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Heidi Nicholls, Ph.D. (she/her)
@heidinicholls.bsky.social
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settler scholar of race and U.S. empire| haole | Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University | all views are my own.

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anmlymag.bsky.social
Join ANMLY contributor Maya Salameh and more awesome poets for a reading to benefit the Sameer Project!

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November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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workshops4gaza.bsky.social
Give generously to their Return Home campaign. chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
heidinicholls.bsky.social
Come work with me! This is an excellent postdoc in diaspora studies with a pipeline to tenure track.

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November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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workshops4gaza.bsky.social
A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

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Against Colonial Conferencing: A w4g screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general workshops4gaza October 07, 2025 If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please don’t. We don’t want or need any more tourists, and we certainly don’t like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends. Thank you. “Lovely Hula Lands” by Haunani Kay-Trask Recently, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) announced that it will be convening its 2026 annual conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. The call for proposals describes Hawai‘i as a “space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures.” So far, neither the participants nor the conveners appear to see a contradiction between the theme of the conference and its very material and environmental impact, in which hundreds of primarily North American scholars and their families will flock to a place that is actively under U.S. colonial military occupation.
October 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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shellyeversley.bsky.social
Hey Y’all! I’m thrilled to share the news that we will hire a #tenuretrack #assistantprofessor in #Black and #Latine studies @blsbaruch.bsky.social #BaruchCollege #CUNY! Please apply! Please spread the word.

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Jobs | City University of New York
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October 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tedmccoy.bsky.social
My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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joshshepperd.bsky.social
Many congratulations to Laura Garbes (University of Minnesota) on the publication of her pathbreaking sociology of the culture, idealism, and contradictions of public media. Out today on Princeton University Press.
Listeners Like Who?
How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves
press.princeton.edu
September 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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prof-deleon.bsky.social
To quote my favorite movie Matewan: "Any union that keeps a worker out on account of his race ain't a union. It's a goddam club." This Labor Day, read about the brave people who desegregated the labor movement. Buy my book "Freedom Train": ucpress.edu/books/freedo.... @ucpress.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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cphiliphaines.bsky.social
AI is theft. AI is environmental destruction. AI is anti-labor. AI concentrates power in tech capital. AI atrophies intellectual capacities. Here's something useful for struggling against its effects in education, courtesy of Anna Kornbluh, Eric Hayot, and Krista Muratore.
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AGAINST AI -
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August 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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desireefields.bsky.social
My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026
Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
heidinicholls.bsky.social
I am not going to #ASA2025 this year but I hope everyone has an engaging time. Most especially, I hope the panels and events centering Palestine go well and push the discipline in more radical directions. It's past time for ASA to boycott and divest from Israel.
August 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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gs4p.bsky.social
[1/5] Please take a look at our most recent statement on the successful BDS mobilization at the 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Rabat earlier this month:

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July 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WATCH — @peterbeinart.bsky.social : “Why did it take this long? We are profoundly complicit. The blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons responsible for those children starving to death in Gaza… if Israel disagrees, let CNN’s cameras in.”
July 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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esqueer.net
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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July 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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djhardingsoc.bsky.social
Berkeley Sociology is hiring faculty! Sept 1 application deadline. Two positions: (1) open area junior search. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05013, (2) associate or full professor in Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05012 Please help spread the word!
Assistant Professor - Open Field - Sociology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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July 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
It's not at all alarmist to expect that the new network of detention centers will be used to confine unhoused people—and to extract free labor from them. Everything in this executive order points in that direction.
July 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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leafiaye.bsky.social
🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
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July 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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heissenstat.bsky.social
Excellent stuff here. @danaelkurd.bsky.social highlights why internal Palestinian politics matter.

It should be self-evident, but there's little evidence that many people in the US, right, left, or center, have taken this basic fact seriously.

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Palestine’s Stolen Future
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July 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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jesshardie.bsky.social
Incredibly difficult to read this thread, but it’s important to know, to witness, to dissent.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jul 2
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland.

Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”
Case 8:25-cv-00951-PX Document 211 Filed 07/02/25 Page 2 of 5 3. The proposed Amended Complaint details the Government's defiance of court orders after this Court granted preliminary injunctive relief. The Amended Complaint includes allegations that the Government made decisions to defy judicial mandates. These allegations are new to the Complaint, but have been cited in various filings in this Court as the case has developed. They are directly relevant to Plaintiffs' constitutional claims and outstanding requests for declaratory and prospective injunctive relief. 4. Plaintiffs also seek to incorporate evidence that emerged in a June 2025 whistleblower disclosure from former DOJ official Erez Reuveni, who was previously counsel for the Government in this case. The new allegations include government officials internally acknowledging that Abrego Garcia's removal was an "administrative error" while simultaneously working to prevent his return and to make post-hoc justifications. These revelations provide evidence of deliberate misconduct that was unavailable when the original Complaint was filed and directly support Plaintiffs' claims. 5. The proposed Amended Complaint also Includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT, as well as developments regarding his return to the United States and the Government's stated plan to remove him again. These allegations identify the severe harm actually suffered and the threat of repeated unlawful removal that supports Plaintiffs' request for prospective injunctive relief. The inclusion of these facts, which could not have been pleaded at the time of the original filing, is essential to present a complete picture of the violations and ensure adequate relief. 6. Plaintiffs also propose to clarify that the relief sought includes restoring the status quo ante, which requires (among other things) the Government to return Abrego Garcia to 2
July 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
White supremacy explains a lot of apparent contradictions. The GOP was for states’ rights when the politics supported white supremacy. When they can accomplish white supremacist goals with federal power, they are against states’ rights.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Jun 29
Republicans control the White House and Congress. More federal power means more opportunities for them to impose MAGA’s will on the rest of America, and so of course they’ve learned to live with—and even prefer—centralizing authority. ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social:
How Trump Killed the GOP’s Love of States’ Rights
From immigration to education to Medicaid, the new strategy is to impose a MAGA vision on America—whether or not states like it.
www.thebulwark.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
heidinicholls.bsky.social
Help a Palestinian Student with their University Fees chuffed.org/project/1323...
Help a Palestinian Student with their University Fees
This fundraiser aims to support a Palestinian student currently pursuing their studies at a university in the UK. The goal is to help cover essential living and academic expenses during a particularly...
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June 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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workshops4gaza.bsky.social
this Saturday!

We'll be looking at the Zapatistas' classic essay, "La Cuarta Guerra Mundial" which you can also check out here:

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June 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
The IDF carried out an even deadlier massacre just this morning, again at a food distribution site.
Israel kills at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza’s deadliest day at aid sites
Violence in Khan Younis adds to wave of attacks that have since May 26 killed hundreds of desperate people seeking food.
www.aljazeera.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
PLEASE AMPLIFY! Chicago JVP members on indefinite hunger strike calling for the end of the carnage in Gaza.

NO BUSINESS AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE.

We're deep into the second year of this horror. Not another day. Not another minute.
emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · Jun 16
Six leaders of JVP Chicago are launching an indefinite hunger strike today. Two of them are academics. No business as usual during genocide.
June 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM