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lisa 理沙 beyeler-yvarra
@lisaby.bsky.social
phd candidate in architecture + religion at yale
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Japanese Americans protest Fort Bliss, former WWII incarceration site, as largest ICE migrant detention center

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Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
“The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.
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August 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I’m thrilled to be organizing a panel on “Chapels: A Typology Transformed” with @lisaby.bsky.social at @sah1365.bsky.social Virtual on Sept 19. Panelists from arch/art history, sociology, and history will present chapels from the Middle Ages until today & discuss what distinguishes & defines chapels
August 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Disturbing Profane," Joseph R. Winters's look at religion and hip hop.
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July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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🌾 An urgent plea to our followers here and anyone who has taken a workshop with us, bought a book from our bookstore, or attended a reading group:

First, we appreciate you so much. Without your support and participation our workshops would mean nothing.
July 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Please join us Thurs May 22 + Fri 23 online! It’s been a dream to organize this symposium with such spectacular speakers @curryhackett.bsky.social @celinaabba.bsky.social @thefunambulist.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social
Final chance to register for 2 public keynotes, May 22 & 23:

Think through speculative methodologies as a means for teaching global architectural history with Léopold Lambert of @thefunambulist.bsky.social and @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social,

RSVP: www.sah.org/programs/sah...
May 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Between 1910-1940, some 175,000 mostly Chinese arrivals were detained on Angel Island. In 1970, when the detention center’s buildings were due to be torn down, a park ranger noticed that the walls were inscribed with layers upon layers of poetry. Some 200 poems survive.
#everynightapoem
May 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.
Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.

Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.

Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child.

It's a genocide.
April 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context
March 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Next week, we have Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire, with Juliet Nebolon.

At least 2 watch parties/study groups are participating. We love this idea, and encourage teachers to set one up for their students!

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/set...
Settler Militarism — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $30). Step 2: Register for “Settler Militarism” here . In this workshop, Juliet Nebolon will discuss how settler colonialism and ...
www.workshops4gaza.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Octavia's Bookshelf owner Nikki High doesn’t know the state of her own house in Altadena — most houses burned — but she's turned her Pasadena bookstore into a help center for fire victims.

Follow the IG/Threads accounts for updates. They still need first aid kits. We also brought bottled water.
January 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Happy New Year and happy germination to my next book, approved by @uwapress.bsky.social for publication in early 2026!

An unconventional history of the Philippine nation-state told through return migration. Very proud of this one. "Going home" won't be the same after reading this, promise!
January 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford
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Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies
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December 15, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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I was just interviewed by a Finnish architect abt this piece and ongoing campus security restrictions; he seemed 🤯 when I told him that uni administrators have made perfectly clear to some activist faculty + students that their comings + goings, their email, their social media are all under 👁️
I wrote the keynote article for the July/Aug issue of The Architectural Review. It's about campus protests, campus surveillance, + the history of universities as defensible spaces (spreads in part 2 ⬇️) www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...
December 12, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Little-known fact: I dislike receiving gifts, which is fun to deal with at this time of year! If you want to give me something, please consider using that $ to register for my upcoming lecture series with @divyampersaud.com through @workshops4gaza.bsky.social: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei...
Reimaging Space — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to the Abu Al-Kombuz family here (suggested donation $75USD). Step 2: Register for “Reimagining Space” here . This workshop is a two-part lecture and discussion series ...
www.workshops4gaza.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Did y’all know that there are universities like Yale that contribute to municipal budgets to make up for not paying property taxes, but the University of Chicago — which has a sizable footprint on the south side — does not?! Phenomenal reporting by @corli.thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2024/12/chic...
Chicago activists push for universities to pay for city services to ease budget woes • The TRiiBE
Universities like Brown and Harvard contribute to municipal budgets. Chicago organizers are asking that local universities do the same.
thetriibe.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2024 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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A little over a month ago Andrew Herscher and I wrote about university's defense of private property.

Their acknowledgments become anti-political run conterminous with militarized shutdowns of encampments protesting genocide and asking for divestment.

averyreview.com/issues/68/pa...
The Avery Review | Land Acknowledgment and the Palestine Exception
The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.
averyreview.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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My new article, "The settler homeland: racial violence, frontier colonialism, and Filipino repatriation," just came out with the Settler Colonial Studies journal.

Really proud of how this one turned out, and thanks to everyone here who helped.

Link here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 16, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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I noticed that Forensic Architecture has not posted here yet. One of the most important documents on Gaza. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
Forensic Architecture
forensic-architecture.org
November 16, 2024 at 6:25 PM