A feminist reading can embrace Vashti and Lilith, Esther and Eve women as changemakers who used, simply, different tools to work around their situation. Sometimes you push on your terms. Sometimes you invite in. (sometimes you grab the nearest sword or tent peg, because 🤷)
This is Life as a Sacred Text, an expansive, loving, everybody-celebrating, nobody-diminished, justice-centered voyage into one of the world’s m…
After Claudine Gay's resignation, Rufo learned that plagiarism was a smear that he could use to attack scholars of race, no matter how flimsy the evidence. New, from me. Please share if you want people to understand the machinery behind these attacks. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...
fired for trying to teach the straightforwardly true fact that jim crow literacy tests were racist
The instructor, Anthony McNeal, is suing in federal court, claiming his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated.
the right pours money into disinfo influencers while the truth tellers waste hours applying for the same 5 selective fellowships & crowdfunding to stay alive 🫠
The same way one responds to any bullying. Not engaging with the bad-faith content, but with a sharp "Nope" to the underlying process. Whatever form that may take according to the situation.
Academia had had 10 years to prepare for being gamergated and hasn't, because (like journalism) it doesn't understand how to counter bad faith
Say. It. Louder. (Some corners of academia have been dealing with this for 10+ years. Including mine.)
"Your mental health provider shouldn’t tell you that continuing safety precautions to lower your risk of infection is irrational. Anxiety & increased stress are reasonable responses (among many others) to everything that has happened in the last four years — and everything that continues to unfold."