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amyemart.bsky.social
Professor, Irish and Victorian Studies, anticolonialism, internationalisms, the gothic. Director of the Weissman Center at Mount Holyoke College. New Yorker in Massachusetts. She/her.
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I’m both dismayed and frankly terrified by the number of well informed and smart people who are witnessing the Nazi-billionaire fascist takeover of their own country yet unable or unwilling to say literally any of these words and call a thing a thing.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Local friends! Come to Mount Holyoke on Monday at 6pm for our panel “Trans Healthcare is a Human Right.” An incredible group of panelists will be discussing US vs Skrmetti and how we safeguard gender affirming care in the aftermath.

no money for you if you don’t do a jim crow

Remembering when students, faculty, and staff working in institutions all over the country were prevented from re-entering the US in January 2017, and this will be much worse.

At Mount Holyoke College on December 3, 7pm. Local folks, please come to this important talk!

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned #onhere putting together a mini-series of workshops for people new to activism and organizing. Well I put in the work last week to pull it together. “How Do I Take Action Where I Am” is a series of 5 sessions in Dec and Jan.