Lucy Swanson
@lucyvswan.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Francophone and Caribbean studies, gamer, author of The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction, dog person.
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
Really excited for this 😍
Rejoignez-nous pour une conversation avec Merle Collins au sujet de la traduction de son roman The Color of Forgetting par @gregorypierre.bsky.social @rotbokrik.bsky.social et Jean-Baptiste Neudy. Inscrivez-vous ici: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/
À bientôt !
À bientôt !
April 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Really excited for this 😍
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Meanwhile, while we were watching Congress... #GiftArticle
"DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment" 🗃️🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...
"DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment" 🗃️🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...
DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment (Gift Article)
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Meanwhile, while we were watching Congress... #GiftArticle
"DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment" 🗃️🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...
"DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment" 🗃️🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...
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Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
March 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025
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As a historian 🗃️ I was grateful to be encouraged to write this for @americananthro.bsky.social. It's important to me not to just write about #Haitian history or the history of US foreign policy, but also to try to redress the effects of our actions NOW.
🙏 for reading! #WelcomingWithDignity
🙏 for reading! #WelcomingWithDignity
My newest! For @americananthro.bsky.social:
WELCOMING WITH DIGNITY...UNTIL WE COULDN'T
It's about my work with migrants before the 😡 border closure & a love letter to my staff colleagues. It's full of my ❤️ + 💔. Thank you for reading & sharing!
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
WELCOMING WITH DIGNITY...UNTIL WE COULDN'T
It's about my work with migrants before the 😡 border closure & a love letter to my staff colleagues. It's full of my ❤️ + 💔. Thank you for reading & sharing!
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
Welcoming Migrants with Dignity… Until We Couldn’t — American Anthropologist
by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (California State University)
www.americananthropologist.org
March 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
As a historian 🗃️ I was grateful to be encouraged to write this for @americananthro.bsky.social. It's important to me not to just write about #Haitian history or the history of US foreign policy, but also to try to redress the effects of our actions NOW.
🙏 for reading! #WelcomingWithDignity
🙏 for reading! #WelcomingWithDignity
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Translation: "we've done really inhumane things to people seeking asylum - and I applaud the President for that!"
(GTFO of the Senate, Mark Warner)
(GTFO of the Senate, Mark Warner)
Mark Warner on Fox: "I may disagree with the president, but I respect the office of the president. I'm probably not gonna be jumping up applauding a lot, but I owe him his due as president. The president has made great, great progress on border crossings. That's something we ought to celebrate."
March 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Translation: "we've done really inhumane things to people seeking asylum - and I applaud the President for that!"
(GTFO of the Senate, Mark Warner)
(GTFO of the Senate, Mark Warner)
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ISO Trans/nonbinary people to hire as (non-English) language experts
Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials.
Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert
Please share!
Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials.
Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert
Please share!
February 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
ISO Trans/nonbinary people to hire as (non-English) language experts
Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials.
Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert
Please share!
Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials.
Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert
Please share!
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“The work that I do is about pushing back against . . . these ideas that we have about language and . . . gender that are really quite rigid . . . Language can’t be separated from the people who do language.” Proud to be involved in this pod with @krisknisely.bsky.social and @cornelllrc.bsky.social
S15E5 - Kris Aric Knisely - Gender-Just Language Education
Podcast Episode · Speaking of Language · 02/26/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“The work that I do is about pushing back against . . . these ideas that we have about language and . . . gender that are really quite rigid . . . Language can’t be separated from the people who do language.” Proud to be involved in this pod with @krisknisely.bsky.social and @cornelllrc.bsky.social
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Really enjoyed reading "Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial" by Aubrey Gabel on @publicbooks.bsky.social discussing St. Omer by Alice Diop and Anatomie d'une chute by Justine Triet www.publicbooks.org/purging-the-...
Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial
In both “Saint Omer” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” we are meant to identify with the defendants—albeit for different reasons.
www.publicbooks.org
February 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really enjoyed reading "Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial" by Aubrey Gabel on @publicbooks.bsky.social discussing St. Omer by Alice Diop and Anatomie d'une chute by Justine Triet www.publicbooks.org/purging-the-...
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#GiftArticle from the SDUT for reporting on the layoffs of my 115 staff colleagues at the San Diego Rapid Response Network/Jewish Family Services migrant shelter. We were a NAT’L MODEL & #WelcomedWithDignity legal migrants 24/7 for 7 years. 🤬💔🎁
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/15/s...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/15/s...
San Diego migrant shelter hailed as national model will shut down, with 100-plus layoffs
Jewish Family Service said new Trump administration policies have curbed migrant arrivals but highlighted need for pro bono immigration legal services
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#GiftArticle from the SDUT for reporting on the layoffs of my 115 staff colleagues at the San Diego Rapid Response Network/Jewish Family Services migrant shelter. We were a NAT’L MODEL & #WelcomedWithDignity legal migrants 24/7 for 7 years. 🤬💔🎁
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/15/s...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/15/s...
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It’s the final weekend of the Zombis exhibition in Paris which includes a contribution by our amazing Haiti Support Group Exec Committee member Leah Gordon. Please support her fundraiser to safely store the artwork of the fantastic Haitian Collective Atis Resistans www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £5500 to save Atis Rezistans art works
Iʼm raising money to save Atis Rezistans art works. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/leah-gordon-1?utm_id=2“
February 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s the final weekend of the Zombis exhibition in Paris which includes a contribution by our amazing Haiti Support Group Exec Committee member Leah Gordon. Please support her fundraiser to safely store the artwork of the fantastic Haitian Collective Atis Resistans www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate
Kendrick: actually
Kendrick: actually
February 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate
Kendrick: actually
Kendrick: actually
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THIS. So many 🤬s say “people shouldn’t have come illegally.”
These folks all came legally! But they’re changing the rules now on them - & these folks *put themselves on file* with the government by coming legally so they’re in worse shape than people who didn’t! 🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
These folks all came legally! But they’re changing the rules now on them - & these folks *put themselves on file* with the government by coming legally so they’re in worse shape than people who didn’t! 🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
The 300,000 Venezuelans set to lose protections are those who first received them in 2023. Another 250,000-300,000 who first got their status in 2021 will have their status stripped in September.
In a single act, Trump will create over half a million newly undocumented immigrants.
In a single act, Trump will create over half a million newly undocumented immigrants.
February 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
THIS. So many 🤬s say “people shouldn’t have come illegally.”
These folks all came legally! But they’re changing the rules now on them - & these folks *put themselves on file* with the government by coming legally so they’re in worse shape than people who didn’t! 🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
These folks all came legally! But they’re changing the rules now on them - & these folks *put themselves on file* with the government by coming legally so they’re in worse shape than people who didn’t! 🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬
Just got the news from the agency where I volunteer with migrants.
No migrants this week, no shelter guests, no airport shifts. CBP is releasing NO ONE to us. Total shutdown.
It might change next week & a few might cross - but it's 💔for migrants & the staff who might lose their jobs.
Just got the news from the agency where I volunteer with migrants.
No migrants this week, no shelter guests, no airport shifts. CBP is releasing NO ONE to us. Total shutdown.
It might change next week & a few might cross - but it's 💔for migrants & the staff who might lose their jobs.
January 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬
Just got the news from the agency where I volunteer with migrants.
No migrants this week, no shelter guests, no airport shifts. CBP is releasing NO ONE to us. Total shutdown.
It might change next week & a few might cross - but it's 💔for migrants & the staff who might lose their jobs.
Just got the news from the agency where I volunteer with migrants.
No migrants this week, no shelter guests, no airport shifts. CBP is releasing NO ONE to us. Total shutdown.
It might change next week & a few might cross - but it's 💔for migrants & the staff who might lose their jobs.