Sandy Alexandre
@sandyer.bsky.social
A some-kind-of consciousness. For Zora, Blackness, reading, thinking, good questions, justice, tomorrows, naps, dancing, sunshine ☀️, laughter, & freedom. Enjoys teaching Literature at MIT. (she/her)
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Over 900 Penn faculty warn of 'hostile takeover' by trustees, donors in response to Marc Rowan letter
Over 900 Penn faculty warn of 'hostile takeover' by trustees, donors in response to Marc Rowan lette...
The faculty's letter to trustees expresses opposition to “attempts by trustees, donors, and other external actors to interfere with our academic policies and to undermine academic freedom.
www.thedp.com
December 22, 2023 at 3:07 PM
Over 900 Penn faculty warn of 'hostile takeover' by trustees, donors in response to Marc Rowan letter
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Pfizer produces the Covid treatment Paxlovid for $13.
They’re charging $1390 for it.
Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high.
Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.
They’re charging $1390 for it.
Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high.
Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.
'For Shame': Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13
"Pfizer treats Paxlovid like a Prada handbag; a luxury for the few rather than a treatment for the many," said one consumer advocate.
www.commondreams.org
October 20, 2023 at 2:07 PM
Pfizer produces the Covid treatment Paxlovid for $13.
They’re charging $1390 for it.
Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high.
Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.
They’re charging $1390 for it.
Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high.
Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.
Will likely raise the question about what, if anything, is proffered as an "optimal gaze" in a book that 1. critiques the white gaze (and deference to it), 2. pathologizes not only staring, but also the bystander effect and passive watching, and 3. finds benign neglect unconscionable?
October 24, 2023 at 3:49 AM
Will likely raise the question about what, if anything, is proffered as an "optimal gaze" in a book that 1. critiques the white gaze (and deference to it), 2. pathologizes not only staring, but also the bystander effect and passive watching, and 3. finds benign neglect unconscionable?
So far in my seminar, we've read Sula after Beloved, and now all I can think about are these characters as Morrison's little "consciousness-raising instigators." Firebrands these two! "Anymore fires in this house, I'm lighting them!"
OK, Sula.
OK, Sula.
October 24, 2023 at 3:18 AM
So far in my seminar, we've read Sula after Beloved, and now all I can think about are these characters as Morrison's little "consciousness-raising instigators." Firebrands these two! "Anymore fires in this house, I'm lighting them!"
OK, Sula.
OK, Sula.
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Please read this from Caster Semenya and remember the humiliating and degrading testing she's been put through is what Republican legislatures have endorsed in their attacks against trans people--up to and including coercive medical treatments forced onto young people whose bodies defy the binary.
Opinion | Running in a Body That’s My Own
Athletes like me should get to compete as ourselves.
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2023 at 12:11 PM
Please read this from Caster Semenya and remember the humiliating and degrading testing she's been put through is what Republican legislatures have endorsed in their attacks against trans people--up to and including coercive medical treatments forced onto young people whose bodies defy the binary.
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hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
September 27, 2023 at 2:56 AM
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
Carcerality is from the zero-sum game school of thought. It is small minded & stingy! There is freedom enough for all of us, and freedom is a condition best enjoyed COMMUNALLY.
I know that whatever quality of freedom we have now PALES in comparison to the freedom we could have IF WE WERE ALL FREE.
I know that whatever quality of freedom we have now PALES in comparison to the freedom we could have IF WE WERE ALL FREE.
October 21, 2023 at 12:36 AM
Carcerality is from the zero-sum game school of thought. It is small minded & stingy! There is freedom enough for all of us, and freedom is a condition best enjoyed COMMUNALLY.
I know that whatever quality of freedom we have now PALES in comparison to the freedom we could have IF WE WERE ALL FREE.
I know that whatever quality of freedom we have now PALES in comparison to the freedom we could have IF WE WERE ALL FREE.
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This is horrific - the antisemitism and islamophobia stirred up rn is so fucking bad. The little boy stabbed to death in Chicago for being Palestinian, the synagogue that was attacked in Tunisia--- it's heartbreaking.
Can you hear the increasing desperation of Jews to get this point across? A synagogue has already been firebombed in Berlin. A Jewish woman on the NYC subway was punched in the face. This is just the beginning. Please help educate your friends and family about the difference between Jews and Israel.
📢📢📢TREATING ISRAEL AS THOUGH IT REPRESENTED ALL JEWS IS FUCKING ANTISEMITIC
October 20, 2023 at 11:18 PM
This is horrific - the antisemitism and islamophobia stirred up rn is so fucking bad. The little boy stabbed to death in Chicago for being Palestinian, the synagogue that was attacked in Tunisia--- it's heartbreaking.
OK. Maybe I wouldn't ever pull a Violet Trace and just sit in the middle of the street out of sheer exhaustion over the troubles of the world, but I totally get the impulse! No shame in being felled by the sheer enormity of the fact that the world is in such a blasé situationship with our well-being
October 20, 2023 at 7:52 PM
OK. Maybe I wouldn't ever pull a Violet Trace and just sit in the middle of the street out of sheer exhaustion over the troubles of the world, but I totally get the impulse! No shame in being felled by the sheer enormity of the fact that the world is in such a blasé situationship with our well-being
Maybe it's weird that my opening gambit on this platform is about JadaPinkettSmith, but what can I say? I'm kinda weird.
Just saw an interview w/ her, and that lady has very clearly done (& continues to do) some serious healing work out loud, and I appreciate & respect the vicarious lessons so much.
Just saw an interview w/ her, and that lady has very clearly done (& continues to do) some serious healing work out loud, and I appreciate & respect the vicarious lessons so much.
October 20, 2023 at 1:10 PM
Maybe it's weird that my opening gambit on this platform is about JadaPinkettSmith, but what can I say? I'm kinda weird.
Just saw an interview w/ her, and that lady has very clearly done (& continues to do) some serious healing work out loud, and I appreciate & respect the vicarious lessons so much.
Just saw an interview w/ her, and that lady has very clearly done (& continues to do) some serious healing work out loud, and I appreciate & respect the vicarious lessons so much.
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Being a mom is hard. Being a Black mom is especially hard. A new study highlights how being a Black mom in the U.S. involves navigating aspects of parenthood that are explicitly tied to dealing with anti-Black racism.
news.ncsu.edu/2023/09/raci...
news.ncsu.edu/2023/09/raci...
How Racism Shapes Black Motherhood in the U.S.
A new study underscores how being a Black mother in the U.S. involves navigating aspects of parenthood that are explicitly tied to dealing with racism.
news.ncsu.edu
September 21, 2023 at 6:24 PM
Being a mom is hard. Being a Black mom is especially hard. A new study highlights how being a Black mom in the U.S. involves navigating aspects of parenthood that are explicitly tied to dealing with anti-Black racism.
news.ncsu.edu/2023/09/raci...
news.ncsu.edu/2023/09/raci...