Dr. Something or other. @matthieuchapman Twitter profile

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If you've read Shattered, I would love if you could pop over to Amazon and leave a review. Supposedly, reviews help the book show up as a recommendation to buyers when searching other books. If you haven't read Shattered, there's no time like now!

Shattered: Fragments of a Black Life

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"You only got hired because you're black." "Well, considering literally everyone else here is white, it looks like I got hired IN SPITE OF being black. Y'all all got hired because you're white."

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The notion that hiring a person of color means that a qualified White person is being denied a job is rooted in racism.

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As a black professor, I self-censor everyday. Because if I speak my truth and critique whiteness, the university makes my workplace so hostile and violent I have to leave. @nytimes , can I have an op-ed.

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"Violence is never the answer!" bellows the University President over a megaphone while he unleashes police in full riot gear on peaceful students and allows snipers on rooftops.

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This is what the UC Regents meeting looked like. This is not a school. This is a prison system.

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Riot cops are here

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1 year

Yt scholars: "LIVED EXPERIENCE IS NOT EVIDENCE!" Also yt scholars: "well, that's never happened to me, so..."

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1 year

And I learned three lessons from this: 1. Students will fuck with black profs because they know the institution will them over the prof. 2. And they are absolutely right... 3. And those 4 students don't matter. The 1 is the reason I still do this.

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1 year

Anyone who thinks affirmative action was a form of racial discrimination in college admissions, let me let you in on a little secret: In most classes I teach, I'm the only black person.

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4 months

@signor_molevol Can't you just FERPA them? "I can neither confirm nor deny that X is a student at ____ University. Please reach out to Student Affairs for further assistance."

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2 years

You think diversity statements are bad? Wait until you're a black candidate and five white guys on the search committee ask you, with seemingly no sense of irony, how you'll contribute to the department's diversity.

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2 years

@asilversun Report it to your chair and office of student conduct now. Keep a paper trail.

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1 year

I received a lesson in how blackness works in the academy very early in career. I once taught a grad seminar. I don't remember the topic at this point, it's not relevant...1/

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1 year

I stayed in touch with that student. I wrote him a rec for phds. He just graduated. I wrote him recs for the job search. And this student, the one who did the paper, just got his first tenure-track job.

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1 year

Taught my last of the semester on Wednesday. After I said thank you, the students clapped. One stood up and sort of hushed everyone and said "just so you know, we're not clapping because it's over. We're clapping because you're a great professor." And they applauded louder.

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🧵 I am a black, first-generation college student who went on to become a professor. I am now in my 3rd TT job. At each one, I've been the ONLY black prof in my dept. (In 2, I was the only POC, period). 1/x

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2 years

Remember: all scholarship has an agenda, but when that agenda is upholding white cisgender patriarchy, they call it "objective."

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2 years

Being casually racist in academia = objective scholar Calling out casual racism in academia = violent activist Do i have that right?

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1 year

Well, today, I got a reminder that I am not that. I am great at what I do. And I don't give a fuck if they disagree. Because the Central Committee for tenure unanimously recommended me for tenure and called out my department's bs reviews.

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I thanked him for turning in his paper, and he was confused. I then explained what the others did. And he was livid. Way more upset than I was. He couldn't believe that people supposedly seeking an education, a graduate degree no less, would do this. 10/

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One of the worst parts of being the only black professor in my department at a PWI is the way the others just chip away at you. Small comments in meetings and performance reviews...1/?

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10 months

Are they really dropping DEI to start a department of racism?

Starring Scott Poulson-Bryant as Himself

@SPBPHD

10 months

“Universities of Wisconsin [announced] Friday that they’ve agreed to freeze hiring for diversity positions, drop an affirmative action faculty hiring program at UW-Madison and create a position at the flagship campus focused on conservative thought.”

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3 years

@jemelehill It's almost like their concern for abortion was never about preserving fetuses, but about controlling women...

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3 years

@mstratford @usedgov The last two years should have taught us that paying this debt benefits no one and not paying it hurts no one--in both cases quite the opposite. Just cancel the debt.

