Emma Pask

straight fire from Melinda Cooper as usual

Lone Star Futures - Public Books Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has unfortunately also been a place where those liberties find some of their ends.

check out my new essay wrestling with Texas history in @publicbooks.bsky.social out today, on Juneteenth.

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especially loved this, wish that I had written it myself. /2

Lone Star Futures Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has unfortunately also been a place where those liberties find some of their ends.

New at PB, @egpask.bsky.social‬ reviews “Texas: An American History” (@yalepress.bsky.social‬), which shows how the state’s obsession with telling its own history in the present is a central political tool.

Damage Control: A Million Bats and Not-So Public Health at a Texas Prison This paper by Emma Pask examines the troubling disparity between the state protection afforded to a bat colony in a former cotton warehouse and the neglect of incarcerated men at Huntsville Prison.…

a little preview of my research is out with @engagement-anthro.bsky.social today

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Final Tally: Chicago Taxpayers Spent At Least $107.5M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits in 2024, Analysis Finds During the past six years taxpayers have spent at least $472.4 million to resolve police misconduct lawsuits, setting a new record, according to a WTTW News analysis.

During the past six years taxpayers have spent at least $472.4 million to resolve police misconduct lawsuits, setting a new record, according to a WTTW News analysis. news.wttw.com/2025/02/10/f...

Bill Callahan, Former Woodlawn Tap Owner, Dies at 78 Callahan, who worked at and later operated the Hyde Park bar for 55 years, passed away on January 14.

Anyone who did a PhD at the University of Chicago knows what a loss this is. chicagomaroon.com/45313/news/b...

Amazon Lays off 4,500 Workers in Quebec to Bust Their Union Faced with the prospect of being forced to sign a labor contract as early as this summer, Amazon has gone to extreme lengths to evade its obligations under Quebec’s labor code. On January 22, it annou...

CSN, one of Canada’s largest labor federations, believes Amazon’s move to shutter its Quebec warehouses is intended to stifle organizing efforts elsewhere — and it is determined to hold Amazon accountable: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0... 1/2

The Long American Counter-Revolution - Boston Review Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day. @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social

Hotness at the End of the World - Post45 We are not over Nora Durst. But watching just the pilot of The Leftovers, you wouldn’t get it. When the show starts, Nora is the poster child for the collective grief associated with two percent of th...

In The Leftovers, "desirability emerges through strategies that individuals use to survive the end of the world," write @damfales.bsky.social and @lilyscherlis.bsky.social. "Hotness functions as more than a reality effect: it indexes characters’ shattered expectations"

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over the moon to have been awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for my forthcoming book - alongside such a brilliant group of writers. You can read more about it here: www.whiting.org/writers/crea...