Anjali Vats
@raceip.bsky.social
Associate Prof @PittLaw. She/her. || Critical race theory, intellectual property, rhetoric, media e.g. music, pharma, seeds. Also politics, technology & octopi. 🐙
I thoroughly enjoyed this low key food drama.
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed this low key food drama.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
Amazing. Brilliant. Analogue.
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Amazing. Brilliant. Analogue.
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In the SCOTUS oral argument about gutting the VRA because it might violate white people's right to be over-represented in Congress, there's a glaring irony in the fact that the lawyers arguing for racism are getting out-balanced time to speak without anybody acting like it's weird.
It's rare in a case of this high profile that the court gives time to one lawyer from one side, and THREE lawyers from the other side.
*Technically* both sides are supposed to have equal time, so like, the 3 lawyers arguing for racism are supposed to share time. But it doesn't work out that way.
*Technically* both sides are supposed to have equal time, so like, the 3 lawyers arguing for racism are supposed to share time. But it doesn't work out that way.
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In the SCOTUS oral argument about gutting the VRA because it might violate white people's right to be over-represented in Congress, there's a glaring irony in the fact that the lawyers arguing for racism are getting out-balanced time to speak without anybody acting like it's weird.
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Try to live your life in such a way that when you die, sitting members of Congress do not immediately, publicly call you a stain on your profession and the office you held ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/roger-tane...
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Try to live your life in such a way that when you die, sitting members of Congress do not immediately, publicly call you a stain on your profession and the office you held ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/roger-tane...
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So many of you get your authority by being white. That's it. You don't know any more than I do. You're not smarter than I am. You're just white and that grants you a level of authority that I am not granted without proving myself.
You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.
You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
So many of you get your authority by being white. That's it. You don't know any more than I do. You're not smarter than I am. You're just white and that grants you a level of authority that I am not granted without proving myself.
You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.
You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Flashback to April when we did a Race + IP thing! I haven't logged into bluesky since. But since people are in the streets, it seemed like high time! Stay tuned for more #CRTIP news!
What does abolition have to do with Intellectual Property law? @raceip.bsky.social starts us off
October 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Flashback to April when we did a Race + IP thing! I haven't logged into bluesky since. But since people are in the streets, it seemed like high time! Stay tuned for more #CRTIP news!
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“Who has the capacity to create?” Julia Nguyen (ucla) interrogating traditional IP concepts of creatorship at this weekends @raceip.bsky.social Race IP conference at Pitt Law (organized by my colleague Anjali Vats!)
April 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Who has the capacity to create?” Julia Nguyen (ucla) interrogating traditional IP concepts of creatorship at this weekends @raceip.bsky.social Race IP conference at Pitt Law (organized by my colleague Anjali Vats!)
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Spotted at #LSAChicago2025: Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social's Color of Creatorship. Now added to my summer reading list!
May 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Spotted at #LSAChicago2025: Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social's Color of Creatorship. Now added to my summer reading list!
We knew this was coming but also 😱
Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
April 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We knew this was coming but also 😱
Oh hey Race + IP '25: Abolitionist Futures is LIVE! We're so ready to celebrate our fifth anniversary. 🎈
You can register here: www.raceipconference.org/2025
As always, the event is free to attend, with in person and virtual options. Everyone is welcome.
You can register here: www.raceipconference.org/2025
As always, the event is free to attend, with in person and virtual options. Everyone is welcome.
Race + IP 2025
www.raceipconference.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Oh hey Race + IP '25: Abolitionist Futures is LIVE! We're so ready to celebrate our fifth anniversary. 🎈
You can register here: www.raceipconference.org/2025
As always, the event is free to attend, with in person and virtual options. Everyone is welcome.
You can register here: www.raceipconference.org/2025
As always, the event is free to attend, with in person and virtual options. Everyone is welcome.
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White people as a whole could stop this madness anytime...
March 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
White people as a whole could stop this madness anytime...
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This is really really bad because when I was at big law in 2001, a lot of people were repping patriot act detainees pro bono. This is how Trump makes sure no lawyers step up the way they did in airports in January 2017 when he issued the Muslim travel ban EO
Trump’s retaliation against law firms is having its predictable chilling effect. Punishing law firms for representing clients the president dislikes infringes on the 6th Amendment right to counsel of one’s choice and the 1st Amendment right to free association.
Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat
Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration, in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic…
buff.ly
March 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is really really bad because when I was at big law in 2001, a lot of people were repping patriot act detainees pro bono. This is how Trump makes sure no lawyers step up the way they did in airports in January 2017 when he issued the Muslim travel ban EO
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Move right and lose.
New: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.
We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
March 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Move right and lose.
Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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February 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Louder for the folks that haven't taken it in:
THE US ISN'T A STARTUP!
THE US ISN'T A STARTUP!
February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Louder for the folks that haven't taken it in:
THE US ISN'T A STARTUP!
THE US ISN'T A STARTUP!
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Roses are red
And measles are too.
Thanks to RFK Jr,
Outbreaks just grew.
And measles are too.
Thanks to RFK Jr,
Outbreaks just grew.
February 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Roses are red
And measles are too.
Thanks to RFK Jr,
Outbreaks just grew.
And measles are too.
Thanks to RFK Jr,
Outbreaks just grew.
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time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet
February 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet
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Something I read today:
“Loving Corrections” by adrienne maree brown. #booksky @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
“The good news is that we don’t need to be experts on every region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.”
“Loving Corrections” by adrienne maree brown. #booksky @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
“The good news is that we don’t need to be experts on every region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.”
February 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Something I read today:
“Loving Corrections” by adrienne maree brown. #booksky @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
“The good news is that we don’t need to be experts on every region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.”
“Loving Corrections” by adrienne maree brown. #booksky @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
“The good news is that we don’t need to be experts on every region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.”
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Here are flyers for Monday’s protests - one at Harrisburg and one at Philly City Hall. Follow @50501movement.bsky.social for more.
February 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Here are flyers for Monday’s protests - one at Harrisburg and one at Philly City Hall. Follow @50501movement.bsky.social for more.