Emma Elliott
@4emmae.bsky.social
Mama, professor, student, and whatever else I need to be.
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It's #ShowYourStripes Day!
From @edhawkins.org, here are Global Warming Stripes for 1850 to 2100 with two possible futures from 2025 onwards: one with rapid action to reduce emissions, and one with delayed actions.
To learn more…
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...
showyourstripes.info
From @edhawkins.org, here are Global Warming Stripes for 1850 to 2100 with two possible futures from 2025 onwards: one with rapid action to reduce emissions, and one with delayed actions.
To learn more…
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...
showyourstripes.info
June 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It's #ShowYourStripes Day!
From @edhawkins.org, here are Global Warming Stripes for 1850 to 2100 with two possible futures from 2025 onwards: one with rapid action to reduce emissions, and one with delayed actions.
To learn more…
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...
showyourstripes.info
From @edhawkins.org, here are Global Warming Stripes for 1850 to 2100 with two possible futures from 2025 onwards: one with rapid action to reduce emissions, and one with delayed actions.
To learn more…
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...
showyourstripes.info
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
April 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
Washington’s legal community stands together to commit to the promise of the rule of law in a constitutional democracy. The same laws apply to everyone, and everyone is treated equally under the law; government power is bound by law; and human rights are guaranteed to all.
April 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Washington’s legal community stands together to commit to the promise of the rule of law in a constitutional democracy. The same laws apply to everyone, and everyone is treated equally under the law; government power is bound by law; and human rights are guaranteed to all.
So when we say that, you know, it's all about the land, it's not just metaphorical. The entire project of the settler colonial state had to do with indigenous land theft.
April 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
So when we say that, you know, it's all about the land, it's not just metaphorical. The entire project of the settler colonial state had to do with indigenous land theft.
When we talk about how the United States and the US legal system is predicated on Indigenous land theft and on the backs of black people via chattel slavery, these are how we can describe the actual process and relationship to the things that were happening at the time.
April 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
When we talk about how the United States and the US legal system is predicated on Indigenous land theft and on the backs of black people via chattel slavery, these are how we can describe the actual process and relationship to the things that were happening at the time.
The initial framing is that settler colonialism, as it is enacted in settler colonial states like the United States or Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, etc. like they're all it is all about land.
April 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The initial framing is that settler colonialism, as it is enacted in settler colonial states like the United States or Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, etc. like they're all it is all about land.
It is this situation, the dispossession of
Indigenous peoples from our grounded normativities through
the processes of colonialism and now settler colonialism, that
has set up the circumstances that require a radical Indigenous
resurgence as a mechanism for our continuance (Simpson, 2017).
Indigenous peoples from our grounded normativities through
the processes of colonialism and now settler colonialism, that
has set up the circumstances that require a radical Indigenous
resurgence as a mechanism for our continuance (Simpson, 2017).
April 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It is this situation, the dispossession of
Indigenous peoples from our grounded normativities through
the processes of colonialism and now settler colonialism, that
has set up the circumstances that require a radical Indigenous
resurgence as a mechanism for our continuance (Simpson, 2017).
Indigenous peoples from our grounded normativities through
the processes of colonialism and now settler colonialism, that
has set up the circumstances that require a radical Indigenous
resurgence as a mechanism for our continuance (Simpson, 2017).
The history of the use of the American landscape
has been lawless exploitation. - Lopez, 1990, p. 47
has been lawless exploitation. - Lopez, 1990, p. 47
April 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The history of the use of the American landscape
has been lawless exploitation. - Lopez, 1990, p. 47
has been lawless exploitation. - Lopez, 1990, p. 47
There is not the raw material in the woods, or beyond, to make all of us rich . And in striving for it, we will only make ourselves, all of us, poor. - Lopez, 1990
April 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There is not the raw material in the woods, or beyond, to make all of us rich . And in striving for it, we will only make ourselves, all of us, poor. - Lopez, 1990
I was not active on Twitter so I am not sure why I believed I'd keep up with Bsky. But Cory Booker on behalf of the US, tho.
April 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I was not active on Twitter so I am not sure why I believed I'd keep up with Bsky. But Cory Booker on behalf of the US, tho.
How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material? We embody. We learn. We release the idea of failure, because it’s all data. But first we imagine. We are in an imagination battle (A. M. Brown).
April 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material? We embody. We learn. We release the idea of failure, because it’s all data. But first we imagine. We are in an imagination battle (A. M. Brown).
"And the wisdom of it, the ineffable and subtle intertwining of living organisms on the Earth, is confirmed today by molecular biology and atmospheric chemistry" (Lopez, 1990)
March 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"And the wisdom of it, the ineffable and subtle intertwining of living organisms on the Earth, is confirmed today by molecular biology and atmospheric chemistry" (Lopez, 1990)
“So here I am, trying again because the story they have chosen to tell is wrong. They know it and we know it.
It’s time to tell a better story.”
Richotte, Jr., 2025, p.31
It’s time to tell a better story.”
Richotte, Jr., 2025, p.31
March 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“So here I am, trying again because the story they have chosen to tell is wrong. They know it and we know it.
It’s time to tell a better story.”
Richotte, Jr., 2025, p.31
It’s time to tell a better story.”
Richotte, Jr., 2025, p.31
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We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio.
I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.
😡
I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.
😡
March 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio.
I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.
😡
I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.
😡
What are rights? What are inalienable rights? What are inherent rights? Who gets to decide who is an alien or not? I can’t with this country, and yet I have to.
March 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
What are rights? What are inalienable rights? What are inherent rights? Who gets to decide who is an alien or not? I can’t with this country, and yet I have to.
Sometimes I think I am so smart. Then I read D. Haroway and she already wrote it a long time ago.
March 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Sometimes I think I am so smart. Then I read D. Haroway and she already wrote it a long time ago.
"Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression" (Combahee River Collective, 1979).
March 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression" (Combahee River Collective, 1979).
"We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation is us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sis ters, and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work." Combahee River Collective, 1979).
March 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation is us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sis ters, and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work." Combahee River Collective, 1979).
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hey teachers working for social justice, check out this rad writing fellowship supported by $5K/year! www.edsurge.com/research/gui...
EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship - EdSurge Collections
Over the years, EdSurge has explored how school models, instructional practices and the experiences of students and educators are changing. We examine ...
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February 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
hey teachers working for social justice, check out this rad writing fellowship supported by $5K/year! www.edsurge.com/research/gui...
It's Diversity Week at the UW School of Law and they're feeding students all week. Today is breakfast burritos, tomorrow is Indian Tacos from Off the Rez. Go #LawDawgs!
February 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It's Diversity Week at the UW School of Law and they're feeding students all week. Today is breakfast burritos, tomorrow is Indian Tacos from Off the Rez. Go #LawDawgs!
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New: @randball.bsky.social interviewed Keith Richotte, Jr. about his book The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told on The Friscalating Dusklight Podcast #ReadUP
'The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told': A conversation with author Keith Richotte, Jr.
An excellent new book by my friend of 35 years comes out today. On this episode of The Friscalating Dusklight Podcast, we have a conversation about the content and the writing process.
thefriscalatingdusklight.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New: @randball.bsky.social interviewed Keith Richotte, Jr. about his book The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told on The Friscalating Dusklight Podcast #ReadUP
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i wish that more people had listened and paid attention when trans people started facing attacks years ago. i wish you all had seen it as a threat to you, too.
February 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
i wish that more people had listened and paid attention when trans people started facing attacks years ago. i wish you all had seen it as a threat to you, too.
"The effort must be made to understand race as an unstable and 'decentered' complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle" (Omi & Winant, 1994, 15).
February 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"The effort must be made to understand race as an unstable and 'decentered' complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle" (Omi & Winant, 1994, 15).
"The power of the media lies not only in their ability to reflect the dominant racial ideology, but in their capacity to shape that ideology in the first place” (Omi & Winant, 1994, 13).
February 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"The power of the media lies not only in their ability to reflect the dominant racial ideology, but in their capacity to shape that ideology in the first place” (Omi & Winant, 1994, 13).
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, definition of racism: “Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”
February 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, definition of racism: “Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”