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1 year

He had no interest in hearing anything I had to say. 4 non-black students said one thing, so nothing I said mattered. I was then basically told that I could give them A's, or we "could make a thing out of this." Make a thing. 8/

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2 years

And, dear reader, it sucks. Being the only black guy in a room of yt folks who think they are so progressive that they refuse to accept how not progressive they are, and when pointed out to them, they all console each other and call you the aggressor...3/

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2 years

And you know where I found a community that kept me sane? A community that convinced me that I wasn't wrong to point it out? A community that shared common experiences and strategies for dealing with it? Here. Twitter. /4

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1 year

@Rklawton The syllabus had three assignments: weekly reading responses, a presentation, a paper. The whole point is that the students and chair had no regard for policy, and he made it clear that trying to enforce policy would be detrimental to me.

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2 years

@wihorne Like, all of them. This is part of the problem...these people are so divorced from reality that they think their millions aren't much because everyone is making $150k.

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2 years

So y'all can have your Mastodons and Discords, but the truth is, the violence y'all fear is everywhere. You aren't looking for a place it doesn't exist; you're looking for a place where you don't have to see it. /5

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1 year

Which I read as "you don't have to stay here." So I changed their grades. But this thread isn't about them. It's about the one who did submit. 9/

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1 year

Racism. Isn't. An. Accident. These cops were like "hey, we know we're racist. We can either: A) stop being racist B) do an immense amount of extra work and break laws so that we can continue being racist." And they chose B.

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@matthieuchapman

1 year

Troopers in Connecticut fabricated between 26k-60k tickets over 8 years to cover up systemic racism and bias. How many bad apples before the cut down the tree? via @insider_ct

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2 years

Where you can sit back and hold up other yt folks and tell the one black person they're crazy. I'll be here until here is gone. Because I've met too many amazing people. Enough to balance the violence I encounter literally everywhere.

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1 year

I told him that I absolutely did not say that. I asked why I would say that. I asked if I said that, why did 1 student still do one. He responded "well, there's 4 of them and 1 of you." 7/

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1 year

@colleenawilson It's not even in the top 5 of fucked up shit students have done to me.

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1 year

So I make an appt. I show up to the meeting. And I found out that the reason I never heard back from the students is because they sent my email reminder to the chair, and lied and told him that I said they didn't have to do papers...6/

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3 years

@michaelharriot "You know a lot about this..." What did he expect, a fried chicken recipe? What white folks never realize is that for blacks folks to make it as intellectuals, we have to read all the shit the white folks have read AND all the shit that white folks don't read.

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2 years

This means that I have never had a community at my workplace. I've had colleagues, but I've never worked with someone who understood both my work and my background. 2/

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1 year

Well, the end of the semester came, and I was looking forward to reading students' seminar papers. Being new at the institution, I thought this would be a great chance to see what i was working with and how I could best help...2/

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So the due date for papers came, and I only received 1 paper. There were 5 students in the seminar. I emailed the rest of the class individually, saying "hey, I didn't get your paper. I need it by (last date to submit grades) if you want tonpass the class." 3/

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I received zero responses. Since I didn't receive a paper, I submitted incompletes for the 4 students. I thought something had to be wrong...maybe our school emails were messed up or something. 4/

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1 year

And this is what the academy does to black folx. It drops us into these toxic cesspools and leaves us struggling to breathe. And because we're so in it, we start to drown in it and wonder if we are all the things they try to make us into...6/

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1 year

A week goes by, and no response from the students. But I get an email from the chair. He wants to meet with me. 5/

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1 year

Well, today, I got to read my external reviewer letters (which were not really addressed in any of the department letters), and I was quickly reminded that my institution is the problem, not me...4/

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@matthieuchapman

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I needed a book and six articles to get my first tenure-track job. I had two more books in production and over a dozen articles when I went up for tenure, and my chair and dean did not recommend me. There are Full Professors on my campus with one article. Ever.

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I just love it when senior scholars who got tenure by publishing a coloring book belittle the work of younger, usually darker, scholars who've published more research in their first six years than Professor Uncle Ruckus has in his 743-year career. Monuments to mediocrity.

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They are so thoughtful, so thorough, so laudatory...if you were to read these letters next to the ones from my institutional colleagues, there is no way they could be about the same person...5/

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1 year

These letters, y'all...

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4 months

@Sandy_writes @signor_molevol Or, you can just ignore the parent.

