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Alexes Harris

3 years

I promise you, you will never regret prioritizing your family over your career. Not in the moment or not in the long run. ❤️

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Had a big rejection today....My brother, who recently lost his 39 yo wife to breast cancer, told me to go hug my daughter, son and husband and be thankful for what I have. Done. Academia and institutions don’t define me, only those who love me ❤️

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Alexes Harris

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Five days ago our students were playing in the National Championship. We haven’t had time to celebrate them or acknowledge all of their accomplishments - including a 3.14 GPA fall quarter (in season!!!). We do see all of you & are so proud! @UW_Football #GrindGritGrace 💜💜💜

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

7 years

@AP Will this receive as much attention as the Republican playground shooting? We have to do better by our children.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

8 years

Kudos. But, it's 2016. Did @Univ_Of_Oregon really need to vote on whether a KKK leader's name should be on any bldg?

Southern Poverty Law Center

@splcenter

8 years

University of Oregon just voted to strip the name of a KKK leader from a dorm

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

Just wondering. Does anyone know of any universities besides @uw where there is a woman who is president, a woman who is the athletics director, and a woman who is the FAR (faculty athletic representative)? 💜💜💜

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

6 years

@CNN Makes me think about my donor- a new born baby’s umbilical cord donated by their parents. I’ll never meet but am so thankful for saving my life. Cord blood, bone marrow & blood product donations are so important & save lives every day. Thank you!!! @BeTheMatch #BeARealSuperHero

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

For those of us struggling to comprehend how five Black men could beat to death another Black man - read wisdom from Angela Davis “Racism is so dangerous because it does not necessarily depend on individual actors, but rather deeply embedded in the apparatus…”

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I’m not playin. My kids will not be watching TV the next 6 weeks straight. Agreed upon home school schedule and posted throughout my house. #FlattenTheCurve #SeattleStrong #WeWillGetThroughThis #GritGrindGrace

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

For the past 6 years my Dream Team of scholars have studied monetary sanctions (criminal legal fines & fess) in 8 U.S. states. We partnered with @RussellSageFdn to publish 17 peer reviewed articles now available.

Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions

Monetary sanctions, also known as legal financial obligations (LFOs), are a highly consequential yet underexplored element of the criminal legal system. LFOs consist of fines, fees, costs, restitut...

www.rsfjournal.org

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

One thing we don’t talk about regarding racism is the amount of time we spend processing the interaction afterwards. Replaying the moment, what was said & done, what wasn’t, what should’ve been said. How do you stop the replays? Racism is tiring AF.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Friends- What if we started buying gift certificates from our favorite restaurants and businesses? We could give them immediate revenue to hopefully support keeping them open and then we could celebrate with food and shopping once we stop social distancing.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

Here I link pretext traffic stops with monetary sanctions as criminal legal mechanisms that allow for police killings. There are clear policy changes we can make now to prevent the trauma, violence and death associated with police stops. #DaunteWright

Daunte Wright and the grim financial incentive behind traffic stops

How pretext traffic stops fund police departments — and put Black drivers in danger.

www.vox.com

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

6 years

@samswey So, now we are in the phase of U.S. justifying state sponsored violence where they try to demonize the Black victim? And we should soon see pics of the angelic White police officer and hear stories of what a non-racist and good police officer she is? I am so over this.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

8 months

Dear Entire @UW_Football , thank you for an amazing ride this season. A week ago we saw your character, your athleticism, your grace and your pride for the UW at its best. Please know your @UW community is so proud of you, we appreciate you & support you 100% 💜💜💜

Adam Breneman

@AdamBreneman81

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Dear Michael Penix Jr, Thank You. - College Football

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I don’t want to take away from the “Wall of moms” -our movement for social justice needs everyone. Just a reminder Black moms have been shielding protestors and fighting for years, past and present. But for “some” reason we never get called moms or are spotlighted like this.

