George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽George Santos is filing ethics complaints against all his fellow GOP members as he’s on his way out. Hell hath no fury as a former drag queen turned fabulist con man scorned…
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Smaran Dayal
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A few pics from my Du Bois lecture in Berlin on the 4th of July: “Coercion and Autonomy in Samuel R. Delany’s Stars”
Y’know, I haven’t been active on here in a moment, but Mastodon really is the only real microblogging/text-based app I would want to use. Hope you’ve all been doing well!
KatTwitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
Davarian Baldwin: "We throw away higher education at our own expense." / Abolition at the university = redirecting its resources towards the communities who live in the actual places that host our universities and marginalized people within its walls. He proposes ARIS in place of DEI: Abolition, Reparations, Investment, Security. #focwg23 #highered #abolition #dei #socialjustice #antiracism
Faculty of Color Working Group symposium off to a wonderful start with a keynote by Prof. Lorgia Garcia Peña. "We must insist on community as an action, as a verb…" #focwg23
Tmw your grad school colleague wins a #Pulitzer. Always been in awe of Andrea Chu’s meteoric rise. Massive congrats to her!
Good interview with Priyamvada Gopal on the anti-monarchy protests. Helpful to know what's happening on the ground in the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2IUijwJDUM
#monarchy #decolonization #britain #empire #postcolonialstudies #postcolonialism
The Coronation Not Seen on TV: Anti-Monarchists Arrested, Reparations Demanded By Ex-Colonies
Found out today that I've been accepted into the Diversity Scholars Network hosted by the National Center for Institutional Diversity at UMich. So glad that there's growing institutional support both for faculty of color in US academia, as well as for engaged fields of research, such as queer studies, postcolonial studies and ethnic studies!
Doctor HistorianessExcellent article on the bill to eliminate tenure now wending its way through the Texas legislature. Kudos to the Texas Tribune for explaining exactly how tenure works.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/03/texas-legislature-tenure-track-ban/
Tenure-track faculty worry Texas tenure ban would derail their careers
While the proposed tenure ban will likely face steep opposition in the Texas House, faculty say lawmakers’ recent attacks on higher education have raised concerns about whether Texas is the best state to build their career.