Pranav Jani
@redguju.bsky.social
Associate Prof, English, Ohio State (Postcolonial/Ethnic Studies). Board member & Past President, AAUP-OSU. Member, FSJP. He/him. All views my own. https://pranavjani.com/
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We need to hear the stories of grassroots organizers now more than ever.Catch the first three episodes of my podcast, “Together We Rise: Solidarity Stories from Central Ohio” ✊🏽❤️
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The AAUP-Ohio State executive board condemns ICE escalation in our communities. We urge our members and all who love democracy to do what they can in this moment.
Here’s a statement from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance.
ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/12...
Here’s a statement from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance.
ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/12...
ICE terrorizes Columbus - A better approach is to let immigrants stay and continue contributing — Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents terrorized Columbus today, trolling parking lots and arresting people in various parts of the city. Officials with the City of Columbus, including the ...
ohioimmigrant.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The AAUP-Ohio State executive board condemns ICE escalation in our communities. We urge our members and all who love democracy to do what they can in this moment.
Here’s a statement from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance.
ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/12...
Here’s a statement from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance.
ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/12...
Some kind words from listeners of pranavjani.com/togetherwerise
Together We Rise: Solidarity Stories From Central Ohio
Recent Episodes
pranavjani.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Some kind words from listeners of pranavjani.com/togetherwerise
We need to hear the stories of grassroots organizers now more than ever.Catch the first three episodes of my podcast, “Together We Rise: Solidarity Stories from Central Ohio” ✊🏽❤️
December 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We need to hear the stories of grassroots organizers now more than ever.Catch the first three episodes of my podcast, “Together We Rise: Solidarity Stories from Central Ohio” ✊🏽❤️
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This is how you stand up for educators against politically motivated attacks on teaching.
Please sign OU AAUP’s petition demanding that OU protect the freedom to teach & learn, & stand up against targeted harassment & intimidation.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/forms/defend...
Please sign OU AAUP’s petition demanding that OU protect the freedom to teach & learn, & stand up against targeted harassment & intimidation.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/forms/defend...
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is how you stand up for educators against politically motivated attacks on teaching.
Please sign OU AAUP’s petition demanding that OU protect the freedom to teach & learn, & stand up against targeted harassment & intimidation.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/forms/defend...
Please sign OU AAUP’s petition demanding that OU protect the freedom to teach & learn, & stand up against targeted harassment & intimidation.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/forms/defend...
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Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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We heartily endorse this call from workers at the Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate.
Please sign the letter to The USA Today Co demanding they recognize the Dispatch News Guild-CWA
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Please sign the letter to The USA Today Co demanding they recognize the Dispatch News Guild-CWA
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Tell USA TODAY Co. to Recognize the Dispatch News Guild!
We are the reporters, photographers and digital producers of The Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate, two of the oldest news organizations in Central Ohio. We are fighting for our own futures and th...
actionnetwork.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We heartily endorse this call from workers at the Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate.
Please sign the letter to The USA Today Co demanding they recognize the Dispatch News Guild-CWA
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Please sign the letter to The USA Today Co demanding they recognize the Dispatch News Guild-CWA
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Grateful for this note from my friend and comrade. Podcast launched today: pranavjani.com/togetherwerise
Pranav's podcast is going to be essential listening for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of organizing in central Ohio
My podcast drops on 12/8. Episode 1 - my intro. Episode 2 - Columbus active James Hayes. See my website pranavjani.com/togetherwerise and wherever you hear podcasts.
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Grateful for this note from my friend and comrade. Podcast launched today: pranavjani.com/togetherwerise
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My podcast drops on 12/8. Episode 1 - my intro. Episode 2 - Columbus active James Hayes. See my website pranavjani.com/togetherwerise and wherever you hear podcasts.
Together We Rise: Solidarity Stories From Central Ohio
Podcast launches December 8! Latest Episodes [enjoy the sneak preview as I prep for the launch]
pranavjani.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
My podcast drops on 12/8. Episode 1 - my intro. Episode 2 - Columbus active James Hayes. See my website pranavjani.com/togetherwerise and wherever you hear podcasts.
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“There is much that is right about what we are doing in higher education—as teachers, researchers, community advocates, and mentors—and we should not lose sight of that when the discourse of the day would seem to put us permanently on the defensive.” ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“There is much that is right about what we are doing in higher education—as teachers, researchers, community advocates, and mentors—and we should not lose sight of that when the discourse of the day would seem to put us permanently on the defensive.” ❤️
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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This can only be considered a "war" if there was a declaration by Congress. Otherwise, it murder, pure and simple.
