alexandra edwards, phd
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now—after i have done nothing other than report on what i saw in a tarrant county courtroom—i have become the target of harassment. tarrant county commissioner manny ramirez and tarrant county judge tim o'hare have publicly called for me to be fired from my job.
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so basically the whole city south of ponce— the historical segregation line in the city
BREAKING UPDATE: The City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management has extended their Boil Water Advisory to cover more of the city:
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ICE has put us in an impossible position: choose between health/safety and the impending deportation of our students
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y'all what the fuck
“Until now, the police agencies involved in the operation have released few records detailing what happened that day, but have claimed that officers shot Paez Terán in self-defense.”
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This is backlash against those of us speaking up against F2F fall and cover for universities to force us onto campus. You know, in addition to be grossly cruel and racist.
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transmedia storytelling, for which I have won 2 emmys
Quote this tweet with the most obvious thing a man has ever mansplained to you.
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Setting aside for a moment the fact that many of us teach sensitive material while contingent faculty (no protections), setting aside the enormous violation of student privacy, if we are going to record every class... why not just offer them online?
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fun fact: west paces ferry (a very very wealthy enclave west of buckhead) has their own water system so they never have to deal with what the rest of the city deals with
BREAKING: Most of Atlanta has no access to water right now. The mayor + city council are sending over $110Mil to build Cop City and the areas surrounding it cannot even pour themselves a glass of water in the middle of a Georgia summer. This is the epitome of a police state.
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I’m absolutely sick about this. Like just deeply nauseated and scared for our students.
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I learned to dance en pointe at 30 years old and did it on stage in front of a theatre full of people
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this from
@DocDre
, shared by a friend, laid me out. it is not only completely accurate about gt, it also describes the rooms full of business students i teach since leaving gt
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I'm in possession of a powerpoint that was given to chairs yesterday. Let's break it down. The second bullet point is already a huge red flag: all classrooms will now be equipped with cameras and microphones to record us teaching. Faculty had no say in this. It's cop shit.
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what a sad and barren monument to the world-killers of atlanta. less than 3 months ago it looked like this
#StopCopCity
RIGHT NOW: On a tour of the public safety training center site. We’ll have a breakdown of the site on
@ATLNewsFirst
at 6pm, but I’ll post some notes as we go…
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I’m also way out of my depth here. Will wait to hear from activists and organizers who know this terrain to make recommendations on what we can do.
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The final bullet points of that previous slide even acknowledge the potential risk of coming back to campus: Tech knows that we might have to go back online at any moment. Their solution is to make us all complete unpaid training and "be ready." The labor outlay is huge.
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The hybrid models listed above assume that all students enrolled will be able to make it to campus and into the classroom. It completely ignores disabled and high-risk students who cannot safely be in the classroom. What are we supposed to do for them?
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We know–years and years of online teaching work and analysis has shown–that the labor outlay for online teaching is front-loaded and takes a huge amount of time. Tech is setting us up to fail, and completely disregarding our time.
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Suddenly we are back to "over 65 or high-risk." Absolutely no mention of caretakers and family members of high-risk people. No mention of the fact that COVID can kill anyone, no matter their risk status. (And a nice typo towards the bottom there.)
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I've been holding in a rant about this all fucking day long and now I have 10 minutes between meetings
Man develops app to reveal what women look like without makeup
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tenure-track professor is forced to resign after becoming target of gamergate-style harassment campaign, to which his university caved. this should horrify all of us working in higher ed
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If they truly cared about "maximizing student learning" they would address the things I've mentioned in this thread. Face-to-face DOES NOT equal better teaching. And it cannot during a pandemic that is killing people all around.
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apologies for the friday night news drop, but now that it's officially official i can tell you, the internet, that i just accepted a full-time job as teaching faculty at tcu!
doot doot im moving to texas :)
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let's get into how and why this is copaganda, shall we? thread below because i have time today
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We are now being told that any approved requests to teach online may be rescinded between now and August.
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They prefer "residential spread" for things like small discussion classes. I simply do not see how a small discussion class can function when everyone is sitting 6 feet away from each other, struggling to be heard.
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right okay so THIS is what a credible threat to free speech looks like
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Tech has given us five possibilities for how we'll teach in the fall. The semester begins 7 weeks from now, and none of us know what "mode" we will be assigned. Even those of us who thought we knew are being told that it could change last minute.
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How can they guarantee that we'll secure a remote accommodation? By demanding that we provide proof of our conditions. Again, massive data collection on faculty health and well-being, violation of our privacy, potential to be weaponized against us (especially the contingent).
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good morning! yesterday, while i was watching the state try (and ultimately fail) to convict an antifascist of a crime outside a drag show in 2023, kelly neidert and carlos turcios launched a targeted harassment campaign against me. this is interesting given what i saw in court
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the georgia bureau of investigation really said "those monkeys in the trees will throw their shit on you and give you aids"
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Remote teaching is listed last, because we are now told that a very small number of circumstances will qualify for accommodation. These slides explain. First, massive data collection on faculty and their health (spreadsheets). That's troubling.
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"Mode assignments" won't be finalized until mid-July (they think), giving us 4 weeks to prepare syllabi that will look wildly different based on what we are assigned. For those who do get to teach remote, 4 weeks is not enough time to prepare materials.
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black sails s1: "pirates like sex & money"
black sails s4: "armed revolution & queer love are equally powerful means of reshaping our world"
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My focus in this thread was faculty perspective, but I am also outraged that students are expected to be on the hook for thousands of dollars in housing fees without knowing how their classes will be delivered.
