Ava Ayers
@avaayers
Law prof. State and local immigration law, trans rights, legal discourse. Proud to be trans. Personal page, views my own. Move slowly and put things together.
Oh my GOODNESS. Putting this one next to the Chiswick Shakespeare on my strike-it-rich list.
Graham will be forgotten, but this tweet will be mentioned from time to time by historians to show that the MAGA movement's sycophants knew exactly how despicable their leader was.
ICC detainees are housed in a Dutch prison that looks much, much better than the facilities that DHS and ICE officials have put people into without due process: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
Another great book: "Expelling the Poor" by Hidetaka Hirota. Extremely useful history of state and local exclusions and deportations in early America, and how they led to the federalization of exclusion and deportation in the late 19th century.
I suppose I'll make these a chain. Another great book: "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams," by Jonathan Ned Katz." Bio of a queer activist in the 1920s, with heartbreaking excerpts from her deportation proceedings, and the sweetly beautiful text of her short book "Lesbian Love."
Brilliant book: Camille Walsh, "Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973." Fantastic exploration of the history of rhetoric about "citizens who pay taxes" and its role in protecting white supremacy. Will change the way you hear arguments about what government owes "the taxpayers."
Brilliant book: "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics" by Kim Phillips-Fein. How the mid-70s crisis let financial elites use their status as debt-holders to force NYC to end social services. Explains a lot about inequality in today's NYC and austerity everywhere.
Highly recommended: Linda Bosniak's "The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership." Probably if you're interested in citizenship you've already read this, but if not: no matter how you think about citizenship, the first two chapters will likely make you think differently.
Highly recommended: "On Community" by @caseyplett.com. Works both as an essay, carrying you through thoughts and experiences, and as a work of political philosophy that should be important to people studying things like membership, citizenship, and, obviously, community.
Highly recommended: "The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship," ed. Shachar, Bauböck, Bloemraad, and Vink. Amazing job of covering a huge number of perspectives in concise, accessible articles. An excellent place to start.
The poems AI wrote are online here osf.io/53qcr and they are . . . not good. The Whitman and Ginsberg ones rhyme. No wonder they're not printed in the study: everyone would just laugh at the title and throw the study in the garbage.
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
Every review of Rings of Power season 2 is basically "it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that Celebrimbor is at it again"
Roberts recognizes that "federal courts must do their part" to preserve judicial legitimacy--but not that the biggest threat to judicial legitimacy is simply courts taking away rights from people who've learned to depend on them.
Not sure how to feel about the fact that Amazon lets you rent "Gender Trouble" for more time if you pay two cents a day, like a love hotel
Biden deported more people last year than Trump at his peak. This is a great article, but the part about "surging border crossings made Biden do it" is bizarre--as if brutality is an unstoppable reflex beyond moral judgment: wapo.st/4iZch4H
This demon just sprayed the outside of my house and now I'm basically in a "Silo" situation
2.2 million people in New York State have criminal convictions: more than 10% of us. The "migrant criminals" are a small fraction of those. And they've served their time! Also there's nothing wrong with roaming Gotham, it's a great place to roam. datacollaborativeforjustice.org/work/racial-...
“You should look at the Kavanaugh hearing.” This is going to get very, very ugly.