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James McMaster

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3 years

Do people just not know that COVID rates are four times as high as they were at this time last year?

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Earlier today GW instructed staff to hang this giant American flag behind the encampment. This is how the encampment responded. These young people are awe inspiring. A historic image.

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incredible scenes

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Police abolition is becoming a standard progressive value in this country. The black abolitionist left did that.

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James McMaster

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4 years

4% of nurses in the United States are Filipino. 32% of nurses lost to COVID-19 in the United States have been Filipino. This, too, is anti-Asian violence. This, too, is white supremacy. This, too, is empire.

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The left/progressive push for Kamala is proof that we, not the moderates, have the real claim to pragmatism. We haven’t forgotten that she is a neoliberal cop lacking any moral center. But she’s better than Biden and Trump. Because she is unburdened by what has been.

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James McMaster

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2 years

I was literally prepping my Intro to LGBTQ Studies syllabus when I got the call telling me there were no remaining mpx vaccine slots where I live lol hope my future students enjoy their lecture on mpx transmission, prevention, and homophobic state neglect.

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James McMaster

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I want Asian’s in the United States to stop insisting that we belong to this white supremacist settler colony and to ask, instead, what our responsibilities are to the Indigenous peoples that actually belong to this land.

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We can take AOC at her word. She supports a ceasefire in Gaza and also fears that what's left of American democracy won't survive another Trump presidency. So she plays the part she needs to play to support the fantasy of a democratic coalition worth participating in.

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5 months

AOC is excelling at the art of a forked tongue politic. Today, she “uplifted” student protestors during a speech and then took this pic with the guy they’re protesting, the guy sponsoring the genocide they’re protesting — the guy she’s campaigning for. No notes.

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2 years

we can talk about academic nepo babies but really i just want to love on the other folks from working class backgrounds who snuck into this shit and have each others' backs

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3 years

Maybe we should do another lockdown followed by another global uprising? Feels called for.

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4 years

The liberal call for quiet acceptance of Biden’s VP pick within the party really just exposes their own liberal fragility—they have trouble imagining a collective context in which dissent is valued rather than villified as internal conflict. It’s a sad inability to trust, really.

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I honestly think it’s super racist to suggest that the tactics the protestors have used to confront Sinema are anything other than generous, gentle, and merciful. These people are fighting for their lives and the senator is the reason they have to.

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@SAFEmansion @darlinginmyway @surlybassey Please normalize not making me close one more door and PLEASE normalize not wanting to hurt anymore.

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the best part of doing queer studies is being allowed to have a sexuality in public without being considered unprofessional

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Some Asians in the U.S. insist on carceral approaches to anti-Asian violence because they can't imagine that there is any other way to protect Asian women. But there is a long history within radical QTBIPOC organizing of combating hate violence in anti-carceral ways. 🧵

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I truly don't understand the desire to out AOC as a duplicitous liberal. She's what happens when a democratic socialist is forced to navigate the contradictions of holding congressional office in the imperial core. I personally would rather have electeds like her than not.

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4 years

I feel like more people in Wisconsin need to know that AOC called Scott Walker a walking ham sandwich on tv.

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@ihatejoelkim This was so wild to witness in person. #StopAsianHate

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The mpx vaccine takes two jabs and 42 days to be maximally effective. In less time than that young ppl from all over the world will be converging on college campuses across the US. They will of course have sex, share clothes and bedding. May the neglected among us get v lucky.

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More Americans died of COVID on Thursday than were killed twenty years ago today.

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Friends, I can finally announce that I’ll be moving to Washington DC at the beginning of August to start as an Assistant Professor of American Studies and English at George Washington University. Madison, I will miss you deeply. This place and it’s people will always be a home.

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4 years

I really wish the hashtag wasn’t #StopAsianHate . “Hate” misdiagnoses the problem by locating it in the extreme emotional responses of individuals. It prescribes a solution that isn’t one, “hate crime legislation,” which will only expand the reach of the carceral state.

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I can’t stop thinking about how the whole world had to rise up, the whole country had to burn, just so that the system would hold a single cop accountable this one time.

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3 years

Thinking of Oak Creek, thinking of Atlanta. The Stop Asian Hate crowd needs to speak up for the Sikh community. This shit has got to stop.

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2 years

Following the assault of a Chinese graduate student by a group of young men, UW-Madison sent an email to the campus community informing us that MPD “has no information to believe this was a racially motivated assault.” This frame is disappointing. 🧵

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3 years

Give India the vaccine we’re hoarding. This is evil.

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Three hundred thousand people shout “Genocide Joe” for hours outside the White House and the Biden administration’s response is to shout down the only Palestinian American member of congress. The gaslighting is unending.

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White House pushes back on Rashida Tlaib suggesting Biden supporting "genocide"

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3 years

Hear me out: a crossover season of The White Lotus and The Chair. We’ll call it “The Conference.”

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Last night at the GW/DMV encampment the chants were being lead in both English/Arabic and ASL. It was badass.

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5 months

Something I’m not hearing a ton about is that Gallaudet Students, from the historic college for the deaf, are also participating in solidarity encampments in the DMV area.

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My department, Gender and Women's Studies at UW-Madison, is hiring at the assistant or associate professor level. We're seeking someone who works on gender and Indigeneity and/or race/ethnicity. Please help us spread the word!

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That Slave Play was snubbed is a damning indictment of the state of Broadway and the larger American Theater.

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pranay somayajula 🇵🇸

@p_somayajula

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it gets BETTER

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Those denied access to this supply of mpx doses were invited to sign up for updates online. Dane County will be receiving new doses in two weeks. An email will be sent and all eligible unvaccinated folks will scramble for meager appointments. Miss the email? Good luck to you.

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In front of city hall, on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Madison, Wisconsin is not fucking around, y’all.

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Adam Lambert really has one of the best voices on the planet, huh?

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4 years

Sights from blue Wisconsin.

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2 years

Woke up to the news from Colorado this morning. Have to lecture on queer nightlife in my intro to lgbtq studies class tomorrow afternoon. How many ways are there to say that this world isn’t worthy of us?

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4 years

This tweet is blowing up so I’m just going to leave this here. V relevant.

Black Youth Remade the World in Madison’s Capitol Square Last Night

It was the world as it could be, a rehearsal for the world we’re all fighting for.

redmadison.com

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James McMaster

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2 years

got an article accepted with minor revisions. please clap.

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5 months

Source:

The GW Hatchet

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5 months

A GW spokesperson confirmed that University officials directed staff to hang the flag. Read live updates here:

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James McMaster

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3 years

I wrote this piece for @TeenVogue with @CriticalRace . In it we add our voices to the chorus of folks calling for abolitionist solutions to the problem of anti-Asian violence. Please share widely!

Hate-Crime Laws Won’t End Anti-Asian Violence

More criminalization isn’t the answer.

www.teenvogue.com

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Took the breath out of my lungs when I saw this at the march.

caren

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the names of murdered palestinian children carried in the demonstration today in dc

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Make “defund the military” a key plank of the re-emergent Asian American movement challenge.

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3 years

The whole congress just applauded US imperial occupation in Southeast Asia. Please notice this. This, too, is anti-Asian violence.

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Remember: WI imprisons one out of every thirty-six black adults, more than any other state. Black people are 42% of WI’s incarcerated population but only 6% of the state population.

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Proposed assembly bill could terminate parental rights of incarcerated people - WORT 89.9 FM

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Can we normalize gassing each other up for no particular reason on social media? I often just want to rave about a colleague, friend, or scholar that I don't even know as a way of spreading their good words, but then I worry that people will think it too earnest or transactional.

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Getting a tenure track job for me meant the ability to support and care for vulnerable loved ones, even while surrounded by colleagues with intergenerational wealth and/or wealthy partners. Still figuring out how to maneuver around all of this without getting down on myself.

Juana María Rodríguez 🍉

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Class is what we never talk about in Academia. I remember going to lunch with another grad student and having to spend my entire week's food budget on a bowl of soup at this fancy place she chose. That was the last time I accepted a lunch invitation.

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First book manuscript: submitted for review! 🎉🤞🏼

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It’s the logic of the type of person who seeks so intently to assimilate into normality that they start to view any act of disagreement as an act of social deviance that has to be repudiated if one is to remain within the bounds of social (read: white cis etc.) acceptance.

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@CNNPolitics For the "masking should be a personal choice" people who somehow haven't managed to internalize this information in three years: your personal choice not to wear a mask is also a personal choice to put others' lives at greater risk.

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@fizzbhau I think one can recognize that the U.S. is an indefensible empire rooted in settler colonial genocide and also remain attached to the dying democratic mechanisms we have at our disposal for reducing the harm this country does to us, others, and the climate.

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4 years

Pay people to stay home.

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2 years

Know that in this moment Asian American communities are not only mourning those lost to these shootings. We are also bracing for the racist backlash that inevitably follows when mass shootings are perpetrated by Asian men (Virginia Tech, Santa Barbara, Orlando, and now two more).

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3 years

I tested positive for breakthrough COVID weeks ago. Now, on one hand, I feel safer and even more immune, but on the other, knowing that I got COVID while double vaxxed from a double vaxxed person, idk how I’ll ever feel safe again. How are others dealing with this experience?

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3 months

Put another way:

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I give the Left a lot of shit for its wrecker tendencies, but to give credit where it’s due—moderates like Jared Golden are whimpering about making peace with a Trump Presidency while the edgiest Bernie Bros are out coconut tree memeing their way into a unified anti-fascist front

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The Department of Gender and Women's Studies at UW-Madison, my home department, is hiring an assistant professor of gender and health. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Apply by 11/28.

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@priyachandscifi @mckinneykelsey @chick_in_kiev They could abolish the filibuster, pack the court, codify Roe v Wade, rescue democracy, pass the equality act, etc. Manchin and Synema don’t need anyone to defend them, their corrupt donors do that well enough already.

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Kelly Loeffler just now, “I was going to incite this insurrection but after experiencing the insurrection I no longer intend to incite it.”

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@LittleCharlesTV This was my first pass at radicalization.

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What the literal fuck. Lmao. This is so embarrassing for so many people for so many reasons!

The Recount

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The cast of Hamilton sings “Dear Theodosia” in honor of the 1/6 anniversary.

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The thing about interpersonal racism is that it doesn’t just impact its immediate target, it also impacts all the people in close contact with that person who will have to care for them by tending to their emotional wounds.

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"Please respect everyone's individual choices about masking" wrote the neoliberal university in an email announcing the end of its mask mandate. Literally not how masking works but okay.

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For those of us still working from home finding the zoom link is the new commute

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Interdisciplinarity is when one of your reader’s favorite parts of your writing is the part another reader wants to cut.

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Yesterday was the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which lead to the mass incarceration of over 100k Japanese Americans. The U.S. carceral state has always threatened Asian American life. It cannot and will not keep us safe. Only we can do that.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the teaching you get paid to do is not your activism.

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Happy Pride!

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Madison, WI’s 2020 Budget: Police: $85,060,459 Public Health: $19,863,933 Civil Rights: $2,110,400 The public health and civil rights budgets COMBINED add up to JUST ONE-FOURTH of what’s spent on cops! Amid a pandemic disproportionately affecting black ppl! #DefundThePolice

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As part of their "Safe Neighborhood Campaign" the Audre Lorde Project would recruit local businesses as safe spaces that folks could run into to escape harassment or street violence, and business owners were trained in transformative justice-based violence intervention.

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Got into a discussion w a TERF who was like “actually I’m a professor of biology” but then the guy standing next to me was like “Oh really? Because I’m also a biology professor and you’re wrong.” Then I was like “As a gender studies prof, he’s right.” Big Avengers energy.

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@andrealongchu Saw a tweet that said the end of the Bernie campaign was not the end of the revolution but the end of negotiation.

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White Madison gay: hola. Me: I don’t speak Spanish. White Madison gay: oh so what are you? Me: annoyed.

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The span of time between Xmas and New Years always reminds me of my one true career goal: to retire.

