Laurel Mei

Radical geographer/scholar-activist. Hawai'i born and raised. Based at UT Austin's Department of Geography and Center for Asian American Studies

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

@samar42 @stanfordpress excited to read it!

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

@davidsvine Congrats David, and sending you my best with all of this important work!

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https://t.co/4d1OYWqbwG

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The AQ issue is here! 🚀 "We Are Not American, Still (and Maybe You're Not, Either)." Includes a fresh take on rethinking Asian settler colonialism, co-authored with my mentor & friend Davi Pōmaika'i McGregor. Grateful to learn & write with this pathbreaking scholar. #LandBack⬇️

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

Link to the special issue introduction here: https://t.co/i7f6tvaIIY

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

We show that Hawai'i Asians are not inherently settlers by virtue of being non-natives living and working on Indigenous land; rather, many Hawai'i Asians hold a generational responsibility and political affinity within the nation of Hawai'i ⬇️

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

As Hawai'i's hierarchies have evolved amid economic restructuring, the privilege & power held by some Asians have been attributed to the native-settler binary of while overlooking the interplay of race, class, global economic shifts, & dynamics reinforced by military action. ⬇️

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

The horrifying shooting in Wai'anae on Aug 31 involved my close friend Tati's 'ohana. I am so grateful that Tati is ok. At this time we need to stand together as community and extended family.

Go Fund Me page to support with their funeral expenses: https://t.co/58d0bN7BrO

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

@EvaBPayne cannot WAIT to read! congrats!

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Please join me in signing this letter of no confidence in Pres Hartzell. Faculty lets make our voices loud & clear that we oppose the shuttering of programs for POC & LGBTQ students, firing of DEI staff, & mass arrests of students opposed to war & genocide https://t.co/udi2KxxO1y

[Texas Conference of the AAUP @TexasAaup]

We have secured a copy of a termination letter given to @UTAustin Division of Campus and Community Engagement staff. The notice does not describe options for appeal or grievance. There is no severance, no description of how to continue benefits. ⁦ https://t.co/O179fS3IZd

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

@reproutopia loved it. just wish more parents would read it so that we can be more like kin to each other and their kids. my friend @estherxlwang gave me her copy after she wrote this amazing review: https://t.co/uBSHrpxuRC

[London Review of Books @LRB]

Our new issue, 46.06, is now online, featuring:

Pankaj Mishra on the Shoah after Gaza
Rosemary Hill @misspegler on British architecture
James Butler @piercepenniless on the budget
@paul3548 Taylor on AI
and a cover by Johnny Bunting.

Read now at https://t.co/xaTOjYd3Vr

[AAUP-AFT at UT Austin @aaup_utAustin]

📢📢 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS! Graduate students at UT Austin in Education Policy and Planning are gathering interviews with faculty, staff, and students around the personal, social, and professional impacts of SB17. 1/x

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

@paulnadal_ haven't yet gone to MLA but now i'm tempted!

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

@PhD_Genie that it's unnecessary to work all the time, and that having set hours of work (for example, during the daytime on weekdays with breaks--or whatever other schedule works for you) is beneficial because it gives you space to think and keeps you healthy and sane

[Laurel Mei @chumei808]

@ABanuaSimon amazing thank you! emailing the UT film librarian now to ask about your film

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another syllabus ask: teaching a class on asian diaspora on indigenous lands (focusing on racial colonial capitalism frameworks) and what i'm *really* looking for are films to watch as a class. suggestions???