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@podsekalnikov

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When Walter Benjamin wrote: "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses while leaving intact the property relations which they strive to abolish." I really felt that.

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@RegentHubbard seems empty of students and campus life. maybe because you arrested them all.

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@GRDecter How about instead we stop pretending business school is actual education?

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@grundrza The whole fucking point of this section is that the "god of the jews" is the same god as the god of the christians! and that Feuerbach will be right that humans make their gods, in this case, money.

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@ajd_theory They still live in a world in which they can count on unquestioning support from Black voters. Wild dissonance with reality.

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@Edwin_Aponte_Jr What's your point? I was attacked on the subway by someone experiencing mental health issues once and I don't want anyone to get killed for it. Fellow passengers stepped in and separated us without putting the other passenger in a choke hold or otherwise harming them.

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2 years

One thing that many undergraduate students seem disinclined to let in is the idea that people like Weil, Debord, Adorno, Marcuse, Hall, and others were critical of the USSR BECAUSE they were Marxists, not in spite of their Marxism.

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Elizabeth Bruenig hypothesizing "What if Jordan Neely had a Gun" is exactly what we should expect from someone who has been mainstreaming fascist views under the pretense of "leftism" for years. fucking hell.

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@OJPAC This is not doing the work you think it is.

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2 years

Lots of people in the replies pointing out that this has always been a problem, but what @RottenInDenmark is describing here is an intensification of a preexisting problem, and he's right:

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American policing increasingly looks like a ticking time bomb.

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I know Marxist Humanism is out of style, but damn every time I teach Locke (every semester) I'm more convinced of alienation as a foundational concept for Marxism and communism.

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2 years

Yesterday's left-restaurant discourse shows that many of you lack much in the way of either critical or creative thinking. Seems many need a reminder that Bloch was adamant about socialism being a form of life other than a utopia of petty-bourgeois comforts.

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This book rules. @terry_renaud deserves great plaudits and a steady job.

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@aubrey_huff @NHLFlyers His religious beliefs are homophobic. Just because it's based on the idea that there's a big angry guy in the sky doesn't mean it's not homophobic.

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@no_earthquake Voiced by Billy Crystal, so yes.

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@benryanwriter Chemo and radiation are not settled either. You want to give your cancer treatments back?

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@Citizenroxanne How many women will die because all the hospitals in Gaza have been bombed?

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I didn't win, but I just found out that as a contingent faculty member in my first year at CU, I got 2 very touching nominations for "Faculty Mentor of the Year". And I'm just going to go cry tears of happiness in the corner now.

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@Afinetheorem Every tweet makes it more and more clear that you are both a nefarious and mendacious liar and supporter of genocide.

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I am really psyched that my article "A Critique of Greateness" is out in the new @theory_event and I am lucky to share the pages with the amazing @ArturoChangQ , @n_hold , and others including James Martel - a friend and mentor for quite some time!

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Sorry, but if you're lucky enough to be teaching in a PhD program, you should respond to your students or switch jobs with an overworked/underpaid NTT because they're doing more than you are in terms of mentorship.

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@matthiasellis the American College of Pediatricians isn't a professional association but a conservative social advocacy organization.

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@benryanwriter @glaad Their point is that when all major medical associations approve of a treatment it qualifies as "settled", your pedantic point is that it is not "settled" so, what's your point other than trying to stir transphobia?

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@ytnessisdeath @KimTallBear 's book Native American DNA is such an amazing anthropology of why white people are so obsessed with this (among other arguments about propriety, blood quantum, etc.). I highly recommend it!

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@anendinitself Going into Canada once, I was asked "business or pleasure?" and responded "an academic conference" and the border guard responded "so, not pleasure, huh?" and I died right there.

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Happy pride from waiting for my delayed flight to take off from a state that has banned abortion and would love to outlaw trans life.

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@mideastXmidwest @EconClubNY How does it feel to be amongst the world's renouned historical villains?

