Brit Williams, Ph.D.
@drbritwilliams.bsky.social
Yes, that one. PhD-I study Black Women @ work, health/HIV, & class via EDU | 1stGen | Solo | Childfree by choice | 🌱 based | CiteASista & SisterPhD | 🩷💚 | 5’11 | 1 of 1 | LLM HATER
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On Friday, April 25th, I became the first* African American woman to earn tenure & promotion in the Univ. of Vermont’s College of Education & Social Services history.
Naturally, I went home to reflect on my educational past & to think about my future.
*(sadly, yes, in 2025)
1/2?
Naturally, I went home to reflect on my educational past & to think about my future.
*(sadly, yes, in 2025)
1/2?
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January 17, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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This all seems incredibly reasonable and I feel insane because why do people need to be told this?
Macaulay Culkin has 3 rules for fans when he’s in public
1️⃣ Don’t approach him while he's at the dinner table
2️⃣ Don’t approach him while he's with his kids
3️⃣ Don't follow him into the bathroom
(via SmartLess)
1️⃣ Don’t approach him while he's at the dinner table
2️⃣ Don’t approach him while he's with his kids
3️⃣ Don't follow him into the bathroom
(via SmartLess)
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 AM
This all seems incredibly reasonable and I feel insane because why do people need to be told this?
When Charlotte used those tantric sex tips on that one dude in season 2?
Screaming!
Screaming!
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 AM
When Charlotte used those tantric sex tips on that one dude in season 2?
Screaming!
Screaming!
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Actually Beyoncé Resentment is the male version of Resentment to me. I sing that song like some nigga did me wrong personally
January 17, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Actually Beyoncé Resentment is the male version of Resentment to me. I sing that song like some nigga did me wrong personally
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[DHH began packing groceries when the immigration operation started back in December. They had families register if they needed groceries delivered. In the first day, 2,000 families registered. Now, they have more than 24,000 families registered and there is a waitlist.]
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 AM
[DHH began packing groceries when the immigration operation started back in December. They had families register if they needed groceries delivered. In the first day, 2,000 families registered. Now, they have more than 24,000 families registered and there is a waitlist.]
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NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force.
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 17, 2026 at 1:55 AM
NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force.
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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When Fascism came to America, no one crawled on their bellies and kissed the boot more willingly than those who once defiantly shouted "Don't Tread On Me!"
January 16, 2026 at 1:10 PM
When Fascism came to America, no one crawled on their bellies and kissed the boot more willingly than those who once defiantly shouted "Don't Tread On Me!"
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More than 550 people have contracted measles in Spartanburg County, S.C., in a fast-growing outbreak. Like a majority of U.S. counties, nonmedical exemptions to school vaccination are also rising. n.pr/4qW0N4X
Measles is spreading fast in S.C. Here's what it says about vaccine exemptions
More than 550 people have contracted measles in Spartanburg County, S.C., in a fast-growing outbreak. Like a majority of U.S. counties, nonmedical exemptions to school vaccination are also rising.
n.pr
January 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM
More than 550 people have contracted measles in Spartanburg County, S.C., in a fast-growing outbreak. Like a majority of U.S. counties, nonmedical exemptions to school vaccination are also rising. n.pr/4qW0N4X
Do we no longer teach the history of Olgethorpe University’s failure and the lessons from it via Sherman?
Vanderbilt charting the course of the MAGA accomodationist university to increase revenue and prestige. They're the CBS news of higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/as-o...
As Other Campuses Cut Back, Vanderbilt U. Looks to Expand
The university’s announcements of new outposts reflect a desire to chase prestige and enrollment without watering down its brand.
www.chronicle.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Do we no longer teach the history of Olgethorpe University’s failure and the lessons from it via Sherman?
I’m on a first date… it’s going so well we went to a second spot. WHY DID MY JIMMY CHOO SHOE BREAK?
I am hysterical!
Now I’m in my founders day fit with fucking uggs on.
I am hysterical!
Now I’m in my founders day fit with fucking uggs on.
January 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I’m on a first date… it’s going so well we went to a second spot. WHY DID MY JIMMY CHOO SHOE BREAK?
I am hysterical!
Now I’m in my founders day fit with fucking uggs on.
I am hysterical!
Now I’m in my founders day fit with fucking uggs on.
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She was/is too fine to be anything else.
I can’t believe there was a “she ain’t Black” narrative about this Black ass woman please leave me alone 😭😭
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
She was/is too fine to be anything else.
Just paid off my December fun.
I am inside until Q2 of this year after living like a drug dealer. 😂
But— I had to celebrate finally having that autoimmune diagnosis, surviving a break up, and other forms of life.