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3 years

That shit with Rittenhouse and the judge has happened to every one of your black colleagues in academia. A non-black colleague commits violence, then goes and cries to a chair or dean or provost while we get called aggressive to our faces and worse behind our backs.

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@matthieuchapman

3 years

@Sirma_Bilge White folks done colonized decolonization.

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1 year

...assumptions that you don't know shit. Talking to you like a child. Making it known they don't want you there, but have to keep you (at least one of "you") around so they can feel less...you know. 2/?

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1 year

Every year, I make plans for the summer. Writing, planning, prepping, submitting, etc. Every year, I'm so beaten down by the time I get there that I just want to quit academia and become a goat farmer. So my question is: where can I buy some goats?

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2 years

Just a reminder as student evals come out: Student evals are basically state mandated racist and sexist violence designed to maintain yt cis-male supremacy in academia and should be abolished.

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2 years

Today I learned that some white people think BIPOC means "bi-racial person of color," i.e. half white.

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1 year

In my tenure review process, my department committee, chair, and dean each could not find a reason to deny me tenure, so they made up standards not listed anywhere to try to talk down my case...3/

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@matthieuchapman

2 years

So...all books?

NBC News

@NBCNews

2 years

The bill, which would prohibit books depicting sexual or gender identity, proposes up to 30 days imprisonment for librarians who refuse to remove banned titles.

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1 year

But my dean didn't recommend me for tenure because apparently I'm a bad teacher.

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3 years

New Rule: instead of submitting a dossier for tenure, you have to defeat a full professor in combat. You win, tenure. You lose...the sweet release of death. It's really a win-win for the assistant prof.

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2 years

@Ti_Enjoli Welcome to academia, where they pass on the black woman who wrote the work for the yt man who interprets it poorly.

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1 year

Remember when the DSM-II added "hostility" and "aggression" as diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia so that they could lock up black civil rights protestors without due process and at the same time criminalize black mental health issues?

Dr. Frederick V. Engram Jr.

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1 year

White liberals be like: #BLM #BlackLivesMatter Also white liberals: He was loud, he smelled poor, seemed hungry, and aggressive, so he deserved to die. We’ll need to see more of the evidence.

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Question: how do you get students to stop treating education as a punishment and start treating it as an opportunity/privilege?

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2 years

White people need to recognize that whiteness as an identity category is structured entirely on anti-blackness and decide what to do with that.

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1 year

University: *hires black faculty member* Black Faculty Member: *discusses blackness* University: "this is a problem..."

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1 year

@EtienneT_Esq I did. Didn't matter.

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2 years

We just got page proofs back for "Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide." It's 569 pages of 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. Look for it early 2023.

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2 years

@AHAhistorians Why not just say you don't like when black and brown people don't bow down to white supremacist methodologies?

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@nhannahjones Hell, even any Black history course they may have taken was probably a white history of black history.

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1 year

One of the weirdest things about academia is when the people who actively and openly abuse and sabotage you then congratulate you when their sabotage fails. Like...you know I can see you, right? You know I got to read those letters.

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10 months

When are the congressional hearings about antiblackness on college campuses?

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2 years

@Ethnography911 DEI is finding the amount of white supremacy that white people are okay with.

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9 months

There are literally hundreds of paintings from hundreds of years ago (like this one from France, Circa 1660) that depict cats being swaddled and spoonfed like they are babies. So unless the birth control pill was invented in the 1300s, this guy is full of it

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The phenomenon of treating your pets like “babies” only began after the invention of the birth control pill.

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@ilyseh @ERLathrop The entire opinion is basically "the white male slaveowners, murderers, and rapists who wrote the constitution didn't consider women when forming this country, and we should uphold that!"

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1 year

No idea what imma do with 5 copies, but it's now available in print! 524 pages for only $19.95?! Or open access online for free?! Thanks to @acmrs_asu , @gwayvt , and Roy Rukkila for getting this beautiful book out there. And thanks to my amazing coeditor @annawainwright !

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2 years

True story: agent told me they loved my writing but wouldn't be able to sell my memoir because it wouldn't make yt people feel good. They then asked if I could turn my Afro-pessimist memoir into a book of essays about how black joy still exists despite immense anti-black violence

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1 year

Affirmative Action NEVER let unqualified people in because of their race. Affirmative Action stopped yt people from keeping qualified people OUT because of their race.

