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Meghan Cope (she/her)
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Geography prof @ University of Vermont. Striving for thriving, socially just, healthy cities. Also: early 20th C. US geographies of childhood, qualitative research methods, geo-humanities. #MappingAmericanChildhoods https://blog.uvm.edu/mcope-childhoods/
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Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social · Feb 11
Furious about attacks on DEI? Exquisite timing for this awesome new collection edited by Guo Chen and LaToya Eaves @spacedemands.bsky.social with chapters on strategies across academia and community action. Thrilled to be a contributor. @geographers.bsky.social
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How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography
‘At last, a genre setting book for geographers that engages critically with the broad inclusivity framework of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. Drawing globally on diverse voices and experien...
www.e-elgar.com
mcope.bsky.social
Really not sure how I feel about this 😬
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/m...
Are You Resigned to a World of Bad News? Or Do You Need Some ‘Cope’?
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
mcope.bsky.social
Repping our professions - me on the right, and my daughter, who is a medical assistant at a GYN clinic while she applies to med school. #nokings
Two women at a protest, the younger one holds a sign saying "Gender affirming health care saves lives". The other woman, dressed in academic regalia, has a sign saying "Proud to teach DEI".
October 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
mcope.bsky.social
Glad to see Vermont legislators' bipartisan calls for resignation. Let's see swift action against ALL the participants in this disgusting exchange. @politico.com
vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...
Vermont governor calls for Orleans County senator’s resignation over leaked ‘racist, bigoted and antisemitic’ group chat - VTDigger
Political leaders on both sides of the aisle have moved to denounce Sen. Sam Douglass’ remarks and call for his resignation.
vtdigger.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Um, no, it was the scientists, professors, and students, actually. 🙄
Jon Stewart: Authoritarian governments a threat, not comedy
Comedian Jon Stewart says speculation about the future of comedy amid increased audience cultural sensitivity is ignoring a true and enduring threat: authoritarian governments around the world.
apnews.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Local friends, join me in Essex Junction, Vermont!
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Sep 14
In just a few days, you’ve really filled up the map of No Kings Day events for October 18!

Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
A map of the US showing all of the No Kings Day events scheduled for October 18.
September 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
mcope.bsky.social
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August 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Brilliant, as always. And I would add that NSF now stands for "No Such Funding"
ellecordova.bsky.social Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · Jul 31
Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker
August 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Fixed the headline: STUDY PROVES THAT $333 PER MONTH IS A PIDDLING AMOUNT

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
mcope.bsky.social
Imagine the outcry if a country baited stray dogs with food and "killed nearly 100 of them". Israel does this to hungry humans day after day and the world shrugs. 😡

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say www.npr.org/2025/07/20/n...
Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say
Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.
www.npr.org
July 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Gotta fit those concentration camps in somewhere 🤷‍♀️
July 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Hey, @welch.senate.gov and @sanders.senate.gov -- now would be a great time for a quorum vote!
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 29
SENATE FLOOR UPDATE:

HALFWAY.

At 7.50am, after 8 hours and 42 minutes, clerks reach page 470 in reading the 940-page GOP budget cuts bill.

🚨BUT - there no Senators in the Chamber.

If Dems want to delay, why is no-one demanding a quorum call?

Tag your Senator!
June 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
mcope.bsky.social
NOOOOO!!!!!
June 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Maybe relevant for @histchild.bsky.social?
sesamescholar.bsky.social Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · Jun 22
I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC WEB CHILD project. 2,5ys. Aarhus, Denmark. Well paid. Amazing team.
You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods 😄 You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
2.5-year postdoctoral position in South Korean Childhood and Web history 1995-2005 - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Historie, fag, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
June 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
mcope.bsky.social
🥵 (Had to use Montreal as closest big city to us in northern Vermont.)
showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
showyourstripes.info
June 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
mcope.bsky.social
A great list that I come back to again and again. Happy #Juneteenth!
June 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST STAND FIRM.

We must not be dragged into Netanyahu’s illegal war against Iran.
Trump: Don't Drag the US Into Netanyahu's War with Iran | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
June 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
mcope.bsky.social
You know it's bad when the librarians show up. Great signs, rubber duckies, and upbeat vibes (except for the 'Die-In"!) in #BTV
#NoKings #50501movement
Vermont Librarians pop up tent at No Kings protest 6/14/2025 Tombstone signs protesting administrative cuts Rubber ducky rebellion
June 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Burlington, VT says NO KINGS!
Mohsen Mahdawi just finished speaking to our Vermont crowd #NoKingsProtest. Will @sanders.senate.gov be next?
Happy vibes at No Kings protest on a beautiful day in Burlington, Vermont Middle aged white gal in BLM ally t-shirt holding a sign saying "GenX says: we didn't survive the Cold War just to play Russian roulette with democracy"
June 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Ugh. Not surprising but just so mindlessly petty and short-sighted. 😪
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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sarah-mills.bsky.social
My latest for @theconversation.com on military gap years: theconversation.com/uk-looks-to-...
UK looks to military gap years to boost recruitment in the face of growing geopolitical tension
There is an increasing military presence in children and young people’s lives in the UK.
theconversation.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
mcope.bsky.social
MACKEREL 😂😭
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · May 30
GRAPE - Gift Received, Announced Pardon Early

PORK - Presidential Order Rewarding Kleptocracy

BACON - Barron Accepted, College Officially Normalized

MILK - Maliciously Ignorant, Like Kennedy

MACKEREL - Musk Around: Conceal Ketamine, Ecstasy, Ritalin, Ephedrine, LSD
Other Trump White House Food Acronyms
“The term ‘TACO,’ short for Trump Always Chickens Out, has been used to describe how markets tumble on the president’s tariff threats, then rebound...
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May 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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peterhopkins.bsky.social
The introduction @thegj.bsky.social to a set of geographical reflections on the second Trump administration has now been published. Have a read of this here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... and the other papers in the collection here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
May 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
mcope.bsky.social
In the midst of US constitutional crisis, AI overlords, and rising despair, this was such a refreshing and inspirational interruption of my doomscroll. Thank you, @isabela-bonnevera.bsky.social and @bcnuej.bsky.social!
bcnuej.bsky.social BCNUEJ @bcnuej.bsky.social · May 26
Do you or your colleagues practice these principles in #academia?
May 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
mcope.bsky.social
Thank you, @sanders.senate.gov -- I'm proud to be your constituent.
sanders.senate.gov Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · May 15
America is complicit in the slaughter of the Palestinian people.

2.2 million people are trapped. Disease is spreading. Children are starving to death.

And we continue to provide U.S. military aid to Netanyahu.
May 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM