Important Campaign Announcement: It’s official, I’m running for State Representative in the 94th District!

If you are, for just one completely hypothetical example, attending a University Senate meeting virtually while simultaneously playing Polly Pocket with your 5 y.o.

Are you an academic with child(ren) who is the *primary parent* in your family?

Would you be interested in a chill online meet-up group scheduled with school pickup and bedtimes in mind?

Historians of Latin America:

Best book on Sandino / U.S. in Nicaragua?

Asking for a grad student…

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the 4811 strike is the most threatening tactic employed by the divestment movement yet, which is why you’re hearing nothing about it in the mainstream press. extraordinarily consequential action, both in the leverage it creates and in what it says about today’s labor movement

Troll please. I am a proud crazy bitch. You think this is an insult?

I’ve seen it like a dozen times this morning:

PLEASE DO NOT use ‘insane’ ‘crazy’ or ‘psychotic’ when you actually mean ‘bad’ ‘scandalous’ ‘dishonest’ ‘deceptive’ ‘abusive’ ‘murderous’ ‘genocidal’ ‘fascist’ ‘evil’ etc. etc.

It is imprecise, unclear writing and it is harmful.

The first one through the wall always gets bloody.

You don’t go up against multibillion dollar companies without getting smacked in the face.

What the past year has been about is a UAW that’s done living in fear. If that sounds right to you, you’re part of this movement.

We do not owe our bosses collaboration.

Consuelo Serra Heredia, journalist, educator, & feminist in the early Cuban republic. Educated at NYC's Hunter College, she founded a school for girls & taught in Havana, earned graduate degrees in pedagogy & philosophy, & wrote for Cuban newspapers & journals in the 1920s & 30s.

Amen. 100%.

I want to remind everyone that as you age, you either get disabled or you die. Disability is common and natural and is part of living, and this includes neurodivergence and mental illnesses.

One of the things I have studied most as an academic historian is activist continuity. The folks I study lost fight after fight after fight. Some never saw victory. Their tenacity through immense sacrifice, however, carried the struggle onward to us today. Solidarity forever.

5 y.o.: “I wish life wasn’t a thing!”
Me: “Life?!”
5 y.o.: “Yeah.”
Me: “Why?!”
5 y.o.: “Because it’s so hard!”

What UAW leadership understands better than their predecessors, and better than a lot of folks in the movement, is that this a long-term fight that means becoming a part of workers’ lives for the long haul.

Not in the slightest bit worried about this. On to next battle.

When you start to take the concept “I am not free until everyone is free” seriously, you begin to understand that intersectional politics is a powerful force built on empathy and justice, it isn’t an inconvenience or a distraction. It is unconditional class solidarity.

This is a big first for me: Today I begin taking a new medication prescribed to address a side effect of another medication. Lots of feelings; few words. That is all.