Aren Aizura
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Aren Aizura
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no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
I missed this a few weeks ago but grateful to revisit it today. We do have an opening to encourage opposition to deportation and borders per se, I think. While the kidnappings, detentions, and deportations are spectacles rather than hidden away in administrative bureaucracy.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Before we all applaud the Nobel prize committee, this is Machado’s background before she moved closer to the “center”.
October 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau shows deep subprime loans at levels as high as in late 2007, right before the 2008 crash. They’ve been like this since shooting up when people lost jobs during 2020. www.consumerfinance.gov/data-researc...
October 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oh, the actual toy
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Dad and kid all gussied up for the May Day parade, hot, and snacking on fruit on Morgen’s stoop
May 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I’m more optimistic that the death cult haven’t calculated how much serious unrest will mess up their plans. But this interpretation is spot-on.
April 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Vivian Blaxell at UMN in conversation with me, two Australian transes in the US! Friday 4/11, 5:00-6:30pm, Crosby Seminar Room in Northrop Hall
April 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
March 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is a student from the Carlson School of Management, which released this statement. I hear that the student is being held at Sherburne County Jail ICE detention center. No name yet.
March 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Columbia appears to be negotiating to comply with the absurd demands made by the federal government. In particular, Columbia admin agreeing to put the MESAAS department under receivership, but under a "more agreeable" name so they can present it in a positive light.
March 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A screenshot of the email sent to University of Minnesota School of Social Work teaching faculty, requesting that “all communications related to DEI” be sent to the Office of General Counsel for review.
February 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Bye bye bubble
January 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Don’t find too many descendants on this reparations project that is literally all about locating descendants of people enslaved by Harvard!”
“But we found quite a few.”
“Oops, we fired you and your whole team. No reason. Bye!”
Keep it classy*, Harvard.
*Anti-Black and revisionist
January 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Why have enrollment numbers dropped? Or is it disingenuous administrators’ framing? newrepublic.com/article/1762...
January 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Devastated to learn from my colleague Don Romesburg that the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department is being eliminated, and all its tenured faculty are being fired, as part of “budget reductions”. wgs.sonoma.edu
January 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It’s my little kid’s first birthday today! We somehow made it through this year. Today I also found out I tore off most of my hamstring in a climbing fall in December, and need surgery to reattach it ASAP. Then hip surgery once I’m fully recovered. Gonna have to get very fast on my crutches.
January 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Institutional playbook: 1. Under-resource interdisciplinary departments, forcing them to cover curriculum and admin with external faculty 2. Claim that’s evidence of mishandled resources 3. Cut the department entirely when legislators make threats. Solidarity with colleagues at UI, this is absurd.
December 26, 2024 at 5:35 PM
In an effort to create my own better vibes, I climbed today, harvested the last vegetables from the garden, and made flank steak, chard in red curry sauce, and roasted cauliflower for dinner. Here are two cats begging subtly for flank steak scraps
October 28, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Listen to this, or read the transcript. It might give you some permission to name the messy feelings we're all experiencing rn. It took days to find time to listen to this precisely bc I'm swinging back and forth between trying to be professional and falling apart. So grateful for this work.
October 23, 2024 at 3:21 PM
September 29, 2024 at 2:49 AM
I remember back in May 2023 when I was wondering whether I wanted a code, hanging back, not asking any mutuals on the hell site. Being a reluctant late early adopter like usual. Still got in the first 10% though!
September 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM
My kid and I looked through her third grade journals this week and I found pages of notes about Palestine. They did major projects on Asia at the end of term; hers was on India. “Oh yeah,” she said, “I wanted to do mine on Palestine at first but for some reason I changed to India.”
August 18, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Cursed take
August 8, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Here’s the baby, I don’t ever post pics of her except on my locked insta, anyhow we love her
August 7, 2024 at 2:22 AM
post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
May 22, 2024 at 2:27 AM