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I am starting to believe that I am single-handedly responsible for grade inflation.

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@AlecStapp @mattyglesias He is making supply -side excuses for a problem of labor v. management.

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A BIG moment in my life just happened! A mentor asked me to read and give feedback on a draft 🥹

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It took a little bit until I had a chance to sit down and read this. But now that I have (thanks for @Cominsitu and @saditious to sending it along), I'll offer some preliminary remarks, before reaching out to a few places to offer a fuller response: 1/x

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Though French philosopher Simone Weil was a great pessimist, she was only pessimistic about the world she saw around her. For the world to come, Weil had nothing but an optimism grounded in solidarity and a passion for freedom.

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@Unemployedneg This reminds me of when I was very frustrated with my dissertation & job market in 2017 & my advisor said (hoping to cheer me up). "I don't know Scott, maybe you're the next Walter Benjamin." And I cried over the phone with her b/c it was both a compliment & the end of hope.

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@Citizenroxanne I can respond by asking you to admit that you don't give a fuck about Palestinian women. The Biden administration is doing nothing for US women nor Palestinian women so how about we just not pretend that this is a binary choice?

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@podsekalnikov

2 years

When your history is genocide and chattel slavery, when your modus operandi is a constant push towards deregulation of the market, when your primary export is war and your primary domestic industry is the police, regular mass violence is the inevitable nihilistic result.

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1 year

Ted has it right. The USian form of fascism is always connected to the idea that we should expect to control public life the same way we can control the comfort of our living rooms. The murder on the subway is rooted in logics of private property and power.

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There is no defence of the NYC subway killing that isn’t ultimately a defence of killing outright anybody who makes you feel uneasy. If you buy this, you buy lynching.

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Crashed my bike today. A reminder to you all to wear a fucking helmet. 🚴🏼‍♂️🚴🏼‍♂️🚴🏼‍♂️

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Giving my second ever invited talk in about an hour (last one was in 2018), everyone wish me luck!

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@nrduford "suddenly transitioning" if you are that divorced from your partner's life that it appears sudden, then maybe you're not paying attention.

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As a contingent and non-tenure track faculty member, in the 4.5 years since finishing my PhD, I've written over 100 letters of recommendation for about 70 students. In that time I've taught almost 500 different students over 32 class sections in 9 semesters.

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2 years

A student in my critiques of capitalism class has destroyed the conception of a girlboss in their final paper and I am here for it.

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@riseandgrindcor 1 Billion Op Ed Writers!

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@benryanwriter @glaad They are not concluding anything. They are making a political point and the only reason to question it is transphobia. So what is your answer to my question? Why are you stoking transphobia?

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1 year

It is neither of these. Have you ever been to a philosophy department?

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Is it true, or does just seem to be true, that Critical Theory is the hegemonic school of thought in most philosophy departments and/or broader humanities departments?

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@billmeltzer Welp, now we know Hayes is either a racist, misogynist, homophobe, or a terrible judge of character.

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Since we're all being honest and shit tonight, I'm really grateful for the shredding of disciplinary boundaries in the academy and the world-wide meet-and-greet for weirdo lefties this thing has provided. It's been super cool to interact with all you humans (and some bots).

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2 years

@adamdavidson This is wrong. Just use footnotes, they don't break the narrative flow and still show your work, and your debt to others.

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1 year

If you are not on the TT, eventually even the limited resources for junior scholars will begin to go to people younger than you and with more opportunities than you as you slowly recede into someone having to do any and all writing/research on your own time and with negative

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Ok political theory Twitter, build a syllabus with authors who all have the same last/family name, no sibling/parent-child pairs allowed: -John Locke, Alain Locke, Jill Locke. -Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, Anthony Marx. -Adam Ferguson, Michaele Ferguson, Kennan Ferguson.

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@nrduford Capitalist social relations has everyone trying to turn everything into a meritocracy just to cope.

