Katherine Franke
@katherinefranke.bsky.social
Avid flyfisher & lover of penguins. James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (retired); Founding Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law. Author of Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, and Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality.
As I was saying … he can’t do that.
May 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
As I was saying … he can’t do that.
Last Monday night I got to hang with these incredible legal advocates at the @IMEU dinner. This group is leading the charge in freeing students who've been kidnapped by ICE, in fighting the evils of fascism in the US, and in defending the rights and dignity of Palestinians.
May 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Last Monday night I got to hang with these incredible legal advocates at the @IMEU dinner. This group is leading the charge in freeing students who've been kidnapped by ICE, in fighting the evils of fascism in the US, and in defending the rights and dignity of Palestinians.
Please join me tonite for a screening and talk-back with the directors of "The Palestine Exception", a necessary film for this time. Zoom registration here: nyu.zoom.us/j/92012470986
April 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Please join me tonite for a screening and talk-back with the directors of "The Palestine Exception", a necessary film for this time. Zoom registration here: nyu.zoom.us/j/92012470986
If you are in Chicago next Thursday night, please join me and some bad-ass folks for a National Day of Action teach in on the Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights:
April 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If you are in Chicago next Thursday night, please join me and some bad-ass folks for a National Day of Action teach in on the Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights:
Finding creases of beauty in a time that asks so much of us. These daffodils and hellebores from our garden we’ll bring to a friend for her birthday tonite.
April 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Finding creases of beauty in a time that asks so much of us. These daffodils and hellebores from our garden we’ll bring to a friend for her birthday tonite.
Where I observe how @columbiauniversity.bsky.social has become the Tesla of the academic community. See the whole interview with Amy Goodman on @democracynow.org now here: youtu.be/-Il8-LB2wt0
April 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Where I observe how @columbiauniversity.bsky.social has become the Tesla of the academic community. See the whole interview with Amy Goodman on @democracynow.org now here: youtu.be/-Il8-LB2wt0
Peril and Possibility. We have to find a way to hold both right now. youtube.com/shorts/lm576...
March 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Peril and Possibility. We have to find a way to hold both right now. youtube.com/shorts/lm576...
I can't overstate how terrified the members of our academic communities are now. The video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student, being surrounded by MASKED ICE officers, cuffed, and hauled away shakes me to my core. And then I passed ICE vehicles parked near our campus this morning ...
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I can't overstate how terrified the members of our academic communities are now. The video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student, being surrounded by MASKED ICE officers, cuffed, and hauled away shakes me to my core. And then I passed ICE vehicles parked near our campus this morning ...
Part 1 of my interview this morning with Amy Goodman at @democracynow.org, breaking down new developments at Columbia University, and how the feds are using attacks against universities, students, and law firms as "test balloons" to see how far they can go. democracynow.cachefly.net/democracynow...
March 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Part 1 of my interview this morning with Amy Goodman at @democracynow.org, breaking down new developments at Columbia University, and how the feds are using attacks against universities, students, and law firms as "test balloons" to see how far they can go. democracynow.cachefly.net/democracynow...
Absolutely time for a penguin pic, and in this case, one that likely resonates with so many.
March 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Absolutely time for a penguin pic, and in this case, one that likely resonates with so many.
Breaking news re taking care of my nervous systems these days: I took a walk in the woods this afternoon and came upon a Woodcock - a bird I've never seen in person. To all of you wonderful friends, go take a walk in the woods or park near you and look for a surprise. We need you for the long haul.
March 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Breaking news re taking care of my nervous systems these days: I took a walk in the woods this afternoon and came upon a Woodcock - a bird I've never seen in person. To all of you wonderful friends, go take a walk in the woods or park near you and look for a surprise. We need you for the long haul.
Inside @columbiauniversity.bsky.social’s aptly named “Bollinger Forum” at 125th Street a quote from Rosa Parks looms prominently and ironically: “Stand for something or you will fall for anything”. Perhaps someone cd walk over the university leadership so they could be reminded of these wise words.
March 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Inside @columbiauniversity.bsky.social’s aptly named “Bollinger Forum” at 125th Street a quote from Rosa Parks looms prominently and ironically: “Stand for something or you will fall for anything”. Perhaps someone cd walk over the university leadership so they could be reminded of these wise words.
What an evening - sharing a stage with Beth Richie, Amanda Alexander, and Mary Hooks - and Gina and Angela - sharing reflections on how past struggles inform today’s struggles. Sankofa! #BeyondtheBars Center for Justice
March 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What an evening - sharing a stage with Beth Richie, Amanda Alexander, and Mary Hooks - and Gina and Angela - sharing reflections on how past struggles inform today’s struggles. Sankofa! #BeyondtheBars Center for Justice
How lucky am I? I got to grab lunch with @vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social in Brooklyn today - so I could tell her in person how important her new book is … and we could talk about community, courage, and care in this butt ugly time.
March 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
How lucky am I? I got to grab lunch with @vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social in Brooklyn today - so I could tell her in person how important her new book is … and we could talk about community, courage, and care in this butt ugly time.
1st plenary of the @CenterforJustice's 15th Beyond the Bars conference, Friday 6:00pm at Riverside Church! Join us in person or on livestream: youtube.com/@centerforju...
Wisdom Circle: Past Lessons for Future Actions
Angela Davis
Gina Dent
Amanda Alexander
Mary Hooks
Beth Richie
Katherine Franke
Wisdom Circle: Past Lessons for Future Actions
Angela Davis
Gina Dent
Amanda Alexander
Mary Hooks
Beth Richie
Katherine Franke
March 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
1st plenary of the @CenterforJustice's 15th Beyond the Bars conference, Friday 6:00pm at Riverside Church! Join us in person or on livestream: youtube.com/@centerforju...
Wisdom Circle: Past Lessons for Future Actions
Angela Davis
Gina Dent
Amanda Alexander
Mary Hooks
Beth Richie
Katherine Franke
Wisdom Circle: Past Lessons for Future Actions
Angela Davis
Gina Dent
Amanda Alexander
Mary Hooks
Beth Richie
Katherine Franke
Have any doubt about the capture of @Columbia
by a partisan political project? Here you go. This, while the uni leans into a robust commitment to "institutional neutrality" w/r/to everything else & dismantles all of its infrastructure protecting against racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
by a partisan political project? Here you go. This, while the uni leans into a robust commitment to "institutional neutrality" w/r/to everything else & dismantles all of its infrastructure protecting against racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
February 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Have any doubt about the capture of @Columbia
by a partisan political project? Here you go. This, while the uni leans into a robust commitment to "institutional neutrality" w/r/to everything else & dismantles all of its infrastructure protecting against racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
by a partisan political project? Here you go. This, while the uni leans into a robust commitment to "institutional neutrality" w/r/to everything else & dismantles all of its infrastructure protecting against racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
@mashagessen.bsky.social's insights about "anticipatory obedience" in the NYT this am were spot on. Read them here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
February 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
@mashagessen.bsky.social's insights about "anticipatory obedience" in the NYT this am were spot on. Read them here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
Wonderful to see these great friends last night, Russell Robinson and Osagie Obasogie, during a quick trip to the Bay Area (missing from the pic Leti Volpp).
February 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Wonderful to see these great friends last night, Russell Robinson and Osagie Obasogie, during a quick trip to the Bay Area (missing from the pic Leti Volpp).
"I have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research at Columbia." Full statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
January 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"I have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research at Columbia." Full statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
As we brace for what’s coming in 2025, may we all become our own version of this!
December 27, 2024 at 3:55 PM
As we brace for what’s coming in 2025, may we all become our own version of this!
