Andrew Hume
@andrewhume.bsky.social
He/him. White. Partner, parent, grandparent, former foster parent. Experiential educator. Topics: schools, learning, child welfare, whiteness, abolition, democracy, human rights, poetry, 🎵 ⚾️ 🏀 Protect trans kids.
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
I’m joyful, proud of NYC, and having a little FOMO, but my new town of Maplewood, NJ also rocks & voted wisely in today’s school board elections.
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I’m joyful, proud of NYC, and having a little FOMO, but my new town of Maplewood, NJ also rocks & voted wisely in today’s school board elections.
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
Baseball is really fun. How long until spring training?
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Baseball is really fun. How long until spring training?
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Will Smith with the first extra-inning home run in a winner-take-all game in World Series history
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Will Smith with the first extra-inning home run in a winner-take-all game in World Series history
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Hope folks feel less alone today, that people join with others to take further and deeper actions, and that everyone fights like hell to protect those most vulnerable to this regime.
October 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Hope folks feel less alone today, that people join with others to take further and deeper actions, and that everyone fights like hell to protect those most vulnerable to this regime.
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Fun and play are often a part of social movements as the people trust the larger group to hold their values as the conflict with the state expands. The anti-WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 were full of folks dressed like loggerhead turtles and dolphins and stuff dancing to RATM. Very fun + serious.
October 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Fun and play are often a part of social movements as the people trust the larger group to hold their values as the conflict with the state expands. The anti-WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 were full of folks dressed like loggerhead turtles and dolphins and stuff dancing to RATM. Very fun + serious.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
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October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid
and Tiffany Cross
or Amber Ruffin
or Karen Attiah
or Jemele Hill
Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were
and Tiffany Cross
or Amber Ruffin
or Karen Attiah
or Jemele Hill
Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were
Black Women, White Apathy and Why a Leopard Ate Jimmy Kimmel's Face
Jimmy Kimmel is not a victim of "cancel culture." But he is the perfect example of what happens when white people are silent in the face of racism.
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September 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid
and Tiffany Cross
or Amber Ruffin
or Karen Attiah
or Jemele Hill
Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were
and Tiffany Cross
or Amber Ruffin
or Karen Attiah
or Jemele Hill
Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were
Feeling grateful for my awesome trans family and friends and furious at the absurd, insistent effort to scapegoat & demonize trans folks.
September 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Feeling grateful for my awesome trans family and friends and furious at the absurd, insistent effort to scapegoat & demonize trans folks.
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“We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.” - Nicola Yoon
July 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.” - Nicola Yoon
“Being brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared.”
— Alynda Segarra, inspiring us and making us braver at tonight’s Hurray for the Riff Raff concert.
— Alynda Segarra, inspiring us and making us braver at tonight’s Hurray for the Riff Raff concert.
July 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
“Being brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared.”
— Alynda Segarra, inspiring us and making us braver at tonight’s Hurray for the Riff Raff concert.
— Alynda Segarra, inspiring us and making us braver at tonight’s Hurray for the Riff Raff concert.
I’m embarrassed by how sad I feel about the Columbia capitulation because it illuminates how desperately I want to believe in institutions and their expressed values.
July 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I’m embarrassed by how sad I feel about the Columbia capitulation because it illuminates how desperately I want to believe in institutions and their expressed values.
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“Anyone who thinks the administration will mutely walk away after the ink is dry needs to look at both the past behavior of autocratic regimes in general and this administration’s in particular,” writes Suresh Naidu, a professor at Columbia University.
Opinion | Why Does Anyone Think Trump Will Uphold His End of a Bargain With Columbia?
When the government is often behaving unchecked by the law, the idea of a binding contract is a fantasy.
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July 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“Anyone who thinks the administration will mutely walk away after the ink is dry needs to look at both the past behavior of autocratic regimes in general and this administration’s in particular,” writes Suresh Naidu, a professor at Columbia University.
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Fantastic and timely intervention by the indispensable Dave Pozen on the true meaning of the Columbia shakedown for higher ed: replacing the rule of law with regulation by deal, which ultimately undermines both regulation and education.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Fantastic and timely intervention by the indispensable Dave Pozen on the true meaning of the Columbia shakedown for higher ed: replacing the rule of law with regulation by deal, which ultimately undermines both regulation and education.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
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Andrea Gibson, Presente! Your legacy will stretch across time and space. Thank you.
July 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Andrea Gibson, Presente! Your legacy will stretch across time and space. Thank you.
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a disaster for many reasons, but I’m especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kids’ educational rights are violated
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
a disaster for many reasons, but I’m especially livid thinking about countless disabled students whose families who will have even less in the way of recourse when their kids’ educational rights are violated
"When a human dies the soul moves through the universe trying to describe how a body trembles when it’s lost, softens when it’s safe, how a wound would heal given nothing but time.
I can’t imagine it, the stars say. Tell us again about goosebumps.
Tell us again about pain."
--Andrea Gibson, Tincture
I can’t imagine it, the stars say. Tell us again about goosebumps.
Tell us again about pain."
--Andrea Gibson, Tincture
July 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"When a human dies the soul moves through the universe trying to describe how a body trembles when it’s lost, softens when it’s safe, how a wound would heal given nothing but time.
I can’t imagine it, the stars say. Tell us again about goosebumps.
Tell us again about pain."
--Andrea Gibson, Tincture
I can’t imagine it, the stars say. Tell us again about goosebumps.
Tell us again about pain."
--Andrea Gibson, Tincture
There’s no framework for any kind of discussion about the fears or the safety of Muslim New Yorkers. It’s as if there’s an entire part of the population that remains invisible until feared.” — Hanif Abdurraqib
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www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There’s no framework for any kind of discussion about the fears or the safety of Muslim New Yorkers. It’s as if there’s an entire part of the population that remains invisible until feared.” — Hanif Abdurraqib
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
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Hanif Abdurraqib is one of my favorite essayists, and essays like this are why. It’s beautiful.
At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
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July 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Hanif Abdurraqib is one of my favorite essayists, and essays like this are why. It’s beautiful.