Jacki Marie Putnam
@jackimarieputnam.bsky.social
Art Historian & Educator
PhD Candidate
researching visual disruptions of linear/colonizer time in contemporary representations of Indigeneity.
Trying to unlearn colonial systems of thought.
#landback
She/They
PhD Candidate
researching visual disruptions of linear/colonizer time in contemporary representations of Indigeneity.
Trying to unlearn colonial systems of thought.
#landback
She/They
There's something so horrifying about hearing helicopters circling my neighborhood for hours as I develop a contingency plan in case I need to move my class online on Monday to protect my students if masked terrorists show up on campus again. This is the first time I've ever felt unsafe in Chicago.
October 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
There's something so horrifying about hearing helicopters circling my neighborhood for hours as I develop a contingency plan in case I need to move my class online on Monday to protect my students if masked terrorists show up on campus again. This is the first time I've ever felt unsafe in Chicago.
Of COURSE my autism is caused by Tylenol. It is CLEARLY in no way related to the fact that at least three generations of my family show strong ASD characteristics. That's totally just a coincidence. 🙃
September 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Of COURSE my autism is caused by Tylenol. It is CLEARLY in no way related to the fact that at least three generations of my family show strong ASD characteristics. That's totally just a coincidence. 🙃
I'm seeing a lot of discourse on how universities are radicalizing students from people who have not set foot on a college campus in decades.
I'm lucky if 5% of my students are doing the readings/ paying attention at any given moment. I couldn't radicalize them if I tried.
I'm lucky if 5% of my students are doing the readings/ paying attention at any given moment. I couldn't radicalize them if I tried.
September 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I'm seeing a lot of discourse on how universities are radicalizing students from people who have not set foot on a college campus in decades.
I'm lucky if 5% of my students are doing the readings/ paying attention at any given moment. I couldn't radicalize them if I tried.
I'm lucky if 5% of my students are doing the readings/ paying attention at any given moment. I couldn't radicalize them if I tried.
Wonderful essay on the relevance of art history penned by a former program-mate ...can't wait to share this with my students who might see our course as a throwaway elective. www.chronicle.com/article/want...
Opinion | Want to Save Democracy? Teach Art History.
Visual comparison cultivates thinking skills that are vital to political life.
www.chronicle.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Wonderful essay on the relevance of art history penned by a former program-mate ...can't wait to share this with my students who might see our course as a throwaway elective. www.chronicle.com/article/want...
I literally have a lecture prepared from my intro to art class that breaks down how this painting is genocidal/anti-indigenous/Christian Colonizer propaganda, in case anyone wants to say it's "just a painting"
July 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I literally have a lecture prepared from my intro to art class that breaks down how this painting is genocidal/anti-indigenous/Christian Colonizer propaganda, in case anyone wants to say it's "just a painting"
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A reminder that capitalism, individualism, consumerism, all these systems we are having to survive right now aren’t the ONLY systems or ways to live or be. They aren’t even the only ways that have ever existed on this continent. You’ve just been lied to, in order to make you believe that they are.
July 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A reminder that capitalism, individualism, consumerism, all these systems we are having to survive right now aren’t the ONLY systems or ways to live or be. They aren’t even the only ways that have ever existed on this continent. You’ve just been lied to, in order to make you believe that they are.
Took a 3 hour detour on my way to an archive just to see @jeremydennis.bsky.social's show at the Garrison Art Center and it was well worth the trip.
June 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Took a 3 hour detour on my way to an archive just to see @jeremydennis.bsky.social's show at the Garrison Art Center and it was well worth the trip.
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on point meme by Abhiram Krishna.
May 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
on point meme by Abhiram Krishna.
I'm child-free...why do I still have to deal with toddler-level bs?
May 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I'm child-free...why do I still have to deal with toddler-level bs?
Brb, booby trapping my house, Home Alone style.
ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
April 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Brb, booby trapping my house, Home Alone style.
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The only appropriate response for academics having necessary classes cancelled...
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The only appropriate response for academics having necessary classes cancelled...
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
When I was a fencer I used to beat the boys all the time. It's not uncommon to compete with someone of the opposite gender.
There's literally no reason to refuse to fence a trans person other than transphobia. Just say you're a bigot and move along.
There's literally no reason to refuse to fence a trans person other than transphobia. Just say you're a bigot and move along.
USA Fencing disqualifies athlete for refusing to compete against transgender woman
A female fencer was disqualified from a competition for refusing to compete against a transgender opponent, USA Fencing told ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
When I was a fencer I used to beat the boys all the time. It's not uncommon to compete with someone of the opposite gender.
There's literally no reason to refuse to fence a trans person other than transphobia. Just say you're a bigot and move along.
There's literally no reason to refuse to fence a trans person other than transphobia. Just say you're a bigot and move along.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
I swear, with all the funding drying up/my dissertation project being blacklisted as "woke" and "dei", I'm starting to think I might need to set up a damn GoFundMe just to finance my research/ pay my artist collaborators 🫠 #phdsky #academicsky
March 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I swear, with all the funding drying up/my dissertation project being blacklisted as "woke" and "dei", I'm starting to think I might need to set up a damn GoFundMe just to finance my research/ pay my artist collaborators 🫠 #phdsky #academicsky
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This is giving "you didn't let my child in so it's clearly discrimination" vibes.
Also, I've NEVER looked at a room full of grad students and thought, "gee, there's so few white people here."
Also, I've NEVER looked at a room full of grad students and thought, "gee, there's so few white people here."
March 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is giving "you didn't let my child in so it's clearly discrimination" vibes.
Also, I've NEVER looked at a room full of grad students and thought, "gee, there's so few white people here."
Also, I've NEVER looked at a room full of grad students and thought, "gee, there's so few white people here."
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MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy.
SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.
SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.
March 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy.
SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.
SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.
Free speech for Nazis, jail time for students. But sure, wokeness is the real threat to freedom. 🙄
March 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Free speech for Nazis, jail time for students. But sure, wokeness is the real threat to freedom. 🙄
Actual footage of my PhD advisor and I trying to act like it's not an objectively awful time to be a baby academic in the humanities rn #academicsky #phdsky
a man wearing a schitts creek shirt smiles
ALT: a man wearing a schitts creek shirt smiles
media.tenor.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Actual footage of my PhD advisor and I trying to act like it's not an objectively awful time to be a baby academic in the humanities rn #academicsky #phdsky
Week 7 in a row of spending ten minutes considering "de-wokifying" my lectures before deciding fuck it, let them fire me if they have an issue. I'd rather go back to serving coffee for a living than be complicit in white/straightwashing art history to protect fragile egos.
February 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Week 7 in a row of spending ten minutes considering "de-wokifying" my lectures before deciding fuck it, let them fire me if they have an issue. I'd rather go back to serving coffee for a living than be complicit in white/straightwashing art history to protect fragile egos.
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