assistant professor of asian american studies @vanderbiltu • afro asias, nyc, crime, and safety • they/them • views unfortunately not my employer’s
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
"In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior."
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
This speech by @doctorow about LLMs and related generative AI is an original and intellectually thrilling analysis which introduced some new ideas to me. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p…
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
I'm just going to assign a lot of reading this term. I know everyone is despairing about students' ability and willingness to read, but I worry about requiring less and less until it's not even clear why we're needed anymore.
If universities should have ideological diversity that reflects the country more broadly, why stop there? Why shouldn’t we have diversity in educational level or literacy that reflects the country too?
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
Vanderbilt and Washington University in St Louis vs Princeton theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Book Club is back for AAA! We’ll be talking about @profcptompkins’s book A Burdensome Experiment on Saturday (11/22) 3-4pm. RSVP for the location: partiful.com/e/oYY9D6L1l8Yw5… @RyanCecilJobson @topdogunderdog
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
Maya Singhal researches how neighborhoods create a feeling of safety across cultures. By looking at how different ethnic neighborhoods create this feeling without official constructs like police, it reveals how social structures help residents feel safe. vu.edu/ubipn
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
Threatening to “round up tenants” or call ICE because of someone’s national origin is blatant discrimination.
And in New York, it’s illegal. Any company engaging in it will be fined.
Report discrimination to @NYSHumanRights.
Today, we announced a $55,000 fine against an apartment complex in NYC for displaying a poster encouraging tenants to report immigrants to ICE based on national origin.
We're here to protect your rights as a New Yorker, no matter where you come from.
dhr.ny.gov/parsons-national-…
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
Most people assume that data centers pay for the electricity they use, instead of the utility companies passing the extra costs to their customers.
Every state can, and should do this too.
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
Two weeks ago, a federal judge opined whether noncitizens in the U.S. have the same First Amendment rights as citizens.
“The court answers this question unequivocally, ‘yes, they do.’”
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
i’m against ICE and immigration enforcement
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
Vanderbilt is among 9 universities
Trump is trying to bring to heel. Our university administration MUST refuse this unconstitutional compact. We call on graduate workers, undergraduates, faculty, and other affiliates of Vanderbilt to sign our petition.
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
I swear so many people's understanding of economics and technology is "Machine make money 😀"
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
Next time they might as well give the Nobel Peace Prize directly to the CIA
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this.
Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
does this remind you. of anything.
ALT "“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed. “I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions. “I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears."
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigra…
Tron: Aries is just conservative propaganda about how Asian (and Latino) model minority techies can save the world by allying with white men against black women. Really good example of why afropessimism is a theory that comes out of cinema studies