Diego Millan
@diegom.bsky.social
Books, food, flowers, running, coffee, mostly in reverse order. Also an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies working on a book about laughter.
When our niece visited this summer, I’d play guitar while she’d sing. Dolly‘s Jolene and Coat of Many Colors were my favorite—and a welcome reprieve from the T Swift.
May her transition have been smooth and the arms of her beloved there to greet her.
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
“My warrant to be here was never anyone’s to hand me, and so it is not anyone’s to revoke. It was secured before I drew breath—by people forbidden on pain of the lash to learn their letters.” www.thenation.com/article/soci... AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!!
The Machine That Came for Jason Arday
It wasn't a scandal but a machine—funded, transatlantic, and still running.
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universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
Fuel for the task ahead: reviewing proofs for my forthcoming book. (It’s really happening 😳) @dukepress.bsky.social with coffee as my witness, I swear to have these back on time.
I hope we see a return to analog in how our students approach study as their rejection of AI ed-tech.
Couldn’t fall back asleep after 4am and just swallowed a bug on my morning run. That’s it, I’m calling it.
The harvest is plentiful this summer. Loved working on this, the third book to be released by a former Carter G. Institute Fellow. I predict that it too will spark much spirited conversation. Congratulations to Rutgers Professor Nicole Burrowes.
Check out our new July releases, including "Inside the Body of Black Feminism" by @samanthapinto.bsky.social, which connects historical studies of medical racism with Black feminist theories of the body. buff.ly/zs9RK2C
Abolish ICE, hold market manipulating politicians accountable, demand peace and justice for Palestine. an end to whatever the hell let’s people think any of what’s going on is okay.
Abolish ICE, un arm these ghouls. So many avoidable deaths and so much avoidable harm.
If the “Justice Department” is bullying election officials over “Noncitizen Voting,” they shld provide evidence of such voting. Of course, they can’t, because it doesn’t exist. Bullying is their only move & their target list is lengthening: universities, journalists, private citizens and more.
None of the law makers chiding you to conserve power and water but are voting for data centers care about being called hypocrites.
Every World Cup we should be reminded how european countries extract all the resources from the Global South — especially human resources — to stay on top.
raise your hand if you work at an institution that has gone all-in on civility while (pick one or more): -repressing actually-existing faculty speech -fast-tracking AI / ed-tech / corporate partnerships by administrative fiat -disciplining students for opposing genocide
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.
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Riyad Mahrez (captain of Algeria's team) talking about the quality of the African game after 9 out of 10 African teams advanced to the round of 32 youtube.com/shorts/v-N7h...
Mahrez is feeling proud of the African countries 💪❤️
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Somebody should pull his coat, break it to him gently: no matter how much access he has to ill-advised experimental drugs reserved for the powerful and their class; no matter how many fleets of doctors attend to him and how many monthly check-ups they perform, he cannot escape the way of all flesh.
The colloquium, too, was just a beginning for the never-ending, always rewarding work of returning to your incisive, field-shaping first text! We are beyond moved that the text’s treatment, to evoke Jared in another forthcoming work, gave back to you some of what it has given us.
Check out "The Problem of Passing" by Sandra Harvey, which reframes passing narratives as mythologies that invent and police blackness across historical contexts. Read the introduction now for free. buff.ly/wAqN7zc
And the content creators who buy the first and pretend they can turn it into the second at a fraction of the cost.
Heather Chacon@wickettred.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe two types of houses for sale
Our VA drought is leading to water use restriction/mandates and everyone‘s asking whether the data centers are beholden. Nobody but a very select rich few want this. Or cameras on every door/post, or videos that auto start. Or…
aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 2mo agoonce again: we are cooling data centres to run bullshit machines, people having livable temperatures at home and work is way the hell below that in problems