Congrats to THE NEW DR. Pham Zinmeister! Her dissertation offers significant contributions to the field of culturally responsive math teaching, funds of knowledge, and the Torres’ rights of the learner, all with Vietnamese teachers in three contexts. give your warmest wishes to this new DOCTOR! 🤟🏼
This class is a hybrid of in-person and online instruction.
The summer pilot cohort for Race, Media, and International Affairs 101 sold out in 48 hours(!)
But if you are interested in taking it, you can join the waitlist for the fall here: www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-wa...
A little levity amidst the chaos
No one person, institution, email, or issue will stop us from celebrating the accomplishments of our future teachers. And every year my colleagues get subjected to my cow bells, my cheers, megaphone, and my world famous Sign of the Times.
We’ve gotta bring the fight to the public so they know what’s at stake. The damage will last for years. www.edsurge.com/news/2025-05...
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-05...
Can I get the link to the “NSF just canceled your grant” support/rage group?
Figured amidst the literal battle over the 4th fucking amendment and because Congress can always intervene to stop the tariffs BECAUSE IT’S THEIR FUCKING JOB in 2025, we needed a palate cleanser. Potluck Fosters: Mashed Potatoes, Queso, Veggie (Tray), (Chocolate) Chip, and Dumpling (Tiny Tim).
As a part a grant, we are making videos of kids making sense of complex issues like wealth disparities of fhe different economic classes in the US. After asking one of my nephews to do the task, we decided to do a blooper reel… with cats.🐈⬛ 🐈 apparently cats can consider complex issues.
New pub alert for my dear friend! Please read, share, and cite widely. this paper, we reflect on our learning journeys, discussing our roles as Water protectors, mothers, community organizers, and scholars, and offer three examples of ongoing Water work.
journal.networkonculture.ca/index.php/ma...
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Hey, UTSA students: want an elective to take? Sign up for summer! It’s hybrid so we’ll only meet in person on Monday and Wednesdays.
I don’t know what it is about cyber trucks but they give me big feelings. Let me know if you drive one so I can block you.
Hot Take That No One Asked For: you might as well hand me a knife so I can write with a bloody stump than offer me a “free pen” with dried out ink.
I will spend an entire weekend trying to salvage the ink in a 20 year old pen that I found in a junk drawer. I don’t have time for this distraction
Excited to kick off this book study 📚 🎉
Please share with math educators who are interested!
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.
apnews.com/article/blac...
In the midst of all that is chaotic, we can find a little joy with future Rowdy Teachers at UTSA.
Made this for my students this week.
HEADS UP
I hate that being true to oneself needs to take a backseat to one’s safety.
From our magazine, by Molly Carnes as told to journalist Nico Lang: Trans people demonstrate for all of us how to be our most authentic selves in order to live the life for which we are destined, and Texas lawmakers would know that if they ever bothered to listen.
This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility
My mentor had a great idea re: grocery prices and tariffs. Buy directly from Black farmers. Most will ship directly to you, and this index will show you a list of Black farmers by region: blackfarmersindex.com/the-index
When WENDYS HERSELF says “girl…. Gimme your phone. You’re done.” 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Brow and white dog with wind blowing through his fur
Everytime I open up my email for the past ten days. #SurvivingInChaos
Attacks against our right to teach, research, and advocate for higher education as a public good, are increasingly rapidly.
Join our movement to organize for a better future for all higher ed workers:
www.organizeeverycampus.org
Dear fellow scientists, Go talk to the press about what is going on. Talk to local news about how it will impact jobs. Be specific, but don't pity yourself. Instead focus on how your own situation affects local jobs, the national economy, beating the growing scientific race with China. Suggestions:
