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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · 2d

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · 2d

Would be an enlightening read!

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks @aldasky.bsky.social. We are all indeed "Vienna-pilled", yet a reminder again of what a #capitalisteconomy like the United States but that also offers stronger #social protections can look like? #socialhousing

Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 25d

Many American politicians are learning from Vienna, which is combatting housing scarcity+climate change-- all at the same time.

This group from Portland is another example.

To go on a podcast jaunt and read more about Vienna's green social housing, check out our feature from June on @npr.org 📻🎧🌍

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 8

The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.

The War for the Imagination

I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sap...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for your words of wisdom: “In giving to others, in working toward the liberation of all beings, we make the best version of ourselves, a version that cannot be made any other way, a gift we can receive only by giving.”

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 31

I gave a talk this morning at Upaya Zen Center. Here's the essay about disaster and human nature it was based on. It look back to Hurricane Katrina and forward to the present moment. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...

We Were Made for This

Twenty years ago, on August 29, 2005, a huge hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. New Orleans's levees failed, as had been predicted, and much of the city went underwater. Although the authorities had issued...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · Aug 27

I will be wearing opera gloves and probably t-shirt and jeans 💅🏽

🎟️🎟️🎟️:
roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...

ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Earrings of Madame de … (35mm)

Doors open at noon with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 12:30 p.m., followed by a conversation at the end of the screening. Books! Banter! Cinema! Welcome to the year’s first…

roxie.com

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Excited for a conversation at #FullSpectrumLabs this week. Really looking to see how #RUNWAY – A Financial Innovation Firm, based in Oakland, CA is imagining " #capital as a tool that can #heal, #repair and #connect."
www.runway.family/runway-overv...

About RUNWAY: Where restorative capital meets community

Our mission is to advance resiliency for Black businesses & communities by building emergent financial practices and infrastructure that close the racial wealth gap.

www.runway.family

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks Michele, there's a long list waiting...but I'll add this to it. Can't wait to read Ananya Roy after a bit of hiatus.

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Aug 20

I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print.

Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it.

Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion

The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state powe

read.dukeupress.edu

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · Aug 25

I’m delighted to be in conversation with one of the most exciting scholars in Asian American studies, Takeo Rivera, in Boston. We will be discussing my book To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, but I’m sure we’ll be talking about a lot of other things as well.

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Aug 15

[2 of 2] ...remain "hypnotized by settler fantasies of common (#indigenous) land for the taking " and avoid any "anti-imperial" sentiments. Didn't see enjoying public space in that light before.
Which book changed your worldview?

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Aug 15

[1 of 2] @erinmcel.bsky.social's Silicon Valley Imperialism changed my #worldview recently...Quoting distinguished Associate Professor at UC berkeley, Eric Stanley
@stillhere415.bsky.social and then articulating their own take on #publicspace users, who in our enjoyment of "artisanal picnics"...

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Aug 8

Upheaval during urban renewal in West Oakland at the same time that property values rose in the FHA backed dev. in suburbs, @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social's The Pacific Circuit quotes Ms. Margaret Gordon: “You got to look how devastation for some gave opportunity to others. One was down, one was up.”

Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Jul 13

Yes happy to offer my perspectives. I actually started my career as a historic preservationist.

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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · Jun 4

Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore."

If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇
antipodeonline.org/geographies-...

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · May 19

I am glad to be part of the open-access volume "Insurgent ground: land, housing, property" curated by the wonderful Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani & Annie Powers.

The book emerges from a Freedom School held at UCLA in the Summer 2024.

Download: challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/05/05/i...

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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · May 5

“Beyond Molotovs – Reclaiming Antifascist Futures”
lu.ma/8ozahg5t

Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Avenue - Oakland

Date(s) - 2025/05/09
7:30 pm - 11:45 pm

“Beyond Molotovs – A visual handbook of anti-authoritarian strategies” will be presented and put into dialogue with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · May 5

City Lights and Gray Area present
Reimagining Technopolitical Futures: Building Alternatives in the Present – A Workshop
with Luis Felipe R. Murillo, Erin McElroy,and Paul Schweizer

Sunday, May 11, 2025, Doors 12:45, Start Time 1:00 pm
Gray Area, 2665 Mission St, SF
grayarea.org

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Apr 10

My sincere thanks to @lorettaclees.bsky.social, @docdantzler.bsky.social, @kentoncard.bsky.social for the opportunity. #AAG2025

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Apr 10

I feel privileged to have my own dialogues situated amidst this rich confluence of hope, wisdom, ambition, risk, and fierce #collectivism. #AAG2025

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Apr 10

When you “resist joyfully, audaciously, creatively”. Because “ #freedom was also once sought somewhere.” Jessi Quizar

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Apr 10

When #racialbanishment for #dispossessed individuals means “you have now where to go.” But when previous evidence reminds us again and again how a “ #collective will outlive every catastrophe.” Ananya Roy Nour Joudah

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Apr 10

How " #liberalism emboldens #fascism” in local/ “transnational fashions”? And how #abolition, #decolonization and #care practices disrupt the politics of #capitalism? @erinmcel.bsky.social Ananya Roy

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Apr 10

How do we see through the aperture of the current moment, the sealing of “permanent #crises”? How do we navigate the “work of #urbanjustice”? @michelelancione.bsky.social

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Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social · Apr 10

@geographers.bsky.social in Detroit was intellectually stimulating. Exchanged notes with several academics and practitioners on their brilliant work. Stories from Detroit, MI, Silicon Valley, CA, Naples, Italy, Bangalore, India, and many more in between and beyond. Many notable instances #AAG2025

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