Nicholas Kristof

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4 years

The “Wall of Moms” shielding protesters in #Portland tonight. Outrage at the Feds has brought out more and more people, both as protesters and as their defenders.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

8 years

Proud of my UW Huskies. 4th in nation & avg GPA OF 3.0. True STUDENT athletes. @UW @UW_Football RT to let people know how proud we are.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

This may be too soon, but I would like to see similar policy decisions made to forgive criminal legal fine and fee debt. If people can’t pay, they can’t pay.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Today is my 3rd birthday! I had a stem cell transplant w/ donated umbilical cord blood. Thanks to a newborn baby & family I’m 3 years cancer free today! Please remember to get on the BM registry & donate umbilical cords! Thx @CordBloodDay @BeTheMatch @BTMPublicPolicy

NMDP Advocacy

@NMDP_advocacy

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Happy World Marrow Donor Day! Join the global effort and send a huge #ThankYouDonor to all heroes who signed up as blood stem cell donor. #WMDD2019

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Ah #ASA2019 First session I attended reminded me how sociologists love to research people of color as if you are the experts about us but when you talk with us (or waiting in lines) we are invisible and always the subjects. #SoFrustrating #AlwaysSubjectNeverExpert

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Our research matters! My heart is full. I was nervous about a judicial panel today (they usually don’t like hearing about how they use discretion). Two judges on my panel brought my book & talked about it changed their perspectives on fines/fees @RussellSageFdn

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

Whoa. 9 yr old just asked “How am I going to make new friends on Zoom?” Broke my heart a bit. Told them we would figure this out.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I’ve hit my wall. I’m done. I’m going on vacation. I’ve packed a bag. I’m going downstairs to the guest room for 24 hours.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

History will remember Trump as the most corrupt, ignorant, racist, incompetent U.S. president ever. There. I said it so if you can’t maybe you can at least “like” in silence 😉

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

Okay my friends new to Seattle. This is the time where things are going to get a bit rough. Pro tip- don’t hinge your joy on next Tuesday. Gradually that icon will turn to a rain cloud. But, we got this. ✊🏽 @NWSSeattle @UW

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

These #Zoom calls are exhausting. I think because I have to mind my face constantly and try to look really interested and make sure not to roll my eyes. Just exhausting. 👀

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

I don't know what hurts more - seeing a police officer slowly with torture kill #GeorgeFloyd , or to hear an officer "mistakenly" shot #DaunteWright with a gun and not a taser. On purpose or by mistake - this is how we live and die. This is why we say #BlackLivesMatter

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

6 years

@DennisBritton3 @alwaystheself Public Service: To all faculty of color- we do not have to serve on our department, college or university “diversity” committees. It’s okay to say no and let our White colleagues play this role. We were not hired, at least we should not have been, to serve in this capacity.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

I’m ready. Let’s go Dawgs! (and Mariners!). Super excited to help honor @bradenbishop7 who has been given the 2020 @Mariners community service award. I will be throwing the 1st pitch for him since he can’t be there. #SuperProudProfessor

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

This is how a community should treat entrepreneurs instead of arresting them in the subway and giving them expensive fines and fees. You see, there are caring and supportive ways to uplift people in our world. And this doesn’t have to involve police or the CJ system.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

One of the biggest areas new PhDs are not mentored - particularly folks of color &women - is negotiating. I tell folks to focus on "Salary, Time and Support." For many this will be their 1st in 3 chances to negotiate your base salary so make it count. Be realistic but push back.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

This is called being an accomplice versus ally. A person willing to ostracize themselves or diminish recognition to call out injustice.We don’t need someone to sit by us, hold our hands, speak “for us” & receive praise. We need folks to use their privilege & name injustice.

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@Bachscore

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Megan Rapinoe minced no words about Colin Kaepernick at Glamour's women of the year awards Monday:

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Took a pandemic to expose U.S.’ barely functioning & inaccessible health care system, schools provide 2 meals a day for kids, working people live precarious lives & high numbers of people with underlying health conditions. But will we do anything about this structural inequality?

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

We are hiring!!!

University of Washington Sociology

@uw_sociology

4 years

We're pretty thrilled to announce that we're searching for a tenure track assistant professor with a specialization in the study of race and ethnicity. We're a collaborative department, and a great place for junior faculty. Join us! Review begins 10/15

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Since Im on the topic of heath. I wanted to note the number of academics who have privately shared their cancer diagnoses with me. They haven’t told colleagues for a variety of reasons. Haven’t told their depts they are going through chemo.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I’ve studied the fines, fees and costs people face when entangled in the criminal legal system for the past 13 yrs. There are several bills in our states that could make real changes. Here is my op ed about WA HB 1412.

