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Lisa G
@coradiamondswound.bsky.social
political theorist, dog-and-cat lady, gardener, pussy pants lover.
I’m a bit late on this, but if you haven’t already, please read Sophie Smith’s LRB piece on the Pelicot case. It’s only January and I’m confident it will be the best thing I’ll read in 2025, and the thing that wrecks me the most. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I’m basically not on social media anymore so I don’t know who will see this, but I’m re-teaching an (undergrad) course called Power and Protest and I wondered if anyone has any can’t-miss readings on power and/or protest that I should swap out for my current readings?
January 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Atlanta tonight.

Free Palestine. End GILEE. Ceasefire Now. 🇵🇸
November 18, 2023 at 2:01 AM
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There is just no getting around this bit from the latest Chotiner interview. Doctors Without Borders has never seen this before: the number of civilian casualties, the inescapability of death, the fact that everyone knows what is happening BUT IT DOESN'T STOP.
November 19, 2023 at 12:57 AM
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LA Times editorial board coming out for ceasefire and characterizing IDF campaign as one of "indiscriminate death and destruction". Wouldn't have expected anything like this

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Editorial: Cease-fire now. The killing in Gaza must stop
Israel's quest to root out Hamas has inflicted indiscriminate death and destruction on Gaza and Palestinian civilians. Humanitarian pauses are no longer enough.
www.latimes.com
November 19, 2023 at 7:18 PM
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"At a time when we have witnessed antisemitic + terroristic acts that are real and reprehensible, our university leadership has intensified fear + animosity by associating antisemitism and terrorism with and overly broad range of academic programming + political speech." So grateful to the AAUP
Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom, University Governance, and Safety at the University of Pen...
Executive Committee of the University of Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-Penn) October 28, 2023 Read the AAUP-Penn EC’s statement here
aaup-penn.org
October 29, 2023 at 3:14 AM
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An order to forcibly relocate >1m people in 24 hours, on one of the most densely packed places on earth. >1.5k already killed, >338k already displaced. No food, water, electricity, fuel, medical supplies coming in. All exits sealed.
October 13, 2023 at 4:05 AM
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1. There is nowhere to go. Gaza is 139 sq mi/365 sq km (DC is 177)
2. There is no way to get there. Spoke to a humanitarian friend. Many of Gaza's roads not usable
3. There is no out. Rafah crossing was bombed this week. Egypt won't host millions of refugees

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...
Gaza residents told to move south as Israel prepares for expected ground assault
UN says Israeli military has given 1.1 million Gaza residents 24 hours to move amid warnings it could cause ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2023 at 8:09 AM
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Today, the Guardian and other orgs co-released "Trafficking Inc": a massive investigation linking Amazon, McDonalds, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Chuck E. Cheese to labor trafficking and forced labor, particularly in the Persian Gulf

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia
Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Bates is hiring for two tenure-track positions in IR, one with a focus on Europe and one with a focus on East Asia. I’d be happy to answer any questions about working at Bates! Applications are due October 1st.
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September 25, 2023 at 1:58 AM
To be fair, it is rather impressive how each new email from APSA leadership sinks to hitherto-unplumbed depths of ethical bankruptcy.
August 19, 2023 at 5:43 AM
I fondly remember the days when reading an email from APSA didn’t make me apoplectic.
August 19, 2023 at 5:42 AM
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it was completely inevitable that this panic would become an excuse for some parents to keep race mixin’ out of the schools
August 11, 2023 at 1:44 AM
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New in the American Journal of Political Science, by Andrei Poama and Briana McGinnis

Citizens with Felony Convictions in the Jury Box: A Peer-Judgment Argument

https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12816
July 31, 2023 at 1:36 PM
(Repost from Twitter) More on APSA’s “can’t”: my understanding of APSA’s 8/4 statement that it “can’t” cancel room blocks at struck hotels is that APSA is now contractually obligated to pay for the room blocks *even if* these hotels are the target of labor action. This is illuminating for 3 reasons.
August 5, 2023 at 7:03 PM
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“the APSA has a formal policy of giving preference to unionized hotels” but APSA “refused to provide Exec Council members copies of its contracts with the hotels or disclose if they included provisions allowing it to cancel the meeting without paying any penalties in the event of a labor dispute.”
A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?
The hotel workers’ strike in Los Angeles will force members of the American Political Science Association—and Taylor Swift fans—to decide whether or not to cross union picket lines.
www.thenation.com
August 3, 2023 at 12:35 AM
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Joan Tronto, who will receive the Lippincott Award -- probably the highest professional recognition a political theorist can win -- will not attend APSA, will not give the Lippincott Lecture, & will not be having any of APSA's bullshit.
Tronto letter to APSA
From: Joan C. Tronto Professor Emerita | Department of Political Science | University of Minnesota Dear Julia, I received notice a few weeks ago that I have been presented with the Lippincott Award...
docs.google.com
August 3, 2023 at 2:19 AM
Setting up my profile on Bluesky reminded me of how much I love Janelle Monáe and her pussy pants 😍
August 3, 2023 at 3:04 AM