Mai Nguyen Do • Đỗ Nguyên Mai
@donguyenmai.bsky.social
Teacher, poet, political scientist. PhD candidate at UC Riverside. Studying immigration enforcement, identity, inequality. Research & Policy Manager at the Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice
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Looking to advance interdisciplinary research in the social sciences? Palgrave has the book series for you!
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📢 Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences
Find out more here: go.nature.com/43RYQgU
#SocialScience #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Palgrave
Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences
Submit your book idea to contribute to Palgrave Macmillan's new book series and advance interdisciplinary research.
go.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Looking to advance interdisciplinary research in the social sciences? Palgrave has the book series for you!
📢 Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences
Find out more here: go.nature.com/43RYQgU
#SocialScience #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Palgrave
📢 Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences
Find out more here: go.nature.com/43RYQgU
#SocialScience #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Palgrave
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#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the Administration of Medicaid and Elections Shapes Mass Voter Turnout - https://cup.org/4iNmHV5
- Meredith Dost
#FirstView
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the Administration of Medicaid and Elections Shapes Mass Voter Turnout - https://cup.org/4iNmHV5
- Meredith Dost
#FirstView
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the Administration of Medicaid and Elections Shapes Mass Voter Turnout - https://cup.org/4iNmHV5
- Meredith Dost
#FirstView
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the Administration of Medicaid and Elections Shapes Mass Voter Turnout - https://cup.org/4iNmHV5
- Meredith Dost
#FirstView
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I'm begging everyone making gufaw surface level comments about disability accommodations to read about universal design.
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm begging everyone making gufaw surface level comments about disability accommodations to read about universal design.
"it is essential [to] build solidarity with people engaged in direct confrontations with state carceral and economic power. To take creative collective action. From this place of solidarity, writing and scholarship may emerge that expands our capacity to understand, confront, and overcome fascism."
Today, Amna Akbar, @sameer-ashar.bsky.social, and @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social reflect on how legal scholars might act in solidarity with people already resisting state repression, and what they could learn from doing so.
Movement Law Under Fascism
As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"it is essential [to] build solidarity with people engaged in direct confrontations with state carceral and economic power. To take creative collective action. From this place of solidarity, writing and scholarship may emerge that expands our capacity to understand, confront, and overcome fascism."
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“I am / not ready to hatch. Teach me / to harden in the air”
— Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“I am / not ready to hatch. Teach me / to harden in the air”
— Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Sometimes I feel like I’ve been overreacting by telling people I’m not pursuing a full-time tenure-track academic job in part bc I need a job where people around me are mentally and physically prepared and willing to protect me, but then stuff like the OU debacle happens and… yeah
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Sometimes I feel like I’ve been overreacting by telling people I’m not pursuing a full-time tenure-track academic job in part bc I need a job where people around me are mentally and physically prepared and willing to protect me, but then stuff like the OU debacle happens and… yeah
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Because it's not about the rubric. People are splitting hairs over the finer details of rubric instructions when they are missing what this is really about, a blatant attempt to purge trans people out of public life.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Because it's not about the rubric. People are splitting hairs over the finer details of rubric instructions when they are missing what this is really about, a blatant attempt to purge trans people out of public life.
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This stunt had nothing to do with the Bible, it was entirely about pushing the envelope to see how easy it would be to get a public university to fire an instructor for not living according to Christian nationalist beliefs. Turns out it was really easy.
The TPUSA-OU student’s mother has been arguing with people on X about her daughter’s essay and here she is agreeing with anti-LGBTQ+ bigot Billboard Chris saying transgender people should be barred from becoming teachers or professors. Really fishing for that media gig.
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This stunt had nothing to do with the Bible, it was entirely about pushing the envelope to see how easy it would be to get a public university to fire an instructor for not living according to Christian nationalist beliefs. Turns out it was really easy.
