Rebecca Bratspies, Author
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Rebecca Bratspies, Author
@rbratspies.bsky.social

Professor, CUNY Law | award-winning scholar, author, speaker
scuba diver | environmental justice, climate justice, human rights, NYC history, urban policy, comic books | mom | optimist (mostly) www.RebeccaBratspies.com

Law 24%
Environmental science 23%
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hey friends. Guess what . . .my book Naming Gotham just won the 2024 American Legacy Book Award for US History!!! #history #NYC #newyorkcity #historybuff #historylovers #historypodcast #NewYork #awardwinning #books #booklovers www.amazon.com/Naming-Gotha...

THANK YOU!! Have you read the Thursday Next series? The Pro-Caths in the second book alone are worth it.

Grrrr
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

had to share this one.

Happy Birthday Langston Hughes. Your greatness can never be erased or suppressed. Particularly feeling this right now (from Let America be American Again)
poets.org/poem/let-ame...

Reposted by Robert C. Richards

‘With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike’. Wow.

Today is Jackie Robinson's birthday. No amount of lies or obfuscation can ever erase his greatness.

tell me five classes you took in college:

Developmental Neurobiology
Self and Society in Ming Thought
History of African American Music
Marine and Benthic Ecosystems
The Poetry of Adrienne Rich

#letsgoWes!
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology
tell me five classes you took in college

shakespeare in the 20th century
international relations theory
the making of the american national myth
biochemistry + molecular modeling lab
wines

Just sayin . . .

also, the "death of the author" theory makes a whole lot more sense when the author is actually dead, and not cashing in on your consumption of their problematic media
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology
tell me five classes you took in college

shakespeare in the 20th century
international relations theory
the making of the american national myth
biochemistry + molecular modeling lab
wines
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)
As we're about to start Black History Month, let's remember that the same principles that ground Black liberation have also always grounded the resistance to other ethno-nationalist policies, including racist immigration restrictionism.

Douglass, as always, is instructive

WTF???

I moved the stuff myself. I may be old and weak but I did a better job than the 4 strong men I hired

TFW your movers quit mid-move.

hell no! This zoning change ended the build a "hotel" to rent to the city as a homeless shelter scam. People deserve housing built for living in, not for hotel guests, and neighborhoods deserve not to be flooded with these sketchy, poorly constructed fake hotels
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
RESIST THIS CORRUPT REGIME

Happy to cover any property class lectures. Or any environmental law topics . For law school, grad school or undergrad. Hell happy to teach AP history or other high school class sessions if it will help Hit me up
Thinking very hard about all the centrist pundits and "legal experts" nitpicking that transgender grad student in Oklahoma giving the student a zero; remembering how they told me I was overreacting by saying that there is no reality in which the administration would support her.

lol. Forgot to get any photos of my #AALS panels. So, instead enjoy some of my favorite people talking about technology optimism. ( I really need some optimism right now)

can I reboot this timeline please

book is available here. We have a pretty good teacher's manual and are always adding to it. cap-press.com/books/isbn/9...
Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation, Fourth Edition
Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation, Fourth Edition (9781531033538). Authors: Clifford Villa. Carolina Academic Press
cap-press.com

Consider this a reminder that Environmental Justice is Social Justice! Delighted to announce the publication of the latest version of Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, and Regulation. Thank you to my co-authors and to the many advocates whose work we highlight. So much more to do!
On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

Thank you for sharing your voice. It really matters

Sit next to people and say hi. Tell them it is your first AALS. In general, people are very welcoming.

I will keep my eye out for you.
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US