Gabriel Winant
@gabrielwinant
Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
I was surprised to see fiddleheads at the market this late so I bought them. But I can’t really get them cleaner than this and haven’t cooked them in over a decade so can’t judge if this is normal gunk or unacceptable gunk
Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.
At UChicago we're building the coalition across different sectors of society to fight back against the billionaire class attack on our universities, our democracy, and our welfare state. Come join us! (Link below)
Here’s my grandfather’s document of expulsion from the University of Vienna by the Nazis. Do you realize how grotesque you sound
The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
there's a whole queer labor history in places like mining and lumber camps, maritime, really everywhere that labor markets were casual or migratory, that historians have barely scratched the surface of