Posts by Mon
The number of brilliant people of color in my life who are currently unemployed or underemployed is staggering. The cost of who is denied access to labor markets isn’t just unemployment rates or tax contributions, it’s innovation that will shape our possibilities for decades.
“Of the 117 faculty members contacting her organization who indicated their race or ethnicity last year, 84% were people of color, she added.”
📍 coming back to myself.
Haven’t had a real vacay for a minute 🥹 - trying my best to not tie up loose ends. Failing. Is this academia? 😭
I'm old enough to remember that George W. Bush is the reason DHS and ICE and several of the secret warrant structures exist, that Obama did not fulfill his mandate of pulling back on abuses of executive power/murdering people in the Middle East, and to know there is a straight line from then to now
bought it bc I couldnt pirate it. #beachreads
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It’s good. Id see it again w the little
someone wrote "wives are treated as extensions of a man's image"- yes! exactly.
there were a million different, alternative ways for him to have addressed the question (not least which just NOT ENGAGING with questions about one's partner's work) and he just flat out failed under the fatigue of Zionists seeking fidelity ad nauseum.
Zohran Mamdani's embarassing act of throwing his wife under the bus is another example of how successful, independent women who work under their own personal purview finds a way of threatening the respectability politics that successful men often build their careers on.
Some of my favorite humans. #mdiv #sacredwork
"The Maronite . Catholic priest was killed in Qlayaa, Lebanon, on Monday as he sought to assist parishioners whose house had been fired upon by an Israeli tank"
"Fr. El-Rahi rushed to the house ... with several young people when the tank struck the house again"
A shepherd dies with his flock.
Harrowing. Draws on work by @oonahathaway.bsky.social and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
Christian Nationalism is NOT Christianity, but it is a national security threat.
📌 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has received over 200 complaints that troops are being told war with Iran is meant to accelerate “Armageddon.”
I used to hate International Women's Day until I spent the day in Tijuana where it was a riot against the patriarchy. Where race and imperialism was at its core.
Happy International Women's Day to the women who fight.
Identity politics and the logics of representation will not save us… we have been lulled to sleep by representation as a means to justice and it is not serving us…
saw it w the little & it was extremely good. The emoji scene had me screaming.
teaching WGS this semester. The mansplaining has gotten out of hand. All thanks to Trump.
and recognizing our own complicity in those frames.
More and more convinced that focusing on our own victimhood/identity to such a degree makes us ineffective at addressing larger systemic oppressive frames.
Re: discourses around Jasmine Crockett’s loss to Talarico: identity politics is the death of organizing.
First Lady of Iraq:
"Leave The Kurds Alone. We Are Not Guns For Hire."
📍home
Lit. only wear sweats tbh.