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Today I began my journey to destroy this damn uterine cancer inside of me, a rare & aggressive kind called papillary serous carcinoma. while I’m at it in this long process, I hope I will be able to follow y’all working to dismantle white supremacism capitalist patriarchy👊

Really important, highly timely piece from Gregg Gonsalves “My message to everyone who thinks they can just hide away right now is simple: People are going to die. Imminently. We don’t have time to waste playing games.”

The hypocrisy of so many academic organizations and universities that have remained silent when academic freedom and the right to assemble was violently repressed in the past two years yet they’re suddenly concerned about academic freedom because Trump is taking away funding.

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

DEI only existed because white people were racist. They had the opportunity to hire based on merit, and they hired their unqualified white friends every time. DEI isn’t racism. It’s a solution to historical racism.

@ethnopoetics @LabSpecEth Hummm, ok, I guess my confusion was prolly that I looked at AAA not as a publisher but a professional org which ABA is a part of and so Transforming Anthro was included despite that it’s published thru Chicago… like, how do we draw a line bw what is/isn’t included in what?

@LabSpecEth @tsd1888 I don't remember seeing it either, but they did have questions about journals that were not part of AAA, so Anthropological Linguistics was listed

Got this survey email from American Anthro Association with questions about anthropology journals. But hey am I crazy that I can’t find ABA’ journal, Transforming Anthropology, anywhere in the survey??? Am I missing something? What’s going on? #anthrotwitter

Just fyi: when there is asymmetrical lying, there will be asymmetrical fact checking.

Kentucky, we are aware of a shooting on I-75 in Laurel County. Law enforcement has shut the interstate down in both directions at exit 49. Please avoid the area. We will provide more details once they are available.

Gunn's performance was a modern-day minstrel show, where cultural appropriation masqueraded as athleticism, and the world was invited to laugh at the crude distortion of a cultural expression once demonized because it originated with Black urban youth. newsone.com/5474349/olympi…

those obnoxious usa usa chants are one of the reasons folks outside the us make fun of americans but yea

He too real for this

Very much love this! The WNBA doubled revenue from 2019 to 2023 (from $100 million to $200 million). This was before Clark and Reese arrived. Yes, those players have helped. But they did not create the league. And the league was growing before they arrived.

Rich whites created these notions to make poor whites realize they gotta catch up w white elites bc they're *at least* better than POC. It was white elites’ strategy to keep the poor away from uniting w poc revolting against rich whites. It was for rich whites to stay unmarked.

Since the term “hillbillies” is trending, let’s make sure we understand what’s behind these categorical names, shall we? Yup, elitism inscribed in white supremacism ideology.

@jthiels Omg so awful, I’m so sorry

@dadadocot Idk if these are the kinds of readings you’re looking for but Anne Anlin Cheng’s Ornamentalism and Eng & Han’s Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social & Psychic Lives of Asian Americans were very impactful for my own thinking.

On this day in 2016, 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop for a broken taillight in St. Paul, Minnesota. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Racism Kills. This JAMA study in Black women shows an association between racism and connectivity in brain pathways 🧠involved with rumination leading to increased vulnerability in developing stress-related disorders & neurodegenerative diseases. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

On this day in 1917, white mobs in East St. Louis, IL, attacked Black residents and destroyed their homes. Up to 200 Black men, women, and children were shot, beaten to death, or burned alive. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Our 17 yo washing machine is dying, so we had to go buy a new one but man I don’t think ive cussed this much in a while coz of so many *extra* pieces we were forced to pay for, including an electrical cord to actually run the damn machine. Like WTAF