Chun-Tak Suen
@chuntaksuen.bsky.social
Political Theory PhD Candidate at Brown University, thinking about Hannah Arendt, Judith Shklar, Stanley Cavell, and those in constellation with them.
Elected union leader at Brown's academic union (AFT local 6516), representing ~1,000 noncitizen workers
Elected union leader at Brown's academic union (AFT local 6516), representing ~1,000 noncitizen workers
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This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
ACLU published a book in 1952 called judges and the judged condemning McCarthyism.
"People should know that creating fear to suppress dissent in the name of patriotism or national security is McCarthyism."
Georgetown professor Dr. Badar Khan Suri recounts his harrowing experience after he was unjustly detained by ICE for exercising his First Amendment rights.
Georgetown professor Dr. Badar Khan Suri recounts his harrowing experience after he was unjustly detained by ICE for exercising his First Amendment rights.
hammerandhope.org
July 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ACLU published a book in 1952 called judges and the judged condemning McCarthyism.
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Public things:
Public broadcasting is about more than content. It's about an ethos. That there need to be spaces in society that are not soaked in the logic of consumerism and profit. Where people are treated as citizens, valued for humanity and their ideas rather than disposable income. It's simple, but powerful.
July 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Public things:
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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.
May 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.
“Everyone has an Arendt phase,” a wise man once told me. Apparently mine lasts too long.
I’m presenting #WPSA my paper titled “Arendt in West Germany: a Reading of the Poetics of Action,” where I will give a new reading of THC’s Action, which I call Hectorian/Homeric.Help me decide which one works!
I’m presenting #WPSA my paper titled “Arendt in West Germany: a Reading of the Poetics of Action,” where I will give a new reading of THC’s Action, which I call Hectorian/Homeric.Help me decide which one works!
April 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“Everyone has an Arendt phase,” a wise man once told me. Apparently mine lasts too long.
I’m presenting #WPSA my paper titled “Arendt in West Germany: a Reading of the Poetics of Action,” where I will give a new reading of THC’s Action, which I call Hectorian/Homeric.Help me decide which one works!
I’m presenting #WPSA my paper titled “Arendt in West Germany: a Reading of the Poetics of Action,” where I will give a new reading of THC’s Action, which I call Hectorian/Homeric.Help me decide which one works!
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
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Freedom isn't a passive inheritance, but a struggle to live responsibly with one another. That is hard work when it seems to be our inescapable nature to construct myths and ideologies of inequality and exclusion.
I love this essay on Baldwin by @prorogers.bsky.social.
I love this essay on Baldwin by @prorogers.bsky.social.
Existential Liberalism: James Baldwin and the Problem of Freedom
The burden of freedom has always been heavy, and Baldwin forces us to confront whether we are willing to bear it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Freedom isn't a passive inheritance, but a struggle to live responsibly with one another. That is hard work when it seems to be our inescapable nature to construct myths and ideologies of inequality and exclusion.
I love this essay on Baldwin by @prorogers.bsky.social.
I love this essay on Baldwin by @prorogers.bsky.social.
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A worthy image of “representation” to counter the BS we live with
South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.
December 3, 2024 at 5:36 PM
A worthy image of “representation” to counter the BS we live with
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“people will wake up on Jan. 21 not knowing exactly what comes next for them-and the more accurate” the info “about the scope & scale of deportation efforts, the better able immigrants & their communities will be to prepare for what might be coming and try to find ways to throw sand in the gears”
great piece from @daralind.bsky.social that can be taken as advice for any number of issues. don’t do their work for them.
Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations
How big will the Trump administration will go, and how quickly?
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:44 PM
“people will wake up on Jan. 21 not knowing exactly what comes next for them-and the more accurate” the info “about the scope & scale of deportation efforts, the better able immigrants & their communities will be to prepare for what might be coming and try to find ways to throw sand in the gears”