Jody Drezner Alperin
dramagal.bsky.social
Jody Drezner Alperin
@dramagal.bsky.social
Teaching Artist, Director, Deviser, Playwright, Mama, Trouble maker.
Genuinely, what is wrong with you @schumer.senate.gov? Americans know the shutdown is on the Republicans. Turning over the keys so they can decimate every program we hold dear is suicidal. What a shunda.
March 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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#MyStoryBelongs #MiHistoriaPertenece

Fort Campbell, KY - "... teachers had to remove all bulletin boards that reference Black History Month and Black leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks, according to a source speaking to Clarksville Now on condition of anonymity."
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This quote
December 3, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Love this thread about an enduring favorite book of mine.
I'm rereading The Pushcart War for reasons and am reminded again how it is not only science-fiction (set in the future!) and formally inventive, but also is a manual for collective action, resistance, protest, that is very relevant today. So here's a thread:
November 23, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Wrote a thing with @goodbetash.bsky.social thinking about solidarity and what that means in the upcoming City Council race right here at home:

jodydrezneralperin.substack.com/p/solidarity...
Solidarity Grows In Brooklyn
Or how the work starts in our own backyard
jodydrezneralperin.substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Is this thing on? Getting the lay of the land.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM