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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RT @SushantSin: "In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional…
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8 Dec 2025
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…
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20 Aug 2025
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.
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5 Dec 2025
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?
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3 Dec 2025
Vanderbilt and Washington University in St Louis vs Princeton theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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28 Nov 2025
I want to delete this app soon so follow me on substack: @ mayasinghal
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13 Nov 2025
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
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
23 Oct 2025
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
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
22 Oct 2025
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.
22 Oct 2025
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-…
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
15 Oct 2025
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.
15 Oct 2025
In New Jersey a bill has been introduced to make sure data centers pay for electricity they use. This power surcharge would go toward modernizing the state’s electric grid.
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
14 Oct 2025
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.’”
14 Oct 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech.
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15 Oct 2025
i’m against ICE and immigration enforcement
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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.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
11 Oct 2025
I swear so many people's understanding of economics and technology is "Machine make money 😀"
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10 Oct 2025
Next time they might as well give the Nobel Peace Prize directly to the CIA
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
11 Oct 2025
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this.
11 Oct 2025
ICE agents just snatched a Journalist & were Speeding away when they hit a woman’s vehicle that was going to work & doing nothing wrong! They almost left the scene after slamming into her,but then snatched her out of her car at gunpoint and took her with them! 🤬
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Maya 美清 Singhal retweeted
11 Oct 2025
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."
11 Oct 2025
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…
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11 Oct 2025
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
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8 Oct 2025
A lot of political education happening at the Nashville airport right now. Not enough. But a lot.
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