Monica Heilman
@writingmonicker.bsky.social
sociologist studying race, multiracial identity & whiteness using qualitative & arts-based methods
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
The cruelty of this order to reverse SNAP distribution is insane.
Republicans are for “state’s rights” when that means promoting segregation and tormenting LGBTQ folks.
When state’s rights means feeding your state’s residents, they are all in for the federal government ensuring starvation.
When state’s rights means feeding your state’s residents, they are all in for the federal government ensuring starvation.
The US Department of Agriculture has ordered that "states must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025".
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The cruelty of this order to reverse SNAP distribution is insane.
Well I've been living under a rock (but maybe that's what finishing a dissertation is) because I had no idea #NaNoWriMo was gone. They've faced plenty of issues, but I've done Nanowrimo off and on since 2015. What a loss.
#writing #writingcommunity
lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...
#writing #writingcommunity
lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Well I've been living under a rock (but maybe that's what finishing a dissertation is) because I had no idea #NaNoWriMo was gone. They've faced plenty of issues, but I've done Nanowrimo off and on since 2015. What a loss.
#writing #writingcommunity
lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...
#writing #writingcommunity
lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...
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🚨 Urgent Appeal 🚨
After two years of war and devastation, we are once again facing genocide, death, and hunger.
💔 My family is trapped in this nightmare… we have no one but you.
Please don’t look away.
📢 Donate and share our story.
gofund.me/d14cbe76
After two years of war and devastation, we are once again facing genocide, death, and hunger.
💔 My family is trapped in this nightmare… we have no one but you.
Please don’t look away.
📢 Donate and share our story.
gofund.me/d14cbe76
October 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🚨 Urgent Appeal 🚨
After two years of war and devastation, we are once again facing genocide, death, and hunger.
💔 My family is trapped in this nightmare… we have no one but you.
Please don’t look away.
📢 Donate and share our story.
gofund.me/d14cbe76
After two years of war and devastation, we are once again facing genocide, death, and hunger.
💔 My family is trapped in this nightmare… we have no one but you.
Please don’t look away.
📢 Donate and share our story.
gofund.me/d14cbe76
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Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
www.al.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
Darn I thought the spicy take would be a critique of #AcWriMo that would let me off the hook.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Darn I thought the spicy take would be a critique of #AcWriMo that would let me off the hook.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Realizing 3 days in that it's #NaNoWriMo/ #AcWriMo! A writing challenge does wonders to motivate my lizard brain... but this year, I really need to think through what would actually be sustainable for me.
Any ideas for adapting/scaling NaNoWriMo welcome!
Any ideas for adapting/scaling NaNoWriMo welcome!
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Realizing 3 days in that it's #NaNoWriMo/ #AcWriMo! A writing challenge does wonders to motivate my lizard brain... but this year, I really need to think through what would actually be sustainable for me.
Any ideas for adapting/scaling NaNoWriMo welcome!
Any ideas for adapting/scaling NaNoWriMo welcome!
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Thinking of this bsky.app/profile/ubiq...
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thinking of this bsky.app/profile/ubiq...
Revisiting Kaba's "We Do This 'Til We Free Us" as my race & ethnicity class heads into our policing & prisons unit.
It's one of my favorite units because while there are still no easy solutions, there's so much to learn from ongoing abolitionist organizing.
It's one of my favorite units because while there are still no easy solutions, there's so much to learn from ongoing abolitionist organizing.
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Revisiting Kaba's "We Do This 'Til We Free Us" as my race & ethnicity class heads into our policing & prisons unit.
It's one of my favorite units because while there are still no easy solutions, there's so much to learn from ongoing abolitionist organizing.
It's one of my favorite units because while there are still no easy solutions, there's so much to learn from ongoing abolitionist organizing.
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The writing / academic-ish / research meme side-quest continues! And with halloween almost upon us, what could be scarier than Reviewer 2? #highered #academicsky #resdev
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The writing / academic-ish / research meme side-quest continues! And with halloween almost upon us, what could be scarier than Reviewer 2? #highered #academicsky #resdev
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Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.
November 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.
"Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown."
apnews.com/live/donald-...
apnews.com/live/donald-...
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown."
apnews.com/live/donald-...
apnews.com/live/donald-...
This could happen in front of any of us at any time. We can't afford to only bear witness.
Look up your local immigrant justice organization. Do the Know Your Rights trainings. Take bystander intervention training (any kind can help). We outnumber them, always.
www.beluminus.org/bystander/
Look up your local immigrant justice organization. Do the Know Your Rights trainings. Take bystander intervention training (any kind can help). We outnumber them, always.
www.beluminus.org/bystander/
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This could happen in front of any of us at any time. We can't afford to only bear witness.
Look up your local immigrant justice organization. Do the Know Your Rights trainings. Take bystander intervention training (any kind can help). We outnumber them, always.
www.beluminus.org/bystander/
Look up your local immigrant justice organization. Do the Know Your Rights trainings. Take bystander intervention training (any kind can help). We outnumber them, always.
www.beluminus.org/bystander/
Piecing together what's happening in this baseball game using only shocked bluesky posts. It's sounding pretty exciting.