Q: “If it is found that survivors were actually killed while clinging onto that boat, should Secretary Hegseth, Admiral Bradley, or others be punished?”
Trump: “I think you’re going to find that this is war.”
Trump: “I think you’re going to find that this is war.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This can only be considered a "war" if there was a declaration by Congress. Otherwise, it murder, pure and simple.
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🧵After getting a zero on a psychology essay for saying things like "multiple genders are demonic," a University of Oklahoma student reached out to disgraced former OK Schools Superintendent Ryan Walter. The governor intervened.
The professor was suspended pending investigation.
The professor was suspended pending investigation.
College Instructor Put on Leave Over Zero Grade for Gender Essay
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🧵After getting a zero on a psychology essay for saying things like "multiple genders are demonic," a University of Oklahoma student reached out to disgraced former OK Schools Superintendent Ryan Walter. The governor intervened.
The professor was suspended pending investigation.
The professor was suspended pending investigation.
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An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
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Nearly six months later.
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Nearly six months later.
My Columbus Dispatch Op-Ed has been published as an opinions piece in USA Today this morning.
USA Today: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
started getting some hate mail and knew something’s up. Then I saw this. Also got friendly messages!
Editors make titles not authors. Pls read the article.
USA Today: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
started getting some hate mail and knew something’s up. Then I saw this. Also got friendly messages!
Editors make titles not authors. Pls read the article.
Vance steps on his own wife for MAGA. Indians, they're turning on you. | Opinion
We can call out the hate without empathizing with those, like Kash Patel and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are actively harming communities of color.
www.usatoday.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My Columbus Dispatch Op-Ed has been published as an opinions piece in USA Today this morning.
USA Today: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
started getting some hate mail and knew something’s up. Then I saw this. Also got friendly messages!
Editors make titles not authors. Pls read the article.
USA Today: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
started getting some hate mail and knew something’s up. Then I saw this. Also got friendly messages!
Editors make titles not authors. Pls read the article.
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“We will deal with it if it happens. All the [Lebanese Shia] villages around us, they are destroyed and basically uninhabitable. If you ask what is our victory, it is that we have been rebuilding for a year and they haven’t put a single pipe back in the ground.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Tense calm in far north as Israel prepares to ‘finish the job’ against Hezbollah
On the border with Lebanon, communities have started to return and rebuild – even though some are in no hurry to return
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“We will deal with it if it happens. All the [Lebanese Shia] villages around us, they are destroyed and basically uninhabitable. If you ask what is our victory, it is that we have been rebuilding for a year and they haven’t put a single pipe back in the ground.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Ryan Skinner, Director of OSU’s Humanities Institute, celebrates the work of faculty and units in the arts and humanities in this open letter. Ryan serves as Vice-President of AAUP-OSU.
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...
In Praise of the Arts and Humanities
Of griots and professorsAs a scholar, I have spent nearly three decades studying the art and social life of West African griots. Griots are storytellers, guardians of cultural memory (they are known c...
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ryan Skinner, Director of OSU’s Humanities Institute, celebrates the work of faculty and units in the arts and humanities in this open letter. Ryan serves as Vice-President of AAUP-OSU.
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...
humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...
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Cartoon #4 part 2. Plan to watch “Wicked” this weekend? Great. But keep an eye on the disasters brewing at OSU.
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Cartoon #4 part 2. Plan to watch “Wicked” this weekend? Great. But keep an eye on the disasters brewing at OSU.
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The AAUP at Ohio State encourages all to attend this Tuesday event by Jewish Voice for Peace - Central Ohio @jvpcentralohio. We stand in solidarity with our colleague Tom Hayes of Ohio University who was removed from his teaching position after being detained in the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The AAUP at Ohio State encourages all to attend this Tuesday event by Jewish Voice for Peace - Central Ohio @jvpcentralohio. We stand in solidarity with our colleague Tom Hayes of Ohio University who was removed from his teaching position after being detained in the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.
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Join the picket line with Starbucks workers at Lane & High today (11/18) from 8am-12 noon.
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Join the picket line with Starbucks workers at Lane & High today (11/18) from 8am-12 noon.