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As an educator in the West it’s all so difficult to witness and be in. How are we supposed to teach and learn amid all this bloodshed? And yet we must teach and learn while we can and for those who can’t… idk what else to say…
The West is a project not a place. It is a violent project indeed.
In the West it manifests as aggression against and attempts to destroy pillars of K-12 education, public education, and Black, Ethnic, and Gender Studies through policy and surveillance. Abroad it manifests as brutal bombings and killings and resource deprivation.
I can’t help but view the bombing of Sharif University and at least 30 other higher ed institutions as the eastern arm of the epistemicidal project of the U.S. right now.
This has convinced me not to post anything (other than grades) in my university's Canvas site!
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Hi, queer historian of disease and public health (with a focus on diseases that impact flesh) here… talk about this… pay attention… thanks bye.
www.them.us/story/new-fu...
Spending too much time on the internet and learned about the AI-army-blonde-woman social media account and following… now the scholar of race and gender in me has a think piece brewing keeping me from falling asleep on time… idk what to do… someone fund the humanities… good night!
Can someone point me to a history of higher ed boards of trustees? I'd really like to know why random businesspeople get to make pronouncements about what and how we teach
The journal is behind a paywall, but I am permitted to individually share my contribution.
Our reflections all grapple with the archive in insightful ways. It was such an enjoyable intellectual exercise to respond to Johnson’s formative text.
www.haitianstudies.org/topics/journ...
Last year, I was honored to be invited to participate in a roundtable about Sara E. Johnson’s phenomenal book, Encyclopédie Noire. The roundtable, published today, features essays from Leslie Alexander, Manuel Covo, Karen Graubart, me, and a response from Sara Johnson..
People have to be taught things! This deeply concerning to me, especially as we shove tech “solutions” at them at every turn and sacrifice the basics and critical thinking in the process 🤦🏾♀️
There are so many reasons to be against and critical of AI right now… can we please get equitable computing and internet access and basic computing schools to everyone BEFORE trying to LLM our way out of everything and into the fires and water wars of climate catastrophe. It’s too much to ask 🤷🏾♀️
I know it’s about the money but how illogical all this is (don’t get me started on the environmental impact again) is mind boggling.
Ok end rant back to work…
I’m not here boarding the AI train… but some people in the U.S. still primarily access Internet from their phones, literacy in this country is poor, and even elite college students don’t know the full functions of word processing apps. Even if AI were “good,” are we even ready for it in schools?
So I have questions… like do students still get typing classes and computer literacy?(I know information literacy is too much to ask in this climate)
This is not shade to students at all. I know these things because I took a required class in high school called “word processing” where they taught us how to type and use the MS suite.
Generational digital literacy is so interesting to me. Like Boomer and Gen X uni admins want Gen Z and Alpha students to become expert AI prompt engineers… yet as a Millennial prof, I’m still regularly teaching students the footnote function and how to use headers for name and date in MS Word…
The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live!
This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more.
Read here: hammerandhope.org
If any of them see this (tho I don’t think BlueSky is a popular Gen Z or Alpha app), unhappy queer childhoods in the closet CAN lead up to very, very happy openly queer adulthoods (whether or not your parents and elders fully come around). My partner and I are proof it’s possible. It’s possible!
For goodness sakes, these are children. Let them live as openly as they desire!
I hate that queer and trans and nb kids 20 years later are still having to make such agonizing decisions and facing the possibility of a whole new range of violence and honestly predation.
I remember the before marriage equality times, the before my parents came around to having a gay kid times, being a teen on anonymous queer message boards where seemingly elder queers advised that I wait to come out as an independent adult once I was in college rather than in high school at home.
This country is becoming a factory for violence against children.
It is brutal, cruel, and utterly exhausting. And still, paralyzing despair is not a good option. There is always a worse outcome worth the prevention effort. Always.
The nature of the war mongering and state violence in the U.S. and involving the U.S. abroad proves the urgency of humanistic and social science knowledge. And yet the schools throw money at departments that can build weapons and can train those who will wield them and all there is is blood.
