Jimmy T. Camacho, Ph.D.
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Jimmy T. Camacho, Ph.D.
@yigulow.bsky.social
CHamoru: From Guåhan (Guam).
Dog Dad and Queer Farmer Aprendis
Research interests in decolonization and property (land policy), Indigenous Planning, and Radical Resurgence.
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One of our new and exciting titles out this May is "Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social . #EnvironmentalStudies #Geography
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May 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Jimmy T. Camacho, Ph.D.
"The root of alienation is insanity," Hiʻilei Hobart writes.

Part family history, part history of land rights and land tenure in Hawai‘i, @hiokinai.bsky.social's essay, "In Pieces," applies pressure to our ideas of land value + private property.

A must read:
In Pieces: A Family’s Kuleana Land in Hawai’i
In Hawai’i, the systems that define property produce all kinds of frictions and fictions of ownership and belonging.
placesjournal.org
March 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“I had one of those grotesque childhoods that turns a person into a poem.”

Audre Lorde

From @alexispauline.bsky.social Survival is a Promise
February 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
“Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.”

Walidah Imarisha (2015)
From Octavia’s Brood
February 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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There are a lot of important skills sets we will need in the coming months/years, but one of the most important will be generative conflict. As the conditions get worse, we will see more conflict and being able to navigate it well, without loosing each other, will be invaluable.
February 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM