Blu Buchanan
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UNC Asheville Assistant Professor, UC Davis Sociology PhD. Studying: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Conservative Social Movements
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My first solo-authored peer reviewed article has been accepted!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE *eldritch screams*
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The hard copy version of my GLQ article on American gay neo-nazis arrived today!
This was YEARS in the making, and I hope it’s a valuable launching point for future scholar-organizers.
#HistoricalSociology
#SocialMovements
#LGBTHistory
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I’m officially being converted from my post-doc to a tenure-track line at UNC Asheville!
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For all the folks who follow me because I talk about right-wing social movements I want to break down some connections between my field of study and my observations of what’s happening in
#UAW2865
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Today I was shot with a rubber bullet for recording the brutality of the Sacramento police.
I share this on my professional account b/c folks need to know their Black colleagues are being brutalized RIGHT NOW, & you've got to do something.
#AcademicTwitter
#BlackAcademic
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I’m so incredibly proud of the rank and file No Vote folks. Y’all are not just imagining a more generous future, you are organizing it in real time:
-Information Campaigns & Art
-Practicing disability justice
-Recognizing emerging issues in your own organizing & addressing them.
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Does anyone know a Black trans femme who has gotten an academic job in sociology? Can you direct me to her/them so I can learn from their knowledge? I’m on the job market right now.
I’d really *really* like to know that I’m not the first attempting to do this.
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Folks wondered why
#UAW2865
rank and file members were organizing a no vote “before the bargaining team TA’d a contract.”
Cause just like in 2018 all the official union resources are being used to push for a Yes vote on members.
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Explaining to my therapist today that there are multiple genocidal political and legal programs coalescing in the United States and how hollow/dehumanized I feel in their presence.
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@gretchen_bee
@BuckAngel
When a “gender critical” TERF likes your statement you really have to reassess who your message is for, and what harm it does.
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I’ll be hosting a teach-in on Monday on American (White) Nationalism; where I’ll be condensing my expertise on right and far-right social movements and political identity into a two hour, accessible introduction to this phenomenon.
#PoliticalEducation
#HistoryMatters
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Listened to
@JanelleMonae
’s Metropolis, The ArchAndroid, and The Electric Lady today. A BLESSING.
Gonna hop outta bed tomorrow to peruse Dirty Computer before I slather myself with The Age of Pleasure audio. 🫦✨🔊
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In the face of the disposability codified by the
#UAW2865
contract and the process which produced it, what kind of organizing (internal, adjacent, or against the union and management) will emerge? Some thoughts:
A Thread 1/10
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Majoritarianism (qualified) - all goals have to represent the interests of the majority (even if this demographic majority is created by institutional violence). This prioritizes systems which reproduce that demographic.
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Had a Native American Studies (NAS) comrade unfriend me because he felt hurt that I called his lackluster response to supporting Native Freedmen anti-black.
#SupportBlackLiberation
#Accountability4DebHaaland
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For example, reliance on universal language like “bullying” to talk about workplace harassment instead of addressing structures which create workplace harassment and violence.
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Weaponized identities - terms like “intersectionality” become co-opted to shut down critiques. Instead of thinking about how identities are produced, select figures are chosen to represent diversity; this functions as a smokescreen and stigma management tool.
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Seeing a few disabled unionists being used to justify
@uaw2865
's concessionary stance on
#DisabilityRights
reaffirms that *being* something is not a substitute for having a sharp analysis of the structures of power which produce violence.
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My copy of
#BlackFeministSociology
arrived yesterday!
Thanks to
@BlackFemSoc
for building a volume that draws deeply on the richness of the Black feminist community. Excited to dig in to these other chapters!
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Reversal of Victimhood - when facing structural analysis by marginalized communities, a right-wing tactic is to equivocate - to argue that by naming harm the victims of harm are the real harm doers and those in power are victims.
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The
@uaw2865
community safety article has been hidden from the bargaining tracker. This article included defunding UC police and using those funds in other ways.
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Deferment - that discontent members of union/society cause their own disenfranchisement due to lack of patience, and that being willing to wait makes them good union/society members.
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These are just a few of the connections. We can learn a lot by crafting an analytical toolkit that tracks right-wing projects through and within our spaces.
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So I study right-wing social movements from a historical lens, yeah? I study everything from early 20th century fascism to contemporary libertarianism.
When I say that I can find, almost word for word, “gender critical” statements in a gay neo-Nazi newsletter I’m not kidding.
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When leaders cannot claim to represent the majority of members majoritarianism can be tossed out in favor of explicit appeals to hierarchical power (often accompanied by narratives of urgency).
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With the ink drying, I'm so happy to announce that I'll be joining
@UNCASOCANTH
as a post-doctoral University Fellow this coming Fall.
So excited to be teaching and laboring alongside some incredible folks soon!
#Sociology
#PublicLiberalArts
#BackToTheSouth
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Students at UNC Asheville have started an encampment today, and I couldn’t be prouder of them.
#FreePalestine
#DivestNow
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@graceelavery
Since woke originally came from Black folks and was appropriated by young white people I’d vote for anti-blackness if that was an option.
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When is
#american
#sociology
gonna grapple with a job market that *even now* is focused on criminology?
Btw, not critical criminology - they want somebody to teach lil baby cops.
#AcademicTwitter
#TeachingOppression
#
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A big part of what I’ve been addressing over the past few weeks with my union posts are classic right-wing political strategies.
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Join myself and a number of union comrades from earlier in
#UAW2865
organizing history for our teach-in!
We’ll be talking:
1. Basic union and labor history.
2. Coalitional challenges to anti-austerity labor organizing.
3. Navigating internal labor dynamics.
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@ButNotTheCity
I mean I think talking about what to do (legally or illegally) in the abstract is fine - disseminating knowledge and sparking ideas has to happen somehow - but cyber security should always be practiced when possible concerning practical actions.
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“Black male studies” is a reactionary formation that fails to attack white patriarchy and instead takes aim at Black feminism.
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@jdgtranen
But the idea that queer studies has abandoned discussions of sex (and bodies, and pleasure) seems to ignore massive amounts of ongoing scholarship particularly by Black and Brown queer folks who *always* pair their queer work with embodied, material aspects.
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So excited to be the discussant for both the “Feminist Theory and Epistemology” and “Trans Sexualities: Race, Power, Pleasure” panels
@ASAnews
this year.
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One of the things my
@BlackFemSoc
chapter suggests is that an
#EmancipatorySociology
requires
#abolition
- that what would emerge from the ashes of those endings would be so different it may not be easily recognizable as sociology to folks in the present structure.
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@uaw2865
I’m a Black former head steward, and I can wholeheartedly say that if, and it’s a big IF, y’all *actually* want to combat anti-blackness y’all should start right in your own organization.
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Folks have to out organize their own union in order to avoid a contract that sacrifices the most marginalized of its workers.
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I study right-wing violence.
#Buffalo
is not new. We already know where it emerges from. Marginalized folks already have the solutions. We’ve been screaming them for years.
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Folks who are just now learning that the United States is a
#settlercolonial
#empire
, welcome!
I’ve been in the shook place you’re at, and I’ve learned a ton since then I’d like to share with you. This thread will be a lil reading list 📚
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Hanging on the door of my new office. Ida B. Wells is always included in my sociological lineage.
#Sociology
#CiteBlackWomen
#SpeakTruth2Power
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Some Black enby joy ☺️
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The deepening of rank and file organizing producing a union within a union. This kind of organizing produces wildcat strikes and builds solidarity between marginalized workers.
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#Sociology
folks, if the reason you hesitate to say yes on
@Soc4Pal
’s resolution is that you don’t know enough - here is a folder chock full of resources on colonialism generally and Palestine in particular!
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Folks who have
#labor
concerns about applying for an unpaid position with
@TransStudies
, I've been a labor organizer and unionist for ~10 years and I would love to answer any questions y'all may have.
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I think it bears noting that the goal of the union should not be its self-perpetuation but in working to achieve conditions under which it is no longer needed.
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The B.Trans Oral History Project just got word that we’re getting a $5,000 Cal Humanities grant to support our work gathering the oral histories of Black trans folks!
#makingmoves
#tellingstories
#gettingfunded
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It’s on days like today, when I find out
@OpenUniversity
is housing a “Gender Critical Research Network” (aka funding and legitimizing trans antagonism), that I feel honored and lucky to be working as part of a collective of trans scholars (
@TransStudies
💖💖).
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@venusselenite
, how have I been sleeping on this edited volume?? So excited to dive in, and it may get added to my
#BlackTrans
class.
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I've got a
@UncAvl
Brown Bag lecture this Thursday from 12-1pm EST. If you're interested in seeing how I apply
@dylanrodriguez
's concept of White Reconstruction and multicultural white supremacy to my work on conservative American gay organizations, DM me for the passcode!
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I study whiteness y’all, in all it’s pervasive and insidious forms - from the commonplace to the extreme.
There’s no org out here that’s not steeped in the damn thing to some degree. That’s why if you want to organize for justice you have to organize with abolition in mind.
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A movement away from direct engagement with the union as marginalized workers build networks of mutual aid to survive the conditions of their labor and union bureaucracy.
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Trying to wrap up this IRB protocol so I can start interviewing gay men across the right-wing spectrum.
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@jdgtranen
Or, to put it a different way - your critique seems spot on once we name whiteness as an ongoing problem of queer studies. But without naming that we end up missing how whiteness produces particular kinds of queer knowledge.
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Excited to share with y’all a Critical Times piece written by Dr. Amara Miller and I on the history of
#DisarmUC
and why we need to break the arms race waged by police on our communities.
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No matter what, you are doing union work for and by the people.
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For disabled and non-disabled union workers alike (both in
@uaw2865
and beyond) this is a great primer on:
1.
#DisabilityJustice
in
#labor
settings.
2. How to not sell out disabled workers.
3. How to avoid tokenizing and infantilizing disabled workers.
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This was paired with a discussion of how important caring for oneself and the community is in the face of systematic violence. We cannot do this work - we will not survive this work - without treating ourselves with radical care.
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@jdgtranen
@benwritesthings
As a Black queer scholar I think seeing white people discuss queer theory’s lack of embodiment or focus on sex - without naming race - absolves them of their own role in what queer theory is today and erases the contributions of scholars who absolutely are concerned about sex.
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Workers crafting new caucus structures to actively retake the power in their union and oust union bureaucrats.
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It’s no coincidence that two major recent debates in “Western” colonial society involve discussing blackness and the trans/cis binary.
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Now is the time to aggressively love one another - not in the shallow “I like them” way, but in the “I will fight, feed, and defend their dignity” kind of way.
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Building stronger political education across multiple unions, and thus shifting the field of possibilities for worker demands.
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The trans antagonism being leveled against
#ShaCarriRichardson
is an opportunity for Black cis women to step up their solidarity, not disavow their trans sisters.
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So far my
#sociology
class “Race, Class, and Gender Under Fascism” has been so powerful to teach; but there’s also been a learning curve 🎢 If anyone knows of good resources on classroom
#pedagogy
for discussing fascism, send it my way!
#teaching
#scaffolding
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Folks brought together by labor organizing using the model of work disruption, direct action, and militancy to advance abolitionist models of education.
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@uaw2865
I also crafted the first police disarmament contract language with a working group of UAW 2865 comrades, only to see it be tossed aside as something that wouldn’t “appeal the the majority of our [white] members.”
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With all the amazing
#CopsOffCampus
work happening in tandem with the
#UAW2865Strike
I want to share the history of
#DisarmUC
, a preceding movement to demilitarize, disarm, and disband UC police.
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Someone asked me today how police could avoid deadnaming trans victims of violence.
I told them the only way to avoid police-facilitated trans antagonism is to abolish the police and set up structures that make our practices of abundance ubiquitous.
#HappyPrideMonth
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Before anyone says, “this is about building towards the next contract”
@uaw2865
proposed stronger, clearer language in 2018 - and bargained away the entire proposal for a joint meeting with management.
