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Not to yuck anyone's yum, but why are so many people who are *really* excited to get back to the office so bothered by those of us who are doing just fine working from home? I mean, I'm clearly working. But folks are *bothered.* What is it?
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Why are we still relying on symptoms as a guide for coronavirus risk when people can be asymptomatic and contagious?
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We are all aware that more COVID infections do not make us individually stronger or build up our immune systems, right?
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Did I ever tell you all about the time my 4th grade teacher accused me (new student) of plagiarism in front of the class bc "no 9 year old uses those words?" If my mom hadn't come and put her in her place in front of the principal, I might have stopped shining right then & there.
Always back the teacher in front of your child. That's my advice to parents. You can take it or leave it. Up to you.
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@quintabrunson
@JeanneAllen
Imagine thinking that where you were sent to school *as a child* should exclude you from critiquing education systems as an adult.
Weird. This is weird.
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Interesting that a lot of people are answering this with reasons that *they* want to go back into the office. Or are being uncritical about how their version of “collaboration” was just interrupting other people at will. Anyhow, muting now! (I have work to do)
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Clinicians, please stop these “annoy” tweets. Too many of your colleagues don’t understand the difference between punching up and punching down.
Punching down on patients -especially in public - fuels distrust. It isn’t worth the engagement points.
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My institution has changed travel procedures so that, whenever possible, the department pre-pays (rather than reimbursing) travel costs. IMO, that’s an example of a real “diversity effort” and in grateful for it (especially for my students).
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Making a plea to those of us with institutional power/responsibility. When we plan events/build spaces, let’s treat COVID seriously. We set the norms that frame our colleagues’ choices & trying to be “cool” about it endangers us all. We can build much better systems. Let’s try.
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Wait until people find out that there are university presidents who have no publications.
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In 30 minutes I’ll officially be a tenured Associate professor.
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So can we expect full funding of school libraries and increased support for librarianship now that we are so focused on the importance of proper citation and attribution? Information literacy for all, yes?
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A lot of responses on why this is a bad take. I’m most alarmed bc she doesn’t seem to understand that this isn’t a one-shot disease. She says, “already got it” like you can only catch COVID once.
Risks increase with each re-infection.
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@samuelmehr
Our household operates under a lab mentoring model. The oldest is responsible for the middle, who is responsible for the Tiniest, who is responsible for the dog. It is a perfectly oiled machine. I just put my name on the papers once they're done.
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Conference season is starting up again & I want to ask something of my white colleagues. If you are traveling (esp.internationally) w/a Black colleague & you find them singled out for "extra scrutiny" please wait with them, if you can. Don't just leave them alone. Don't freeze.
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The lesson I learned that day was that my mother knew me, and saw me, and believed me & that while I might need to be a bit wary of my teacher, my always-red-wearing-loved-elephants (even though I didn't know what that meant back then) principal also thought I was amazing. 🥰
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Also, please remember that “COVID cool” is inherently ableist, racist, & classist. COVID doesn’t impact us all equally. The rush back to in-person events and “free” spaces forces those who suffer the most harm to choose between their lives/long-term disability and their careers.
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Shout out to all the other assistant professors trying to assemble tenure dossiers here at the end of the world.
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I am frustrated by the push to pretend that everything is ok. It feels like some of us who have experienced the pandemic primarily as interruption and social isolation (as opposed to personal or family risk, sickness and death) can't understand it as anything other than that.
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Y'all my mommy had my BACK. I still think on that day and smile.
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It is frustrating to watch people who claim to value equity & inclusion build institutions/spaces that force people to choose between their careers and their lives/health. For the sake of comfort, or to strengthen (an exclusionary) community. We can do better.
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All this talk about Tuskegee. What about how Black people were treated *this past summer*?
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Y'all. My first doctoral student got a job. A job. She's going to be a whole professor and I am so proud.
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Folks. There are APA citation formats for talks, lectures and presentations. Avail yourself of them. Some of us were taught it was ok to be “heavily inspired” by others’ work w/o attribution. Don’t let the era of recorded zoom talks catch you on the wrong side of plagiarism.
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Going to point out that this post is not about dumping on teachers. It’s about automatically disbelieving children.
@cydney0071
@DrPetra
I wouldn’t say this either. I’ve had teachers whom I’ve LOVED and some who were just “meh.” Teaching is hard. My mom is a teacher. My sister is a teacher. I support my kids’ teachers. But none of that means I will *automatically*/always believe any adult over my children.