Fines and fees are a pound of flesh for poor people

The criminal legal system of monetary sanctions is a permanent punishment for poor people and disproportionately affects Black Americans, Latino/a and Native American people.

www.seattletimes.com

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

Just because we can do 11 hour days and be in multiple states for meetings and presentations in one day - doesn’t mean we should.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Me: I’m going to wear my super hero cape to class tomorrow. Daugher: Ugh Me: What? I’m a super hero, I’m going to wear my cape. Daughter: But it’s not a costume for Halloween if you are wearing your true outfit. 🙅🏽‍♀️

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

6 years

@deray When police wear a uniform and carry a weapon the should have a higher standard to get it right. To not park on the wrong floor, to notice the red rug, to notice their surroundings, to not immediately pull their weapon. This case represents so much of what is wrong with system.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I’m not throwing in towel. But what I am surprised and hurt by is that I had the audacity to think that this country would shut down the racism, misogyny, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-science and childish leadership of DJT. Instead we wait.....

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

8 years

I am a wm of color & have blood cancer (MDS). We need ppl of color to register for bone marrow donation. See Pls RT

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

I had a call yesterday with a man who was sentenced to 30 years in WA DOC for a shooting incident where NO ONE was harmed. He was sentenced at 23 yo and has been in 10 years now. He is a Black man. Today we are reminded that there is clearly a two-tiered system of "justice."

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

So I snuck out today (I wore a mask and kept distanced). Felt good to be outside on campus and see our students being active and engaged citizens promoting voting. What are your students doing? #BeBoundless @UWAthletics @UW 💜💜💜

Washington Men's Basketball

@UW_MBB

4 years

Thank you to Faculty Athletics Representative @AlexesHarris for joining us 👊

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

I celebrated cancer free/stem cell transplant bday for 6 years today (MDS blood cancer). But have to stay vigilant. Perfect day to get my mammogram. All clear! ❤️❤️Please make sure you get all your check ups my friends!!! Thank you @SeattleCCA

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 months

Today, Excessive Punishment was released by @ColumbiaUP . This anthology explores and reimagines the U.S. criminal legal system. My chapter focuses on how fines & fees serve as a permanent punishment for many people. #PoundOfFlesh @BrennanCenter @UWArtSci

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

I prefer the word “accountability” instead of “Justice”. One person was held accountable today for torture & murder of #GeorgeFloyd “Justice” would be dismantling the criminal legal system that keeps traumatizing and killing our Black family. #MakiyahBryant

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

“Our Double Pandemic: Fines and fees are part and parcel of the contemporary U.S. legal system.” (Me 😍). My recent op ed

Our Double Pandemic Does Not Need More Fines and Fees

State and local authorities are trying to help cover the loss in revenue due to COVID-19 and, ironically, backfill "defunded" police budgets. Such tactics just punish the poor.

www.newsweek.com

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

It’s my transplant birthday! When I was diagnosed with cancer I just wanted more time with my kids. I’m so thankful to celebrate 6 yrs today. Thanks to the parents who donated their child’s cord blood ❤️ @SaveTheCord @BeTheMatch

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

@Toffeemen68 When I taught on-line I just pretended my students were laughing at my jokes and I couldn’t hear them because they were muted. Made me feel better. 😉

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

@tanyaboza One thing I started to do to hold myself accountable is to find pictures of the authors I have my students read. When I talk about their work in my lectures I include the pictures in my PowerPoints so students can humanize the researcher - and also see themselves reflected.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

@doc_thoughts Yes please and thank you. No emails or whispers in hallway about how messed up so and so was to me, or that the conversation was BS. I'm over it. Be an engaged disrupter not polite and quiet ally.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I hav three important zooms today. It will be so hard to act like this world is normal while its burning. That someone who could have been a family member was killed by state sponsored violence. That the killers are free. And that my community is in mass mourning. But here I go.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

