Nina M. Flores, PhD
@bellhookedme.bsky.social
Professor teaching radical love, critical pedagogies & community building. Affiliate Researcher UC National Center for Free Speech & Civic Engagement. Anti-authoritarian.
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Greetings! New to Bluesky and wanted to say hello and introduce myself. Trained in urban planning, teach in equity & education, write about pedagogy, study sex ed and justice, and research the targeted harassment of faculty (currently leading campus workshops on this issue, feel free to reach out).
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The Center is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 class of Fellows.
For more information on the fellowship program and past fellows projects: https://buff.ly/4jEY119
For more information on the fellowship program and past fellows projects: https://buff.ly/4jEY119
February 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Center is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 class of Fellows.
For more information on the fellowship program and past fellows projects: https://buff.ly/4jEY119
For more information on the fellowship program and past fellows projects: https://buff.ly/4jEY119
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
Beyond unbelievable. The world is literally burning in three fires around us, we're in a state of emergency, major events are being canceled left and right, and the email is just an outright denial of danger while flames are visible and everyone breathes ash. I moved my class online.
UCLA has sent out a “business as usual” message this morning, as its staff and faculty monitoring whether or not their homes are going to burn down, with many having already evacuated.
Going to campus puts many of us much closer to the raging fires, too.
Unbelievable.
Going to campus puts many of us much closer to the raging fires, too.
Unbelievable.
January 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Beyond unbelievable. The world is literally burning in three fires around us, we're in a state of emergency, major events are being canceled left and right, and the email is just an outright denial of danger while flames are visible and everyone breathes ash. I moved my class online.
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“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
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Starting again at or around 1:30pm PT today (1/8), I will begin a NEW livestream to discuss the ongoing catastrophic wildfire events in Southern California. The link is different from AM session! #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #CAfire #CAwx youtube.com/live/uRn...
Weather & climate office hours by Weather West: 01/18/25 #2 (PM session): Ongoing wildfire coverage - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and c...
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January 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Starting again at or around 1:30pm PT today (1/8), I will begin a NEW livestream to discuss the ongoing catastrophic wildfire events in Southern California. The link is different from AM session! #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #CAfire #CAwx youtube.com/live/uRn...
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Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
www.npr.org
January 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
As someone struggling with what I want to share with students when the term starts, reading this was immensely helpful. Also, what lovely treat to be listening to Workers Playtime while reading Billy Bragg's 2025 words almost 30 years after the album's release.
Sitting down to compose a hopeful message for 2025 is a tough ask given the year we’ve just had. Even glib sentiments are hard to come by. The defeat of pro-democracy forces in the US presidential election still weighs like a heavy anchor on my attempts to move on. 1/11
January 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
As someone struggling with what I want to share with students when the term starts, reading this was immensely helpful. Also, what lovely treat to be listening to Workers Playtime while reading Billy Bragg's 2025 words almost 30 years after the album's release.
As someone born in the Oregon Trail Generation where Gen X and Millennials meet I can't remember ever being taught about the idea of consent in either high school or college.
"Babygirl" Starts a Conversation Every Gen X Woman Needs to Have
The provocative new film dares us to come clean about our desires. Can we do it without getting hurt?
jennymag.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
As someone born in the Oregon Trail Generation where Gen X and Millennials meet I can't remember ever being taught about the idea of consent in either high school or college.
If you work with young people, do your part to emphasize the importance of signatures! www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
“Most people my age just kind of scribble." Signatures were a sticking point for young California voters this year
In California, voters younger than 25 made up 10% of the November electorate, but had nearly 3 in 10 of the ballots set aside for signature problems, a new survey shows.
www.latimes.com
December 23, 2024 at 6:29 PM
If you work with young people, do your part to emphasize the importance of signatures! www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
An OC Register article lists 2024 restaurant closures around the county, but misses a big one: Old Vine Kitchen & Bar (aka Old Vine Cafe 2007-2019). I was behind the scenes at Old Vine for 13 years and if you were part of our community, then you know what a loss this was for Costa Mesa. ❤️
December 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
An OC Register article lists 2024 restaurant closures around the county, but misses a big one: Old Vine Kitchen & Bar (aka Old Vine Cafe 2007-2019). I was behind the scenes at Old Vine for 13 years and if you were part of our community, then you know what a loss this was for Costa Mesa. ❤️
The stack of unread books on my desk can confirm that they are releasing booxytocin, just like their friends, the books about to be delivered and lovingly added to said pile.
Remember: When you read a book, write a book, buy a book, hold a book, smell a book, get a book from the library, look at books, or talk about books, your body releases booxytocin, which makes you feel better and live longer. Get more books. They’re good for you. It’s science.
December 18, 2024 at 8:42 PM
The stack of unread books on my desk can confirm that they are releasing booxytocin, just like their friends, the books about to be delivered and lovingly added to said pile.