I thought I was dying literally and figuratively.
What a ride 2025 was.
0/10!
I am inside until Q2 of this year after living like a drug dealer. 😂
But— I had to celebrate finally having that autoimmune diagnosis, surviving a break up, and other forms of life.
I thought I was dying literally and figuratively.
What a ride 2025 was.
0/10!
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Just paid off my December fun.
I am inside until Q2 of this year after living like a drug dealer. 😂
But— I had to celebrate finally having that autoimmune diagnosis, surviving a break up, and other forms of life.
I thought I was dying literally and figuratively.
What a ride 2025 was.
0/10!
I am inside until Q2 of this year after living like a drug dealer. 😂
But— I had to celebrate finally having that autoimmune diagnosis, surviving a break up, and other forms of life.
I thought I was dying literally and figuratively.
What a ride 2025 was.
0/10!
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is this about Greenland or Minneapolis?
How about we not get into a fight with Scandinavian soldiers in a frozen landscape. Foreign invaders trying that while going "we're bigger than you, back down" has a bad record.
January 14, 2026 at 9:41 PM
is this about Greenland or Minneapolis?
Skee Wee to my Sorors! Happy 118! #AKA
a girl in a green shirt with the letter a on it is dancing
ALT: a girl in a green shirt with the letter a on it is dancing
media.tenor.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Skee Wee to my Sorors! Happy 118! #AKA
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Using a photo of a disabled, autistic woman violently dragged from her car on the way to a doctor's appointment with this headline certainly is a choice.
January 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Using a photo of a disabled, autistic woman violently dragged from her car on the way to a doctor's appointment with this headline certainly is a choice.
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I am begging: Do not learn how to do activism or organizing from social media influencers. Do not join massive unvetted Signal groups promoted by “revolutionary” influencers.
If you want to be an activist, you need to be embedded in local community with people you know and trust.
I am BEGGING here
If you want to be an activist, you need to be embedded in local community with people you know and trust.
I am BEGGING here
January 15, 2026 at 12:29 PM
I am begging: Do not learn how to do activism or organizing from social media influencers. Do not join massive unvetted Signal groups promoted by “revolutionary” influencers.
If you want to be an activist, you need to be embedded in local community with people you know and trust.
I am BEGGING here
If you want to be an activist, you need to be embedded in local community with people you know and trust.
I am BEGGING here
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In the eyes of Trump’s EPA, human health is now literally worthless [via @vox.com]
In the eyes of Trump’s EPA, human health is now literally worthless
How the agency’s new math favors polluters over people.
www.motherjones.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
In the eyes of Trump’s EPA, human health is now literally worthless [via @vox.com]
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A former Robb Elementary aide testified that she begged the school district police officer to do something as the gunman was approaching the building with a rifle, but he didn't intervene.
Witness says officer paced outside as shooter neared in Uvalde case
A former Robb Elementary aide testified that Adrian Gonzales was pacing outside the school as the gunman approached, adding new urgency to the trial over the Uvalde police response.
n.pr
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
A former Robb Elementary aide testified that she begged the school district police officer to do something as the gunman was approaching the building with a rifle, but he didn't intervene.
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fellow journalists’ reports from minneapolis are hitting like dispatches from the frontlines of a civil war
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 AM
fellow journalists’ reports from minneapolis are hitting like dispatches from the frontlines of a civil war
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The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals.
We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
After 56 years, Indiana University is canceling the MLK dinner hosted by their Black Student Union.
Indiana University Cancels MLK Celebration Dinner
Indiana University in Indianapolis canceled a dinner in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted annually in January by the Black Student Union, Mirror Indy reported.
www.insidehighered.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals.
We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
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they're shooting us in the face, ted
The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
January 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
they're shooting us in the face, ted
I am always incensed when someone commits suicide and people start making all of these declarations about how they should have just reached out…
BE SO FOR REAL.
Your peeps who are very much alive rn don’t feel they can reach out BC ppl only offer up platitudes & bullshit.
Life is hard!
BE SO FOR REAL.
Your peeps who are very much alive rn don’t feel they can reach out BC ppl only offer up platitudes & bullshit.
Life is hard!
January 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am always incensed when someone commits suicide and people start making all of these declarations about how they should have just reached out…
BE SO FOR REAL.
Your peeps who are very much alive rn don’t feel they can reach out BC ppl only offer up platitudes & bullshit.
Life is hard!
BE SO FOR REAL.
Your peeps who are very much alive rn don’t feel they can reach out BC ppl only offer up platitudes & bullshit.
Life is hard!