Diane Wong

ethnographer, multimedia storyteller, professor of political science @rutgers_newark. words on Asian American activism, urban feminisms, and abolition

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

The city might have voted to build four new jails in our boroughs but we believe that another world is possible. I am so fucking proud of our youth, who spent the entire day sharing their vision for an abolitionist future and channeling what our ancestors before us fought for.

[Jana Lynne Umipig @jlcreator]

Our power is not determined by any governing body that does not honor the wholeness of our lives.

Your power is your life itself.
To be alive means you hold possibility in your every breath. Liberation can only come if we protect and care for each other’s lives wholly/as holy.

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

Baltimore mask up & come through! Take a break from #ASA2024 and stop by our queer, anti-imperialist & abolitionist publication party at Red Emma’s, a 20 year old worker owned radical bookstore that also serves some incredible food ⚡️⚡️

[[email protected] @stillhere_415]

If you are in Baltimore on November 15 for the ASA or otherwise put on a mask and come say hi at @redemmas ❤️
*free vegan snacks!

[GenForward Survey @GenForward_UChi]

How does Gen Z feel about American Politics? Check out the new GenForward article written by @xpertdemon here: https://t.co/CYtmMCQwB6

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

Bay Area come through! Later this month I’ll be giving a talk @BerkeleyIGS as part of the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium. We’ll be talking about housing justice, abolitionist futures and Asian American activism. Shout out to @MichaelRMuniz for coordinating 🙌🏼

[tracy rosenthal @tracyrosenthal_]

Abolish Rent reading groups in Houston, Portland, and Chicago this month ❤️

[Eastern Soc. Society @essnet]

Check out our third #ESS2025 Presidential Plenary - "The Politics of Dissent" featuring:

Submissions for ESS2025 are open now! Visit https://t.co/nF7pDuZK80 for more information about this year's conference.

[nick @unionnick]

“If Cornell deports @MomodouTaal, we deem it an unsafe space for all Black students” — new statement from @Cornell’s Black Students United

[Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc]

With June Jordan, Audre Lorde + Barbara Smith at the forefront of our minds + in recent pubs we invite you to join us this Thursday, 9/19 @ 7 PM EST for “From the Frontlines: On the Ethics of Care, Accountability, and the Limits of the Coalition.”

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

With Palestine in our minds and hearts, our Augmented piece on the Asian American Abolition Feminisms special issues out now @Frontiers_Women: "So much has changed, yet so much has stayed the same." https://t.co/Xhvg6CzTDz

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

There is a growing grassroots abolitionist movement against the city’s Borough Based Jail Plan set to expand the city’s carceral facilities with four new jails at the cost of $15 billion. Next to 127 Walker is the new Chinatown jail, set to become the tallest jail in the world.

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

Check out the Borough Based Liberation Project (co-organized by the Chinatown Art Brigade & the W.O.W. Project) at 127 Walker Street! Come for the month of free public programs with collaborators across NYC connecting abolition, anti-displacement & Palestine struggles ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

@hebagowayed @blackcapitol It was such an incredible book talk and so great to meet!

[18 Million Rising @18millionrising]

PHILADELPHIA: @PhillyMayor will have the first public meeting to discuss the arena tomorrow Wednesday 9/11 at the Convention Center! We need you in large numbers to show that Philadelphians do not want an arena in the heart of our city.  See you tomorrow at 6PM! #NoArena

[tracy rosenthal @tracyrosenthal_]

getting ready to meet my new landlord tomorrow 😇

[mtp @tsengputterman]

Looking forward to teaching this course on critical histories of anti-Asian violence at UPenn this fall 🫡

[Ash J @AshAgony]

When Israel one day (soon) goes the way of Rhodesia, never let NYU forget how they made being pro-colonialism a protected class in order to protect an apartheid regime from being protested by students.

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

@sgchen_ Congrats Sonya! I’m so happy for you, and I hear you’ll be in good company at Penn 😉 lots to celebrate, let’s catch up soon xo

[Juicy Stiff PhD in TS Studies @JuicyStiff]

I’m so fucking sad. Every Palestinian lost is a lost full person, a person who had people who loved them, a person with a lifetime of ideas and preferences and dreams. How is this the world we live in?