Critical study of race/war/state violence & empire
Smart ppl (authors, organizers, artists, journalists, dreamers) who think about US empire, state violence, and their derivatives/alternatives …
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@ronakkapadia.bsky.social
@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social
writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner. https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
@ubisurv.net
David Murakami Wood (DMW) Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment https://ubisurv.net
@imaniperry.bsky.social
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less.
@amplifypalestine.bsky.social
cultural organizing + production in solidarity with Palestine amplifypalestine.org
@mayaschenwar.bsky.social
Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. Board president, Truthout. Co-editor “We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition” Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name” Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke mayaschenwar.com
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
@intifada.bsky.social
Palestine’s weapon of mass instruction. http://electronicintifada.net
@madar.bsky.social
Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ to the undergrads at Lang/NewSchool and NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
@marydudziak.bsky.social
Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism. https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃
@dnbrgr.bsky.social
Writer of words, hater of prisons Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM: THE LONG HISTORY OF BLACK POWER THROUGH ONE FAMILY’S JOURNEY, plus other things. www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
@adalahjustice.bsky.social
At the Adalah Justice Project, we believe that collective action is essential for achieving justice and liberation. As a Palestinian-led advocacy organization based in the U.S., we are committed to building cross-movement coalitions and drawing connections
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Your eye on the ground. Independent Middle East and North Africa news. https://middleeasteye.net Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS. Maintained by @danni.id
@truthout.org
Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Support our work: truthout.org/donate Get our daily email: truthout.org/subscribe Follow us: go.bsky.app/9WsnfPT
@markanthonyneal.bsky.social
Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
@triofrancos.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Providence College Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020) Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019) Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
@coribush.bsky.social
St. Louis Congresswoman. Nurse, activist, organizer, mom, & pastor. Leading with love, fighting for regular people. St. Louis Strong (she/her)
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
@mondoweiss.net
Fearless reporting/analysis on Palestine—what the mainstream won’t show. Web: https://mondoweiss.net Support our work: https://mondoweiss.net/donate?source=social-bluesky
@democracynow.org
Independent, daily global news hour. Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate Daily News Digest: http://democracynow.org/subscribe
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@theintercept.com
Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
@attackerman.bsky.social
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo, IRON MAN for Marvel. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81
@jelaniya.bsky.social
your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
@jphillll.bsky.social
Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻 www.jphilll.com
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@technomalinche.bsky.social
Inauthentic Ethnic. Practical Radical. Class Traitor. Feminist Fatale. Postcolonial Cyborg. Queer Sympathizer. Migrant Professor. Malcontent. Mutant.
@alexisshotwell.bsky.social
Feminist theorist writing about imperfection and impurity as a good place to start, Ursula K Le Guin's anarchist communism, disability, ecology, racism, getting together to fix complex problems. Functional potter, year-round cyclist, queer, earnest.
@elspethiralu.bsky.social
Angami Naga. Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning. @ACMEjournal editor. I write about Indigenous geographies, visual culture, and the aerial perspective.
@rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social
it's a good theory in practice for people engaged in the spectrum of social justice struggles to figure out unexpected sites where their agendas align
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology. Researching social vaccines and cures for the colonial and ethno-national virus in the midst of the pandemic. Daily swimmer. Cook. Cabinetmaker. Grandfather.
@kalindivora.bsky.social
Writer, thinker, teacher. Books: Life Support, Surrogate Humanity, Reimagining Reproduction Prof. at Yale #criticaltheory #sts #cres #feministsts #futureofwork #surrogacy #medicaljustice #criticalAIstudies kalindivora.com
@scottlong1980.bsky.social
He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
@gritlaura.bsky.social
Host, Laura Flanders & Friends, “Where the people who say it can’t be done take a backseat to the people who are doing it.” On PBS tv/radio/youtube. Author, rabble rouser, media activist. Fresh episodes Fridays, 5pm ET, http://lauraflanders.org
@murmz.bsky.social
Prof, FIMS-Western-Ontario. American + Canadian Cruising the Library (Fordham), “A Peculiar Satisfaction”: Jefferson in the History of Libraries, Archives & Museums (under contract) Surveillance & Security in the “Empire of Liberty” (in review) She/her 🌈
@shahbbles.bsky.social
Lawyer, DJ, MC, poet, grassroots organizer, won 81k votes in 2020 to serve San Francisco in Congress. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com
@jennykellyedu.bsky.social
associate professor of feminist studies & critical race and ethnic studies at ucsc / author of *invited to witness: solidarity tourism across occupied palestine* / books + babies + baked goods / free palestine forever 🍉
@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
Director, Medicine Health and Society @VanderbiltU; Author http://dyingofwhiteness.com
@tinymuslimah.bsky.social
Publicly intellectual. Race, gender, activism, and all things Black/Muslim. Anthropologist. Dr. Auston if you’re nasty.
@monishabajaj.bsky.social
Professor & scholar of peace, human rights, migration & education University of San Francisco (views posted here are my own) Debut picture book A YEAR OF KITES out in 2026 with Bloomsbury www.monishabajaj.net Pronouns: she/her/वह
@elizabethkai.bsky.social
Historian of U.S. Inequality, Author of America on Fire and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Professor of History, Black Studies, and Law @Yale
@vijayprashad.bsky.social
Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Editor at LeftWord Books (India) & Inkani Books (South Africa). Chief Correspondent of Globetrotter. Live in Santiago, Chile. Latest book: On Cuba, with Noam Chomsky.
