WendyMC 🏳️🌈💪🏻
@wendyphd.bsky.social
Sociologist. Feminist. Anti-Racist. Teacher. Union Troublemaker. Joyful Warrior. Runner. Sourdough Baker. Beer snob. We're from Jersey, baby, and you're not! (all views here are my own)
Labor leaders and organizers: Following the NYT's investigation on Cesar Chavez, we are looking to speak to women in the farm workers movement about how this movement is also about their contributions -- not just those of Chavez. 📩 Reach out to me here or via email at ccarrazana [at] 19thnews.org
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo agoKansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
There's only one party that likes to make voting harder, especially for women and minoritized voters... msmagazine.com/2026/02/23/s...
The SAVE Act Isn’t About Election Security. It’s About Blocking Women, Young and Low-Income Voters
The SAVE Act, Republicans’ attempt to strip voting rights from women, low-income and young voters to “safeguarde” elections, is in the Senate.
msmagazine.com
The worst figures on campus arguing that campuses had become overrun with wokeness were all best buddies with Epstein. Quelle surprise. www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...
Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars
The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.
salon.com
This is heartbreaking. As a young lesbian coming out in the 90s, lesbian bars were a safe space. An instant home. And not just NYC ones (Henri's, Wow Bar, C Club, Meow Mix). Anywhere I traveled in the U.S., I was home in that city's lesbian bar. www.them.us/story/gay-ba...
From Macri Park to Ginger’s, All the Gay Bars That Have Closed in the Last Year
They play a crucial role in the LGBTQ+ community, and they're disappearing.
them.us
So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
Literally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoNoem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
REPUBLICAN 2026 PLATFORM: - Republicans hold the unfettered right to abduct, rape, and murder any American citizen and get away with it. 2026 CENTRIST DEMOCRAT PLATFORM: - ICE agents just need a little more training. Hugs! 🤗 WHAT AMERICANS WANT: - Stop murdering us - Abolish ICE - Nuremberg trials
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
"ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And... bystanders can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
ms.now
This personal essay (from 2024, pre-print version) narrates a crucial bit of my grad school research that helped me unlearn some of my racism. Thanks to the Black people I learned to listen to, wish I could replicate this for every white person. academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_pubs/881
An Accidental Sociologist Learns the Power of Listening
A personal essay by a white sociologist describes her experience with becoming a sociologist and unlearning racism through a qualitative research project in which she had to transcribe interviews with...
academicworks.cuny.edu
This is so cruel and vindictive. Trump's decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status from every Somali in the U.S. will put lives at risk, including here in Maine. Doing this with no grace period or automatic extension means hundreds of thousands are now vulnerable to detention and removal.
Trump Moves to End Temporary Protected Status for Somalis
nytimes.com
In JD Vance’s world, Jonathan Ross is both the hero and the victim. The woman he killed? She’s the perpetrator, solely responsible for her own death. This is peak abuser language and a public battering of a woman killed by an abusive government agent. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
JD Vance and the MAGA battering of Renee Good
“This is a guy who’s actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America… He deserves a debt of gratitude.”
open.substack.com
What is everyone doing on their campuses to help immigrant students feel safe? #highered hechingerreport.org/opinion-coll...
OPINION: Colleges must start treating immigration-based targeting as a serious threat to student safety and belonging - The Hechinger Report
On college campuses, many young people are learning to police one another through immigration-based targeting rather than learn alongside one another. Our schools are not prepared for this. Here’s wha...
hechingerreport.org
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
Because 2 lesbian women in an SUV going less than the average speed in a Costco parking lot are so threatening.
Democrats@democrats.org · 7mo agoNewly-released footage reveals Renee Nicole Good’s last words.
To be clear: Even if she was a protester, or agitator, or immigrant, or immigrant "thug." Even if she disobeyed ICE and told them to f*ck off. Even if she broke a law-- she did NOT deserve to have some guy high on fake power shooting her in the face.
Are there no journalists left willing to say "hey, that's not what the video shows" at a press conference, FFS? www.jezebel.com/after-ice-ki...
After ICE Killed a Woman, Too Many Newsrooms Chose Government PR Over Actual Journalism
In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday's shooting, anyone on social media could have independently verified that DHS was lying about what happened.
jezebel.com
Today is very bad and we should all be very angry but I am here to remind us that the birthday we are celebrating this year is not for the Constitution but for our rebellion against monarchy. The sincerest form of flattery is imitation.
we know regime playbooks here: smear the deceased, target the family, valorize the murderer both as supposedly innocent and with a sadistic delight in the murder itself.
One thing that shouldn't be missed is that the woman murdered was queer and was murdered right in front of her wife. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
advocate.com
"To forge a path toward lasting change, our movements must build from the ground up. Organized people have been the power behind every great expansion of our democracy, from abolition and women’s suffrage to civil rights and marriage equality." nonprofitquarterly.org/how-communit...
How Community Organizing Can Stop Authoritarianism and Advance Justice | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Building community power and advancing a Third Reconstruction requires a combination of a clear vision coupled with a commitment to deep relational organizing.
nonprofitquarterly.org
“We know our strength is in our solidarity as working people, and we have allies all over the world who have stepped up to back our cause.” truthout.org/articles/des...
Despite Trump’s War on Workers, Labor Movement Notched Crucial Wins in 2025
As Trump prepares to escalate attacks on unions and immigrant workers, the labor movement must build power to stop him.
truthout.org
This is great in theory, but not in practice. It ignores the fact that many of us are teaching larger classes and 4 courses a semester. Inserting more "human" elements into the writing process means an impossible amount of work for faculty. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
nytimes.com
