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If you’re at the African Studies Association (ASA) come to our panels on African Women Biographies. We are in International 8. Great panels. Next session starts at 3:45pm.
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you’re at the African Studies Association (ASA) come to our panels on African Women Biographies. We are in International 8. Great panels. Next session starts at 3:45pm.
Survived my first Tornado. #otf #orangetheory
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Survived my first Tornado. #otf #orangetheory
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Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.
newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation
Operation “Charlotte’s Web” continues.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.
newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
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Oh no, the Wayback Machine always remembers. @brookings.edu
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Former Congressman John Porter Elected To Brookings Board of Trustees | Brookings
A Brookings News Release, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Former Congressman John E. Porter Elected To Brookings Board of Trustees
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November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Oh no, the Wayback Machine always remembers. @brookings.edu
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
Boston 😭😭😭on racism the northeast has shown me flames. After living in Atlanta this has been hard!!!
100%. Elizabeth Spiers is right.
Aside:
If you ask Black folk that have lived all over this country 🙋🏿♂️what the most racist city they've lived in is, the most common winner is Boston.
Ironic, but Black folk can't convince white folk that Black folk understand which city is more racist.🤷🏿♂️
Aside:
If you ask Black folk that have lived all over this country 🙋🏿♂️what the most racist city they've lived in is, the most common winner is Boston.
Ironic, but Black folk can't convince white folk that Black folk understand which city is more racist.🤷🏿♂️
If you're talking about me, that is not what I said. The whole thread started bc a bunch of supposed progressives were like fuck the south, buncha racists, and I said that if you think of the south as all MAGA white people you are throwing a lot of people under the bus--especially Black Southerners
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Boston 😭😭😭on racism the northeast has shown me flames. After living in Atlanta this has been hard!!!
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
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Look I’m just trying to prepare y’all for the inevitable VF profile on “the quiet strength” of Majorie Taylor Greene
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Look I’m just trying to prepare y’all for the inevitable VF profile on “the quiet strength” of Majorie Taylor Greene
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The ending of this Harvard Crimson story on Larry Summers. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The ending of this Harvard Crimson story on Larry Summers. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.”
“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.
That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.
That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.”
“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.
That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.
That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
I am actually quite excited to read the new APSR articles. Looks like a good collection of articles.
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I am actually quite excited to read the new APSR articles. Looks like a good collection of articles.
My concern when it comes to southern states is often black, native, and other POC people doing their best to fight a system of deep oppression. While those voters make up small numbers in the bigger scheme of things their votes, voices &efforts matter. We can learn a lot about resistance from them.
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My concern when it comes to southern states is often black, native, and other POC people doing their best to fight a system of deep oppression. While those voters make up small numbers in the bigger scheme of things their votes, voices &efforts matter. We can learn a lot about resistance from them.
Watching the beast in me and do we all agree that we don’t at all trust Meredith Grey’s mother? She is guilty of whatever it is you assume she did.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Watching the beast in me and do we all agree that we don’t at all trust Meredith Grey’s mother? She is guilty of whatever it is you assume she did.
All this conference talk has heightened my anxieties about attending the African studies association. It’s not always a safe space for black African women. We’ve all heard the assault stories from that conference 😭😭😭
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
All this conference talk has heightened my anxieties about attending the African studies association. It’s not always a safe space for black African women. We’ve all heard the assault stories from that conference 😭😭😭
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Does everyone remember the prof who put an ad on Craigslist explicitly wanting to hook up with women going to one of the big conferences? Was it MLA?
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Does everyone remember the prof who put an ad on Craigslist explicitly wanting to hook up with women going to one of the big conferences? Was it MLA?
I think I did this in 2017 when I was last on the job market. Presentations too. Scary and wild.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I think I did this in 2017 when I was last on the job market. Presentations too. Scary and wild.
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I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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In 2012, I had an interview with two interviewers at an R1 when, halfway through the interview in the hotel room, the toilet flushed and a third person emerged from the bathroom. And then, the three proceeded to debate the semantics of my dissertation... without me.
And that story was nothing.
And that story was nothing.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
In 2012, I had an interview with two interviewers at an R1 when, halfway through the interview in the hotel room, the toilet flushed and a third person emerged from the bathroom. And then, the three proceeded to debate the semantics of my dissertation... without me.
And that story was nothing.
And that story was nothing.
I need liberals in the north east to read all of this…
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I need liberals in the north east to read all of this…
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Wildest racism I ever experienced was in Iowa…and these racists believed that they were “very nice people.”
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Wildest racism I ever experienced was in Iowa…and these racists believed that they were “very nice people.”
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Our older leadership just reacts, they don’t it’s their job to sell, they think they should be demagogues and match messaging to however the average voter articulated themselves
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Our older leadership just reacts, they don’t it’s their job to sell, they think they should be demagogues and match messaging to however the average voter articulated themselves
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And the thing is, Republicans don’t think that way. They *determine* what’s winnable. They sell it!
November 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
And the thing is, Republicans don’t think that way. They *determine* what’s winnable. They sell it!
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Alabama’s population is 28% Black and increasingly Hispanic. White Republicans are only able to rule by cheating. And when Dems invest no money in red states that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Alabama’s population is 28% Black and increasingly Hispanic. White Republicans are only able to rule by cheating. And when Dems invest no money in red states that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy
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Calvin Duncan, a former prisoner who was wrongly incarcerated for nearly 30 years, wins Orleans clerk of court race
He ran as someone who struggled for years to retrieve his own case records in his bid to prove his innocence
He ran as someone who struggled for years to retrieve his own case records in his bid to prove his innocence
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Calvin Duncan, a former prisoner who was wrongly incarcerated for nearly 30 years, wins Orleans clerk of court race
He ran as someone who struggled for years to retrieve his own case records in his bid to prove his innocence
He ran as someone who struggled for years to retrieve his own case records in his bid to prove his innocence