Jessie Wilkerson
@jessiew.bsky.social
Author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight | Historian of 20th C U.S., Appalachia, labor, women & gender | Associate Prof. at WVU | Views mine. JessicaWilkerson.org
Morgantown folks! Join us this evening for a screening of "King Coal" and conversation with award-winning director Elaine McMillion Sheldon. Doors open at 6:30pm and screening at 7pm in G20 Ming Hsieh Hall on the downtown campus. Free and open to the public. No tickets required.
February 9, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Morgantown folks! Join us this evening for a screening of "King Coal" and conversation with award-winning director Elaine McMillion Sheldon. Doors open at 6:30pm and screening at 7pm in G20 Ming Hsieh Hall on the downtown campus. Free and open to the public. No tickets required.
Reposted by Jessie Wilkerson
Along w/ @rosecasey.bsky.social & @jessiew.bsky.social, I’m honored that our open letter was the second most read piece @bostonreview.bsky.social in 2023.
We’re grateful for everyone’s support. I hope you’ll support BR. They don’t have a paywall: that’s why why our letter could be so widely read.
We’re grateful for everyone’s support. I hope you’ll support BR. They don’t have a paywall: that’s why why our letter could be so widely read.
December 30, 2023 at 1:23 PM
Along w/ @rosecasey.bsky.social & @jessiew.bsky.social, I’m honored that our open letter was the second most read piece @bostonreview.bsky.social in 2023.
We’re grateful for everyone’s support. I hope you’ll support BR. They don’t have a paywall: that’s why why our letter could be so widely read.
We’re grateful for everyone’s support. I hope you’ll support BR. They don’t have a paywall: that’s why why our letter could be so widely read.
I'll be giving the keynote this evening at the exhibit opening of "Women Making History," which includes the stories of women coal miners and how they organized. You can tour the exhibit starting at 5pm, remarks at 6pm.
exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2023/10...
exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2023/10...
October 16, 2023 at 1:45 PM
I'll be giving the keynote this evening at the exhibit opening of "Women Making History," which includes the stories of women coal miners and how they organized. You can tour the exhibit starting at 5pm, remarks at 6pm.
exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2023/10...
exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2023/10...
Reposted by Jessie Wilkerson
The Waffle House is so much more than a chain of diners in the South. It’s an ad hoc social support system and a beloved institution. That labor organizing has come to Waffle House feels like real social change to me. Remarkable.
🧇✊ Waffle House workers are holding simultaneous speak outs all across the South today to launch a petition of demands, including a $25/hr minimum wage for all workers.
Sign & share the petition: bit.ly/Smothered-Covered
Sign & share the petition: bit.ly/Smothered-Covered
October 1, 2023 at 8:04 AM
The Waffle House is so much more than a chain of diners in the South. It’s an ad hoc social support system and a beloved institution. That labor organizing has come to Waffle House feels like real social change to me. Remarkable.
Looking forward to this!
Attention all, we are excited to announce our upcoming Book Forum with Margot Canaday to discuss her new book Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (2023). This event is free, and you can join us on Sept 29 from 2-4pm. Hope to see you there!
September 21, 2023 at 9:46 PM
Looking forward to this!
Reposted by Jessie Wilkerson
🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.
An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net
September 8, 2023 at 5:41 PM
🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
Reposted by Jessie Wilkerson
Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.
An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net
September 7, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.