TN now is #1 in U.S. for daily new #Covid cases per population. If we were an independent nation, we would be #2 for new Covid cases in the world. This week, TN reached highest level of hospitalizations from the virus yet. Our TN elected leadership must NOW step up & take action.

This photo should win a pulitzer vtdigger.org/2021/09/03/at-…

“Profess/or.” Profesör. What ideas do professors profess, avow, declare, confess, admit? Did it/when did it stop meaning someone who professes something (itirafçı)?

Elliott James “L.D.” Barkley, speaker of the Attica Liberation Faction. today marks the 50th anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion.

The immigration help person at the office of my US Representative doesn’t seem to get or respond to her messages. Nice one TN!

yeah sex is cool but have you ever made your therapist laugh

Diyva Victor (@sugaronthegash) on how to know yourself when the state makes you a stranger: yalereview.org/article/strang…

I just passed my PhD viva. I cannot stop smiling. Thanks so much Dr EL Putnam and @DrSmut for their insightful questions, warmth and support. Thanks so much Seán Crosson for supervising my research and Tony Tracy for the chair - best conversation I had for a long time.

I love coming out as 34 to people who are 26

Dionne Brand on On Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) | Brick brickmag.com/on-aguirre-the…

Today during a frustrating meeting about a department-wide class attendance policy, I said, “This is what institutionalizing ableism looks like—this right here.” And suddenly the energy of the conversation shifted. People were uncomfy, and I’m proud of it.

Osman Kavala: Aggravated life imprisonment for attempting to overthrow the government. Acquitted from espionage charges.

Mücella Yapıcı, Çiğdem Mater, Hakan Altınay, Mine Özerden, Can Atalay, Tayfun Kahraman and Yiğit Ali Ekmekçi each sentenced to 18 years imprisonment with an order for their immediate detention.

Following the verdict in the Gezi Trial, the audience is chanting the slogan, “Everywhere Taksim, everywhere resistance!” #DefendingGezi

A quick thread of #MayDay posters from around the world. First, František Kopenec's May Day poster, Czechoslovakia, 1973

Honestly it’s so funny to offer a degree in resistance to genocide and go “but under no circumstances are you allowed to use it”

Breakaway by Bruce Conner [1966, 16mm] performed by Toni Basil