts.
Free: ucla.in/43Pmv0H
Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social
Jul 13–Aug 17
The films in this series examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory — in Los Angeles and global contexts.
Free: ucla.in/43Pmv0H
Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social