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Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
www.academia.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
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It’s hard to overstate how precarious things are for academic workers, especially trans people. This instructor had no option available to them that would have allowed her to keep her job, do it with integrity, and avoid the violence that comes with being fascism’s villain of the week.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It’s hard to overstate how precarious things are for academic workers, especially trans people. This instructor had no option available to them that would have allowed her to keep her job, do it with integrity, and avoid the violence that comes with being fascism’s villain of the week.
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My article is out in the world now! I explore what happens when families pass down stories about national belonging and how nostalgia constructs imagined belonging for LGBTQ+ immigrants :)
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FM4VV...
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FM4VV...
Fractured nostalgia and imagined belonging: Family lessons and transnational ties in LGBTQ+ lives - Alexandra Eleazar, 2025
How do self-identified LGBTQ+ individuals with migration histories imagine their transnational belonging when living within the United States? And how do they n...
journals.sagepub.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My article is out in the world now! I explore what happens when families pass down stories about national belonging and how nostalgia constructs imagined belonging for LGBTQ+ immigrants :)
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FM4VV...
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FM4VV...
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another queer and trans literary landmark. get yourself a copy of this killer print anthology, @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is kind of a big deal
pssssssssst our 2025 print anth is available for preorder ahead of its 12/17 release 👀
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fwp 2025: an anthology of queer writing
Featuring work by Rosie Accola, Rayne Alarcio, Chaia Alford, Stephanie Anderson, sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Briana Armson, Gwen Aube, Emma L. Baker, Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, KM Bezner, tommy wyat...
fifthwheelpress.shop
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
another queer and trans literary landmark. get yourself a copy of this killer print anthology, @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is kind of a big deal
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If you're wondering why there are so few trans professors, it's because their institutions are throwing the precious few of us that make it into higher ed under the bus.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
If you're wondering why there are so few trans professors, it's because their institutions are throwing the precious few of us that make it into higher ed under the bus.
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Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...
Call for Chapters: Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory - Oral History Association
Co-editors George Severs and Amy Tooth Murphy are inviting expressions of interest to contributechapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory
oralhistory.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...
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It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant. Story via @vera.org.
Prison Pay and Commissary Prices: Too Little for Too Much
It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant.
www.vera.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant. Story via @vera.org.
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Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.
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In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️
Sharing an op-ed I penned about the importance of SNAP--not just for the program's beneficiaries, but for all us. In the meantime, we're putting a lot of pressure on local food pantries--and they will certainly need our support. (TLDR: give money to your local orgs)
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: Interruption in SNAP benefit turns a chronic hunger problem into an acute crisis
Many food pantries are already operating at capacity and won't be able to close the gap when the federal shutdown cuts into aid.
www.latimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️
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In case you missed it:
There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In case you missed it:
There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
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Working paper alert 📢
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Race, Violence, and the Effectiveness of Protest
<p><span>Protests constitute a primary way that members of the public express their preferences and seek to change public policy. Focusing on policy protests in
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November 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Working paper alert 📢
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.
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We are proud to announce we have hired @thefreeradical.org and @davidforbes.bsky.social as our first staff journalists! As a worker-run newsroom, we set wages collectively based on our funds.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We are proud to announce we have hired @thefreeradical.org and @davidforbes.bsky.social as our first staff journalists! As a worker-run newsroom, we set wages collectively based on our funds.
Currently, we have about six months of funding. Help us plan our future with a recurring donation today!
Currently, we have about six months of funding. Help us plan our future with a recurring donation today!
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Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department.
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department.
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
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LISTEN: California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college classes.
PODCAST: Trump’s cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard
California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college classes.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
LISTEN: California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college classes.
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most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing
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I got my author copies!!!!! Let the Moon Wobble is officially out in less than a month! You can pre-order signed & personalized copies from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/ang... 🌝
October 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I got my author copies!!!!! Let the Moon Wobble is officially out in less than a month! You can pre-order signed & personalized copies from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/ang... 🌝