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Invested in a new wig for the
@socwomen
conference cause I'm trying to look fly when I see
@zakiyaluna
,
@alexhanna
,
@Georgiann_Davis
,
@Daniel_Laurison
,
@DrPennyHarvey
,
@AmyLStone1
and more!
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What do I mean by that? I mean if you are a justice-oriented org you MUST be working to make yourself obsolete. To make possible the conditions of your ending.
The dream should be that you are unnecessary because the conditions under which you were created no longer exist.
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@jdgtranen
For example
@benwritesthings
rightly points out the puritanical nature of American discussions of sexuality. But if we don’t recognize the specificity of how whiteness intersects with nationality then whiteness = American = queer theory.
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As I start reviewing my first journal article, may I remember to embrace the loving, constructive energy of Reviewer
#1
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It is actively engaged in eliminating record of *its own proposals* when they are done being useful marketing tools for the union’s “progressiveness.” But some of us stay Black, even after the media moves on.
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We could see any and all of these emerge! We could see things I haven’t listed (and can’t imagine yet!).
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Anyone know students/faculty/workers organizing for police abolition across North Carolina/Southern university and college campuses? I’m trying to get linked in as new faculty.
#AbolitionMay
#CopsOffCampus
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@NotRightRuth
@OpenUniversity
Also, I’d like to give a shout out to the polar opposite of the TERF network!
@TransStudies
is a Center by and for trans scholars - where you can find rigorous (often public-facing) work that centers trans ways of knowing, moving, and living in the world.
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Next up: I’m the
#ASA2021
discussant for “Feminist Theory & Epistemology” from 4:15-5:40 EDT today, with
@AnimalAbolition
,
@mcwhitlocksoc
, and more!
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@uaw2865
Along with comrades at Davis and the Black Interests Coordinating Committee, I proposed UAW 2865’s groundbreaking call for the AFL-CIO to disaffiliate from police unions.
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Ah yes, the classic feminist praxis of…centralized hierarchical authority(??)
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Yesterday I had to flee my campus after I got wind that admin were specifically targeting me for administrative violence.
That’s how
@UncAvl
treats Black trans faculty.
#FreePalestine
#CampusOrganizing
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Working on the edits
@drjonessoc
constructively and incisively provided on my essay about bathhouses and queering consent ❤️✍🏽🧑🏽💻
#CommunityWriting
#CommunityConsent
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If you are an academic, you should be using your skills and credentials to pierce the veil of power RIGHT NOW. CPRA request those police records, FOIA those 1033 data, dig through the archives of your local city.
#AcademicTwitter
#useyourskills
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Oddly enough this type of message displays exactly why marginalized struggles are intertwined; we live together in the imaginations of those who live for violent domination.
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The death of
#SonyaMassey
has me recommitting to the work of community organizing.
No matter the electoral outcome we gotta make alternative systems of care - neither candidate cares about those on the margins. Here’s a new toolkit for the work:
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I don’t have a structured complaint, but teaching a trans class in a building with two single stall gender neutral restrooms means my students and I all awkwardly lining up to use the bathroom in the 15 mins between classes.
#transteacherthings
#bathroombreak
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I got to spend
#MarshaPJohnson
’s birthday talking with
@lridley16
and a team of other Black trans femme academics about how we live and sustain ourselves in the world.
Coming soon you’ll be able to watch the video, and access the print edition, here:
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Really excited to be teaching this class on violence and inequality come Spring 2021, especially in light of everything happening in the world right now.
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So what do you think will emerge from this milquetoast agreement between management and the admin UAW caucus?
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If you're Black and trans in the United States the B.Trans Project would like to record your story! Find out more and sign up here:
#BlackTwitter
#TransTwitter
#BlackAndTrans
#oralhistories
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Got two incredible books in the mail this week!
The first is
@DaShaunLH
’s work on the politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness.
The second is Geo Maher’s volume on how strong communities make cops obsolete.
Be still my nerdy heart 💜 Update tweets as I dig in 🤓
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