Sunday Reading

Actually Aisha:

• The Global Circulation of a Black Radical Icon
• Sofia Samatar GOH Speech for WisCon 40 (2016)
• Indian Empire and its ideologues: a response to Ashis Nandy
• State Violence against Peaceful Assemblies in Kashmir
• We have never been Star Trek
• 'Freddie Mercury was a prodigy'
• A History and Future of Resistance
• Afterlives
• The turn to burning in South Africa
• Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
• Everybody Loves A Good Riot
• Between victimising and patronising: A critique of Brahmanism in media representations of trans people
• Kabali: from caste to consciousness
• Why I wrote a book on Dalit food
• Spine Review: What Is Remembered, Suketu Mehta
• Irom Sharmila: A Look Back at a Struggle That Has No Parallel

Kitabet:

• Some Rules for Teachers
• “It was the dense, tangled hostility of the [Great Dismal Swamp] and its enormous size that enable hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of escaped slaves to live here in freedom.”
• What’s Happening in Standing Rock
• The View from Madinah
• “I just remember feeling absolutely fucking worthless,” said one person, “like what I was doing was never what you should be doing on fieldwork.”
• An Unprecedented Faculty Lockout
• The Facts of Life
• Lebanon’s Waste Management Policies One Year After the 2015 Crisis
• “Yes, of course, all women know each other,/the way you always suspected.”
• Can We Get Better at Predicting Earthquakes?
• Turkey’s Cyclical Coups

Gerry Canavan:

• To Boldly Imagine: Star Trek's Half Century.
• 13 science fiction authors on how Star Trek influenced their lives.
• 50 Years of Trekkies.
• Women who love Star Trek are the reason that modern fandom exists.
• What If Star Trek Never Existed?
• In a World without Star Trek...
• The Star Trek You Didn't See.
• How Every Single Star Trek Novel Fits Together
• TNG and the limits of liberalism. 
• What Deep Space Nine does that no other Star Trek series can.
• Fighter Planes vs. Navies.
• Fifty years of Star Trek – a socialist perspective.
• Star Trek in the Age of Trump.
• Star Trek Is Brilliantly Political. Well, It Used To Be.
• Sounds of Spock.
• A Counterpoint.
• Catching Up with Star Trek IV's Real Hero.
• The Workday on the Edge of Forever.
• My own contribution to the "Star Trek at 50" thinkpiece industry: "We Have Never Been Star Trek." And some followup commentary on First Contact and the Rebootverse from Adam Kotsko.
• Some more teasing about Star Trek: Discovery: Time to rewatch "Balance of Terror."
• Majel might even voice the computer.
• And of course they did: CBS and Paramount Royally Screwed Up Star Trek's 50th Anniversary.

Reclaim UC:

• "When Kiyonda Hester started the final year of her master’s program in social work, on Wednesday at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, an instructor began a course by acknowledging he was unqualified to teach it."
• Hundreds of LIU students walk out on second day of professor lockout
• "Cline and the LIU board of trustees have had the opposite view: that the primary goal of the university is to improve its credit rating."
• One week and counting: lessons from the LIU lockout
• "[H]ow do you produce prestige that shields you from inquiries that undermine legitimacy without sacrificing profit? ITT certainly did not figure that out."
• The ITT fraud: for-profit education and the crisis of the commons
• Inside Bill Clinton's nearly $18 million job as "honorary chancellor" of a for-profit college
• Cashing in on the culture wars
• "[A]fter LSU football suffered an upset loss, judges in Louisiana routinely doled out harsher sentences to juveniles."
• Who's afraid of AAARG?
• Black teachers matter
• Salaita's departure and the gutting of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois
• Fred Moten's statement in support of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions
• Keeping the student strike alive in Quebec
• Rebellion and reprisals: how outside support can impact the outcome of prison struggles
• "This is a call to end slavery in America"
• The crisis and the rift

Kerim Friedman:

• The Largest Prison Strike in US History
• Fuck You Žižek!
• Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
• We have never been Star Trek
• 2020 Census Less Complicated for Latinos
• India cuts off mobile internet in Kashmir
• Sesame Street does Sociophonetics

Al-javieera:

• The Anthropocene Debate: On the Limits of Colonial Geology by Neel Ahuja
• Why Do Americans Find Cuba Sexy?—?but Not Puerto Rico?
• Letter from Leonard Peltier
• Jonathan Basile: Who’s Afraid of AAARG?
• David Knight Jr. on the work of Frances Gallardo
• From Standing Rock to Palestine, the Caterpillar Bulldozers at Work for the Colonial Project