Dr. Eileen O’Brien
@dreileenobrien.bsky.social
Sociology Prof. Mom of 2 amazing children. Racism researcher, author, educator. Music lover, fitness enthusiast, cancer survivor 🎶💪🏽
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Beautiful Solidarity, Symbolic Impacts
For activists working for racial justice for decades, the year 2020 stood out from the rest. More people seemed to care about racism than ever before. Due to...
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Use discount code 08BEAUTY to order my new book here: www.ugapress.org/978082037373... Cover Photo Credit: E. Mackey
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Great time at Turn the Page Bookshop for book signing for Beautiful Solidarity, Symbolic Impacts: Racial Justice Uprisings of 2020. This is my setup, I feature some brave photographers from this historic time as well as monuments that toppled. Indie bookshops, who’s next? #booksigning #newbook
August 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Great time at Turn the Page Bookshop for book signing for Beautiful Solidarity, Symbolic Impacts: Racial Justice Uprisings of 2020. This is my setup, I feature some brave photographers from this historic time as well as monuments that toppled. Indie bookshops, who’s next? #booksigning #newbook
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We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.
August 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.
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I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
If you are in the 757 area or even the DMV it’s not too far for a road trip! Come check me out at the Coastal Va Magazine Best of VA Best Independent Bookstore Award winner Turn the Page Bookshop for a signing Sun Aug 14 12-4pm! #newbook #booksigning #sociology #racialjustice
August 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
If you are in the 757 area or even the DMV it’s not too far for a road trip! Come check me out at the Coastal Va Magazine Best of VA Best Independent Bookstore Award winner Turn the Page Bookshop for a signing Sun Aug 14 12-4pm! #newbook #booksigning #sociology #racialjustice
Thank you WYDaily for featuring my book launch party! It was a great time, such a celebration of community and courage! #newbook #racialjustice #sociology wydaily.com/latest/thing...
Local Author Launches New Book at Column 15 | Williamsburg Yorktown Daily
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August 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Thank you WYDaily for featuring my book launch party! It was a great time, such a celebration of community and courage! #newbook #racialjustice #sociology wydaily.com/latest/thing...
Use discount code 08BEAUTY to order my new book here: www.ugapress.org/978082037373... Cover Photo Credit: E. Mackey
Beautiful Solidarity, Symbolic Impacts
For activists working for racial justice for decades, the year 2020 stood out from the rest. More people seemed to care about racism than ever before. Due to...
www.ugapress.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Use discount code 08BEAUTY to order my new book here: www.ugapress.org/978082037373... Cover Photo Credit: E. Mackey
Thank you for featuring my book www.ugapress.org/978082037373... in your series spotlight! 🙏🏽
August 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Thank you for featuring my book www.ugapress.org/978082037373... in your series spotlight! 🙏🏽
Thanks so much for the shout-out! Countdown is on, pre-order! Release date next month!
Explore @ugapress.bsky.social 's excellent "Sociology of Race and Ethnicity" series, with forthcoming titles this season on the 2020 Racial Justice Uprisings and the American college campus experience for women of color. bit.ly/3DDpgcp @dreileenobrien.bsky.social #ReadUP
May 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Thanks so much for the shout-out! Countdown is on, pre-order! Release date next month!
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I wish someone could hear me, but no.. they are not merely trying to “resegregate” the United States. They are trying to destroy the United States and rebuild an authoritarian regime from the rubble, with CEO-dictators in charge. They’re not trying to bring back colored water fountains..
February 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I wish someone could hear me, but no.. they are not merely trying to “resegregate” the United States. They are trying to destroy the United States and rebuild an authoritarian regime from the rubble, with CEO-dictators in charge. They’re not trying to bring back colored water fountains..
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I can’t imagine being so evil that special ed teachers and resources are deemed “government waste”. What the fuck is the government there for? To make bombs?
February 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I can’t imagine being so evil that special ed teachers and resources are deemed “government waste”. What the fuck is the government there for? To make bombs?
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Worlds richest man wants to get rid of food safety, clean water protections, worker, protections, auto safety standards, clean air protections, financial regulations, and any rules that might prevent corporate interest from harming people and the environment. That’s all. This is war.
