A grad student asked me this week, "How do you do the kind of work you want to do without reproducing the unjust power hierarchies of academia?" I can't, and none of us can, and we should stop pretending like we can be pure radicals inside the academy. 🧵

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians are on the streets risking their lives for freedom. Instead of amplifying their voices, the New Yorker frames an activist in the US who allied herself with Trump and Pompeo as the leaderless movement’s leader How NOT to cover the Iran protests:

I think most "DEI" initiatives are at best signaling, but it's always something to watch who freaks out at even the idea of signaling support for things like antiracism or diversity.

Universities claiming to do ‘decolonizing’ work but have never thought to center groundskeepers, custodians, and food service workers as important to that process. You can’t restructure anything if you don’t even have a sense of who is in community with you.

One thousand food service workers at the San Francisco Airport went on a strike for 3 days. In just 3 days they won a 29% raise. That's the power of organized labor. That's the power of a strong union.

So Living Single has been on HBO Max this whoooole time and everyone just neglected to tell me???

📢Half (!) of bachelor's degree earners have taken some community college coursework 💫1 in 5 masters degree earners started at a #comm_college 🎆1 in 10 PhDs started at a CC That's a lotta transfers. Happy #TransferStudentWeek everyone!

my cute bf won an award 🥰🥰🤗🤗

First Gen & Juice is now accepting nominations for Best Films about the first-gen experience in 2022. Lmk your recommendations 🏆 these are last year’s nominees #CODA #intheheights #Holler

whenever a student emails and says, "I'm sick. can I Zoom in instead?" my response is mostly "absolutely not. go drink some fluids and get some rest." zooming was cute back in 2020 but now it just feels like another tool we use to demand more from each other.

Just because your work doesn’t easily translate to policy recommendations does not mean it is not extremely needed at this moment, mainly because we can’t legislate ourself out of this crisis. We need work that makes us think, feel, and dream otherwise. Find what’s past policy.

This is your annual reminder that 1. Mexico is not the ONLY country that celebrates some form of Día de los Muertos/Día de los Difuntos. 2. At the same time, not EVERY Latin American country celebrates it. Several have other traditions related to honoring our ancestors.

How does she make this look like it was easy for her

It's that time of year again... Some amazing first gen storylines! Personal favorites are Abbott Elementary (of course bc who doesn't love Israellee 🇮🇱) and Reservation Dogs #catalystawards

This one is on my Winter break watch list!

To those insisting trump would have brought Paul Whelan home, explain to me why trump didn't bring Paul Whelan home.

The whole system of requesting accommodations is so violent. If you've never thought about it I encourage you to read the striking disabled UC workers' open letter.

They dropped charges in the Flint water case and not a damn word from the corporate media.