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Natasha Warikoo
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Author. Passionate about racial equity in education.
Professor of Sociology, Tufts University.
www.natashawarikoo.com
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Natasha Warikoo @nwarikoo.bsky.social · May 21
The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions | Annual Reviews
Affirmative action began as a bipartisan policy to address racial inequality in the workplace and in higher education. Given its small footprint in college admissions (most colleges never practiced it...
www.annualreviews.org
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milleridriss.bsky.social
It’s pub day! Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social for this amazing animated announcement 🔥
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Sep 16
From a renowned extremism expert, Man Up shows how misogyny drives mass violence, offering strategies that we all—including parents, teachers, counselors—can use to quell this rising tide. @milleridriss.bsky.social

Out now. Learn more about this important book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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wutrain.bsky.social
Get out and vote TODAY, Boston! 🗳️

Check where you vote at wheredoivotema.com and find more voting info at michelleforboston.com/vote.
Purple and blue graphic with pictures of Mayor Michelle Wu and voters with text: It’s Election Day. Polling locations in Boston are open 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. GOTV Find voting info at michelleforboston.com/vote.
September 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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identitiesjournal.bsky.social
New #Identities Symposium:

'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter

In our latest issue:
www.tandfonline.com/...

@bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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identitiesjournal.bsky.social
'The benefits of longitudinal ethnography'

Book Review by @nwarikoo.bsky.social, from #Identities' latest symposium:

doi.org/10.1080/1070...

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
I loved revisiting the lives of the young men in The Asian Gang for this review of the Asian Gang Revisited. The book came out just as I started graduate school and I learned a lot from it back then as well as now!
identitiesjournal.bsky.social Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · Aug 12
New #Identities Symposium:

'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter

In our latest issue:
www.tandfonline.com/...

@bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
Please join a Book Forum discussion of my book Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools at the ASA conference in less than 2 weeks! Monday 2 pm Central I can't wait! @soceducation.bsky.social www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...
Book Forum | American Sociological Association
Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality (Session Organizer) Aaron Benanav; (Session Organizer) Sigrid Willa Luhr,
www.asanet.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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adamhsays.com
things i'm thinking about right now: Thomas Jefferson understood UVA as an institution w/ slavery at it's core. UVA rented human beings, who literally built the university, as a cost saving measure in the 1800s. at any given time before abolition, there were 125 to 200 enslaved people on campus.
June 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
As much as I try to be open-minded, I feel a real loss with AI's presence. During any ritual (most recently, graduation & other inspirational speeches), rather than take in the beauty and complexity of a speaker's words, I keep wondering if it truly coming from their soul or from AI. 1/4
May 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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wcbyrdphd.bsky.social
This is a must read/cite/teach article from @nwarikoo.bsky.social.
May 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions | Annual Reviews
Affirmative action began as a bipartisan policy to address racial inequality in the workplace and in higher education. Given its small footprint in college admissions (most colleges never practiced it...
www.annualreviews.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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fisherdanar.bsky.social
On this Earth Day 2025, it seems like a good day to remind everyone about how we are going to / need to Save Ourselves. Check out my TEDTalk for details 👇
fisherdanar.bsky.social Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · Nov 19
My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is OUT! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. go.ted.com/danarfisher
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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akalhan.bsky.social
Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 9
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.

senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
Whereas, the Big Ten Academic Alliance represents not only athletic competition but also a longstanding tradition of academic collaboration, research excellence, and commitment to democratic values and shared governance; Whereas, the Big Ten Academic Alliance includes 18 universities with thousands of instructors serving over 600,000 students; Whereas, the preservation of one institution’s integrity is the concern of all, and an infringement against one member university of the Big Ten shall be considered an infringement against all; Be it resolved that, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; Be it further resolved that, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement; Be it further resolved that, participating institutions shall make available, at the request of the institution under direct political infringement, the services of their legal counsel, governance experts, and public affairs offices to coordinate a unified and vigorous response, including but not limited to: Legal representation and countersuit actions; strategic public communication; amicus briefs and expert testimony; legislative advocacy and coalition-building; related topical research as needed.
April 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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epopppp.bsky.social
We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
More than 300 foreign students have had their student visas revoked in the three weeks "Catch and Revoke" has been in operation, the official said. There are 1.5 million student visa-holders nationwide.
March 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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epopppp.bsky.social
Guy out of frame: "You don't look like police. Why are you hiding your faces? Why are you hiding your faces?"
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Mar 26
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
Video of arrest of Tufts international student today is harrowing. I am speechless. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
Video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student - The Boston Globe
Within seconds, five officers surrounded a Tufts PhD student from Turkey, and she was pleading with them, according to a security camera recording of the arrest obtained by the Globe.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
harrowing account of detainees' arrival in El Salvador. No human should be treated like this, even if accused/convicted of a crime. We are guilty of crimes against humanity.
chatterjee.net Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · Mar 25
“The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
Every elite college president (and board member) needs to read @charlieeaton.bsky.social clear-eyed take on how large endowments can and should be used by universities as sites for truth-seeking in a democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump
Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
This piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social captures something I wish more were talking about: now that SCOTUS + POTUS have dismantled the utility of the weak diversity/DEI frame on race, we might as well emphasize power, equity, and justice: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... @washingtonpost.com
Opinion | What should come after DEI? PFJ.
Although dismantling DEI was wrong, something better can replace it.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
Beautiful thread about my wonderful colleague Sam Sommers. He was also a wonderful Tufts community member. I had LOTS of questions as I prepared to teach my department's intro class for the first time this semester--and was so generous and gracious with my endless queries. And so much more, too.
page-gould.bsky.social Elizabeth Page-Gould: Black Lives Matter @page-gould.bsky.social · Mar 21
Dr. Sam R. Sommers was one of those truly good people who also happened to be a total powerhouse. It is with deep sadness that I share the news of his death. Everyone who had Sam in their lives was lucky, and I am grateful for every moment he shared with me. ❤️💖💫 now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
now.tufts.edu
March 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
Academics: here's one small thing you can DO-sign this letter that affirms the importance of truth-seeking for democracy. I can't believe we are here but we are. And please share with me what else you are doing-I need ideas for action!
March 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
nwarikoo.bsky.social
Yes! I can't believe there isn't more of statements like this coming fast and furious. And fellow faculty-would love for you to share how you are addressing this moment in your classrooms if you are.
ansleyerickson.bsky.social Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · Mar 19
#edusky colleagues, higher ed or K-12, please share. We are at Columbia, but we know that this struggle matters for education across the lifespan.

A Statement from Teachers College Faculty on the Attack on American Education

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Brownstone buildings at Teachers College looking west toward Riverside Church. Creative Commons photo by Bohao Zhao
March 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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scholars.org
📢 Trump is preparing an executive order to try to dismantle the Dept. of Education. What does this move mean for K-12 and higher education? For reporters covering this question & related developments, the following experts are available for comment. ⤵️
🔗 scholars.org/features/exp...
8 Experts Available for Timely Analysis on Impacts of Trump's Executive Order to Dismantle the Department of Education | Scholars Strategy Network
With President Trump preparing to sign an executive order to try to dismantle the Education Department, there are many questions about what the effects of such a move would be for K-12 and higher educ...
scholars.org
March 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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cinziasolari.bsky.social
Our article, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination," is in Contexts Magazine! This is an extension of our award-winning book, The Gender Order of Neoliberalism.

📖 Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...
February 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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chronicle.com
A legal challenge to OCR’s Dear Colleague letter argues that the department’s references to discrimination are too vague, and fail to give clear indication of what programs are illegal. chroni.cl/3EVYpsh
Lawsuit Challenges Ed. Dept.’s Authority to Ban Diversity Programs, Alter Teaching on Race
The Office of Civil Rights’ guidance would have a “devastating” effect on professors’ efforts to provide viewpoint diversity and equal opportunity in the classroom, the plaintiffs argue.
chroni.cl
February 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM