Jessica Van Meir
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PhD Candidate at Harvard @Kennedy_School . Socialist feminist. Studying s3x work, informal labor, LatAm ☂ Cofounder @MintStarsReal @bostonswac
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So um
@harvard
do u want to explain why the professor you found responsible for sexually harassing his student is again...teaching students
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Harvard: “We have zero tolerance for sexual misconduct”
Also Harvard: “let’s let a sexual predator who broke the law teach students about law”
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I don’t get it. Shouldn’t the default response if you find someone responsible for sexual harassment be to fire them?
Like this case isn’t just an accusation, Harvard found him responsible
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Hey
@Harvard_Law
@HarvardAAAS
this is getting a lot of retweets...you might wanna respond
Or you know get a different professor to teach this class
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Thank you to
@atomzw
who first discovered this class being offered and brought it to my attention!
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@racquelgates
@amy_merrell
Also this implies that sex is somehow *uniquely* harmful, unlike watching other types of acts. They don’t seem to be calling for eliminating murder scenes from movies.
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Also go follow the brave students who brought this lawsuit against Harvard and have been champions to make sure other women don’t have to go through what they did.
@MCzerwienski
@amulyamandava
@LiliaKilburn
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If you want to call Harvard to complain:
Harvard Law School 617-495-3109
Harvard President (617) 495-1502
Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 617-495-5315
Harvard AAAS (617) 495-4113
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Today a group of Harvard students went to protest outside John Comaroff’s class.
Retweet if you agree: Professors who sexually harass their students shouldn’t be allowed to teach in peace!
Thanks
@hgsuuaw
for organizing ✊
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Wow, this is the most engagement I’ve ever gotten on a tweet. Thank you all so much for caring about this issue!
Welcome to my new followers!
Since most of you are academics:
I study comparative politics & sociology in the Americas with a focus on women’s informal labor, esp. sex work. I’m interested in the changing nature of work under late capitalism & how marginalized workers resist.
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Yesterday I was on a
@VirginAtlantic
flight, and I unexpectedly received these sexually harassing messages on my screen (I was in 55C).
The flight attendants were helpful & dealt with it swiftly.
Have any other women had this happen to them?
#metoo
#cyberharassment
@SCFGallagher
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Got a lot of new followers from my last post so I just want to introduce myself! 👋
- I’m a PhD student in Public Policy, writing on the sex workers’ rights movement in Latin America, currently focused on Colombia.
- I’ve been researching this topic for about 8 years now!
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@VirginAtlantic
, you should probably take measures to prevent this from happening by flagging specific language and putting in place a reporting function on the chat to report abusive users.
@JessicaValenti
@theguardian
#sexualharassment
#airlineharassment
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@thechosenberg
Having lived in both, this is really not true.
The public transit in the UK is 5x better than MA, and there’s free healthcare.
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I’m picketing with my fellow Harvard grad students on strike today with
@hgsuuaw
. It is ridiculous that the university with the biggest endowment in the world chooses not to pay its student workers enough to keep up with the cost of living.
#HarvardOnStrike
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@AmandaMurdie
How about rewarding published authors with open access for their publication if they contribute by reviewing other articles?
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Appalling to read that earnings from OnlyFans creators are being used to support genocide in Palestine without their knowledge.
I’m also horrified to see the anti-Semitic comments and tweets responding to this about Jews being pornographers.
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...on their behalf, they were on a rugby trip & he was one of the leaders. He said the guys had been drinking & he’d talk to them, was sorry and hoped we could leave it at that.
What matters to me is not going after these guys, but making sure they understand why it was harmful.
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I received this email today from
@VirginAtlantic
. I appreciate their following up on it & hope they’ll take measures to prevent this & other forms of sexual harassment from happening to others.
A seat chat is a fun function & I’m not against it, but it can easily be abused.
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Guess Silicon Valley didn’t get the memo we’re in 2023
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Welcome to my new followers!
Since most of you are academics:
I study comparative politics & sociology in the Americas with a focus on women’s informal labor, esp. sex work. I’m interested in the changing nature of work under late capitalism & how marginalized workers resist.
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Thanks to everyone who has expressed sympathy & concern.
After the flight attendants spoke with the guys, I walked through the aisle and took a picture of them. Afterwards, a young guy came up to me and said he heard about the chat between me & the guys and wanted to apologize..
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Repeat after me:
Professors who harass shouldn’t be in class!
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Hearing from the three women suing Harvard for their failure to address pervasive sexual harassment. We demand
#realrecourse
.
@hgsuuaw
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If people were upset about the OnlyF*ns CEO's $11m donation to AIPAC, just wait until they find out about this. 👀
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@ncose
These statements are unsupported by evidence. Empirical studies of policies towards sex work find any form of criminalization increases violence against sex workers. Studies of decriminalization in New Zealand found sex workers felt safer & more able to report violence to police
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@mikestabile
Out of curiosity, how do you think we should respond to people who struggle with not being able to stop watching p*rn? While I agree with the article, I also think we need a better response to people who feel they have an addiction than to say “your addiction isn’t real”
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Cambridge folks - Darwin’s workers are trying to form a co-op coffee shop in one of the Darwin’s spaces that are shutting down!
They need funding, you can support them here:
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S3x workers in the legal adult industry are facing a crisis of losing access to payment apps and banking.
Thank you
@RadioBoston
@WBUR
for inviting me and
@ditikohli_
to speak on this issue and share how we’re tackling it at
@MintStarsReal
!
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@shel_sha
@LaurenJ_AZ
@AnnJMorning
Nobody thinks she’s feminist.
You know what else is unfeminist? Implying she must be a bad mother because she works a demanding job.
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I for one am very happy to see a former sex worker running for office!
I’ll be sending my “tips” straight to
@SusannaSGibson
’s campaign donation link.
(Also, shame on you
@washingtonpost
)
Something low key kind of wholesome about the fact that she did it with her husband NGL
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@DianaJohnsonMP
This bill will make sex workers more vulnerable to trafficking, not less. Criminalizing clients makes sex workers poorer & makes clients more secretive, making it harder to screen for safety. This makes sex workers more likely to rely on 3rd parties for help finding clients.
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I didn’t think this needed to be said, but men, facebook marketplace is not a dating app
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I’m so excited to share that this fall, I’ll be fulfilling a longtime dream and starting a PhD in Public Policy at the Harvard
@Kennedy_School
!
The PhD application process can be very difficult & confusing. If anyone needs advice with the process, please feel free to reach out!
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So remember how
@LimeWire
was founded by pirating artists’ music?
Turns out they’re still stealing people’s work:
Our business model at
@MintStarsReal
, after months of shamelessly stalking us 🫠
@BhadBhabie
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@LurkinTomGaming
@thechosenberg
I believe you! But I do not have a car to get there and don’t want to live somewhere where I have to have a car
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Harvard folks: please sign this letter urging Visa to protect sex workers’ livelihoods!
This is in response to a letter recently sent by Harvard students asking Visa to implement policies which have forced sites sex workers rely on to shut down.
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Well this is fun
Thanks for proving my point that cyber harassment is a big problem for women?
#cyberharassment
#metoo
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@Tyler_A_Harper
You realize that monogamy was socially imposed in order to facilitate private property transfer, right?
They needed to know who the father of the child was in order to determine who could inherit his property
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Welcome to all my new followers!
A little intro about me - I study women’s informal labor in the Americas, currently researching sex work and domestic work in Colombia! My research & advocacy have been largely focused on sex workers’ rights. ☂️
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The recent tech trend to swear off alcohol entirely is just an extension of the Puritanical norms our country was founded on which teach us to dedicate our entire lives to productivity and be good worker bees who shun vice to further capitalist accumulation
Convince me otherwise
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All of this is to say that we should criticize OnlyFans while vehemently rejecting any attempt to paint their CEO with these tropes. Palestinian liberation, Jewish liberation, and sex worker liberation are all linked, and the Nazis want us all dead.
Free Palestine.
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Oh my god??
I submitted a letter to the editor in response to that awful NYT op-ed, wish me luck 🍀
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Did you know Harvard - the richest university in the world - refuses to raise its grad student pay to match the rise in inflation?
The strike continues November 16 unless Harvard gets serious about respecting its student workers!
Oops...
@Harvard
did it again!
We've had enough. Enough harassment. Enough retaliation. Enough "how you pay rent is your personal problem." Enough of a union-busting open shop
We celebrated
#STRIKETOBER
. We're ready for
#Strikesgiving
too
Contract or we strike 11/16
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I’m so into this talk
@TorBair
just gave at the
#MITBitcoinExpo
on the importance of incorporating privacy in Web3. We can use new technology for good or bad - and the new web needs to protect people’s data and consent.
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I’ve been in Colombia doing research on s3x work, & I’ve learned banking discrimination is a huge problem here as well. Many SWers can’t open bank accounts if they say what they do - even though the Constitutional Court has ruled SWs have the same workers’ rights as everyone else
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I’ve worked in both anti-trafficking & supporting child sexual abuse victims. Blanket restrictions on adult websites don’t help - they just make it harder for people to survive.
Combating exploitation must always put sex workers’ needs front and center.
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Society: Sex workers need to pay taxes!
Sex workers: okay, lemme set up my accounting software
@QuickBooks
: NOT ON OUR WATCH
Hey
@QuickBooks
wtf is up with canceling my account after years of working together because of “management decision” with no notice. You support guns and weed… discrimination is not cool.
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Good news! Glad to see
@VirginAtlantic
is removing their chat system & surprised it took this long for them to realize the potential for abuse.
I have no problem with flirting when it’s done in a respectful way. “You tidy babe” and “welcome to hell” ain’t it.
#flyingwhilefemale
One man's chipper way to "Get lucky at 35.000 feet" is, unsurprisingly, other men's tech tool to sexually harass women.
This is why we need more
#womenintech
, developing the new technologies.
@daniellecitron
@jessicavanmeir
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@truthiness2010
@VirginAtlantic
@SCFGallagher
I agree, that sounds like a great improvement to the system!
@VirginAtlantic
take note.
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Sex workers marching to protest criminalization on
#InternationalWomensDay
!
#London
#LeicesterSquare
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I’ve just found this in the bathroom at the Kennedy School and heard it’s circulating via email. Harvard folks: please do NOT sign this petition!
This letter is likely to lead to adverse consequences for sex workers and is not the best way to go about combating trafficking.
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Unofficial results from in-person voting in the UK
#GlobalPrimary
on Tuesday:
Sanders - 50%
Warren - 30%
Biden - 15%
Bloomberg - 3%
We have one more day of in-person voting Saturday, and still waiting for the mail ballots to be counted!
#BernieAbroad
#DemocratsAbroad
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Today, my little sister
@gwenvanmeir
bravely speaks up about the sexual harassment she was subjected to as a
@GUESS
model. She’s coming forward to support the other women who were abused by Paul Marciano.
I am so proud of her.
@ModelAllianceNY
#metoo
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I just sent someone a selfie and they sent me a £10,000 investment 🤯
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@justingordon212
Wondering if a woman who so publicly and massively failed would receive the same second chance.
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@ThrowedGuy
@Johnsonbetpro
@VirginAtlantic
@SCFGallagher
“Welcome to hell” isn’t my idea of flirting.
Flirting would be, “Hi, I don’t mean to bother you, but I think you’re really cute. Here’s my number, let me know if you’re interested.”
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@NickKristof
This is an important story, but your portrayal of the decrim movement muddles things. Nobody is trying to legalize pimping, if by pimping you mean someone forcing another into the sex trade and take their money from them. That remains illegal under decrim. 1/
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If your “feminist” response to this incident is calling for more policing of immigrant-run massage parlors, your feminism isn’t liberatory it’s violent
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@hidalgo__b
@timgill924
This paper isn’t a demonstration of qualitative research at work. It’s a demonstration of the misapplication and abuse of qualitative methods to do something highly unethical.
PLEASE don’t use this paper as an example of qualitative methods.
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The trope of Jews as traffickers & pimps has a long history, including during moral panics around “white slavery” in countries including the US and Argentina, associated w/ Jewish migration. This panic was about maintaining pure white Christian womanhood.
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An update: Yesterday, the three women suing Harvard,
@MCzerwienski
@LiliaKilburn
&
@amulyamandava
, dropped an amended lawsuit with even more allegations of Comaroff sexually harassing students and Harvard enabling him.
See below for details. 🧵
We filed an amended lawsuit, which describes further sexual misconduct by John Comaroff and further indifference by Harvard. I am very thankful to everyone who came forward. Horrified we are so numerous.
You can read a copy here:
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I’m just a girl, standing in front of a drug store aisle, begging medical companies to learn the difference between sex and gender
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You ever have a day where you feel like you’re doing exactly what you want to do with your life?
Today was that for me. I’m so incredibly proud of the work everyone in BSWAC did to prepare for this legislative briefing.
The fight for decrim will be a long one, but we’re ready.
Our briefing at the MA State House had such an amazing turnout!