"If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible," Musk said of his proposal to simply ignore all federal regulation as a baseline.
Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
"If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible," Musk said of his proposal to simply ignore all federal regulation as a baseline.
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February 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Worlds richest man wants to get rid of food safety, clean water protections, worker, protections, auto safety standards, clean air protections, financial regulations, and any rules that might prevent corporate interest from harming people and the environment. That’s all. This is war.
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What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.
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Dear 🧪🔭⚛️:
Stop calling the anti-DEIA executive orders, bans, work stoppages, research stoppages, and whatever else “rollbacks.” The executive orders are Resegregation Orders. These are attempts to return us to segregation.“
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Stop calling the anti-DEIA executive orders, bans, work stoppages, research stoppages, and whatever else “rollbacks.” The executive orders are Resegregation Orders. These are attempts to return us to segregation.“
jmjafrx.substack.com/p/the-resegr...
The Resegregation Orders (Tell the Stories)
We can heal. We can fight. We are the storytellers.
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February 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Dear 🧪🔭⚛️:
Stop calling the anti-DEIA executive orders, bans, work stoppages, research stoppages, and whatever else “rollbacks.” The executive orders are Resegregation Orders. These are attempts to return us to segregation.“
jmjafrx.substack.com/p/the-resegr...
Stop calling the anti-DEIA executive orders, bans, work stoppages, research stoppages, and whatever else “rollbacks.” The executive orders are Resegregation Orders. These are attempts to return us to segregation.“
jmjafrx.substack.com/p/the-resegr...
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First you come for the books, then you attack some small groups of people folks don't really understand to test if others will stop you and insight fear, then have some military parades, then...come for more people...
February 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
First you come for the books, then you attack some small groups of people folks don't really understand to test if others will stop you and insight fear, then have some military parades, then...come for more people...
We sound best when we harmonize!! 🎶❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜
February 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We sound best when we harmonize!! 🎶❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜
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i’m kind of amazed at how this is just the crudest, most obvious n****rbaiting you can imagine. “the people you don’t like, yeah, they are responsible for everything bad.” and it works!
January 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
i’m kind of amazed at how this is just the crudest, most obvious n****rbaiting you can imagine. “the people you don’t like, yeah, they are responsible for everything bad.” and it works!
“A semester ago, I mainly knew of racism and sexism as rude remarks and wage gaps. But throughout this course, I’ve come to realize the intricate and pervasive nature of these forms of oppression and how deeply embedded they are into our society.” (Student paper)
Grading moments of gratitude 🙏🏽
Grading moments of gratitude 🙏🏽
December 26, 2024 at 10:45 PM
“A semester ago, I mainly knew of racism and sexism as rude remarks and wage gaps. But throughout this course, I’ve come to realize the intricate and pervasive nature of these forms of oppression and how deeply embedded they are into our society.” (Student paper)
Grading moments of gratitude 🙏🏽
Grading moments of gratitude 🙏🏽
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Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal.
More info buff.ly/4izyRjO
Deadline 13 January
Editors: @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion
#CfP #Gaza #Palestine
Keffiyeh artwork buff.ly/41uSBir
More info buff.ly/4izyRjO
Deadline 13 January
Editors: @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion
#CfP #Gaza #Palestine
Keffiyeh artwork buff.ly/41uSBir
December 12, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal.
More info buff.ly/4izyRjO
Deadline 13 January
Editors: @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion
#CfP #Gaza #Palestine
Keffiyeh artwork buff.ly/41uSBir
More info buff.ly/4izyRjO
Deadline 13 January
Editors: @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion
#CfP #Gaza #Palestine
Keffiyeh artwork buff.ly/41uSBir
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Choose 20 books, in no particular order, that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BlueSky📚💫 #BookChallenge
Day 15
Day 15
December 11, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Choose 20 books, in no particular order, that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BlueSky📚💫 #BookChallenge
Day 15
Day 15
Choose 20 books, in no particular order, that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BlueSky📚💫 #BookChallenge
Day 14
Day 14
December 10, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Choose 20 books, in no particular order, that have stayed with you, or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BlueSky📚💫 #BookChallenge
Day 14
Day 14