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zeniakish.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication & Digital Media Studies, Ontario Tech U. I study finance, food, agriculture, and now dirt. Associate Editor at Journal of Cultural Economy. Just getting started.
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The Cybertruck is such a flop that Tesla has refused trade-in's and slowed production to a crawl. Musk's solution: Dump thousands of them on the federal government.

Alberta is a crime scene.

Are you researching, thinking, or writing about soil, dirt, earth, dust or other close relatives? Please help spread this CFP seeking interdisciplinary soil engagements, including novel theoretical and empirical approaches as well as creative/artistic work @newformations.bsky.social

Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

'Our own voice': Organization supporting Indigenous journalists launches in Canada 5 longtime Indigenous storytellers establish Indigenous Media Association of Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

To be clear: this article is a free, public resource and you can do whatever you want with it (as long as you credit me). Print out 1000 copies and give them to community centers. Sell the zine in your bookstore. Send it to all of your relatives. You have my permission to distribute in any way.

Want to do something about Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders? Download a community defense playbook at defendandrecruit.org, sign up for a training, and check out this op-ed in Teen Vogue today.

Are you interested in the deconstruction of "acting" discourse this Oscar season? I've got just the solution for you: buy the audio version of my book, Imagining the Method, while it is on sale! t.co/SOZ7DXIuh2

18(1) is OUT and it is a monster www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1... Featuring contribs from @jessaloomis.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social; @stevethreadgold.bsky.social et al; many more we can't tag

Love this movie! Love this episode w/ @herberthistory.bsky.social, @zeniakish.bsky.social, and @emilycontois.bsky.social!

Had a lovely time chatting with @herberthistory.bsky.social and @emilycontois.bsky.social about Chef and other food films on Historians At The Movies Podcast - subscribe to this fun podcast!!

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

Russia's shadow fleet is a major source of funding for the war, and is responsible for moving roughly 2.5 million barrels into Canadian markets alone—netting the Kremlin $100 million. Enough to recruit thousands of additional soldiers.

In the historically Black neighborhood of Altadena “The embers haven’t even gone cold. The smoke is still rising, and the developers are circling”

“The Tulsa race massacre stands out as a civil rights crime unique in its magnitude, barbarity, racist hostility and its utter annihilation of a thriving Black community”

An article like this isn’t meeting the moment. Any journalist or news org knows framing is key, and a headline like this isn’t surfacing what’s most important about this interview and the more outrageous things Poilievre says are buried pretty far down the article. He keeps getting off easy.

Super excited to be hosting this workshop on the relationship between modern genocides and the criminalization of student activism with Roderick Ferguson, author of WE DEMAND: THE UNIVERSITY AND STUDENT PROTESTS. Jan. 20, 3pm EST on Zoom! Register here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/the...

“A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through.” Unforgivable.

Shame on NYU for shutting out faculty who were peacefully protesting!

Reminder: people are vaccinated only as kids for polio in the US not because the protection is lifelong but because there’s a v. low incidence of polio DUE TO THE VACCINE. It’s unknown how many years the current vax protects people for. So yes, this will be a problem for everyone, not just newborns.

NYU students and faculty were arrested earlier for peaceful protest, some faculty deemed "persona non grata" and blocked from campus premises.

I remember well the fear and incredibly difficult decisions my international students prepared to make immediately after the presidential election in 2016 (do I go home for the holidays and risk not being able to return? do I stay in the US and risk not seeing my family for years?)

Hey friends, good news! 50 of you signed up for my @workshops4gaza.bsky.social course on reading media & media ethics, raising money for food & water in Gaza! 🙏🏾There are a few spots left but you must sign up TODAY—registration closes tonight! www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/how...

This looks like a great program to workshop early career writing in environmental history and humanities

#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act). bsky.app/starter-pack...

Many of us with functioning public health care systems find them under threat, and should heed the power of this popular outpouring of pain and suffering

Open access & just published: Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society. Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention (Amsterdam University Press 2024) www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Folks, now that @timnitgebru.bsky.social is here I want to encourage you all to check out the *extended* critical AI starter pack because it’s got some stellar recent additions :) go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg

Curious about what platform capitalism means for agriculture? Check out our new article "Agrarian Platform Capitalism" by Emily Reisman, Madeleine Fairbairn and me. We talk rentiership, concentration, labour, governance, populism & more in the food system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The “Make Amazon Pay” campaign includes strikes and protests on six continents, disrupting a major shopping weekend.

"The Nakba has also a lesser-known environmental dimension, the complete transformation of the environment, the weather, the soil, the loss of indigenous climate, the vegetation, the skies. The Nakba is a process of colonially imposed climate change."

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...