What is also heartbreaking is that one man called out for his deceased mom while being killed and another man literally called his mom while being pulled over by the police just before he was killed. We are living in fear, so much so grown men cry out for their mamas.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

@CharlesWMcKinn2 I explicitly addressed in tenure statement. I wrote I was told to “just say no” but in PWI it sustained me. Gave me community & support. I stood on shoulders who did labor for me, I felt compelled to do same for others, also needed it to thrive. It’s important to say out loud.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

Fines and fees are literally a #PoundOfFlesh . The system of monetary sanctions allows police to surveil people: 1) to raise revenue from small violations and 2) to patrol for warrants related to no -payment. As a result Black people get killed.

Billy Corben

@BillyCorben

3 years

The "warrant" on #DaunteWright was over unpaid fines for 2 minor misdemeanors — one a marijuana case — totaling $346. He pled guilty, filed for deferred payment and they were sent to collections DURING A PANDEMIC. Then he was pulled over for car air fresheners and killed over it.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I’m hoping people recognize this isn’t a moment we will “get through.” What you are witnessing and making is a cultural and structural revolution.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

Just takes my breath away. This one hit me hard. I absolutely hate cancer. He is a heart for so many of us, especially our Black babies that got to see themselves as a superhero. RIP #chadwickboseman #WakandaForever

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

One person convicted for the torture and murder of #GeorgeFloyd We still need to dismantle criminal legal system. Stop pretext traffic stops for economic reasons, stop reliance on fines & fees, end qualified immunity, limit power of police unions.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

7 years

@MichaelSkolnik I'm thinking you don't do this for the followers. Keep your eye on the goal and Thank you.

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@MichaelSkolnik

7 years

I know I lose lots of followers when I raise money but I must do this. The sound of his brother’s voice on the phone this morning broke me.

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Alexes Harris

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Collegiate athletics is crazy, disheartening & stressful, also joy, fulfillment, success. Warms my heart our students are staying @UW for our academics & our @UWAthletics @UW_Football We will always have something special because of our culture, history and values.💜💜💜

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I never post about my bad days. But they are there today makes them worth it. Today was amazing - I participated in a diss defense for a Black man.This was a first for me & it was so more emotional than I had anticipated. He had over 70 colleagues, family & comm members on zoom.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

1 year

It’s my 7th (transplant) birthday!!!! Seven years cancer free! Have an amazing day, know tomorrow is not promised, Hug your loved ones hard and long. Here is my theme song- Please have a little dance party sometime today and smile for me!

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Earth, Wind & Fire · Song · 1978

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

Thank you @UW_WBB for acknowledging me tonight during teacher appreciation! I am so thankful to get to work with student, coaches and staff like you every day! My heart is so full. 💜💜💜

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

6 years

Friends we need to talk about this in the academic world too. This term always comes up in Sr admin search committee meetings to describe candidates and drives me crazy the difference between how men and women and POCs are described.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

6 years

Let’s dig into “gravitas,” bc it’s an ambiguous word, selectively applied. Ever wonder how expression that’s feminine, working-class, queer, or poc isn’t deemed as having “gravitas,” but talking like an Aaron Sorkin character does? 🤔 Men have “gravitas,” women get “likeable.”

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4 years

Companies Can Keep Their Hollow Statements on Racism. We Need Real Change

So you're saddened? So you're with us? Then make real structural changes within your company, organization, university or other institution.

www.newsweek.com

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

Is it okay to say he is a racist today? Or do you stil need more evidence?

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

Today is my (transplant) birthday! 4 yrs ago amazing nurses @SeattleCCA @UWMedicine sang me Happy Birthday as cord blood was transfused to save my life. We are living hard times, But I ask you to play this song, let yourself celebrate life for 3:35 min. 💜

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

Pre-existing folks can we unite? I know not easy to look at or think about but so many of us are here and fighting to live. We need a president who will ensure we have health care and our insurance will cover us. And make sure to #VoteEarlyDay @JoeBiden

Marcel van den Brink

@DrMvandenBrink

4 years

How Much Does Cancer Cost? (1) U.S. cancer patients in 2018 spent $5.6 billion in out-of-pocket costs for cancer treatment. Cancer care cost the country $183 billion in 2015; will increase to $246 billion by 2030. via @AddThis