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Piecing together what's happening in this baseball game using only shocked bluesky posts. It's sounding pretty exciting.
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A+ post.
In a related vein, I wish people would also consider the ways in which Islamophobic tropes also contribute to and reinforce antisemitism as well. That's not good for Jews either, in the long run!
In a related vein, I wish people would also consider the ways in which Islamophobic tropes also contribute to and reinforce antisemitism as well. That's not good for Jews either, in the long run!
For @forward.com, I wrote about something that has been bothering me: Why does all the talk about Jewish safety in the New York mayoral election not count sexual harassment as a threat to Jewish safety and dignity?
forward.com/opinion/7791...
forward.com/opinion/7791...
In the Mamdani-Cuomo race, why should I choose safety as a Jew over safety as a woman?
Rabbis are denouncing Zohran Mamdani in the race for New York City mayor — without acknowledging the threat to women posed by Andrew Cuomo.
forward.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A+ post.
In a related vein, I wish people would also consider the ways in which Islamophobic tropes also contribute to and reinforce antisemitism as well. That's not good for Jews either, in the long run!
In a related vein, I wish people would also consider the ways in which Islamophobic tropes also contribute to and reinforce antisemitism as well. That's not good for Jews either, in the long run!
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I couldn't be more on board with this. Focusing on corruption/fraud/misconduct at the level of individual scientist appears to be misguided and counterproductive when systemic forces and selection biases are at play. This appears to be true even beyond the context of industry manipulation.
Science has faced these challenges before. However, many think manipulation happens through corruption of scientists. Instead, we highlighted a broader range of mechanisms:
-Burying Internal research
-Selectively publishing
-Design bias
-Selective funding and access.
-Burying Internal research
-Selectively publishing
-Design bias
-Selective funding and access.
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I couldn't be more on board with this. Focusing on corruption/fraud/misconduct at the level of individual scientist appears to be misguided and counterproductive when systemic forces and selection biases are at play. This appears to be true even beyond the context of industry manipulation.
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What shapes immigrant youth’s political interest—identity or opportunity? Across Europe, @madem2876.bsky.social's and coauthor Patricia McManus's findings point to the enduring power of resources over ethnicity.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What shapes immigrant youth’s political interest—identity or opportunity? Across Europe, @madem2876.bsky.social's and coauthor Patricia McManus's findings point to the enduring power of resources over ethnicity.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hello fellow Feds!
I am still recruiting participants for my study on identity and resilience in these times of political unrest.
This study is IRB approved, and your privacy will be closely guarded. We are now only requiring one interview session. I can also be reached on signal @ BeingTeri.53
I am still recruiting participants for my study on identity and resilience in these times of political unrest.
This study is IRB approved, and your privacy will be closely guarded. We are now only requiring one interview session. I can also be reached on signal @ BeingTeri.53
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Hello fellow Feds!
I am still recruiting participants for my study on identity and resilience in these times of political unrest.
This study is IRB approved, and your privacy will be closely guarded. We are now only requiring one interview session. I can also be reached on signal @ BeingTeri.53
I am still recruiting participants for my study on identity and resilience in these times of political unrest.
This study is IRB approved, and your privacy will be closely guarded. We are now only requiring one interview session. I can also be reached on signal @ BeingTeri.53
Timely to revisit from @keeanga.bsky.social and @hammerandhope.bsky.social after this second #NoKings:
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era
Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.
hammerandhope.org
October 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Timely to revisit from @keeanga.bsky.social and @hammerandhope.bsky.social after this second #NoKings:
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
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Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!
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Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza?
We did too... so we asked some to find out.
Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."
We did too... so we asked some to find out.
Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."
Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
Why have so few athletes spoken about Gaza? Fear of backlash, lost sponsors and being branded antisemitic all help explain the silence
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza?
We did too... so we asked some to find out.
Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."
We did too... so we asked some to find out.
Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."
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Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.
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The massive protests in the major cities make for better television, but democracy will be saved or lost in rural, red America.
Talkeetna, Alaska representing with 11% of the population, despite the 42˚ temps.
#NoKings
Talkeetna, Alaska representing with 11% of the population, despite the 42˚ temps.
#NoKings
#NoKings
Talkeetna, Alaska : population, 1,000. Attendance - 111 !!! ❤️
Talkeetna, Alaska : population, 1,000. Attendance - 111 !!! ❤️
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The massive protests in the major cities make for better television, but democracy will be saved or lost in rural, red America.
Talkeetna, Alaska representing with 11% of the population, despite the 42˚ temps.
#NoKings
Talkeetna, Alaska representing with 11% of the population, despite the 42˚ temps.
#NoKings
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No Kings in Louisville, Kentucky: I reported extensively on the 2020 Breonna Taylor protests and I don't think I've every seen as many people protesting in downtown Louisville as I did today.
October 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
No Kings in Louisville, Kentucky: I reported extensively on the 2020 Breonna Taylor protests and I don't think I've every seen as many people protesting in downtown Louisville as I did today.
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Wow. So many people. I wonder what the total turnout of all of today's protests will be? Whatever it is I know it's gonna be staggering
October 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Wow. So many people. I wonder what the total turnout of all of today's protests will be? Whatever it is I know it's gonna be staggering