Stay tuned for upcoming book events in Spring 2026 and check out her new books network interview, just released this week!

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From the JHU Press blurb: “How did three words come to carry the weight of America's abortion debates? In Back-Alley Abortion, Emily Winderman examines how this phrase shaped American reproductive politics and health care standards across generations.”

Thank YOU!

With the Epstein emails at a new fever pitch, please read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s 2022 “They Knew” (as well as her prolific other writings) — it is a window into the past about things that seem only to be “discovered” now. Strongly recommend, I owe a lot to her thinking/writing.

I also found the Epstein-Altman bubble analogy compelling:

“… in a week in which Sam Altman shat the bed and Epstein’s secrets have started to leaking out, these old airlocked systems cannot hold.”

Fair

… But I ask from the point of view of someone who has found the critical vocabulary of second-/third-generation psychoanalysis, genealogy, deconstruction useful.

But yes, lots of depressing news regarding the future of higher ed from the top down (see below). Trying to see the cont phil connection

Can you say more re: “withering and unlikely generational renewal of continental philosophy”? If it is about the way that poststructuralism has been weaponized against the humanities & the left (again, cf. Alan Sokal) I agree, and even more strongly agree with the criticism of encroaching AI …

Thanks, Bethany!!

Suffice it to say there’s a long history of the university of Chicago engaging in racist land grab efforts at the expense of the surrounding community, which from the looks of it is what many of the other quote-reposts also draw attention to.

Out of time to post more right now, but these details and more in "Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie," specifically the chapter on "The Dog Whistle" and the use of Saul Alinsky as a coded racist epithet during the Obama presidency.

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... that the organization sought “to rub raw the sores of discontent and rouse dormant hostilities.” The Maroon, the University of Chicago’s student newspaper, labeled TWO as a “hate group” in cahoots with the Archdiocese. 7/x

In Spring 1961, The Christian Century, “a well-known religious periodical,” allied with the University of Chicago’s Public Relations Office to attack TWO, claiming ... 6/x

This initiated the coordination of TWO, a Woodlawn community organization created (at least in part) to resist UC's encroachment. This was also the beginning of Saul Alinsky (and the IAF's) involvement with Woodlawn.

The South East Chicago Commission (SECC)—once described by UIllinois urbanologist Pierre de Vise as “UChicago’s own CIA”—proposed sweeping gentrification to enhance appeal for faculty and students.

Fish, Black Power / White Control. Harvey, “Disorganizer” Chicago Defender. 5/x

Efforts to organize the community against white flight and UC expansion were hampered by damaging urban renewal plans, and groups “organized primarily in opposition to the United Woodlawn Council,” which preceded Saul Alinsky's appearance in the neighborhood... 4/x

... units in Woodlawn were substandard according to the 1960 census. For this housing the new residents paid more than the median rent city-wide out of a median family income of $4,400 as compared with the $7,200 median for white families in Chicago.

Fish, Black Power / White Control, 12–13. 3/x

After World War II, the neighborhood underwent significant white flight as white residents moved out and Black residents, many from the American South, moved in:

"Between 1950 and 1960, Woodlawn changed from 86 percent white to 86 percent black. Nearly half (48.7 percent) of all housing ... 2/x