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One person - pre-tenure - told me they didn’t want to hurt their career or have people discount their trajectory. This is a horrible commentary on our profession when people can’t be openly sick.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

@DrBryanLeyva @jodiann_b I bet the neighbors have a Black Lives Matter bumper sticker.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

We have amazing students @UW We build charter and give our students opportunities to become engaged citizens and even real superheroes! Thank you @UW_Football @BeTheMatch @KalenDeBoer @JGlenn_UW @UWAthletics 💜💜💜

Kiyomi Taguchi

@KiyomiTaguchi

2 years

Great to see #UW students adding themselves to the bone marrow registry! The mouth swab is for DNA, and young people - especially of diverse ethic backgrounds - are encouraged to join. @BeTheMatch @AlexesHarris

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

2 years

Early early morning appointment. But the Mountain always reminds me how grateful I am for EVERY SINGLE day. 💜

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

For those of us removed from farms, videos like these are important to see and show to our kids. Teaches us about all of the work it takes to bring food to our tables. Thank you @UFWupdates and all the farmers for your labor!

United Farm Workers

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The celery harvest takes strength and skill. Workers like Melvin send in videos to connect consumers with the origins of their food. #WeFeedYou

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4 years

I never told anyone this. I felt embarrassed. But I now realize I suddenly turned from a pet to a threat. Another example of how Black women have to mind our faces, our tone and our words. Suffice it to say we never worked together again and I found my voice.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

I’m excited to give this @uwnews @UW public lecture on April 29th talking about structural inequalities in U.S. institutions, ways to think out it and ways to fight injustice. Please come join me in this conversation.

Michele Cadigan, PhD

@cadigonia

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And for this line up @AlexesHarris @uwpubliclecture 🔥🔥🔥

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Alexes Harris

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8 years

At hospital preparing for BM transplant. Just heard nurses singing happy bday to someone who received theirs. Beautiful moment. @BeTheMatch

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

3 years

Today is my 5th birthday! Five years ago I had a cord blood transplant to treat/cure my MDS. Thank you to all the docs, nurses and staff @SeattleCCA for saving my life! Please play this song and smile! Enjoy each day! ❤️❤️😊 @BTMPublicPolicy

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Song · Earth, Wind & Fire · 1978

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

This week, esp @SenKamalaHarris has made me think of an incident early on on TT. A colleague asked me to do something on a Thur or Friday. I told them I could address it the next week. I just learned my father’s cancer was back & my son was just tested for a serious disease.

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Alexes Harris

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3 years

Colleagues, foundations, federal funders - Can we please stop with the diversity surveys? Just deleted 3 in my inbox. I'm done with letting you know how tired, overworked, and isolated I am. You need no more data to fix the issues you know to already exist.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

Happy Juneteenth! And on the day our country talks about reparations, here is a reminder of how the past is always present. Monetary sanctions (fines &fees) are a contemporary iteration of the ways the U.S. has always socially controlled marginalized and racialized groups.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

What is is about our profession that makes people think they can’t share their illnesses? How can we create more of a compassionate community for scholars to get sick, take leave, and, if possible, come back and have fruitful careers?

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

I ask my colleagues @UW to do the same. Let’s recognize the stress and pain of our students. They have worked hard and focused in this pandemic w/online classes and now the pain, anger and fear - we can’t expect them to concentrate. I can’t concentrate. Please consider.

Tyrone Howard

@TyroneCHoward

4 years

I would implore all of my @UCLA faculty colleagues to strongly consider cancelling or significantly altering final exams. Many students are struggling now, they need our support, and many are not in the best emotional space to focus on academics. Be compassionate & understanding

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2 years

@KateHeeChoi I think entitlement. I once had a prospective visiting student - a white woman- ask me what it felt like to be the department token! I kid you not! I wasn’t sure if she meant as the only woman of color or ethnographer. I was so shocked/angered I don’t even remember my response.

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Alexes Harris

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If you are not Black, please take a moment to read & imagine if these were your babies. Now imagine how outraged you would be & what you would do. Or maybe how our country would react en masse. Treatment of our babies happens like this everyday. I’m beyond enraged.

