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SSJ is a formation of progressive scholars committed to fighting for justice for all, especially those most vulnerable. Regular tweet chats at #SSJResist .
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This convo will examine the roots of the demand to
#defund
the police and by focusing on the relationship of police to universities. Register here:
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We are a new formation of progressive scholars in and out of the academy committed to promoting and fighting for a political agenda that insists on justice for all, especially those most vulnerable. Learn more about SSJ at
#SSJResist
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Robyn C. Spencer: Black Feminist Meditations on the Women of Wakanda (Spoiler Alert)
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We'll be hosting a tweet chat in the coming weeks with
@BarbaraRansby
,
@cathyjcohen
,
@CharleneCac
,
@deanspade
, and many others.
Follow us to learn more about
#SSJResist
and visit our site to stay up to date:
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Join us on October 13th for our next Leith Mullings Social Justice Salon, featuring
@EricaREdwards2
in conversation with Adom Getachew about her book The Other Side of Terror: Black Women & the Culture of US Empire
Details below, registration link here:
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Join us on May 3rd at 6:30pm ET for our next webinar, "Under Attack: Fighting the Assaults on Black Queer and Black Feminist Studies," featuring the incredible
@cathyjcohen
,
@JessedHagopian
,
@sahaley
, and
@jafariallen
Registration link here:
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Join us tomorrow May 9th at 6pm CT for our webinar on campus support for Gaza, moderated by
@BarbaraRansby
and featuring
@emanabdelhadi
@ananyaUCLA
@premillanadasen
and
@nadinenaber
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Join us on Tuesday, February 13th at 7 pm CST for our first tweet chat with
@CharleneCac
,
@KeeangaYamahtta
,
@BarbaraRansby
,
@cathyjcohen
,
@alvarohuerta01
and
@CRileySnorton
, moderated by
@JennMJack
.
We'll be discussing "Racism, Resistance, & Free Speech."
#SSJResist
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In the wake of protests and actions happening across the world in response to police violence, SSJ has issued a statement on policing and universities. Please consider signing on here:
Link also in bio
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Grad workers! Another round of solidarity videos for folks on the picket lines and elsewhere, from
@BarbaraRansby
of UIC, Adom Getachew of UChicago, and Robin D. G. Kelley of UCLA ⚡️⚡️⚡️
#ssjforunions
@33unitehere
@uchicagogsu
@uaw2865
@NorthwesternGW
@gradworkersofBU
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Please join us on May 19th for the inaugural Leith Mullings Social Justice Salon!! We’ll be in conversation with Albert Woodfox and his book Solitary. The link to register can be found in our bio!!
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Today, we mourn the loss of Lauren Berlant…a beloved friend, scholar, mentor, and colleague. We are grateful to have known you.
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Thoughts on an Abolitionist University: Freeing Higher Education From Itself
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2 more days to apply to our Study Circle! Apps due this Wednesday Aug 2nd at 5pm EST
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Join us on Sunday April 7th as we chat with several scholars about reparations in higher ed. Be sure to follow us and our participants ! Don’t forget to use the hashtag
#SSJForReparations
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Join us tomorrow for Campus after Cops! This panel elaborates our collective vision of an abolitionist university. In a settler-colonial society, how can we take collective action to transform the university into a gathering place for decolonization and collective liberation?
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Grad organizers! SSJ got video notes of solidarity from faculty nationwide. More to come today! First up
@driftinghouse
of Yale/ formerly UC San Diego + Grace Hong of UCLA. Lowe was Hong's diss chair. Friends, mentors, colleagues.
#ssjforunions
@33unitehere
@chicagogsu
@uaw2865
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U.S. Progressive Scholars Stand in Solidarity with Striking Instructors in the UK
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UPCOMING- Thoughts on an Abolitionist University: Freeing Higher Education From Itself. Join SSJ for this discussion about Davarian Baldwin's new book, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower" on Tuesday, Oct 26th at 3:30pm CT! Link in bio.
@DavarianBaldwin
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Please join us on August 15th! More details to come. Register here:
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Our next event will be a Facebook Live chat on Black Feminism and Resistance with
@BethRichie1
and
@BarbaraRansby
--Tuesday, February 27th at 7pm CST. Follow us there to participate:
#SSJResist
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Scholars for Social Justice Supports The Majority Coalition Call for the End of Detention and Criminalization of Immigrants
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Happening today! Please join us for "Under Attack: Fighting the Assaults on Black Queer and Black Feminist Studies." Register at
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Please join us on October 5th for this important discussion featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Please RSVP here:
This event will also be live-streamed via Facebook and YouTube.
