I am currently listening to interviews we conducted of incarcerated disabled Black boys and what they are telling us is how being excluded from Black excellence often made them a target for harm from adults in schools. Black excellence can be wielded as an ableist anti-black weapon.

The complying in advance is (almost?) more horrifying

You don’t have to report to social media what organizing you are doing! That might not be the smart or secure thing to do!!

I repeat:
You don’t have to report to social media what organizing you are doing!!

Take security seriously. We are in a high surveillance/snitch environment.

Just days after this appeared in Chemistry World 🫠 🧪

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

One thing I think we need to grapple with more is how social conservative and fiscal conservative grievances have been collapsed in the conservative mind into the feminization of bureaucracy and regulation. Any rules or enforcement mechanisms—and administrative state itself—are all cast as women.

Please understand something.

The Trump administration knows if courts enforce the law this anti-trans executive order is dead on arrival.

They want you to obey in advance, which will make courts less likely to enforce the law.

When men act like feminism is a favor they are doing for women who should be lauding them for it, that's where the ick comes in.

Right. As you say that, a gut check on feminist men is always how deeply they understand thay feminism frees us all, that men are negatively impacted by patriarchy, and that changing men's interactions with each other and understanding structural power is where the work is.

Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.

lol all teachers know using chat gpt does not equate to ai literacy

Don't be a scab and cross the Amazon picket line this holiday season. Go to a store if you really need it. Making that effort will make you decide if you really need it pretty quickly, won't it?

This piece in part 1 of the Gwacheon NMMCA exhibit on Korean ceramic heritage made me quite emotional. It’s beautiful, and also, I felt, quite sad, like dreams deferred.

sounds like a way to manufacture consent to heavily crack down on anyone who expresses discontent about health insurance companies like they did with that woman in Florida.

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

"Silencing. Erasure,” said Mariam, Mohammed’s mother, who was considering pulling both children from Baldi but ultimately kept them enrolled. “They don’t want us to be loud. They don’t want us to be anything.” theintercept.com/2024/12/03/p... #PhlEd

a school I was at transformed the defunct library into a game room for behavior incentives and we were told to have classroom libraries instead--a huge insult to librarianship

Begging folks to read up on the origin of identity politics from the combahee river collective