A sporadically updated blog of ideas informing my thinking right now.
- Transforming Humanities: A Student’s Perspective on Community Organizing Humanities
- Mourn the martyrs: On the Death of the good Renee Good
- What are the capacities Community Change Studies students? A short graduation speech
- Community Organizing in 2025 Requires a Whole of Society Approach
- On the election of Zohran Mamdani
Community Organizing in 2025 Requires a Whole of Society Approach
I have been thinking about how we concerned with community change need a new approach that matches our current circumstances. I teach an Introduction to Community Change course. It’s a Humanities course, and I use a great book, Twitter and Teargas, by Zeynep Tefekci, as a core text, along with other readings and some films,…
On the election of Zohran Mamdani
First they came for the Muslims and immigrants, and we showed up at the mosques and airports and Home Depots. Then they came for the queer and transfolks, and we elected transpeople to Congress and held Drag Queen Story Hours at libraries. Then they came for the Palestinians and the students, and we occupied and…
Stop Fretting, America, and Start Taking Place, Humans
Election Day in America is two days away as I write this first post, or rant, or whatever it may evolve into. In the New York Times this week, Ezra Klein frets about the political re-alignment, while David Brooks opines about the intellectual re-alignment. I could nitpick, but much of what they both say is…
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