A few more thoughts on the NSF announcement. 1/I am not surprised that *just* as we see the emergence of the field of Black Geographies, which fundamentally challenges epistemologies of extraction and the white gaze, that we see this repudiation of “postmodernism” from NSF. https://twitter.com/katederickson/status/1303503341515923456

2/As a field of inquiry human geography is not perfect (I love to critique it!) BUT I am enormously proud to be a small part of it and was drawn to it *precisely bc* of its radical, critical contemporary roots. Same goes for my undergrads.

3/Let’s remember tho - ppl had to struggle to make it this way. Feminist Geographers, Marxist Geogs had to fight hard, legendary struggles to exist. So too for Black and Latinx geogs. We take the former for granted in a way but they are the product of struggle.

4/Our discipline is what we make it. Geography is what geographers do. The NSF is trying (against its own empiricist impulses!) to make it something else. I have many non twitter appropriate thoughts about why that is.

5/Let’s keep figuring out ways we can support each other in our radical, political, revolutionary research. I *do not* mean that we should not critique each other - quite the contrary honestly.

6/ I mean let’s keep building the discipline we want, made to the measure of the struggle for collective liberation. Let’s argue with each other about what that means. Let’s fight for critical human geography and make institutional space for it to thrive.