@radiorodriguez.bsky.social
A queer Latina femme fighting for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸Author of 📚Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex//Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings//Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces juanamariarodriguez.com
@criticalrace.bsky.social
🍉🍊🍓 📝 @truthout.org + Teen Vogue etc Based out of NYC, all views my own
@blackandpinkorg.bsky.social
Fighting for prison abolition via advocacy, support, & organizing for LGBTQ+ folks & PLWH who are system impacted | Directors Tena Hahn Rodriquez & Jasmine Tasaki
@incommensurati.bsky.social
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.
@hwinant.bsky.social
Father, partner of DR, Saba, race/racism scholar, Marx, new left, secular Jew. Parents were refugees.
@maxfox.bsky.social
@justseeds.bsky.social
A cooperative of North American political artists and printmakers on the left! Founded in 2007. Bleets by @toosphexy.bluesky.social. Visit Justseeds.org
@edgesgr.bsky.social
Writer and thinker, of borders, their people, and moving subjects; socially awkward anthropologist; novel-writing; taco expert; Chair of UIUC LLS
@debvargas.bsky.social
Associate Profe Yale | Latine/Chicane Feminism | Queer of Color Critique | US-Mex Borderlands | Puro Pinche Spurs 210por vida
@ujju.bsky.social
-author of Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education -educator, organizer, professor of anthropology
@profhuq.bsky.social
Musings of a law professor #WorkersRights #LegalEd #Bangladesh #Harlem #MovementLawyering @lawatmargins http://linktr.ee/profhuq
@moustafabayoumi.bsky.social
Guardian columnist, journalist, author, professor. www.moustafabayoumi.com
@ericaedwards.bsky.social
formerly @ericaredwards2. Writer. Prof. Author of The Other Side of Terror: Black Women & the Culture of US Empire https://tinyurl.com/OtherSideTerror
@benchansfield.bsky.social
preorder BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19) asst prof of history at temple // they/them https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
@knadiminti.bsky.social
Writing on postcolonial lit and other things; companion to a zany dog; lover of biryani.
@yalinidream.bsky.social
Facilitator between earth & sky. Performer, poet, dancer, fantasy writer, futurist. Wellness Coach & Organizational Consultant. I help you align intention, word, action, impact.
@zareenagrewal.bsky.social
Yale Prof, Anthropologist, Historian, Author of ISLAM IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AUTHORITY, Director and Producer of BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT Bylines: NYT WashPo Atlantic NPR
@a-lubin.bsky.social
Professor of African American Studies and History working in central PA. Author of Never-Ending War on Terror (UC Press); Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro Arab Political Imaginary (UNC Press); etc.
@arsavium.bsky.social
Chickasaw, Professor of Race, Diaspora, Indigeneity at U Chicago, author of Transit of Empire
@naomipaik.bsky.social
Author - *Bans, Walls, Raids, #Sanctuary* on #abolition and #migrant justice. *Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in US Prison Camps Since WWII* on #imprisonment regimes under US #empire. #freepalestine #borderabolition www.naomipaik.com
@afromantic.bsky.social
troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈 https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
@cristinabeltran.bsky.social
NYU professor working in political theory, Latinx, and race & gender politics; most recent book is CRUELTY AS CITIZENSHIP. Skeptical of social media but keep hearing good things about Bluesky!
@stacysuh.bsky.social
they/them. sharing info + ways to take action to fight against detention & deportation
@alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social
Author of This Colonial Present (forthcoming) & Poverty in Common; ed. of Formations of US Colonialism; co-ed. of For Antifascist Futures & Cambridge History of Colonialism and Decolonization, vol IV (in progress)
@lbhungalia.bsky.social
Author of Elastic Empire | Assistant Professor of Geography and International Studies @ UW-Madison https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/elastic-empire?tab=1
@thefunambulist.bsky.social
The Funambulist is a magazine and a podcast engaging with the politics of space and bodies. We now have a francophone and a hispanophone version as well! https://thefunambulist.net/shop/59-black-indigeneities
@miamingus.bsky.social
transformative justice. disability justice. pandemics. abolition. (she/her) https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com https://www.soiltjp.org
@kenyonfarrow.bsky.social
Writer. Activist. Scorpio. Comms Director: @hivpxresearch.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/kenyonfarrow
@abusablepast.bsky.social
The Abusable Past is the digital companion to the Radical History Review, presenting unique and original content related to the praxis of radical history.
@samar42.bsky.social
Political Anthropologist @UCIrvine * New book: War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States and the War on Terror. 🍉
@kwhitlock.bsky.social
Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"
@torinmonahan.bsky.social
Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
@rahimk.bsky.social
asst prof at uic my book, Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is publishing in June '25 https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper www.rahimkurwa.com
@jdschnepf.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of American Studies. Contemporary lit and culture, US imperialism, gender, technology, digital media
@arunkundnani.bsky.social
I write about race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism. More at: kundnani.org
@meznaqato.bsky.social
@alexispauline.bsky.social
Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
@madiha.bsky.social
Antifascist. Assistant Prof @ Yale. Writing a book about digital war, drones, & empire w/ a view from the Global South. Former journo & filmmaker. Interests: tech; militarism; anticolonial, anti-imperial praxis; transnational solidarities.Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social
Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic PhD in American Literature Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies they/them | my views, not employer's | book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
@charlenecarruthers.bsky.social
she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer. Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
@nsharma101.bsky.social
There (really) is no place like home. Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press) Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press) Professor, Sociology, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa #NoBorders nanditasharma.net
@demonicgrounds.bsky.social
lovesick audiophile + heartbroken reader + book maker most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor at @asc.upenn.edu associate directing at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01 español incluído.
@vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social
I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead. Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and the forthcoming To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
@wewatchwatchers.bsky.social