kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
Someone recently told me that “difficult to work with” often really means “difficult to take advantage of” in creative industries, and I haven’t stopped thinking about that for weeks
kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
Trump doesn’t want to make America great. He wants America to make him feel great.
kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
Do US citizens understand how stressful it is to be an immigrant scientist in the US?
Far from family/friends, never ending visa bureaucracy & payments, constant fear of not being allowed back in the US, or being forced to leave your home/job/PhD due to some ban
kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
Still thinking about how people were like “not all cops!” then literally all cops in Buffalo were like “no, it’s all of us”
kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
I often think about how many Black students are academic casualties to professors as they “learn” to do better. It’s not fair.
kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
Really sick of one of the richest and most influential white women in the world being lauded as some great crusader and truthteller for hating on one of the most marginalized groups of people
kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
CWU prides themselves in “diversity and inclusivity” yet they fired the ONLY HISPANIC WOMAN IN THE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT for speaking out
kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
The tear gas wasn’t tear gas. The photo op wasn’t a photo op. The protests weren’t peaceful. The death toll is exaggerated. The virus isn’t that bad. The economy doesn’t need any more help.
All they have left is telling us not to believe what we’re seeing with our own eyes.
kris ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈 retweeted
A thread for PIs on supporting Black students:
I cried to my PI yesterday.
I was explaining that I’m trying my best. Even in the midst of all this, I am TRYING to be a good grad student.
I was trying to force myself to write my advancement document all last week. I couldn’t.
