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Em
@wallflower06.bsky.social
she/they | traveler. foodie. cat mother. |
PhD student, Rhetoric & Composition | social media studies, fan/audience relations, queer feminist shiz
being a plant gay is repotting house plants each day the weather is remotely nice.
April 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Indeed
Men of America - we need tone doing MUCH better
March 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated people in Philadelphia.
The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
www.teenvogue.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
February 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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i mean, fuck
February 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Audacious ideas
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.
January 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Today's small joy: Lawrence High School theatre absolutely slaying opening night of HadesTown and our group of grad student friends coming out to support my theater kid.
January 31, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry.

please share!!!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...
November 19, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Archivists, historians, scribes: your time is now. Yours is among the most urgent work needed.
January 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Yes, it can happen again. 👀
January 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Waking up to learn Meta users are now automatically following potus and vp w/o consent is a scary reminder that we’re breathing in the propaganda.
January 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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ON JANUARY 20TH, READ MLK! READ ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! READ ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION! READ ABOUT JIM CROW!

You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.
January 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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NEW: TikTok users are protesting a potential ban by joining Red Note, aka Xiaohongshu, another Chinese app entirely in Mandarin.

“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one. www.wired.com/story/red-no...
With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
www.wired.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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"In the eyes of autocrats and plutocrats, the future is not a right but a commodity."

-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

hidinginplainsightbook.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Currently overthinking what kinds of content I want to post on this app…
*no I don’t study the algorithm or digital media, why do u ask?
December 12, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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My FIRST EVER PUBLISHED SHORT STORY is out today in Electric Spec! Come for the dragons, stay for the @themountaingoats.bsky.social cameo. electricspec.com/Volume19/Iss...
Welcome to Electric Spec - Shockingly good short works of science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre
electricspec.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:24 PM