Ethel Tungohan
Host of academic aunties podcast, researcher, activist, avid reader, author of "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care and Movement-building." Canada Research Chair in Canadian migration policy, impacts & activism.
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family theonion.com/ice-agent-scores-ea…
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanAbolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanA caregiving social movement IS political.
- The anti-ICE movement isn’t just about politics — it’s a caregiving social movement minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/30/t...
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanBondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.
- Why is it that Western academics researching our homes forget that for us, research in our homelands isn't just a cool research project but something deeper? In this episode, we talk about what 'coming home' means + resisting academia's colonizing imperatives www.academicaunties.com/episodes/goi...
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanScrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
- Happening @yorkuniversity.bsky.social next Friday! Come listen to powerhouse speakers talk abt migrant justice and care work!
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanJust a reminder that both Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost have been attacked this week. No outrage by right-wing media or even corporate media. Now imagine if this were done to Republicans. The entire system is rigged in favor of conservatives, folks. The double standards are just wild.
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanWe are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanI wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
- Reposted by Ethel Tungohanliterally everything i’ve seen this month makes me want to move to twin cities and build a life there
- Shame on UC for continuing to punish Dr Tiffany Willoughby-Herard for showing support for Palestine!!! Please consider contributing to this mutual aid fund below.
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanThis is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanTwo days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanSCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
- In @academicaunties.com this week, JP Catungal and I - both gender and race scholars - deep into Heated Rivalry! We talk about queer Asian male sexualities, homonationalism, geopolitics and Russia and many more. And we talk about love and yearning. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/hea...
- Reposted by Ethel Tungohan“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanIt's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanWe evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanHow you manufacture consent.
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanAmerica is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanIt doesn’t actually matter what non-Venezuelans think of Maduro. It is totally irrelevant to the fact that the US kidnapped an elected, sitting President and bombed its capital primarily to gain access to Venezuela’s oil. #HandsOffVenezuela
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanRubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
- LOL at pundits who earnestly say that this imperialist invasion is truly about democracy. Because we all know that Trump accepted the democratic will of the people when he lost in 2020 right? (To be clear, this isn't just about Trump but about the ongoing violence of US imperialism).
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanAnd there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
- Grieving is hard, and with 2026 looming, my mom, brother and I are facing another year without my dad. And yet I'm also grateful that I'm still here, with family and loved ones, enjoying the little things that seem mundane but are actually deeply meaningful. Happy new year everyone! #newyear
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- In our last episode of @academicaunties.com for 2025, OG auntie Dr Rita Dhamoon, @nishanath.bsky.social and I talk about recalibration and about the terrain we traveled in 2025: what vexed us, what gave us joy, what we learned. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/aft...
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanI’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, residential school denialism is a loser movement: it’s anti-Indigenous content created by losers for losers who want to denigrate dead Indigenous children on the internet rather than put truth before reconciliation.
- Very worrying use of the notwithstanding clause by Alberta. Horrified to see anti-trans legislation being given the green light in Alberta and also in other provinces.
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanFellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter: spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
- This episode of @academicaunties.com is 🔥 - @tariajadi.bsky.social and I talk about how academia is an MLM, the importance of mentors + community, the sweet freedom that comes with leaving, and why being an academic is JUST A JOB. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/aca...
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- Bravo to @ireneshankar.bsky.social & Corinne Mason for "Unmasking Academia: institutional inequities laid bare during COVID19"! So many important articles incl by my York friends Carl James & Ena Dua, Carieta Thomas, Gabrielle Ellen Weasel Head & more! Buy your copy today! #academicsky
- It's heartbreaking what's happening in Alberta and trans youth. To invoke the notwithstanding clause makes it appalling - this is meant to be used as a last resort! Sign this petition if you are appalled by what's happening: transactionalberta.ca #abpolitics #transyouth
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanI really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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- Reposted by Ethel TungohanElected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanI am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
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- #Zohran wins as mayor of NYC!!!!!! A progressive wins - hooray!
- Can I use part of my bereavement leave and cancel work this week? (Just kidding- or am I?) Yes, it was a good game, and yes, I'm proud of the Blue Jays but that loss is so hard to take. Clearly I need to go through all the stages of grief first, oof. #worldseries #bluejays
- Chant at the bar, says my friend: "I feel nauseous, clap clap clap clap clap." Followed by "let's go blue jayyysss..." #bluejays
- As we start the 9th inning, no matter what happens (and although I obviously want the #bluejays to win), this is just a damn good game, and a damn good series. THIS is how baseball should be played.
- Hahaha loved seeing these when trick or treating today. Let's go Blue Jays!!!
- Reposted by Ethel Tungohanwill kim is still in ICE detention
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- For @academicaunties.com , @aadita.bsky.social & I chat about the difficulties of supporting projects that break academic norms even in interdisciplinary environments. We also talk abt research undertaken outside the academy & why it can be more cutting edge! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/col...
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanBack in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanWow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Reposted by Ethel Tungohani actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem
- Reposted by Ethel TungohanCancel SPOTIFY. They are running ICE ads. F them. www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...
