Statement of the Barnard-Columbia chapters of the AAUP regarding the mass arrest of peacefully protesting students: “We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to reclaim our university.”
Nara Milanich
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Nara Milanich
@NaraMilanich
Latin American historian, Barnard/Columbia. Childhood, gender, reproduction, law. Book on the history of paternity testing. Pithy self-description not my forte.
- Joint statement by the Barnard-Columbia chapters of the AAUP regarding the mass suspension of students. Currently at least 100 students have been suspended, with more apparently in process.
- Since you ask: many, many faculty have been working nonstop since the Shafik hearing and the first police raid two weeks ago. We’ve written open letters picked up in the natl/intl media, met students being released from jail, organized legal assistance for arrested students…
- Lessons from the dirty wars: Argentina formed a national DNA database to reunite children the military government had forcibly removed from their mothers. And here’s an idea: they also criminally prosecuted dozens of officials, of all ranks, who participated in the removals.
- My book! An academic history! That took seven years (eight?) and has too many footnotes! It’s in @NewYorker! (Swoon... ) #histchild #twitterstorians #WomenAlsoKnowHistory newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
- Did anyone else yell out loud when they read this? In this interview about life on the frontlines with an anesthesiologist in NYC, the doctor, Erick Arbenz, casually reveals he is Jacobo’s grandson! In today‘s @NYTimes
- Just opened the mail and discovered this creepy white guy! He was in the works for a long time; I’m thrilled he’s finally here. His official release is Father’s Day @Harvard_Press @sonyabonz @angelabaggetta @BarnardCollege
- It’s 19 degrees & snowing in Dilley, Texas, home to the country’s largest ICE prison. I wonder what the children—some of whom have been there more than 500 days—think of the snow. I wonder too what @POTUS is waiting for. #FreeThemAll & abolish for-profit prisons @ProyectoDilley
- In a devastating moment, U.S. repro rights supporters can take heart from the lessons and example of Latin American activists, who have long battled powerful anti-abortion headwinds—and have begun to win @nayluxx @ILASColumbia foreignaffairs.com/articles/unite…
- Replying to @NaraMilanich…housed them, served as psych support, appeared in the media trying to counter false narratives, screamed into the wind, organized rallies, met with administrators, organized a successful no confidence vote without so much as an email list of all faculty at our disposal…
- Replying to @NaraMilanich…served for days at the encampment helping to deescalate conflict and field media, organized phone trees and rushed to campus during two police raids, screamed into the wind some more…
- How many historians does it take to change a light bulb? This one's for you almost-PhDs @Y__Barragan @elizabeths1101
- Guatemalan Child Refugees, Then and Now by @rachelbnolan explores a forgotten earlier wave of young refugees, who fled the civil war in the 80s. It’s the third piece in the @NACLA series Children and Migration Across the Americas nacla.org/news/2020/11/1…
- Isabella Cosse, Valentina Glockner and I introduce a special dossier, Exiliados, Refugiados, Desplazados: Children and Migration Across the Americas exploring children and migration past and present, around the hemisphere nacla.org/news/2020/10/2…