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Here is the form Tech is requiring us to fill out: It is FIVE PAGES and includes consent to let HR communicate directly with our healthcare providers.
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Addendum 3: I have also not touched on staff perspective here.
@GeorgiaTech
has already had a staff member die from COVID. They should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.
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CALL TO ACTION: I have created a small document detailing the current situation and what you can do to help. You can find it here. Your international students need you NOW!
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So, let's see who will be considered for remote teaching accommodation. Keep in mind that, as of YESTERDAY, we thought that any request for accommodation would be approved by our bosses, no matter the condition. Like I said, many of us already had approved accommodations.
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streets running north-south literally change names at ponce because of segregation and racism
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So that's all the info we have right now from
@GeorgiaTech
, and in fact, I have more info than most because I acquired this powerpoint. And to conclude, I will leave this story, about how many colleges with students on campus have COVID outbreaks:
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Finally, the powerpoint says that denied requests can be appealed. But there is no information on how to file an appeal, what the decision process will look like, nor how long it will take. Again, we will have FOUR WEEKS to do this before the semester begins.
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And, oh yes, those of us who will have to appeal could: be caretakers of at-risk family members; be parents; be disabled in ways that don't "qualify."
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the only man whose redemption i give a shit about is james buchanan barnes
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where is the code name verity adaptation we all deserve
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So, if we are denied, we will have to design a course for a particular mode and appeal and hope the appeal is successful and also design the course we could teach in our desired mode and wait around for we don't know how long until we are told which we get to do.
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addendum: i apologize for the slide images in this thread being inaccessible for screen readers. i'm happy to email the powerpoint to anyone who can't read the images i included here.
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i am researching syllabi in critical race & ethnic studies for a project and it amazes me how instructors will say "we are going to unpack systems of domination and learn how to move towards social justice" and then be like "no laptops allowed in class. no late work accepted" :(
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I had one abnormal pap smear and was priced out of coverage for 4 years. Turned out the cells weren't even cancerous. Didn't matter.
Remember pre ACA when patients would ask you to not add new diagnosis to chart to protect them from being dropped?
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we do not owe our faces, adorned or otherwise, to men on the internet
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ALL-GIRL LORD OF THE FLIES:
the girls break into small teams to build shelter, find and prepare food, and strategize ways to escape
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tl;dr digital technologies are deeply embroiled with misogyny and it needs to be called out/stopped at every opportunity
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@logic__error
@Iron_Spike
here’s the relevant info from the site on what happens if you submit an application now
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“atlanta activists are on the frontlines of the abolitionist movement”
Angela Davis Says Stop Cop City. Davis says if Cop City is built it 'Will represent a major setback for the movement of radical democratic futures"
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Good morning!! I am about to go to Georgia Tech to get my first dose of the vaccine! Will livetweet the experience in case any GT ppl are interested to know how it goes
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"Digital platforms... are useless for socializing, and they are not helpful in creating loyalty and culture."
i'm actually not sure where to begin here. i just know that 1) this is the most boomer thing i've ever read; 2) "creating loyalty" is a fucking horrifying phrase
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i get this feeling, but i want to offer some hope: forests are really good at recovering from disruption! weelaunee had already recovered from being a prison farm until the mid-90s 👇🏼
@RiviereTosh
@nonmodernist
I want to cry. Even if the plan doesn’t move forward (and I hope it won’t), the area has been destroyed. It would take decades for it to ever recover
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addendum 2: I learned from this petition that
@GeorgiaTech
is not letting students cancel housing contracts based on course delivery modes, which again, we don’t know yet anyway
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boomers always say you get more conservative as you age but literally nothing has radicalized me more than hitting my late 30s
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cop city won’t be built and this new task force shows that we are winning. the city has caved to our framing; they will cave to our full demands
Mayor
@AndreForAtlanta
announced the creation of a new task force that will seek more community input and expert recommendations on plans for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center and the South River Forest. Learn more:
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scanning Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust for class, I was reminded of this powerful piece of public art in Birmingham, AL
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cops want to destroy the forest to create a fucking cop theme park
Weeks ago
@davidwaltbanks
& I got a tour of where
@defendATLforest
is occupying parts of land near the Atlanta Prison Farm ruins, trying to stop development of the Public Safety Training Center, or what some call "Cop City." Here's my report at
@guardian
:
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It is, of course, the grossest misogyny to demand that women simultaneously be perfect/beautiful & be "pure"/"unadorned"
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most upvoted question in chat: "Cases are higher in Georgia now than they were in March when we went fully online. Please explain the rationale for this different course of action for the fall."
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AHEM… it took ages to sort out the final title, but now i can announce that my first book—BEFORE FANFICTION: RECOVERING THE LITERARY HISTORY OF AMERICAN MEDIA FANDOM—will be published in fall 2023 🥳
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on march 5th i took a long walk through the weelaunee forest. then i wrote about it for
@thexylom
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my mentions are a nightmare rn bc libsoftiktok finally got around to posting about me
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the shooter and the cops could 100% believe that these murders weren't "motivated by race" and yet they would STILL be racist murders because of white supremacy, history of u.s. imperialism & anti-asian policies, AND ongoing complex relationship btwn asian women & sex work
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tired: using “fanfiction” as a derogatory descriptor
wired: acknowledging the revolutionary, utopian, queer politics of fanfiction as a literary genre pioneered by women & gender non-conforming ppl attempting to write themselves from the margins to the center of our cultures
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