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“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.” - bell hooks
Rest in power.
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Welcome to our first
#SSJResist
Twitter Chat. We will be doing these regularly so follow us to stay tuned in for new chats.
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Columbia graduate/student workers
@SW_Columbia
are on strike without pay, facing dire financial hardship. You can donate to their strike fund here:
"Graduate student labor is the invisible labor of the university," says professor Jack Halberstam in support of the
@SW_Columbia
strike. "Graduate students do everything behind the scenes of a class."
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We encourage graduate students and scholars, activists, and those doing work in vulnerable communities to visit our website and consider joining the organization at .
#SSJResist
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Next Thursday, December 14 at 2pm ET, join us for a conversation on anti-Palestine repression with activist-scholars Fred Moten, Loubna Qutami, Diala Shamas, and Kris Manjapra. Link to register:
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SSJ Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco
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The video from yesterday’s webinar is now available! Watch here:
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Reminder: This Twitter chat marks the launch of SSJ, a new formation of progressive scholars committed to promoting and fighting for a political agenda that insists on justice for all, especially those most vulnerable. Learn more at:
#SSJResist
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Major takeaway from tonight: "asymmetrical burden".
#SSJResist
#ssjresist
A4: We know there is an asymmetrical burden that comes from the promotion of free speech. Those who are targeted by hate speech as asked to "tolerate" the challenging of their basic humanity so that others can enjoy the idea of free speech.
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Q1:There seems to be an increase in the number of universities and colleges using the framework of free speech to allow white supremacists like Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campuses. Is there anything such as free speech on college campuses?
#SSJResist
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This chat is meant to be a forum for conversation and debate rather than an official position of SSJ. Please refer to our Principles of Unity () if you'd like to learn more about our official commitments and beliefs.
#SSJResist
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This Twitter chat marks the launch of SSJ, a new formation of progressive scholars committed to promoting and fighting for a political agenda that insists on justice for all, especially those most vulnerable. Sign up for updates at the website:
#SSJResist
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Did you miss our last webinar— "Black Radical Feminism and the Long War on Terror"—featuring a brilliant conversation between Adom Getachew and
@EricaREdwards2
? You can now watch a recording on our YouTube channel!
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UPCOMING EVENT! Jan 28 at noon PST!
TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOLITION
Friday, January 28 at 12:00pm-1:30 PM (PST)
REGISTER:
w/ Shana Agid, Melissa Burch, Priya Kandaswamy, Meiners Erika (Erica Meiners), Setsu Shigematsu, and yours truly
LINK TO THE RESOURCE GUIDE:
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Join us on May 3rd to discuss the nationwide attack on Black Feminism and Black queer studies, as well as strategies for fighting back. Register here:
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Please join us on September 22nd for the Leith Mullings Social Justice Salon, featuring Dylan Rodríguez in conversation with Rachel Herzig about his book White Reconstruction.
The registration link is in our bio.
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Join us this September in Chicago with
@sji_uic
at the Through the Portal Conference for three days of movement-centered collaboration between scholars and activists to share, debate and map visions for transformative change! Early bird registration deadline is Aug 4th
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Thank you for noting the precarity of adjuncting and how free speech practices re-marginalize scholars specifically around this position in the academy
#SSJResist
#SSJResist
I would also note that many recent attacks on academic freedom have been against adjuncts expressing political views. Compromised job status adds to the asymmetries already discussed and can be an effective check against open expression on campus (or on social media)
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We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of author, scholar, and Black feminist bell hooks. She has been the point of radicalization for many and her words have empowered Black feminists in unimaginable ways. We are grateful that her work will live on. Rest in Power.
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Read our Member Statement on Palestine in full on our website, or in the thread below.
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Chaumtoli Huq: Women of Color and the Precarity of their Intellectual Labor
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LIVE STREAM INSTRUCTIONS:
This event will be live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube! To access, please make sure that you are following/subscribed to Scholars for Social Justice on Facebook or YouTube. When the stream begins, you will be able to view it on the SSJ accounts.
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This is your moderator
@JennMJack
and I would like to thank you all for joining us for today’s inaugural
#SSJResist
twitter chat on racism, resistance, and free speech.
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Are you ready for
#AbolitionMay
? Check out our website to help
@copsoffearth
spread the message. Let’s get
#copsoffcampus
Wanna spread the May 3 day of refusal? Check out
@ScholarsForSJ
's website or for different sample messaging to send to your friends, instructors, students, coworkers and administrators. Put your own spin on it and join us for
#AbolitionMay
!
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This is
@JennMJack
and I will be moderating tonight’s
#SSJResist
chat. We’ll be talking about free speech, racism, and resistance. Let’s get started!
#SSJResist
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Please join us tonight for this important conversation!
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Can’t join us in person? Don’t worry, we’ll be live-streaming on Facebook and YouTube! Just make sure you are following or subscribed to “Scholars for Social Justice” on either platform. Live streaming begins with the start of each panel.
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Q3: Often the media and others suggest that opposition to alt-right and white nationalists speakers on campuses are examples of folks on the left limiting free speech. Are there some folks on the left, esp POC, who've been attacked by institutions for their beliefs?
#SSJResist
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We are a new formation of progressive scholars in and out of the academy committed to promoting and fighting for a political agenda that insists on justice for all, especially those most vulnerable. Learn more about SSJ at
#SSJForReparations
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This concludes our first
#SSJResist
Tweet Chat. But please feel free to continue the conversation!
Solidarity and well wishes on your week!
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Along with panelists from Dream Defenders, SONG, Blackbird, GenForward, BYP100 and more, join us as we ponder how we might navigate this political moment.
The link to register can be found in the bio.
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Join us in one hour for our first
#SSJResist
tweet chat on "Race, Resistance, & Free Speech." We'll be joined by
@CharleneCac
,
@cathyjcohen
,
@alvarohuerta01
,
@CRileySnorton
@BarbaraRansby
, and
@KeeangaYamahtta
, moderated by
@JennMJack
.
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Interested in learning more about our organization? Use the link below to add your name and email to our newsletter list. You'll be the first to know when we have new events, updates, and initiatives to share!
#SSJResist
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Welcome to our second SSJ Twitter Chat! This evening, we will be discussing reparations in higher education.
#SSJForReparations
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Happy birthday to the wonderful and influential, Audre Lorde.
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Great points Dr. Taylor. "Free speech" is too often couched in preexisting ideological commitments.
#SSJResist
@ScholarsForSJ
A1...there should be "free speech" on campus but it is only in the context of the Right that there is "laissez faire speech". campuses have many restrictions on speech that are directed at the Left.. for ex students are required to register as a club to...
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Scholars for Social Justice - Mutual Aid Strategies by Dean Spade and Ci... via
@YouTube
Taking it back to this wonderful video put together by
@deanspade
on mutual aid!!
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Thank you to our amazing panel for today:
@CharleneCac
@cathyjcohen
@alvarohuerta01
@BarbaraRansby
@CRileySnorton
&
@KeeangaYamahtta
.
#SSJResist
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Couldn't make it to our last event—Under Attack: Fighting the Assaults on Black Queer and Black Feminist Studies? You can now watch a recording on our YouTube channel!
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Another round of solidarity notes for graduate student organizers from Christina Hanhardt of Maryland, Roderick Ferguson of Yale, and Dayo Gore of Georgetown ⚡️⚡️⚡️
#ssjforunions
@33unitehere
@uchicagogsu
@uaw2865
@NorthwesternGW
@gradworkersofBU
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Thanks to gifts and donations from our supporters, SSJ is growing!! We are so excited to welcome new folks to the
#SSJTeam
! Meet our new staff and see what they’ll be up to!! If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date on everything SSJ!
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Dr. Ransby, you are preaching a word right now.
#SSJResist
A5
#SSJResist
The expectation of civility in response to voices that deny your very humanity is the epitome of colonialism and white supremacy. One is expected 2 respectfully disagree w/ the proposition that u & your people are less than human.
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SSJ joins leading U.S. justice organizations and
@rising_majority
convened by
@mvmnt4blklives
, in calling on Biden to Stop the Genocide in Gaza. ➡️ Read & Act:
#StoptheGenocide
#StopGazaGenocide
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Today at 6pm CT!
