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It feels like so long since Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us about America came out (Jan 21), but it sure felt good to hold it at the ⁦NYU Press⁩ booth at the ⁦American Academy of Religion⁩. Thanks to those who share it with their students!

I so appreciate the humility behind ⁦Dwayne Betts⁩ words. What a beautiful dude. Here he is doing much good in people’s lives. Was an honor to see him ⁦Grinnell College⁩ back in the day thanks to ⁦🇺🇦 Dean Bakopoulos 🇺🇦. nytimes.com/2022/11/25/opi…

Good reporting from COP Egypt, discussing relationship between human rights and climate justice. interc.pt/3gHca23

A thoughtful piece from Kayla Renée Wheeler and Edward Curtis on the intersection of race (specifically Blackness) and religion in the Hamline University Islamic art controversy. religionnews.com/2023/01/12/the…

The Rev Dr MLK knew what was at stake when white Americans ignore, or are ignorant of, how history lives in the present. Change requires historical knowledge of the present—seeing how, as James Baldwin argued, history conditions us, often unconsciously. nytimes.com/2023/01/15/opi…

📣📣📣Now available to all K-12 educators! Lesson plans and videos about Arab American history and life on PBS Learning Media PBS Teachers: indiana.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/ara… Peer reviewed by Abeer Shinnawi is on a mission (she/her) ✊🏽, Re-Imagining Migration + Susan Douglass, GU CCAS. Thanks to WFYI + Carly Weidman, MPA!

Academic peeps: American studies two-year position at Grinnell College. Good place to land for a spell—good research support and very good students. apply.interfolio.com/120810

Can’t wait to get to work as the next Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grinnell College. What an honor it will be to work with and learn from our Dean Beronda L. Montgomery--@BerondaM at BSky and to support Grinnell’s great community of educator scholars!

America wants you to believe that all of these people just magically disappeared

"The performers in drag shows, by contrast, are LGBTQ people and the performances challenge such hierarchies. That, not their content, is what has prompted conservatives to try to restrict them," writes Rachel Hope Cleves. washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Appreciate thoughts here about the importance of process over “deliverables.” Don’t have to be into sports to see the wisdom in what Hanif Abdurraqib is saying via Damian Lillard.

Ramadan Mubarak my friends. May the month bring what you need for peace in your life.

Eid Mubarak, friends.

Love this take from Hanif Abdurraqib. Giannis Antetokounmpo offers a master class in patience/compassion with others and with himself in a tough situation.

"It's a culture of inequality... and what DeSantis is doing, is cultivating a kind of willful ignorance that will allow for this to continue, so it's not an abstract question for me, it's a question of life and death" - Eddie S. Glaude Jr. w/ Nicolle Wallace

Bayard Rustin was a queer Black activist of racial justice, women's equality and LGBTQ rights, and a crucial member of the Civil Rights Movement as the chief organizer of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington. We proudly honor him and his legacy during #PrideMonth.

.Caleb Iyer Elfenbein: "We tend to think that history is just in the past, rather than seeing how history continues to live in the present, especially for Black communities." salon.com/2023/08/06/the… #UnitedStates

Inspired by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and the The Legacy Museum, I’ve been working on a piece about how racialized “habits of history” protect white innocence & affect voting & education in the US. The good thing? We can change our habits when we see how they hurt others! bit.ly/3Oh4P64

Thanks to @salon for open space to consider how our relationship to history affects other people's lives.