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This mask policy is what happens when we focus our incentive structures on the loudest and most privileged.
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If I haven’t answered your email today it’s because I desperately underestimated what it would mean to get a new puppy during the first week of school.
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To my 1st-year faculty sister scholars: There is a subset of students for whom a Black woman professor will always be unacceptable. Don't internalize or spend energy trying to legitimize yourself to them. Focus on those who are happy you are there and inspired by your presence.
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Just watched the Caron Nazario video. I can't watch these videos anymore. But I watched that one, and...we really can't do anything and just be left in peace. He was so measured and so calm and reassuring, and...there really isn't anything we can do.
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“exploited doors that were unlocked”
As a child, the "the doors of the church are open" meant safety and community. As a teen/adult, it meant forgiveness and the responsibility to protect, love, and care for others.
I guess this is what terrorism does. Exploit unlocked doors.
A gunman who expressed hatred of Jews exploited doors that were unlocked for worship to target a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 people and wounding six.
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Just got an email saying IEP services have been suspended for
@DurhamPublicSch
. But IEP services (which include modification of work and accommodations) ensure that my daughter can actually access her education. So, what are we supposed to do?
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Remembering that time I was making myself a cup of tea at a conference (getting my mind right for a talk I was about to give) when a fellow attendee stopped me to tell me that the breakfast was “for conference attendees only” and asked to see my badge.
#ThingsThatMakeMeTired
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So I’m saying here. People, please don’t police each other at conferences. Unless it is explicitly your job, you don’t need to challenge people who don’t “look like they belong,” or who don’t “fit” or just make you uncomfortable. Sometimes your “gut feeling “ is just racism.
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So…
Does having a dog make white people talk to you more?
Because I now know the names of 10 more of my neighbors.
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A bit of personal news, as they say.
Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the
@iSchoolUMD
in the fall as an Associate Professor (with tenure). I will also be moving into the Associate Director position for iPAC.
Rolling up my sleeves - exciting things to come!!!
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Good news this morning. I got tenure!!!
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Middle Little is currently awed by
@Lin_Manuel
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Sat in a meeting this week where POC described a specific thing they needed to be supported. There was an awkward silence, they were thanked for their input, and the meeting moved on. To discussing an upcoming diversity survey.
This kind of thing happens so frequently.
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And people don’t understand why Black faculty get so anxious about the tenure and promotion process. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard “you have nothing to worry about.” We ALWAYS have something to worry about.
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I’m supposed to be in bed but the weight of the summer just hit me, as I realized that so much happened and summer is over and no rest is coming. We worked all the way through with no respite and...A break just...isn’t going to happen.
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Doesn’t UNC already have a school that does th…nevermind.
After years of student interest, UNC will be opening the School of Data Science and Society, projected to fully launch in fall 2022.
Courses will teach applications of data science while also exploring how it impacts society.
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The other part that confuses me is, well, I thought socialists were more hands on in the whole “organizing for change” thing. Like with education and solidarity and all that…?
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If you are an academic in 2019 and you are still saying "POC don't do __ because they aren't good at it" or "because they aren't interested in__" or "they just don't apply to __" then you need to use your research skills to do some learning about equity and institutional racism.
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None of my Black academic friends are surprised about this admissions scandal. But it is nice to see people having conversations about how “academic meritocracy” is pretty much bs.
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We should be paying attention to
#PrisonStrike2018
. Disabled people are disproportionately imprisoned in the U.S. The rights of incarcerated people is also a disability rights issue.
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I drew another thing. This time I put words on it.
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Y’all random Twitter folks better leave Mychal alone. 😒
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Libraries and librarianship aren't just repositories - they don't just hold memory (although that is important). They are also about public access to data/information, literacies, info/data use, dataviz, social/political action, inclusion, local organizing.
Or they should be.
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@cydney0071
@DrPetra
I wouldn’t say this either. I’ve had teachers whom I’ve LOVED and some who were just “meh.” Teaching is hard. My mom is a teacher. My sister is a teacher. I support my kids’ teachers. But none of that means I will *automatically*/always believe any adult over my children.
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Some of y’all keep your racist bones in your gut (that’s why you can’t find them when you go looking).
See something? Ask yourself “should I *really* say something or should I just mind my own business?”
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This tweet makes me wonder how many physicians understand insurance (especially Medicaid). Or that most people don’t actually have choice in where they get their care. And so many assumptions about the value of consent. This is...not a good take.