Join us tomorrow May 9th at 6pm CT for our webinar on campus support for Gaza, moderated by
@BarbaraRansby
and featuring
@emanabdelhadi
@ananyaUCLA
@premillanadasen
and
@nadinenaber
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Last question:
Q9: How can the work of SSJ and progressive academics and activists more broadly work to resist hate speech and oppression of marginalized communities? What would you like to see this organization do?
#SSJResist
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People are so frustrated and scared right now, and struggling to figure out what to do. Here's a new video about how mutual aid projects can help us mobilize and survive the nightmarish conditions we are facing.
Mutual Aid Strategies by
@deanspade
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Precisely why orgs like SSJ *must* exist!
#SSJResist
A1: I am more interested in thinking about how free speech might be used to foster and bolster academic freedom, particularly as it relates to the most vulnerable among us--whether because we are contingent or grad students or making principled, risky critiques.
#SSJResist
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SSJ Applauds the Upsurge in Student Protest against the Genocide unfolding in Gaza, and is proud of our colleagues and members who have stood with their students.
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Q5: What lessons can we learn from history and from situations in other parts of the world about the repression of dissident and left voices, most notably the situations in Palestine and Turkey, and parts of Latin America and Africa?
#SSJResist
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Happening this week! Registration link in bio!
Please join us on May 19th for the inaugural Leith Mullings Social Justice Salon!! We’ll be in conversation with Albert Woodfox and his book Solitary. The link to register can be found in our bio!!
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A couple of you mentioned the necessity of moving past "diversity". That leads us to our next question
Q2. What might reparations in higher education look like? What are possible redress options and what are people doing around the country?
#SSJForReparations
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This is your moderator and I would like to thank you all for joining us for today’s
#SSJResist
twitter chat. This is all we have for now, but feel free to keep the conversation going!
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Amazing quote from
@DavarianBaldwin
“Univercities”: “What does it mean to turn our cities into a campus” with all of its extraction (and excess), displacement, and policing? —
@DavarianBaldwin
@ScholarsForSJ
#abolition
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Up next, messages of solidarity for graduate workers from Maylei Blackwell over at UCLA and David Stein (
@DavidpStein
) at UCSB 📢📢📢
#ssjforunions
@33unitehere
@uchicagogsu
@uaw2865
@NorthwesternGW
@gradworkersofBU
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Absolutely correct in reference to Q1.
#SSJResist
#ssjresist
Let's be clear at the University of Chicago folks who were rightfully demanding a trauma center did not have free speech. In fact, many of the folks who were involved in that struggle were banned from campus, while Bannon is invited to campus.
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Don’t miss the Reparations Summit on Friday! There will be some important discussions about reparations, what can be done, and what is being done.
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Q6: Why should movements like the Movement for Black Lives care about an issue such as free speech? What does free speech have to do with the movements on the ground?
#SSJResist
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@cathyjcohen
: "All of that activism is about making visible the complexity of Black people...and data should be doing the same thing."
#RethinkingRacialJustice
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Q4: How has the framework or ideology of free speech been used against communities of color, women, Muslim and queer folks?
#SSJResist
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Q2: The Free Speech Movement was once aligned with the left. What has changed about “free speech” in recent years and why does it require more attention and analysis from the progressive scholars and activists?
#SSJResist
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“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.” - Anna Julia Cooper
#BlackAugust
#blackrevolutionary
#ssjresist
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@YESHICAN
: "We believe in data as protest, data as accountability, data as collective action."
#RethinkingRacialJustice
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@AdrianneShrop
: "Our 'people' are many, and the data has to help us understand what those distinctions are."
#RethinkingRacialJustice
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📢📢📢 More faculty notes of solidarity for academic workers! Hear from Yogita Goyal of UCLA,
@lisalevenstein
of UNC Greensboro, and Erica Meiners of Northeastern Illinois
#ssjforunions
@33unitehere
@uchicagogsu
@uaw2865
@NorthwesternGW
@gradworkersofBU
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History is *critically* important in this conversation.
#SSJResist
A1: Hate speech is not just speech. There is a history of violence and brutality tied to and directly resulting from certain kinds of speech
#SSJResist
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Special thanks to our panel
@CharleneCac
@cathyjcohen
@alvarohuerta01
@BarbaraRansby
@CRileySnorton
&
@KeeangaYamahtta
as well as all of the SSJ members who contributed to this wonderful conversation!
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