Emmy Rākete

me and Ruthie

me and my goat 😤

okay to be fair this photograph is in a hotel in Cape Town, where I spent a week at a series of organising and planning workshops put together by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. so like it wasn't all bad.

Me wearing a nice dress and, inexplicably, socks and sandals

2025 was lowkirkenuinely one of the worst years of my life. 2026 babey!

wow

thanks angel!

This was a surreal full-circle for me, to be surrounded by an organisation and a community that had (literally) violently rejected me and the critique I was helping to raise, and be embraced and acknowledged. Pride is different today, in part because of the work we did.

It's been long enough now since it happened that people often don't know, but along with Ti Lamusse and Justine Sachs, I was part of a protest against Pride in 2015 to criticise cops and prison guards leading the parade.

Me and Bhen from Pride

This weekend I was granted life membership in Auckland Pride, only the third person to be recognised like this. I'm honoured, but I was recognised for being one prominent spokesperson for the radical vision of what Pride could be - not because I'm an individual, but because I'm part of a collective.

you can do it 😤😤😤🫡🫡🫡

it'll take more blood than that!! it would be so cunty if we were both doctors though

let's fucking go though! writing is actually literally easy like it's just like gradually day by day cheesegratering off all your fingers. it takes a long time and it's agony and once it's done you have no fingers!

I can't believe we're both doing this rn! we made it my sis 😤 making it sucks ass

oh i forgot to do any promo on here - buy my book EMPIRE OF PUNISHMENT: MASS INCARCERATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION, dropping July 2026 from Pluto Press! the latest hotness in their canonical Mapping Social Reproduction Theory series!!

A snippet of text, reading: "In a dream I once saw a kind of psychic barometer for misery. Such a device would have let scientists quantify the global load of human pain, measuring daily as well as annual fluctuations in suffering. Given that social scientists are already an unhappy enough lot, it is probably for the best that this tool does not exist – but if it had, it would have registered the neoliberal restructuring of society as an epochal transition. We will cover the quantitative effects of these policies on things like wages and the labour-share of national incomes in the next chapter, but in a sweeping historical sense, this is the"

I did like 8,000 words of straightforward political economic history, so I get to start opening paragraphs like this now:

so like this section is a history of the world economy from 1929-todayish, and it's obviously dry. instead of just struggling through I've just been giving my own Mystery Science Theatre-style running commentary on what I'm talking about. I hope this is a good idea lol

When I'm giving a lecture and I can see that people are getting bored or checking out, I just start telling jokes or swearing so they get pulled back in. I've been really dragging on this part of my book so I've started just doing the same thing and writing down how I actually think about this stuff

dropping a firecracker into the crowd of slavering men in your replies to keep em at bay

USA TODAY BEST-SELLER BLACK FLAME, debuting higher on the list than CUCKOO ever made it

God, I'm so grateful to all of you. Thank you for making it possible for me to have this career I've been dreaming about since I was fourteen.

the hardest part of being a precarious academic worker is that you need to have research outputs to get a big girl job, but in order to get a big girl job, you must write job applications instead of working on research outputs

I know I'm stressed because I want to make people come over and play Tomb of Horror with me while I drink wine and disintegrate them

thank you for your service 🫡😤

we're good! Kendra's PhD is coming along, and my book is just about ready for me to send it to the publisher 😭😭😭 This student and I were talking about managers and professionals in the class structure and they were only really familiar with much weaker analyses than yours - they seemed excited!

I really really can't recommend this highly enough. You should read this.

🫡🫡🫡 hope you're doing well! I was actually just talking about your book with a student, I'll let you know what they thought of it 😋

Americans, now is the time to read about the great Hōne Heke and the Kororāreka flagstaff.

As our press spokesperson @cannibality.bsky.social explained on this Marae panel, the FBI Wellington office must close, because it will further subordinate us to American capitalist imperialism through it advising New Zealand Police to more effectively repress Māori, Pasifika, workers and the left.

when I was in London last year I thought I was being transphobically gangstalked by people carrying harry potter merch before I realised my hotel was just next to a random unbranded harry potter merch store.

the spirit of the oppressed third world masses wanted to speak through me and I was fighting against myself not to get on the desk and start denouncing the killers of Fred Hampton 😤😤🫡

watching @cannibality.bsky.social put her hand on the table and lean in *immediately* as the FBI post was raised made me crack tf up