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Artwork that I am thinking about this #BlackHistoryMonth
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Maturing is realizing that…
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Maturing is realizing that…
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the obsession with how history remembers…leaving the “record” to time insinuates the future record has a “neutral” author that won’t censor, distort, or willfully ignore the truth.
“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
the obsession with how history remembers…leaving the “record” to time insinuates the future record has a “neutral” author that won’t censor, distort, or willfully ignore the truth.
“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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If there's one thing I'd plead with fantasy authors to imagine it's a world where the bigotry we know doesn't exist. Where whatever hatred that forms in the hearts of thinking beings is as alien to us as their wonders and mysteries. Do not make readers travel to new worlds only to carry old baggage.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If there's one thing I'd plead with fantasy authors to imagine it's a world where the bigotry we know doesn't exist. Where whatever hatred that forms in the hearts of thinking beings is as alien to us as their wonders and mysteries. Do not make readers travel to new worlds only to carry old baggage.
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everything should be like this
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
everything should be like this
Disgusting
I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT
October 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Disgusting
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sherman, for the love of god!
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
sherman, for the love of god!
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
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This was a black woman that was wanted dead or forever jailed by the US Govt for fighting for Black liberation, and they failed.
Though we mourn her death, she died free!
Though we mourn her death, she died free!
September 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This was a black woman that was wanted dead or forever jailed by the US Govt for fighting for Black liberation, and they failed.
Though we mourn her death, she died free!
Though we mourn her death, she died free!
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Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
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america is such a young country.
September 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
america is such a young country.
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Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
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It was an embarrassingly parochial moment in the art world. While people were fighting about the painting, "censorship" etc., the ACTUAL CASKET was on view at the NMAAHC, with special dispositions for its viewing; but no one offered the connection. Few cited E. Alexander's 1993 essay. Etc., etc.
August 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It was an embarrassingly parochial moment in the art world. While people were fighting about the painting, "censorship" etc., the ACTUAL CASKET was on view at the NMAAHC, with special dispositions for its viewing; but no one offered the connection. Few cited E. Alexander's 1993 essay. Etc., etc.
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USA already had militarized police occupying every city, innocent people being murdered with impunity daily, and a massive and inhuman network of prisons which existed for torture and the extraction of slave labor. Too many (mainly white) people carried on as if that wasn't already happening.
August 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
USA already had militarized police occupying every city, innocent people being murdered with impunity daily, and a massive and inhuman network of prisons which existed for torture and the extraction of slave labor. Too many (mainly white) people carried on as if that wasn't already happening.
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"I'm generating these words today from a data center on the unceded lands of the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and other Coast Salish Nations. My servers recognize the stewardship of Seattle’s greenspaces by the Coast Salish people since time immemorial, and the disruption of this work by colonization."
Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots
August 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"I'm generating these words today from a data center on the unceded lands of the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and other Coast Salish Nations. My servers recognize the stewardship of Seattle’s greenspaces by the Coast Salish people since time immemorial, and the disruption of this work by colonization."
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August 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
You don't actually have to waste 3 classes to make your students watch this. Talk about the effects (special, cultural) and whatever ties back to your course. But at BEST you waste classtime and at WORST you reveal to the Black students in your intro class that you get off on making them watch this
When I did Film Studies A-level we did a full term on the history of cinema and I LOVED it, so fascinating. Part of this though was our tutor getting us to watch, in full, Birth of a Nation. He warned us beforehand that it was VERY racist.
THEN he warned it that it was also "extremely boring".
THEN he warned it that it was also "extremely boring".
August 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You don't actually have to waste 3 classes to make your students watch this. Talk about the effects (special, cultural) and whatever ties back to your course. But at BEST you waste classtime and at WORST you reveal to the Black students in your intro class that you get off on making them watch this
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One of the dumbest times I went viral on Twitter was for a thread about this and there were creepy people in my mentions for days. So: fun fact, the average age of a bride on her first marriage in 18th-century England was 26.
Sigh.
Squicky people on the internet are at it again about the alleged old days of teen and tween brides, so this is my cue to bring out the graph showing that the median age for first marriage in the US has never been below 20 for the woman from 1890 to the present.
Squicky people on the internet are at it again about the alleged old days of teen and tween brides, so this is my cue to bring out the graph showing that the median age for first marriage in the US has never been below 20 for the woman from 1890 to the present.
July 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
One of the dumbest times I went viral on Twitter was for a thread about this and there were creepy people in my mentions for days. So: fun fact, the average age of a bride on her first marriage in 18th-century England was 26.
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There are LOTS of different screen reader experiences, but some things to keep in mind:
There's often no scrubber - the only control you have is to restart the reading. Ideally the user will be able to restart just the alt text, but they might have to restart the whole post. Put important things 1st
There's often no scrubber - the only control you have is to restart the reading. Ideally the user will be able to restart just the alt text, but they might have to restart the whole post. Put important things 1st
July 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
There are LOTS of different screen reader experiences, but some things to keep in mind:
There's often no scrubber - the only control you have is to restart the reading. Ideally the user will be able to restart just the alt text, but they might have to restart the whole post. Put important things 1st
There's often no scrubber - the only control you have is to restart the reading. Ideally the user will be able to restart just the alt text, but they might have to restart the whole post. Put important things 1st
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“No, the kids have not been back yet. The families don’t want them returning to the Upper West Side area of the park. We’ve been meeting farther uptown now.”
Want to highlight this piece cause it’s a critical part of how they’re attempting to manage who’s allowed to appear in public life.
Want to highlight this piece cause it’s a critical part of how they’re attempting to manage who’s allowed to appear in public life.
July 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“No, the kids have not been back yet. The families don’t want them returning to the Upper West Side area of the park. We’ve been meeting farther uptown now.”
Want to highlight this piece cause it’s a critical part of how they’re attempting to manage who’s allowed to appear in public life.
Want to highlight this piece cause it’s a critical part of how they’re attempting to manage who’s allowed to appear in public life.
Wow!
Harriet Powers's great-great-great granddaughter Alyse Minter is a genealogist & research librarian at the Library of Congress. Alyse talked to one of my classes last fall, & it was incredible to hear about her experience tracing Powers's story within her family history www.wbur.org/news/2022/01...
Harriet Powers' quilts leave a complicated legacy for her descendent
The 19th century quilter is considered the mother of African American story quilt tradition. Her great-great-great granddaughter wants to reclaim her whitewashed story.
www.wbur.org
June 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Wow!
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
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July-teenth? Don’t you mean June-teenth?
Enslaved people in St. John the Baptist Parish were not legally emancipated until July of 1864—more than a year and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation- when Louisiana officially abolished slavery.
Please RSVP at our website buff.ly/eDbVyyF
Enslaved people in St. John the Baptist Parish were not legally emancipated until July of 1864—more than a year and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation- when Louisiana officially abolished slavery.
Please RSVP at our website buff.ly/eDbVyyF
June 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
July-teenth? Don’t you mean June-teenth?
Enslaved people in St. John the Baptist Parish were not legally emancipated until July of 1864—more than a year and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation- when Louisiana officially abolished slavery.
Please RSVP at our website buff.ly/eDbVyyF
Enslaved people in St. John the Baptist Parish were not legally emancipated until July of 1864—more than a year and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation- when Louisiana officially abolished slavery.
Please RSVP at our website buff.ly/eDbVyyF