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Writing is an act of rebellion.
Writing is an act of creation.
Writing is an act of salvation.
Writing is an act of exploration.
Writing is an act of emotion.
Writing is an act of confession.
Writing is an act of speculation.
Writing is an act of reflection.
Keep writing.
Writing is an act of creation.
Writing is an act of salvation.
Writing is an act of exploration.
Writing is an act of emotion.
Writing is an act of confession.
Writing is an act of speculation.
Writing is an act of reflection.
Keep writing.
December 16, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Writing is an act of rebellion.
Writing is an act of creation.
Writing is an act of salvation.
Writing is an act of exploration.
Writing is an act of emotion.
Writing is an act of confession.
Writing is an act of speculation.
Writing is an act of reflection.
Keep writing.
Writing is an act of creation.
Writing is an act of salvation.
Writing is an act of exploration.
Writing is an act of emotion.
Writing is an act of confession.
Writing is an act of speculation.
Writing is an act of reflection.
Keep writing.
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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Almost all "How to use ChatGPT in the classroom!" advice I see starts with the premise that it doesn't matter if students learn anything or demonstrate any skills in a course.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Almost all "How to use ChatGPT in the classroom!" advice I see starts with the premise that it doesn't matter if students learn anything or demonstrate any skills in a course.
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I’ve been holding this in but… seems remiss not to recall the assassination of the abortion doctors? The bombing of clinics? Why act as if this is without that context?
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK
December 12, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I’ve been holding this in but… seems remiss not to recall the assassination of the abortion doctors? The bombing of clinics? Why act as if this is without that context?
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Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies: The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by
Via THR
Via THR
Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies
The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies: The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by
Via THR
Via THR
This box haunts my 2nd grade memories. Bleak, but using SRA was the first time I remember feeling competition, individualism, and ranking as important in the classroom. We learned to tie our worth in education to quick card completion and next leveling. I kind of get the chills thinking about it.
December 12, 2024 at 6:00 PM
This box haunts my 2nd grade memories. Bleak, but using SRA was the first time I remember feeling competition, individualism, and ranking as important in the classroom. We learned to tie our worth in education to quick card completion and next leveling. I kind of get the chills thinking about it.
#Edusky friends: I’m a child of the 80s with vivid 2nd grade (?) memories of a box of what I can only describe as large reading cards with colors denoting different levels. Each kid was on a different level depending on how quickly they completed the cards. Do you remember this? What was it called?
December 12, 2024 at 7:04 AM
#Edusky friends: I’m a child of the 80s with vivid 2nd grade (?) memories of a box of what I can only describe as large reading cards with colors denoting different levels. Each kid was on a different level depending on how quickly they completed the cards. Do you remember this? What was it called?
#Edsky friends: I’m a child of the 80s with vivid 2nd grade (?) memories of a box of what I can only describe as large reading cards with colors denoting different levels. Each kid was on a different level depending on how quickly you completed the cards. Do you remember this? What was it called?
December 12, 2024 at 5:31 AM
#Edsky friends: I’m a child of the 80s with vivid 2nd grade (?) memories of a box of what I can only describe as large reading cards with colors denoting different levels. Each kid was on a different level depending on how quickly you completed the cards. Do you remember this? What was it called?
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🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Excited to see this piece out which looks at the work journalists undertake to manage audience hostility--through rank-and-file journalists as well as audience editors in 🇺🇸and 🇨🇦.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2UH6R...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2UH6R...
Mitigating Hostility in Digital Journalism: Digital Hostility as Ossifier of Field Boundaries
The rising prevalence of white nationalism necessitates an evaluation of the tactics of journalists employ to manage digital hostility. Through the lens of Bourdieu’s field theory, the present stud...
www.tandfonline.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:42 PM
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Excited to see this piece out which looks at the work journalists undertake to manage audience hostility--through rank-and-file journalists as well as audience editors in 🇺🇸and 🇨🇦.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2UH6R...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2UH6R...
This. Exactly why I stopped playing Two Dots. Watching anxious and terrified animated characters on ads between rounds, and then realizing their suffering is the story line of other games was just a hard pass. Since I refuse to pay to bypass ads of their distress, I stopped playing.
Me: I will just relax for a few minutes by playing a mindless game on my phone
Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble
Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble
December 11, 2024 at 7:24 PM
This. Exactly why I stopped playing Two Dots. Watching anxious and terrified animated characters on ads between rounds, and then realizing their suffering is the story line of other games was just a hard pass. Since I refuse to pay to bypass ads of their distress, I stopped playing.
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You can find the SOUL! episode where Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin are in conversation on YouTube, and you should watch it.
December 10, 2024 at 3:48 PM
You can find the SOUL! episode where Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin are in conversation on YouTube, and you should watch it.