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.
@sarahkendzior
wrote that we should write down our realities/values. I see why now. Talismans against manipulation.
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@Imani_Barbarin
Real talk. My brain read her second tweet as “I’m hoping to sell 3 tickets…” I read it three times before my brain processed what was actually there.
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Messaged a sister scholar and she said “Call him out. Talk to the organizers.” But I couldn’t do that and also give my talk. Addressing other people’s foolishness takes a toll - it takes a while to get back into a productive headspace. Plus, it’s exhausting.
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I sometimes wonder If universities know (or care) that the way they treat faculty of color has ramifications beyond that individual. Younger scholars (students and junior faculty) watch and listen. We talk. This is your “pipeline problem” right here.
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Three really cool things from today:
1. Breakfast in bed.
2. I got probably the best letter ever from a group of graduating students that made me cry.
3. I was awarded our School’s award for teaching excellence.
This Mother’s Day has been pretty cool so far.
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#boycottcoke
is a perfect example of how things that used to just be "good values" are now political somehow. The ad first aired in 2014.
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@michaelharriot
0. Aunty who made the macaroni’s plate is fixed before food comes out -from the “special” pans.
Now, front of the house.
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7. Anybody who gotta get to work.
5. Retirees.
2. I’m assuming the principal is Black and good ppl if they are at the cookout.
Everybody else.
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@blackforager
This is the truth - the pressure to excuse your every absence is really strong and I also get the guilts. But I've also learned that if you never take a break your body will make you and it will be SO much worse.
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The very idea that people don’t want to be perceived as a “product of affirmative action” when affirmative action was about repairing and improving racist *institutions* should show us that any achievement by “minorities” would/will be vilified. This won’t change that.
If you think getting rid of affirmative action is going to positively impact the “stereotypes that attach to all minorities” you might want to read some history.
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Pastor just made the connection that I tried to make yesterday in a meeting.
For Black people, the removal of workplace protections around COVID and police violence all come down to the same racism and the same phrase - “we can’t breathe.”
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Still feeling angry and smothered by the whole Kavanaugh fiasco. But also, this is how Black people feel when police officers kill unarmed Black people and aren't held to account. Imagine this feeling, multiple times a year.
I'm tired, y'all. My mind is unsettled.
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YouTube's CEO claiming that YouTube is a library (but that it cannot curate its collection or make decisions about authority) shows us just how much work we need to do on the public's understanding of libraries.
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@tressiemcphd
Whew. Also places to live.
"You should look in [their town]! Tons of space, close knit community - such a country, family feel! The kids could run for miles and never see another soul - I bet you'd LOVE it!" Me:
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I'ma let y'all finish but, academics...is it too soon to talk about what is going to happen when faculty of of color (esp Black faculty) are asked to police White folks' social distancing/mask use on campus? Or no...does that not apply here? Not a good time? Oh. Ok. 😒
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Amplifying this piece by
@Imani_Barbarin
on marriage inequality, capitalism, and how we force many disabled folks to choose between essential care/services and marriage.
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A brief note, on the latest ALA thing:
1. Descriptive Ethics - study of what people think is right (sometimes, what is legal)
2. Normative Ethics - examination of what actually constitutes ethical action.
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Think, "What would I do if I were traveling with a spouse, or close friend? What level of care should I take for their well-being?" Not saying you need to be banging on embassy doors, but especially now, please don't just abandon your peers in international airports. That is all.
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I’ve tried to explain this to colleagues three times in the last month. Many people see questioning a process or asking for an exception to a “rule” as disrespectful. Creating a system where people are required to speak up to have their needs met favors the already privileged.
Today I told my class that working class/poor students are less likely to know rules can be bent, and less likely to ask to bend them, or for other kinds of help, and I got an email from a sophomore saying that helped her make sense of why her first year was so hard.
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Thinking about how sometimes people want your actual input and sometimes they want the legitimacy that comes from your participation, and what that looks like. And how to avoid the latter.
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So we have folks pushing others to get "back to normal" and "focus on the positive" when they are mourning recent losses (people are still dying), family members in critical and hospice care, and managing personal risk. And just not understanding why they can't. It's untenable.
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My kids live such a different life than I did. Food-related things they've said this week:
"Wait. When did you pick this Kale? Today? Ok - I'll have some."
"Do we have any truffle salt left?"
"Can I have some vinegar for my ice cream? The black one."
Whose children are these?