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Me, updating my job materials for jobs in the UK & elsewhere: "I am excited to apply for the position of Lecturer (superlative) in ______ at ______. I am currently Lecturer (derogatory) at __________."

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@mattdsegal No, he is saying that fascism mobilizes in order to dominate, while communism mobilizes to liberate. They are antagonists for the same demographic.

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@pourfairelevide Kristeva.

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At the semester ending dept happy hour, the dept. chair told me that "word on the street is you're a very popular professor" which is music to the ears of contingent faculty. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

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@daniel_dsj2110 This is a bad argument that takes fascism to mean nothing more than fascism as consolidated state power and ignores how fascist parties come to power.

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2 years

This "quiet quitting" discourse is so stupid. It's called work to rule and it's been a union tactic and basic presumption of most jobs for a very long time.

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1 year

Got called a "degenerate long-haired hippie fag" by some dude in a white F-150 while riding my bike today and I just want everyone to know that I am not a hippie. (I will be a degenerate long-hair until my hair falls out or society radically changes.)

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@YourWorldlyAunt This true, but RZA, Raekwon, ODB, Inspectah Deck, U-God, and Ghostface were also all drug dealers.

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2 months

Claiming that Palestinians are agents of Satan is some real Christian Zionist shit.

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The whole thing is so stressful and sad, like Satan dreamed up the best possible way to make people who hate Trump hate each other... "I know! A massive Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel!!"

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@Citizenroxanne You "regular Democrats" had a majority, but two of you are too conservative to actually fucking vote with Biden. So who's to blame here? Certainly not voters.

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@TheNewSchool If students are important, pay the faculty.

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1 year

I write recommendation letters for people who want to go to law school.

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Please share

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Not getting an interview for a job I was hoping for, bummer. Welp, on to the next one.

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I don't really give a crap about Roger Waters as an individual, but the inability to distinguish between satire, humor, and hate is part of how the fascist right went mainstream in the US, by pretending to be "joking" about it.

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@NHLFlyers Cool cool! Way to highlight how the team has alienated a large portion of it's fan base by marketing this guy.

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I'm not a big electoral politics kinda dude, but Helen Gym is legit and in Philly with the super-powerful mayoral office, she's the only person who makes any sense.

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@espinsegall It's quite clear that you should continue to say nothing since you are blaming "thousands of years of strife" for a problem that began fewer than 200 years ago.

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Ghosted!(?) By my own department.

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I've developed 22 different syllabi, and still managed to publish a journal article, 3 book reviews, two book chapters, and make progress on my own book project. I've also been a co-parent to a now 3yo and made out of state moves twice (during the ongoing pandemic).

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On May 13, 1985 the Philadelphia police bombed an entire city block just to attempt to destroy a Black radical organization called MOVE. 11 members of MOVE were killed, some of their remains are still being held by the Penn Museum. 250 were made homeless.

I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing

Philadelphia native Gene Demby was 4 years old when city police dropped a bomb on a house of black activists in his hometown. Thirty years later, he's still trying to make sense of it all.

www.npr.org

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I hope you guys are ready because my next essay is about Weil.

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Last teaching day of the semester.

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After almost a week of academic job market discourse, I'm thinking about quitting and starting a petting zoo instead.

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I'm in!

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Family tradition to do birthday brownies. My kid is 3 today. M and I are very proud and happy parents!

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@OJPAC Making explicit threats and then denying them doesn't make the explicit threats not explicit threats.

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@BigMeanInternet The incel energy in this article. 🤦

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A student in my classes has an emotional support dog and the dog is also emotionally supporting me just by being in class. 🐕

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My dear friend and colleague in #SimoneWeil studies, Benjamin Palmer Davis has published an excellent work on Weil's Political Philosophy! You can find it here: @WeilSociety @UKWeilNetwork @denkkollektiv @lindsaylerman @DestituentOne @PolTheoNetwork

Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins

Davis demonstrates how Simone Weil’s Marxism challenges current neoliberal understandings of the self and of human rights. Explaining her related critiques of colonialism and of political parties,...

rowman.com

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@thezachloeffler Someone should remind that Shonda that there were Jewish slave-owners as well.