We shared our stories to support legislation for sex workers’ safety:
- amnesty for reporting crimes
- ending common nightwalking
- a Human Trafficking Prevention Project
- a committee to study decriminalization
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TL;DR decriminalize sex work. Workers deserve rights whether they like their work or not.
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Have you ever had a bank account or payment app shut down?
This important report finds that 2/3!!! of sex workers have, and 40% in the past year.
Access 👏 to 👏 financial 👏 services 👏 is 👏 a 👏 human 👏 right 👏
The Free Speech Coalition just published a report on the financial discrimination sex workers and other adult industry members are facing at alarming rates.
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@Telegraph
You know what’s not feminist?
Micro-analyzing every item this woman wears.
Where are the articles on the secret meanings behind Harry’s cravat and whether he’s gone just a little too far with his top shirt button undone?
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Imagine the worst trauma of your life being made into a popularity contest at Starbucks
Starbucks stores all over the world placed tip jars labelled “Johnny Depp” and “Amber Heard”, encouraging their costumers to ‘vote’, usually decorating Depp’s jar with hearts and some even wrote “Justice for Johnny”.
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Has anyone made an app that reminds you to text your friends?
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This is bad.
Boris Johnson's ministers confirmed that social media sites “hosting large amounts of pornographic material, such as Twitter and Reddit” would have to “introduce systems to remove adult material in the U.K., or introduce age checks to determine whether users are over 18."
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The conspiracies around pornography and sex trafficking cabals are the modern day continuation of this. The anti-porn movement of today is, unwittingly or not, fueling right wing, fascist movements which are racist & anti-Semitic.
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I saw Poor Things yesterday and it absolutely lived up to the hype. There were so many things I loved about it but here were a few:
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"Move fast and break things" is a terrible motto when you're dealing with vulnerable populations.
There's something to be said for building carefully & thoughtfully, brick by brick, on a strong foundation, rather than rushing and playing fast & loose with people's lives.
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Despite all the outrage, Comaroff is STILL scheduled to teach students in the fall. Harvard hasn’t done a thing.
@hgsuuaw
demands that
@Harvard_Law
delist the course.
SIGN ON to tell Harvard they can’t let sexual predators off with a slap on the wrist:
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@carolynharris24
@Bob16747466
@grumpyhooker
@DianaJohnsonMP
@GayeDalton
@ronniecowan
@jessphillips
@SarahChampionMP
You’re not being victims’ voice, you’re silencing and ignoring their voices.
Why won’t you listen to sex workers when they tell you this bill will make their lives worse?
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The idea of the Jew as “sexual pervert” corrupting girls motivated the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915.
Hitler invoked it to justify the Holocaust: “just as Abraham had pimped for his own wife, so [the Jew] finds it not unusual if he pimps for young girls”
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It was such a pleasure getting to workshop my dissertation prospectus, “Becoming Workers: How Sex Workers Achieve Labor Rights Through Recognition in Latin America,” today at
@REPAL_LatAm
.
Many thanks to
@garaycand
, Ben Ross Schneider, and all the PhD students for your feedback!
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@SandraBou7
@grosmorne29
@hgsuuaw
This isn’t a witch-hunt, he was found responsible by the university. We are protesting the university still allowing him to teach students after finding he had sexually harassed a student.
Where is the accountability?
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Sadly losing custody of kids is a common reality for sex workers. I hope what happened to Sharon Stone will bring more awareness to how mothers’ sexuality is used as a weapon against them.
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Thank you for the reminder that I do not have dental coverage harvard
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Academics be like, “Ah, what a productive day of downloading readings to Zotero”
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@onthemove555
@thechosenberg
The wait times are due to the NHS being chronically underfunded by the Conservatives in power.
And that wasn’t my experience at all, I had no problem getting a GP appointment there, and I was able to get an IUD there same day vs in the US had to schedule 2 separate appointments.
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Academic writing feels a lot like making a cross-stitch
It’s extremely painstaking, takes bringing together lots of threads to form a coherent picture, and no one really cares about it when it’s done
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Very exciting news -
@MintStarsReal
has been accepted to the
@seedclubhq
accelerator!
I’ve admired Seed Club’s approach to Web3 ever since meeting
@mybellalogica
& reading about their dedication to community ownership. Truly honored to be part of the 10 projects in the cohort.
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@thecrimson
Thank you for publishing this, but this tweet should clarify these aren’t just allegations. Harvard found him responsible.
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We showed up to Comaroff’s class and walked out
His class has no students enrolled in it but Harvard still hasn’t cancelled it 🙃
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