prof. elisa
@elisaindc.bsky.social
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Anthropologist and Educator.
I listen. I read. I teach. I tell stories. I learn languages. I travel.
All for a more just world.
Anthropologist and Educator.
I listen. I read. I teach. I tell stories. I learn languages. I travel.
All for a more just world.
Ode to Garbage
Garbage raised me.
Garbage wrapped its arms around my small body
and called me child,
long before any country ever called me citizen.
Garbage raised me.
Garbage wrapped its arms around my small body
and called me child,
long before any country ever called me citizen.
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Ode to Garbage
Garbage raised me.
Garbage wrapped its arms around my small body
and called me child,
long before any country ever called me citizen.
Garbage raised me.
Garbage wrapped its arms around my small body
and called me child,
long before any country ever called me citizen.
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No young person should have to choose between going to school and staying safe. Educators, administrators, and staff face a choice — either protect and defend students, or stand by while their rights and safety are stripped away.
Get organized to fight back: bit.ly/immigrant-students-action-kit
Get organized to fight back: bit.ly/immigrant-students-action-kit
Civil rights leaders urge schools to shield children, families from ICE operations
A national coalition of civil rights and immigrant rights organizations is urging school districts across the country not allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to enter schools, or …
www.kget.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
No young person should have to choose between going to school and staying safe. Educators, administrators, and staff face a choice — either protect and defend students, or stand by while their rights and safety are stripped away.
Get organized to fight back: bit.ly/immigrant-students-action-kit
Get organized to fight back: bit.ly/immigrant-students-action-kit
"Another school community shattered by gun violence—this time at Evergreen High School in Colorado."
September 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"Another school community shattered by gun violence—this time at Evergreen High School in Colorado."
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After deadly Minneapolis mass shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison push for federal, state and local gun reform.
After Minneapolis mass shooting, two Minnesota leaders push for gun reform
After deadly Minneapolis mass shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison push for federal, state and local gun reform.
n.pr
August 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
After deadly Minneapolis mass shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison push for federal, state and local gun reform.
Can't kick the habit of starting too many books at once, but at least these are connected.
All about how institutions promise "opportunity" while delivering exclusion.
All about how institutions promise "opportunity" while delivering exclusion.
August 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Can't kick the habit of starting too many books at once, but at least these are connected.
All about how institutions promise "opportunity" while delivering exclusion.
All about how institutions promise "opportunity" while delivering exclusion.
Another one... 💔
Minneapolis. August 27, 2025.
We keep teaching students how to hide under desks, how to lock doors, how to stay quiet in the dark. But we don’t teach our leaders how to prevent this.
This is absurd.
Minneapolis. August 27, 2025.
We keep teaching students how to hide under desks, how to lock doors, how to stay quiet in the dark. But we don’t teach our leaders how to prevent this.
This is absurd.
August 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Another one... 💔
Minneapolis. August 27, 2025.
We keep teaching students how to hide under desks, how to lock doors, how to stay quiet in the dark. But we don’t teach our leaders how to prevent this.
This is absurd.
Minneapolis. August 27, 2025.
We keep teaching students how to hide under desks, how to lock doors, how to stay quiet in the dark. But we don’t teach our leaders how to prevent this.
This is absurd.
Trump downplaying slavery reminded me of Italy’s “Italiani brava gente” myth.
Ignoring or sanitizing history doesn’t strengthen identity, it erodes it.
“the only way to understand this country—the only way to love this country—is to tell the truth about it” (Clint Smith)
Ignoring or sanitizing history doesn’t strengthen identity, it erodes it.
“the only way to understand this country—the only way to love this country—is to tell the truth about it” (Clint Smith)
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Trump downplaying slavery reminded me of Italy’s “Italiani brava gente” myth.
Ignoring or sanitizing history doesn’t strengthen identity, it erodes it.
“the only way to understand this country—the only way to love this country—is to tell the truth about it” (Clint Smith)
Ignoring or sanitizing history doesn’t strengthen identity, it erodes it.
“the only way to understand this country—the only way to love this country—is to tell the truth about it” (Clint Smith)
