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mia karisa dawson


writing and conversations

The Kings ain't playin' no one tonight

Desanctifying property as a practice of abolition in Sacramento

Posted on February 25, 2022

Please find my article here! It’s been three years in the making and I couldn’t be more excited to see it out in the world. Let me know what you think! [Read More]

Feminist Futures Fellow Profile

A conversation with Scott Tadashi Tsuchitani

Posted on June 30, 2020

It was a privilege to work with the Feminist Futures Fellowship program. I received such solid support and solidarity with my peers. Check out some excerpts from a profile of my project facilitated by Scott Tadashi Tsuchitani. [Read More]

Crisis and liberation through space and time

A conversation with Neil Agarwal

Posted on October 22, 2019

Neil and I sat down and spoke in July about his forthcoming book, Yellowing the Logarithm: Money, Value and the Political Economy of Racial Capitalism. His book considers how modern money organizes terms of difference in social life, in particular those of race, to conceptualize forms of social wealth and... [Read More]

Racial profiling in Sacramento by the numbers

Infographic for Black Lives Matter Sacramento's Copwatch Launch

Posted on May 9, 2019

I analyzed the data from the Standford Open Policing Project to better understand racial profiling in Sacramento County. Find some of the highlights of this analysis in the infographic below. [Read More]

Afro-futurism and radical geography

Pecha kucha presentation for Imagining America

Posted on January 8, 2018

This post is an adaptation of the slides and narration from an October 12 pecha kucha presentation at the 2017 Imagining America conference at UC Davis. The pecha kucha format involves showing 20 slides for about 20 seconds each for a 7 minute presentation to encapsulate an idea. The idea... [Read More]
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