Rachel Kirk
@rachelkirk.bsky.social
intercultural educator 🌎 | sunset, sky, and flower lover🪻| french & cultural studies
a movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a movie that takes place where you're from
more than half of my life engaging with french books at this point and I don't think it will ever not be insane to me that the table of contents for books in french are at the end 🤦♀️
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
more than half of my life engaging with french books at this point and I don't think it will ever not be insane to me that the table of contents for books in french are at the end 🤦♀️
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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This is so cool. I interviewed Calvin Duncan - exoneree, and now Orleans Parish Clerk of Court - back in 2023 about his work as a jailhouse lawyer for the folks on death row in Louisiana. I remember being really struck by his words:
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is so cool. I interviewed Calvin Duncan - exoneree, and now Orleans Parish Clerk of Court - back in 2023 about his work as a jailhouse lawyer for the folks on death row in Louisiana. I remember being really struck by his words:
welp, this hits entirely wayy too close to home for several universities I have/had affiliations with (aka columbia and LSU)
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
welp, this hits entirely wayy too close to home for several universities I have/had affiliations with (aka columbia and LSU)
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TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
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"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
😂😂
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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That very MUNDANE action that you don't take because you are too busy fantasizing about being a superhero instead would actually DO something for someone. Your fantasy does not.
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
That very MUNDANE action that you don't take because you are too busy fantasizing about being a superhero instead would actually DO something for someone. Your fantasy does not.
i'm teaching a caribbean ecologies class and we read a small place by jamaica kincaid. for the students mid-term, they had the option to write a new orleans version of a small place in essay or poetry form to think about how tourism and development impact the city and these are... soo good my god
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
i'm teaching a caribbean ecologies class and we read a small place by jamaica kincaid. for the students mid-term, they had the option to write a new orleans version of a small place in essay or poetry form to think about how tourism and development impact the city and these are... soo good my god
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Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!
gooo phee! may we all have this level of courage and clarity to stand up to exploitative and retaliatory employers. I need to go buy some unrivaled merch now.
Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
September 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
gooo phee! may we all have this level of courage and clarity to stand up to exploitative and retaliatory employers. I need to go buy some unrivaled merch now.
this is.... absolutely insane
After four seasons with the New York Liberty, head coach Sandy Brondello’s contract will not be renewed for the 2026 season.
She finishes her tenure in New York as the winningest coach in franchise history.
She finishes her tenure in New York as the winningest coach in franchise history.
September 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
this is.... absolutely insane
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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This is must read. Extremely clear-eyed, morally grounded and powerful writing from Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This is must read. Extremely clear-eyed, morally grounded and powerful writing from Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
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I think it's terrible that Gen Z and Gen Alpha continue to live in a world where K-12 and college campus shootings are a normal part of life and that's all they've ever known and I think we should arrange things so that any kind of school or university shooting is impossible
September 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I think it's terrible that Gen Z and Gen Alpha continue to live in a world where K-12 and college campus shootings are a normal part of life and that's all they've ever known and I think we should arrange things so that any kind of school or university shooting is impossible
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
just bought and started reading this book today and it is so well-researched, thoughtful, and important 🙏
August 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
just bought and started reading this book today and it is so well-researched, thoughtful, and important 🙏
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NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty.
The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
August 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty.
The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
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The attempt to ban, erase etc.. marginalized people's histories demands responses at the grassroots level. Regular people can be cultural stewards, can be archivists, can be storytellers, can be preservers of oral history. And these are all fun things to do!
August 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The attempt to ban, erase etc.. marginalized people's histories demands responses at the grassroots level. Regular people can be cultural stewards, can be archivists, can be storytellers, can be preservers of oral history. And these are all fun things to do!
"Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing..."
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing..."
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The WNBA All-Stars came out wearing warmup shirts that said, "Pay Us What You Owe Us."
The players' union met with the WNBA Thursday and came away frustrated with the economic model proposed by the league.
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www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
The players' union met with the WNBA Thursday and came away frustrated with the economic model proposed by the league.
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www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
July 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The WNBA All-Stars came out wearing warmup shirts that said, "Pay Us What You Owe Us."
The players' union met with the WNBA Thursday and came away frustrated with the economic model proposed by the league.
🔗
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
The players' union met with the WNBA Thursday and came away frustrated with the economic model proposed by the league.
🔗
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...