Matiangai Sirleaf
@matiangai
Scholar. Writer. Teacher. Advocate. Order Race & National Security (OUP 2023)
Reparations are overdue. International law needs to move beyond legal recognition of the wrongfulness of chattel enslavement and the trade in enslaved people, toward repair and remedy. The UN's recent resolution represents a step toward global racial justice. www.justsecurity.org/138316/beyon...
Thanks so much for having me! I really enjoyed engaging with your faculty on this project and am grateful for the constructive feedback. Special thanks to Monica for facilitating the visit. Also loved the welcome sign!
This is not a drill! Part I of Global Health at a Crossroads Symposiumis out in the American Journal of International Law Unbound. My intro. to the symposium is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/service... Check out all the insightful contributions below! #globalhealth #internationallaw
Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.
Register for Maryland's Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission hybrid public hearing on April 4th and 5th: mdlynchingmemorial.networkforgood.com/events/79416... Expert witnesses will give tesimony on how MD can address its legacy of racial terror and potentially prevent harm in the present.
Hope for realizing a healthier world and transformation in global public health: social movements, young minds, innovation from the Global South, capacity for learning, and compromise. ICYMI @roojinhabibi.org @fifarahman.bsky.social @clarewenham.bsky.social Dr. Andraghetti & I 👇🏿 youtu.be/pS80uVTSEmU
ICYMI @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on global health's past, present and potential futures is available here youtu.be/7JjUTi0q9OM?... We discuss how zones of sacrifice, power, privilege, racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze, White supremacy & saviorism shape global health then and now.
Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Matiangai Sirleaf (Ma-tee-ahn-gay Sir-leaf). I am the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the UMD School of Law. I hold a secondary appointment as a professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health at the UMD School of Medicine. Views are mine 👇🏿