When I was a Mills student, my circle of friends included somebody who had been unhoused before moving into the dorms and somebody who's dad actually was on the cover of Forbes.

When I posted about this to birdsite, somebody replied saying she went to Mills straight out of foster care and ended up socialising with the daughters of oil barons.

I thought this was normal in higher education, but it turns out that it's really really not. Most classrooms are fairly or mostly monocultural - one age, one class.

Mills's strong emphasis on community and it's diversity make it a place focussed on social justice. It's long been a bastion of LGBT achievement. It was the first Historically Women's College to stop asking trans women for paperwork.

Mills is special. Please spare a moment for Mills and make a #SaveMills tweet, write the governor of California or otherwise express solidarity for the women, enbies and trans people who study there now and will study there in future.

https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/

I was just trying to tweet the hastag #SaveMills and twitter helpfully offer to autocomplete it to SayNoToMuslims.

Those awful fuckwite shitstains.

There's research that shows that people respond more receptively to social media accounts with more followers. I'm involved in the #SaveMills campaign both #onHere and on twitter.

twitter: @save_mills
fedi: @save_mills

It would be materially helpful to the campaign if you could please follow those accounts, even if you don't really use your account or even if you mute us.

Thank you to everyone! Boosts allowed.

BBC Radio 3 covered the Mills Music Department this morning on Music Matters and will re-run the show Monday at 10:00 PM. In the mean time, you could also read the Band camp article, the Pitchfork Article, the New York Times article and more.

The college's board of trustees has not even deigned to speak to anyone involved in the department about its future.

If you support the idea of experimental music education with a unique offering to women, trans people and enbies at a majority PoC university, or you value experimentation in music, you think the workers should have rights, I would like to ask you to please sign the petition.

https://www.change.org/p/president-hillman-the-mills-college-music-department-and-center-for-contemporary-music-must-be-protected

#SaveMills

Y'all, this petition to protect the music department at Mills College is extremely important for American Experimental Music.

Please at least give it a read. If you do sign, please make sure your name and any affiliations you have are visible and included.

https://www.change.org/p/president-hillman-the-mills-college-music-department-and-center-for-contemporary-music-must-be-protected

Half of the people in the film Sisters With Transistors were connected to Mills!

#SaveMills #SaveCCM

Please boost!