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Many people in these replies need to learn that credit scores were invented in 1989 just 7 years before student loan interest rates were frozen at 6.8 (undergrad) and 8.6 (graduate) rates. An entire generation of indentured servants.

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No one’s paying a fucking ✨cent✨

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This is stupid, disingenuous, and wrong.

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Via Jason Brennan.

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I have 5 conferences on my schedule, from the first weekend of April through the first weekend of September, and unless a job that supports research falls into my lap they will likely be my last go-round in the presenting my work and getting feedback part of academia.

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@lmarkoe Sounds like they don't share the values of the reconstructionist movement and should try the Reform movement instead.

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@lint_ax Loving the "is Spain an apartheid state" stuff in the replies because if you ask the Basques, it is. Also Spain was a fascist dictatorship for nearly ~46 years not all that long ago.

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Toddler is getting their first vax in one week and I couldn't be more relieved.

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I don't mind writing the recommendations. And I am happy to have been able to support so many first gen students and BIPOC students to achieve their goals. But these numbers seem like a lot to do without substantial security.

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Ok #politicaltheory Twitter, what's the best, concise, definition of ideology out there?

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Re-upping because it's Officially Released now as well as being online! @theory_event Volume 26.2 including an article by yours truly! The full Volume can be found here: And I'm happy to send a PDF of my contribution if you're interested!

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I am really psyched that my article "A Critique of Greateness" is out in the new @theory_event and I am lucky to share the pages with the amazing @ArturoChangQ , @n_hold , and others including James Martel - a friend and mentor for quite some time!

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This is Martin.

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A student in my classes has an emotional support dog and the dog is also emotionally supporting me just by being in class. 🐕

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Just sent out three emails I have been avoiding writing. Please clap.

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@jeb_2020 @timgill924 They've been fighting unionization in their King Soopers stores in Colorado tooth and nail, so it's unlikely.

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The @WeilSociety Announces our 42 Annual Colloquy April 14-16 at @cuboulderpsci . Our focus this year is the 80th Anniversary of the composition of Weil's "second magnum opus" The Need for Roots. Please Submit Abstracts by January 25. Please Circulate Widely!

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Serious question, if you were a 3 year old where would you put the wireless mouse?

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@JMWSherman Ummm, Judaism does not have hell. You're conception of it comes from the adaptation of the Greek Hades and from Dante's Inferno. So, it's basically a Renaissance idea rather than an explicitly Christian one..

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I love getting to catch up with past students, hearing about where they are in life, and talking about future plans. So, um, if you took classes with me once upon a time, don't be shy, message me and we can zoom. I want to know how you're doing and I always have time for you. @

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The @WeilSociety has extended the deadline for abstracts to Friday, February 3 for our Annual Colloquy @cuboulderpsci this Spring on the topic of The Need for Roots. Please Circulate Widely!

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We won't stop teaching gender studies, critical theory, crt, queer theory, Marx, or feminism. We won't stop engaging students in discussions about US & Canadian settler colonialism, abolitionism, anti-asian racism, LGBTQIA+ experiences, fascism, & the violence of capitalism.

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We are not going to stop teaching gender studies.

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Academic job discourse addendum: started my summer job doing early childhood care this morning. In July, I'll be doing this AND teaching a summer class because that's what it takes to survive as an adjunct.

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Pretty sure I'm grading my first ChatGPT mid-term. Mistakes like citing Vine Deloria Jr. instead of Philip Deloria, The Souls of Black Folk instead of Black Reconstruction, and an anthropology article by Luis Treviño instead of a poem by @prolpo .

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@erikmbaker You can be both pessimistic and hopeful at the same time.

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