Rebecca Wanzo
@rawreader.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University. Author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised and The Content of Our Caricature. Black studies, Feminist Theory, Media Studies, Comics.
Looking at the renamed gulf conversation-- this every day, all day.
a bald man with a beard is making a funny face in a dark room .
ALT: a bald man with a beard is making a funny face in a dark room .
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Looking at the renamed gulf conversation-- this every day, all day.
We need major media messaging plans across the board. Where is this happening?
Why aren’t Democrats doing interviews with patients enrolled in the cancer trials that Musk just cut funding for?
February 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We need major media messaging plans across the board. Where is this happening?
I went back to the bad place just to stay on top of media outside of my networks. And I am struck by the fact that for years people have said humanists are not good at helping people understand what they do. But the ignorance around the national science infrastructure is also staggering.
February 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I went back to the bad place just to stay on top of media outside of my networks. And I am struck by the fact that for years people have said humanists are not good at helping people understand what they do. But the ignorance around the national science infrastructure is also staggering.
Is there some kind of national media strategizing I am missing or has the Right captured the media so completely we can’t get messaging out there or escape media bubbles?
February 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Is there some kind of national media strategizing I am missing or has the Right captured the media so completely we can’t get messaging out there or escape media bubbles?
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a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
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February 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
democracyforward.org
Donate—they brought the suit forward to block his constitutional circumvention of the congressional power of the purse.
Donate—they brought the suit forward to block his constitutional circumvention of the congressional power of the purse.
Democracy Forward - We go to court for democracy
Democracy depends on a government that works for all people. We fight vigorously in court against abuses of power and attempts to undermine a government that works for people who need it most.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
democracyforward.org
Donate—they brought the suit forward to block his constitutional circumvention of the congressional power of the purse.
Donate—they brought the suit forward to block his constitutional circumvention of the congressional power of the purse.
This is not a drill. If we can't stop something so blatantly unconstitutional, I don't know how we'll fight anything at all. FIGHT. Donate to the legal organizations that will fight this. Get your representatives to yell about this. NOW.
January 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is not a drill. If we can't stop something so blatantly unconstitutional, I don't know how we'll fight anything at all. FIGHT. Donate to the legal organizations that will fight this. Get your representatives to yell about this. NOW.
There are many places to give money to help people in LA and I will post some other links. Here is one place to start.
if just 1000 of the people following me donated $10 to one of the *over 200* campaigns set up for Black families affected by the fires in Altadena, consider how much money we could raise. please consider a donation to these people in need: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory
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January 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
There are many places to give money to help people in LA and I will post some other links. Here is one place to start.
Banning collaborative works—a frequent call about TV and movies that would punish all the people who worked with someone—is a bad practice.
Something in comics that is so conflicting is that because they are a team, there is collateral damage from one bad actor. Putting all of Gaimen's comics out of print wouldn't hurt him; he is already rich. Who it hurts is all those artists who worked with him and depended on those royalties.
January 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Banning collaborative works—a frequent call about TV and movies that would punish all the people who worked with someone—is a bad practice.
There is just one line I disagree with here—that his career has been marginally affected. The fact that adaptations—collaborations that involve hundreds of other people—is not the measure. A huge number of people will never buy his work or read his work again. For many of us—he’s done. Forever.
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
There is just one line I disagree with here—that his career has been marginally affected. The fact that adaptations—collaborations that involve hundreds of other people—is not the measure. A huge number of people will never buy his work or read his work again. For many of us—he’s done. Forever.
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More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
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Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
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January 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
So honored by this.
It also features a roundtable conversation about the ongoing impact and importance of @rawreader.bsky.social’s seminal essay on Black fandom journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw... with me, Faithe Day, @mediadataequity.bsky.social, @andrecarrington.bsky.social, and Sascha Buchanan.
View of African American acafandom and other strangers: New genealogies of fan studies
| Transformative Works and Cultures
journal.transformativeworks.org
December 16, 2024 at 4:33 PM
So honored by this.
@nytimes.com @cnn.com @npr.org @democracynow.org @slate.bsky.social @nbcnews.com Anybody planning on covering this? This policy sure reads as if you cannot talk about being anything other than white or straight on social media or your content will be banned.
Yesterday I pulled overt references of queerness off my site, my very successful store that sells my books that have queer main characters. Because a few days ago, Meta emailed saying my advertising on their platform will be restricted - my site was categorized as "sexuality and gender identity."
December 14, 2024 at 10:07 PM
@nytimes.com @cnn.com @npr.org @democracynow.org @slate.bsky.social @nbcnews.com Anybody planning on covering this? This policy sure reads as if you cannot talk about being anything other than white or straight on social media or your content will be banned.
That “is diversity over” in Hollywood price is so ahistorical, filled with so many opinions about media production treated as fact that I wonder if anyone gave it even a cursory look for quality.
December 7, 2024 at 6:35 PM
That “is diversity over” in Hollywood price is so ahistorical, filled with so many opinions about media production treated as fact that I wonder if anyone gave it even a cursory look for quality.
My Wicked take: 1) Ervio is fantastic; 2.) it would be great if people find the (more adult) novel; and 3.) I now appreciate that the musical does something very different and there is no need for a hierarchy.
November 30, 2024 at 11:41 PM
My Wicked take: 1) Ervio is fantastic; 2.) it would be great if people find the (more adult) novel; and 3.) I now appreciate that the musical does something very different and there is no need for a hierarchy.
I realized I had to stay on the horrible app for a little while longer to double check citations for my book, and when I logged back in the first three tweets I saw hoped children would not know that Wicked was a book, an antisemitic tweet about feminism, and a racist anti-DEI tweet. Sigh.
November 30, 2024 at 11:27 PM
I realized I had to stay on the horrible app for a little while longer to double check citations for my book, and when I logged back in the first three tweets I saw hoped children would not know that Wicked was a book, an antisemitic tweet about feminism, and a racist anti-DEI tweet. Sigh.
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Weird how black women with Harvard degrees and twenty years of experience are called "DEI hires," but some random dude on Fox News is expertly qualified to run the Department of Whatever.
November 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Weird how black women with Harvard degrees and twenty years of experience are called "DEI hires," but some random dude on Fox News is expertly qualified to run the Department of Whatever.
This.
An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world.
The headline:
The headline:
November 15, 2024 at 11:00 PM
This.
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It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners.
I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.
Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.
Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
BlueSky for Beginners
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
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November 15, 2024 at 1:18 AM
It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners.
I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.
Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.
Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
Finally got myself together to join here. Any tips on how to find community here would be very appreciated.
November 13, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Finally got myself together to join here. Any tips on how to find community here would be very appreciated.