The fall of the house Usher…

Yup. Kinda excited this year.

Good shouts! Thanks Kevin! Will you be in Detroit in the spring?

A squeaker.

But the Knicks are winning. For now.

Hoping to meet some of you in person at the Annual Meeting. Be sure to mark your calendars and come to the Urban Geography Plenary with Dallas Rogers and Marina Karides on Friday the 19th at 1:20!!

And check out this related symposium in @antipodeonline edited by Charmaine Chua & @kaibosworth.bsky.social on blockades, circulation & struggle antipodeonline.org/2023/09/21/v...

Can you tell I’m just really really really thrilled that this is finally out in the world?

Oh! If you’re going to be at the American Studies Assn meeting, come to our panel and meet some of these amazing contributors!

Lastly, an academic journal is the manifestation ofso much supporting labor. Thanks to the people doing copyediting/layout @dukepress.bsky.social; Tom Harbison, Conor McGrady & the editorial collective @ Radical History Review; & especially thanks to Monica Kim for the firm/fair editorial brilliance

Considering the ongoing criminalization of mutual aid by reactionaries in the US, this conversation (& much of issue 147) conveys the radical nature of building abolitionist infrastructures of survival & “making do” in the face of ongoing expressions of police power.

This roundtable also touches on mutual aid & bridge building & considers what it means—and what it might look like in practice—to build infrastructures premised on the belief that everyone deserves care and no one is disposable.

The issue ends w/ another roundtable—a conversation w/ Dean Spade and Rachel Herzing convened and enriched by Bench Ansfield—about abolition infrastructures, transformative justice, and how activists build infrastructures in relation to the state. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...