phd candidate // anthropologist of open mics // educator/agitator // she/her // poetry, Chicago, coffee shops, social change ☕️ ✊🏻
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"It's just words, Detective. They just happen to be in a dope order." -Jordan Peele; engraved on my tombstone, probably.
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The eloquence. The confidence. The solidarity. You simply love to see it 🥲💙
a thread‼️: We as young people of the Chicago Public Schooling system have officially allied ourselves across a multitude of this cities public high-schools. We have established a coalition that will organize, execute, and define the reimagination of our education.
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2 things I learned from depression: the love & care of my friends was essential to my recovery; people who have been depressed are often the most compassionate & empathetic. I feel sorry for the writer of this article - they’ve probably missed out on some wonderful friendships.
We're not saying abandon your friends. Just the depressed or fat ones, or anyone struggling with a substance abuse problem, or anyone who isn't "enterprising"
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Thinking about the minimum wage debate & remembering my 1st post-college job, a full-time “fellowship” w/ a nonprofit whose stated goal was to help inner city kids get to college & escape poverty, yet paid the college grads who worked with said kids less than poverty wages 🤔
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I had colleagues on food stamps but we were telling students every day that their standard of living would be improved if they pursued higher ed. I was scammed, I admit.
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Poured one out last night for those who didn’t make it to this day with us. Pouring one out today for those whose lives were irrevocably damaged in the last four years. You - we - deserve so much better. It’s on us to keep fighting for justice.
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My partner from the tropics: What?! You have a machine for blowing snow?!
Me: Of course, did you think we’d shovel it all by hand?
Partner: *thinks for a moment* I guess in the country that has cannons for distributing T-shirts, it makes sense 🤷🏻♂️
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Educators are members of the learning communities they facilitate. We might do better to weigh decisions by asking, “How does this benefit our collective learning?” Further, I think the more information & decision-making we can share with the rest of the community, +
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the more likely it is that we can make decisions that work for the facilitators as well as the participants. This is how we model non-hierarchical collective process - and how we help students become more responsible for their learning.
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My partner is TAing an econometrics class for undergrads & I just heard him caution students: “You can’t assume that a group is *actually* homogeneous even if we call it that. You have to look to other fields like sociology & anthropology to understand a group’s complexity.” ✅
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Gratified to see this piece by @sarahshulist reminding us that scientism/rote empiricism re: language & culture is ideological & often ignores decades of research. Words are alive, & their lives, like ours, are much more complicated than a statistical analysis can reveal.
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This whole thread is 💔💔💔 Faculty have been scammed into sowing the seeds of the university’s destruction.
@geo3550 is teaching all of us about solidarity & courage, while the people who are supposed to lead & teach are treating grads, staff, & students as disposable.
Lots of important insights in this post that I hope #AcademicTwitter takes a look at 👀
My tl;dr: strikes are awesome but they don’t just happen out of thin air. If faculty want big change they need to put in the leg work of organizing among themselves & w/ the rest of us.
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💯 From an anthro perspective this makes so much sense. The things we take for granted, our sense of the reality we inhabit, what we take to be unquestionably true: these are what ideology creates & gives structure to.
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There is no piece of property that is worth more than a human life. Not one. It is disturbing how easily people argue otherwise.
White supremacy + capitalism are deadly ideologies.
Legit one of the best anthropology jokes I have seen on twitter dot com 😂
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Ok, but when will @BrownUniversity walk the walk & join the lawsuit to reverse the rule??? 🤨
Can we circle back to the fact that Brown’s president has NUMEROUS publications arguing that tall people are smarter than short people which explains why tall people are more successful? The same magical thinking has no doubt informed her “opening campus” strategy for the fall...
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