We are so excited to announce the launch of ✨Platypod✨, The CASTAC podcast! Check out our first episode where @CHartblay and Zihao Lin discuss their research on accessibility. Enjoy! https://t.co/1oUoxVKlfC

Who is polluting in Chemical Valley? Check the #PollutionReporterApp! 🛢🌈

can't believe it's our last week next week of the SiR program! We will miss the "school of crimefighting" 🐙

Last week, as part of the Scholars in Residence Program (SiR), we had so much fun doing @JoeDumit 's implosion exercise for different classes of petrochemicals. It was a joy to use @UofTDHN CDRS space to surround ourselves with whiteboards!

Pictured here sharing our strengths and delegating in a dandelion field (with pebbles to keep the index cards from blowing away in the wind)

The first week of the the Scholars in Residence program has been a blast! @JHIevents

WE’RE LIVE!!! A platform of incredible contributions re-imagining maps and space across Africa + the diaspora https://t.co/RerH6BiABx

Today, April 13,2022 I am no longer using the term “imposter syndrome”. Last night Dr.@atachine informed me this concept was developed by two white women to explain why minoritized folks feel like outsiders or face self-doubt

Capitalize Indigenous Capitalize Native Capitalize LAND BACK

Thinking about mapping exposure, really appreciate how this map by @PFASProject brings contamination info together with community resources: https://t.co/dzd1EalxMp

Me and @ghostOfAkilism mapped 128 ICE detention facilities against heat, wildfire, and flood risks. It wouldn’t have been possible without research and collaboration from the @Carceral_ECO team at UCLA. Follow them! https://t.co/cpKg3O551z

(3/3) from “No Walls, No Cages, No Borders”: https://t.co/Tr8ud43Yea “Every border implies the violence of its maintenance” Ayesha Siddiqi (on Twitter) quoted by Harsha Walia

(2/3) “[In land defence] we have to think about how this a larger counterinsurgency operation being waged by one of the biggest institutions on the planet, whether its the military or the fossil fuel industry” —Nick Estes

(1/3) More moments that stuck with us from @ScholarStrikeCA “Land claims us in our bodies” —Courtney Skye from "Ending Extractivism”: https://t.co/ziIrBa9W6b

3/4 “White retrenchment globally is being fully expressed, it is liberal, not just fascist” There's currently a “reimposition of Europe's values as though they’re already universal—this is a deadly dogma” —Rinaldo Walcott

2/4 Here, “our struggles are sold out by the university.” “EDI is masking the distribution of white superiority, it redistributes white superiority with our faces, while the university isn’t rearranged.” —Rinaldo Walcott “White retrenchment can claim equity” —Rinaldo Walcott

1/4 more to think with from the incredible @ScholarStrikeCA “Scholar activists are losing their critical edge” in an “activist aristocracy built into scholarly capital and accumulation,” also known as “activism INC.”

2/2 grateful for these provocations from last week's @ScholarStrikeCa opening panel: "This Demands an Abolitionist Reckoning: Racism, Fascism, the Convoy Protest, and the Global Expansion of White Supremacy and White Ethnonationalism" https://t.co/9IyScXMPE6