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Hi.
Please stop telling people to "do something fun" or "drink tea" or "relax" about *this.*
People are worried about their friends and family dying. Not everyone can stay home. Also, this affects some communities more than others. Show some empathy.
Thanks.
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Saying that you "just froze" doesn't help them. So I'm asking that you think through possible responses now. Sometimes you can wait with them. You should ask if that is possible. Sometimes you can wait for them. You should ask if that is possible (see the trend here?).
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Reminder that not everyone reads books. And not just for the typical “literacy” reasons. Not everyone can attend to long form prose (a culturally specific format), and there are several other, equally valid ways to pass knowledge and build wisdom. Maybe reflect on your truisms.
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Libraries and librarians used to fight this exact sort of thing. It was one of the few civil liberties library organizations would fight the federal government to protect.
*She sighed with nostalgia, and looked out at the pattering rain...*
“Keyword warrants” demand that a search engine turn over a list of identifiers for every Internet user who performed a particular search within a time window.
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So many Black people are reacting to the wrestler video because we all know that feeling. "Your personhood is so inconvenient. Why can't you just ignore the racism and be a team player so our lives can be easier (nevermind what it might do to you)?
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On the other hand, those who have been sick, who have lost loved ones, have loved ones who could still get very sick, or who know that our sickness or death would be dismissed still experience the pandemic as danger and loss and grief. And these aren't the same experiences.
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There are many economic reasons loan forgiveness is good for everyone (including those without loans). And the fairness argument is bunk. The rising cost of higher ed is both unfair and unsustainable.
But on a personal level? Learn to be happy for people. Envy rots the bones.
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Lost in a corn maze being led by a preschooler. Send help.
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Few things as scary/humiliating as being singled out of a group of 15-20 of colleagues by airport security/customs/restaurants/hotels in a country (where you don't speak the language) for "extra scrutiny." Especially when those colleagues just leave you alone/behind.
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Obligatory Okoye GIF here.
[GIF: Okoye from Black Panther, wearing red and gold armor, saying "Don't freeze."]
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MY DOC STUDENT IS A WHOLE DOCTOR! Join me in congratulating
@MeganThreats
for passing her dissertation defense!!!
I'm so proud of you!!!
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I would argue that diversity isn't a core value in LIS programs. Also, even if it is a value, inclusion is not just something you believe, or value - it is a set of actions that require a knowledge base and practiced skills. It takes more than beliefs and good intentions.
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Folks, equity, diversity, and inclusion work all have bodies of research associated with them (grounded in multiple fields). To teach, write, or review in those areas, you should have grounding in that research (or you need to do some reading). Being a good person isn't enough.
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I am so here for people living their truth and doing what genuinely makes them happy this holiday-making the works, ordering in, just cooking what they want to eat, or doing nothing at all. May we take this with us into the new normal.
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Feeling for the junior faculty and contingent faculty who feel pressured to have class tomorrow. Colleagues, “just cancel” and “step up” isn’t helpful for them if they feel like those kinds of decisions could ultimately cost their jobs. This is a leadership problem.
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Middle Little is a reluctant writer. The other day, he noticed me editing a printed copy of a friend's chapter. He lit up - "Grown ups fix each other's writing too?" Since then, he's been more willing to write. He thought it was just him.
It's not just you. It's never just you.
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Random thought but maybe after this is all over, schools will stop giving attendance awards? As part of that whole, “let’s revisit the ways our work norms harm public health” thing? Stop doing things to incentivize people to show up to school & work even when they are sick?
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When I hear Anti-CRT Inc. demand “both sides” of civil rights arguments, I think about how many of my colleagues came of age during the 1960s. How many angry yelling faces in those iconic photos are still alive & wanting to rewrite that history. And how fragile our rights are.
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There is also a practice of talking about this loss as if we're dealing with a smattering of "individuals" who need ad hoc consideration/accommodations - "those students who don't feel comfortable." It feels disingenuous. But I guess it could also just be solipsistic?
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@tressiemcphd
Something about the unbothered pace and those slides say, "I can handle business if it needs to be handled."
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(This thread has been brought to you by my (and my peers') experiences traveling with some of y'all internationally.)
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Y'all really need fewer book clubs and more bystander intervention trainings. The book club ain't working.
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I think it's a scam how when you do things, you have to remember to put them on your CV.
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Don’t mind me over here, just burned out and looking jealously around at everybody’s spring breaks. It’s fine.
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