Mac Abbs-Vicenza
@mac-abbs-vicenza.bsky.social
Former International Logistics Dir, retired. Linguist & Passionate Political Engagement Advocate. Disabled. LGBTQ. Fervent believer in equality of opportunity for all and a return to normalcy, what a pipe dream that is. 🇺🇳🏳️🌈
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Something I've learned in this work is the trauma of a thousand trans kids will never impact people with the same force of a single cis kid being inconvenienced
Some Iowa parents are reporting being asked to formally approve their children’s nicknames for use in class as part of Republican lawmakers’ ongoing war against LGBTQ+ topics in education www.huffpost.com/entry/iowa-s...
August 29, 2023 at 8:17 PM
Something I've learned in this work is the trauma of a thousand trans kids will never impact people with the same force of a single cis kid being inconvenienced
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I like this paper by @chanda.bsky.social very much; it was my first exposure to the concept of epistemic privilege. “Standpoint theory correctly identifies that there are contexts in which Black women are epistemically privileged observers…” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics |...
Abstract In this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusio...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
August 25, 2023 at 5:32 PM
I like this paper by @chanda.bsky.social very much; it was my first exposure to the concept of epistemic privilege. “Standpoint theory correctly identifies that there are contexts in which Black women are epistemically privileged observers…” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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It’s a testament to the folks at The Onion that they are still getting it done when we have real world headlines like this. theintercept.com/2023/08/25/n...
NSA Orders Employees to Spy on the World “With Dignity and Respect”
A rights advocate said, “This is like the CIA putting out a statement saying that going forward they’ll only waterboard people with dignity and respect.”
theintercept.com
August 25, 2023 at 4:51 PM
It’s a testament to the folks at The Onion that they are still getting it done when we have real world headlines like this. theintercept.com/2023/08/25/n...
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Booking photo for Rudy Giuliani has been released:
August 23, 2023 at 8:44 PM
Booking photo for Rudy Giuliani has been released:
1/3 - I simply can NOT contain my glee at the wheels of justice beginning to turn to hold DJT accountable for trying to steal an election. I will NEVER forget when he changed policy for children who crossed the border, meaning they could no longer go to foster homes and were detained instead...
August 25, 2023 at 3:32 AM
1/3 - I simply can NOT contain my glee at the wheels of justice beginning to turn to hold DJT accountable for trying to steal an election. I will NEVER forget when he changed policy for children who crossed the border, meaning they could no longer go to foster homes and were detained instead...