Rebecca Kavanagh

@DrRJKavanagh

5 years

Cops in unmarked cars grabbed a group of Black children trick or treating in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood, lined them up against a wall, searched them, handcuffed them, then took them to a police precinct, where they were released without charges.

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Alexes Harris

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4 years

Who is this child’s mama? She raised her right! #census2020 Do it for the research!

Azie Dungey

@AzieDee

4 years

Guys, fill out your census cause my mom is a sociologist and she needs the data. Don’t do it for the government, do it for Azie’s Mommy. Thank you.

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Had a great opportunity to talk with amazing incoming freshmen at the UW today. I was asked to share advice I wish someone would have told me as a first generation student. Having time to think about this more I wish I would have said......

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Alexes Harris

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One neat thing cancer gave me was a 2nd birthday. Today I celebrate 2 yrs cancer free post a cord blood stem cell transplant. Love to family & friends @SeattleCCA @fredhutch @BeTheMatch Please join registry, donate new born umbilical cord & blood products

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@realDonaldTrump @seanhannity @FoxNews

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@AlexesHarris

6 years

Bye #ASA2018 Great time seeing colleagues and friends. Had a bit of a revelation on my panel today. Realized I’m a different kind of sociologist/scholar. Good news is that I felt 100% okay with that. I absolutely love my career. I hope we can all find a peace like this.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

6 years

How do we sociologists often ignore and reproduce the inequalities we study? Check out this thoughtful article by ⁦ @victorerikray ⁩ This is so relevant to a faculty meeting we recently had.

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

5 years

We only clutch our pearls because she is a rich White woman. Hundreds of thousands of men and women who are disproportionately poor and people of color, with chemical addiction, trauma go through this daily. We should care for them and work towards change now!

Scott Hechinger

@ScottHech

5 years

“When you're admitted you remove all your clothes, including your undergarments, youre given a set of clothes to wear including underwear thats been worn by other people time & time again. Asked to squat & cough. You are inspected nude.” Prison is torture.

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I love the culture of our athletic department. Teammates supporting each other. Real Family!!! 💜💜💜 @UWAthletics

Washington Football

@UW_Football

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The guys !!!

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My stomach is turning from watching white men purposefully arm themselves with guns, go out and look for trouble, and then cry that they were the victim and had to take a person’s life. Save your Fing tears. I am so angry. #ThisIsAmerica #McMichaelBryanTrial #RittenhouseTrial

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Mass shootings - all shootings - are U.S. policymaker’s policy choices.

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@AlexesHarris

3 years

@ScottHech We must remain principled. If we are against the death penalty for some we have to be against it for all. I’m not against it because it disproportionately kills Black people, I’m against it because killing is wrong. Maybe this is the difference in support in this moment.

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Alexes Harris

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Student athletes are a certain kind of special people. Rosalie Fish is one you should know more about. She has a strong passion & commitment to raising awareness about Missing Murdered Indigenous Women. Thank you Rosalie for running for #MMIW A wonderful recognition 💜

Washington Track & Field and Cross Country

@UWTrack

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When President @amcauce makes a surprise visit, you know she's got Big News❗️ Our own Rosalie Fish has earned one of the most prestigious scholarships in the nation for public service. She is now a Truman Scholar! 📰 >> #GoHuskies

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Our mountain was out tonight. So beautiful and peaceful on my drive home. Had to pull over and reflect for a moment. 💜💜💜 @MtRainierWatch @KING5Seattle @NWSSeattle

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Alexes Harris

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4 years

@jemelehill To cover up their superhero outfits - just in case....

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

4 years

Getting called by my colleague’s name who has similar skin tone, but shorter hair, oh and is 8 inches taller than me. #BlackintheIvory @hedwig_lee 😂😂😂

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Alexes Harris

@AlexesHarris

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Thank you @SocCrimeLawDev for this award. I’m so honored to be given an award named after two of my great mentors Ruth Peterson and Laurie Krivo. An amazing honor. Thank you.

ASA CLD Section

@SocCrimeLawDev

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@AlexesHarris receiving her award from committee chair @LCProf2 !

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