I think this is a really important op-ed from the Mellon Foundation today, doubling down on their philanthropic commitment to humanities research and encouraging universities and other foundations to do the same. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
With Humanities at Risk, How Mellon Sees Its Role (opinion)
Some may disagree with our emphasis on broadening who shapes the humanities. The real challenge to the field is the decline in overall support.
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Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter
Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
powerful piece by @profcrunk.bsky.social on the existential threats levelled at Black women scholars, including Dr. Cooper herself "Black Feminist Waymaking Under Fascism" @feministstudies.bsky.social open access here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/434/arti...
The thing that gets on my nerves about Graham Platner is the way folks keep being shocked that racists are very often rapists and rapists are very often racists. See also SCOTUS. See also POTUS. Racism and patriarchy are intertwined bc they are both about dominance reinforced through violence.
The Book Faire | A Children's Literature Podcast@bookfairepod.bsky.social · last mo.This week on The Book Faire Podcast we have an interview with Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social, author of the book Mama Says I'm Fine. #childrensbook #kidlit #picturebook bookfairepod.riverside.com/e/brittney-c...
First day of Plait/Form at the RAGElab hosted by @profcrunk.bsky.social was amazing! I even got to try a new craft. See next post!
I have a new children’s book out. You can pick it up wherever books are sold!
Thank you @profcrunk.bsky.social for calling out the issue underlying the scourge of mass shootings in this country. Mental health is the easy answer, and it is obviously part of the problem, but the patriarchy rotting our society from the roots has to be addressed. www.thecut.com/article/shre...
The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’
When a man shoots his wife and children, the term you are looking for is patriarchy.
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Paula Read@paularead.bsky.social · 4mo ago"A rise in femicide is the predictable outcome in a country turning back the clock on women’s rights...These killings are the natural outcome of a country enamored with patriarchy, determined to make sure that men can dominate women." Thank you, @profcrunk.bsky.social www.thecut.com/article/shre...
I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos. www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c...
The President of Rutgers continues to dismantle DEI despite the fact that we are a state school and the voters of New Jersey roundly rejected all things Trump last November. It is infuriating. He and the entire leadership team at Rutgers are all Black people btw.
I have taken up quilting. Unfortunately that puts you in proximity to sympathizers. Just this morning I told somebody “the confederacy lost,” not knowing i was right on time. As I usually am. Happy Happy indeed!
trevin@trevinflickinger.com · 4mo agoHappy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate
Domination is the only thing that gives emotional meaning to having all that power. They have more money than can be spent in a million lifetimes, but money can’t buy happiness. It can buy the power to induce collective misery, which will feel something when too much money still feels like nothing.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6mo agoI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
% Black tenure-track faculty doesn't increase--it declines between 2004 and 2024! The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data
Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Attacks on academic freedom are off the chain right now. But we are a mighty bunch when we stick together.
She didn’t even say a disparaging word. Why are Black women the casualties of white men’s wars?
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 11mo agoSome personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
Among the things I am thinking abt is how the left fared after Breitbart died, and after Scalia died. And wondering how things will go this time. And now going back to my fiber crafts and gardening. (I finally have some tomatoes.)
“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.” THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.
If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.
Not the children out here believing Harriet Tubman wasn’t real. Jesus, help the children.