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Im in Bangkok. I told a white guy with an American accent to stop harassing a Thai McDonalds worker and he responded by getting in my face and saying “You don’t know me. I could be a serial killer. I could stalk you and kill you. Do you want that?” White supremacy is global 🥲

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So much copaganda at the farmers market today. Parents taking their kids to play in an armored vehicle. A real progressive place, Madison…

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Gender reveal parties have literally decimated ecosystems and ended lives, but please I’d love to hear more about kink at pride.

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3 years

Can we all please follow the examples set by Simone and Naomi and just stop for awhile?

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2 years

Final push on this manuscript. Encouragement very welcome!

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Hey! My department started a PhD program and we’re accepting applications this next cycle. Please spread the word, tell your students, apply yourselves, and feel free to reach out with questions. (More info at the link.)

Gender&WomenSt_UW

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We're back to re-announce our very exciting PhD Program in Gender & Women's Studies. Applications for Fall 2023 are due Thursday, December 1, 2022. For more information on our brand new program check out the GWS PhD website here:

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A truly disrespectful take that ignores the global history of self-immolation while refusing to recognize people who've engaged in the practice as self-conscious political agents in their final act.

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I strongly oppose valorizing any form of suicide as a noble, principled, or legitimate form of political protest. People suffering mental illness deserve empathy and respect, but it is wildly irresponsible to praise them for using a political justification to take their own life.

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i fucking love waving with both hands as i say good bye on zoom and i will not be apologizing for it as this is a significant percentage of my personality in these times thank you for your understanding

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It’s very hard not to feel that @nada4wisconsin would have become my state senator tonight were it not for the impoverished political imagination of Madison’s white liberal residents.

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Strong agree. The problem of inaccessible academic writing is not reducible to jargon or in-group conversation. A lot of academics just don't care about the reader's experience of their writing, or expect the reader to search through bad sentences for kernels of understanding.

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academics have convinced their selves that their writing isn't accessible because they use four syllable words & not because it lacks flava & texture. it is easier to believe folks dont have the capacity to struggle with words they dont know than to think your writing is boring

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Did not expect to become a person who watches live-streamed city council meetings at the edge of my seat this year but here we are.

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Got fucked over by Dane County Public Health today re: the monkeypox vaccine. No hope for local vaccination in the foreseeable future. Love living in this homophobic, death cult country. Love living in a state where it is all but impossible to get the care I need.

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The fantasy in the US that the pandemic is over belongs only to those without either loved ones or aspirations abroad. It’s a product of American exceptionalism and this country’s total absence of curiosity for the world. It’s also just racist and I hate it.

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Shout out to the unsung Asian American heroes who’ve spent the last who-knows-how-long turning out the Asian American vote for the Dems in Georgia. Respect, thanks, and solidarity to all of you.

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just gutted by these election results

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We should stop requiring humanities scholars to write monographs for tenure and start placing higher value on teaching and other more relevant ways to communicate our knowledge to a broader public.

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10 months

What is your academic opinion that would leave people like this?

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let's all just stop, right? we should all just stop?

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Remember when the pandemic first started and some of us thought there was as a chance that would wake everyone up to our interdependency and the need for universal healthcare? We were so wrong lmao.

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This is just one example but it shows what QTBIPOC movements against gender-based and often sexualized hate violence have to offer Asian Americans seeking to end the murders of Asian women. It shows us how strong communities can keep folks safe without police.

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Who else is rapidly aging during this pandemic?

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One day someone wll write an essay about how the social deprivation of quarantine, joined with the way quarantine muddied daily capitalist rhythms, produced an angry, temporally uninhibited people with a need for morally sanctioned sociality and a demand for social justice.

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as I have always said

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" #HappyPride "~James McMaster ( @jmcmaster29 ) #EatTheRich

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@jasminprix I have many times asked the body for this, and it just added to the score.

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I wish more radical academics involved themselves with social movements. We have so much financially supported, unscheduled time. Can’t some of it be used for organizing?

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Third year review: cleared! Please clap.

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attending large events these days is like am i gonna get covid or killed by a mass shooter or attacked by a fascist mob or assaulted in a hate crime or

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