Ben Tran

This is good news. We need more local businesses that activate #MusicRow and the #Edgehill neighborhood. Developers and business folk, notice how busy the Well Coffeehouse gets.

Sotormayor concludes, "The majority’s vision of race neutrality will entrench racial segregation in higher education because racial inequality will persist so long as it is ignored." #AffirmativeAction

A worthy read from @propublica: how EPA failures + air pollution = "sacrifice zones" of black communities propublica.org/article/toxmap…

@JonathanMetzl @NBA Scouting report: more hustle and rebounding needed

For like the 50th straight year, I apparently have not been selected in the @NBA draft. I’ll just have to get back to doing the work - getting smoked in lunchtime faculty pick up games, playing 1-person HORSE, eating Doritos - in the hope that I finally get noticed next year.

Hope to see you there!!!

Participatory Budget submissions are open. PB came about after years of community members advocating for ways to influence Metro's funding decisions to better fund community priorities, esp in historically neglected areas. MHRC will host 2 info&idea submission sessions this week.

@JetBlue The pilot and crew are not giving more information

@therealBenTran We're sorry to hear this. Please speak to an inflight crewmember for the most up to date information regarding the delay. We hope to have this resolved as soon as possible, and thank you for your continued patience.

@jetblue, why is flight #2187 still sitting on the tarmac at BNA. We’re approaching the hour mark?

@jetblue, why is flight #2184 sitting on the tarmac for 40 mins at BNA?

A job posting for Vanderbilt’s English dept! Please spread the word, apply, and send any questions!

Remarkable. Performances also this Friday and Saturday.

To all academics and supporters of Asian American Studies: send positive energy to the inaugural gathering of Asian Americanists in the U.S Southeast starting today. Follow the conversation #SoutheastAAS! Registration: go.unc.edu/SCAAS Here is Saturday's schedule:

Corporate profits from housing = less affordable housing.

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu sheds light on the toxic legacy of Agent Orange used during the Vietnam War by theorizing around skin. @DukePress dvan.org/2022/08/book-r…

@poet_major tonight!

Check out my interview with the wonderful artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen @dia_CRITICS. dvan.org/2022/08/unburi…

Is this the celebration of a ready-to-consume multiculturalism or is it the critical exposure of an aesthetics afforded by unacknowledged labor? 13/13

If the house is tidy enough for K’s meticulous shots (think of the beautifully drying clothes), then it’s Yang doing the household work for K and the audience. 12/13

A thread on #AfterYang, adapted from Alexander Weinstein’s short story, “Saying Good-Bye to Yang.” The racial tensions in the short story emerge against the backdrop of a US invasion of North Korea. 1/13