Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives working tirelessly to deliver the food we eat.
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
Swarthmore faculty: Join us on Nov. 19 at 4:15pm.
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
oh god the micromanaging mid level admin emo
what pill can I swallow to have all the institutional knowledge needed to create a position for a student without having to go through the million meetings with hr?
first day of classes, back into an almost empty building. it's just the philosophers and the art historians left to our own devices inside the only campus building that hasn't been touched in decades. the medium is the message! #AcademicSky
The Vow, the documentary series on NXIVM, is the best account of Trump world
yikes
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
@cmonstah.bsky.social or is this just wishful thinking on my end? yikes everything, qué tiempos nos ha tocado vivir
It's insane for public history implications
AND it seems to open pretty amazing avenues to rethink the art history classroom assignment, but then also, more broadly, revisionist practices within the so-called global modernisms turn.... perhaps an easy low hanging fruit to have fun with after all...
I love teaching this painting in my Introd to modern art course. There is so much to unpack from it, and it's one of the few moments of true intellectual transformation for the students in that genealogy.
wtf?!
The time between fucking around and finding out for messing with the climate and environment is long, and attribution is sometimes difficult. So conservative politicians have gotten away with appointing imbeciles to positions of power in these areas. However, no such luck for them in public health.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
This week’s actions are the latest in a pattern showing RFK Jr. disregard for science, public health, and the federal workers who keep this country safe from multiple health threats.
Nurses demand he resign or be fired immediately as head of HHS.
www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
“What is our responsibility at this moment, as artists, activists, as revolutionaries? Is it to create things that are pretty and can sell? Or is it to delve deep into our value system and create work that challenges people to believe that a different world is possible?” —Miami artist Agua Dulce
disgusting
As this baby turns one year old, I'm excited to be back in @bsky.app after my much enjoyed human baby-induced hiatus.
Excited to meet/reconnect with cool folks in arts/academia/criticism/et al as the world continues to burn
@dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/biennial-boom
This is not just disastrous on the short term, but one sad shortsighted effect of Harrisburg's ineptitude that will have long term impact on Philly's life. Public transit makes healthy social life, cleaner air, and happy pockets.
love that piece. visited with students from my craft histories class in the spring for a closer look. it´s genius
ABOLISH ICE
I'm honored to be publishing my essay "Aesthetic Conversions at the Borderlands" today, in this special issue of LASA Forum: Borderlands 2.0. Las nuevas fronteras.
forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-...
So many thanks! I love my job, but the structural challenges of academia sometimes weigh more than I wish they did. This is a good resource. I´ll spend some time exploring it in detail.
for the first time seriously thinking about leaving academia. thoughts? recommendations? others who´ve done it successfully and are happy with the move?
Absolutely HORRIFIC decision by UPenn. Will scrap all of Lia Thomas' wins, will adopt "biological definitions" for Title IX under Trump's order, and more.
Some of this could lead to bathroom bans at UPenn too given the admin views bathroom usage as in violation.
