A sporadically updated blog of ideas informing my thinking right now.
- No Kings. Now what? The Worlding After
- 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
What are the capacities Community Change Studies students? A short graduation speech
Today, we are coming together to honor students in our program who are graduating with a RUCCAS degree. I was thinking about what it means to be a Rustin Urban Community Change Axis graduate. They will tell you in just a few minutes what it means to them, their philosophy statements or manifestos on liberatory…
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…
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