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@matthieuchapman

9 months

From now on, when people ask why there are no conservative theatres or plays, this will be my response.

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10 months

The clip you are about to see contains a lethal dose of cringe. Don't say I didn't warn you.

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1 year

This is way more offensive than a black Cleopatra, but I doubt we'll hear a word from the loud idiot brigade.

Greek City Times

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1 year

Israeli actress Gal Gadot to play Egyptian Queen Cleopatra in new film

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1 year

In a seminar on blackness, this on yt dude started going off about Deleuze and Guattari. Prof just nodded along for like 20 mins. When yt dude stopped, Prof went "everything you just said is 100% correct. You're just having a different conversation than the rest of us." 👨‍🍳💋

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1 year

girl…lemme tell you about graduate school.

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3 years

@ClimentQD @PrincetonEcon If you are a grad student, say no to anything for any reason. You're a human being. You have agency and worth. You don't have to kill yourself for academia. It's not worth it.

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1 year

The craziest thing about my path to tenure is watching people in my university(ies?) consistently move the bar. 🧵1/x

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10 months

Do y'all ever have a student schedule a meeting and then just ghost you?

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1 year

@ProfKori 15/x well...the university committee thankfully saw through their mess. As did the provost. And I have officially been awarded continuing appointment with a promotion to Associate Professor. The saddest part? After all this, I don't know if I want it.

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If you don't say "fuck" while teaching, you're a cop.

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College campuses are some of the most politically conservative and violently racist places in America.

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Of all the parties involved, authors often get the smallest cut of the price of a printed book.

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I used to feel weird citing myself, until I got a reader report on an article submission that was like "This article would be greatly improved by deeper engagement with the work of Matthieu Chapman."

Reviewer 2

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#AcademicChatter #AcademicX

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@nhannahjones "I didn't pressure anybody ...I did, however SEND FIVE EMAILS to various chancellors and trustees expressing my concerns." What the hell does he think pressure is?

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@ConnConnection "To stop you from committing suicide, we will send police who are trained to kill and not deal with mental health crises instead."

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@JacquelynGill It's not just colleges. Social services, unions...every facet of American life designed to support and grow the middle class was ripped to shreds once the benefits had to go to everyone and not just whites.

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@BuddyNoLove Good kitchen knives. Buy 3 really good knives--chef, paring, utility. They'll cost $90-200 each, but so worth it.

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1 year

If slavery was so beneficial for black folx, why weren't yt folks fighting to be slaves?

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2 years

Hey, wanna know a secret? If nine people who are appointed for life get to decide what are and are not human rights, you don't live in a democracy.

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Reviewer 1: "PUBLISH THIS RIGHT NOW!" Reviewer 2: "NEVER PUBLISH THIS!!!" My work here is done?

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1 year

It's not yt supremacy. It's anti-blackness. It's not rising. It's always been there.

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1 year

They’re doing it. They’re making Latinos white.

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3 years

Can we change DEI from "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" to "Dismantle Everything Imperialist"?

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2 years

Coming August 1, 2023...

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3 years

@jemelehill @itskerrii From Baylor to Nassar to Brett Kavanaugh and Trump, America has always valued white men winning over women. There is no cost to great if it allows a white man to succeed.

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2 years

I condemn racism in all forms. However, my cat died in 2018 and I'm taking it really hard, so any racist things I do today are directly related to that. Any questions and you get blocked. #BrightAgesSoWhite

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Academia be like: "Hey, they say we're racist because we keep denying black faculty tenure. How can we fix this?" "Eliminate tenure."

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2 years

So what if my scholarship is activism? Are you saying you didn't get into teaching to build a better world?

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@BrankoMilan Most unethical: refusing to give raises unless you have offer from university B and when you leave replacing you with contingent faculty who need government assistance to survive because university A pays $2000 per class to adjuncts.

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@DrBlackDeer Natives: "We want our land back!" Yt people: "best we can do is read a statement acknowledging that we stole it and have no intentions of giving it back."

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I'm so tired of seeing faculty jobs that are actually four jobs but only want to pay you for half a job. Teach movement, voice, Shakespeare, acting, directing, combat, and intimacy direction; direct; mentor; publish; recruit AND OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED! All for $48k a year.

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