The return of Stockard Channing 😍😍

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Too many people see politics and elections as winner take all, and while on the surface that’s the way it works, it’s not the way it works at all.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Oh, I am SEATED

Not tv, but SPACE!

So much this. Also, the tech bro mafia doesn't really like reading. They don't *appreciate* reading. So just because *they* can't spot the difference between good writing and bad writing, they think most people can't either.

I know there are named ideologies as such, but if we understand feminism to be about equality of all sexes and genders, then fascism is inherently opposed to feminism.

Exactly. Definitionally, “terfs” cannot be radical feminists as their entire ideology supports and requires a patriarchal understanding of women. In my lectures I’ve always connected “terfs” to white feminism as a way to say: feminism for some which is to say not feminist at all.

My phone is always in my hand or on my person, for that reason it doesn’t come into contact with my money. Any purchase, big or small requires the laptop.

There’s this conservationist zoo in South Florida that you can kayak through the giraffe enclosure and it’s a magical experience. One of my favorite animals

Wheel of Time has my vote!

They ask for my email, and I tell them no. I’ll pay more at the counter. If I wanted to leave you feedback, I would. Anything with survey/feedback in the title is marked read and moved into a folder before it hits my inbox.

Sara Ramirez is a real one. I met them at ClexaCon and had a blast.

Five authors I've read at least five books by

Toni Morrison
Robert Jordan
Haley Cass
Steven King
Cynn Chadwick

Looking at what the state prohibits educators from teaching (something no state should have the power to do) informs on truths they don’t want you to understand.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

One of my favorite things to do when watching a Canadian television show is to spot the actor. The same people in Lost Girl are in Wynonna Earp who are also in so many other shows.

This should say “Lesbians AND Space. Which is why I love it. It’s not just a love story, it’s a romance with space and time and lesbians are medium in which that story is told. It’s beautiful, it’s captivating, it’s heart wrenching in the best way.

I don’t know who needs to hear it, but “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid is 1000% worth the read. 3 words: Lesbians in space.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Women in Imperialism
2. Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
3. Sociology of Feminist Theory
4. Anthropology of Gobal Gender Violence
5. Literature Seminar on Toni Morrison

Totally why I’m the academic and person I am

White and tan American cocker spaniel sitting on a purple blanket on an ottoman in front of a window with plants

Matilda for the timeline

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

MAGA operates from a core premise of assumed objectivity. They see themselves as the norm. They are the unmarked. They are the “correct” way to be (a man, an American, patriotic, etc). So actions requiring them to admit another POV is correct would be opposed by their worldview. They literally can’t

They cannot accept their minority position. Like “the silent/moral majority” before them, MAGA operates on the assumption that their hates are universal. They see the killing of “fucking bitch” as a net good. They want that; therefore we must as well. It’s a failure to see the world as it is.

The punishment of white liberal women is essential to the mission if not the mission itself. We betray the idea of America they hold dear in favor of the multiracial democracy they hate. Therefore, they couldn’t just jettison the murderer. They have to laud him as he has accomplished THE MISSION.

The problem is that they got the result they really wanted. More than the ethnic cleansing, they need to punish white liberal women who they see as betrayers. They’re trying to police what kinds of gender and race solidarity is appropriate. The terror they’re evoking is their wet dream