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Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2026). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic. Monoculture, autoimmune disease, poetry.
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Happy Valentine’s Day #skystorians

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is it cake, but political version: is it coup

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Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

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Ayanna Pressley: "Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby."

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Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein!!!

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if there is one funny thing about yesterday’s blitzkrieg of executive orders is that it makes the “democratic opposition went too far last time” crowd look like total dipshits

submitted 47 days ago • 596 comments

“Ronald Reagan does not determine my mood. Its’s not his country. It’s our country.” -June Jordan 1986

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Happy Book Birthday to DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. Welcome. 🇳🇬🇺🇸💃🏿🤖🚀🌞🐬 Some reviews so far: Starred reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, BookPage and Library Journal! “Fans of masterful storytelling should definitely check out DEATH OF THE AUTHOR.” -People Magazine

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

Initiatives from the dean’s office. Especially with slides.

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A petition to prevent the disturbance of the Burial Grounds of the Enslaved at Newton Plantation in Barbados. One of the few sites where archaeology has helped to recover the material histories of sacred burial grounds of the enslaved in Barbados. Please sign!

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The Huaran Declaration: Indigenous Peoples Are the Real Solutions to the Climate and Biodiversity Crises mountainresearchinitiative.org/news/the-hua...

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Looking forward to reading this!

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LOOK AT THIS TIT

submitted 81 days ago • 297 comments

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

submitted 82 days ago • 40 comments

Absolutely upside down stuff: a Peabody award winning professor who teaches media non-fiction storytelling about *checks notes* police, inequality, and power is “persona non grata” on the campus where he is employed for that expertise? for documenting the thing he is known for covering?

submitted 85 days ago • 9 comments

Thou shalt not pretend that wanting everyone to have healthcare is “radical.”

submitted 93 days ago • 180 comments

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” —Emily Dickinson

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Very excited to see this forthcoming exhibition at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum: 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition' on Black Georgians & Victorians, and resistance leaders across the Caribbean, Europe & the Americas. Opens 21 Feb 2025. www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-vi...

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Kash Patel apparently runs a "America First" clothing line. "Tired of seeing your money go overseas?" reads a product page. "Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People t-shirt." Shirt appears to be made on Next Level blanks ... which are made in Central America and Haiti.

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For those who celebrate Tom Hanksgiving: what is your viewing schedule this year? Here’s mine:

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Trust the narrative:

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“I’m gonna leverage cross-college collaborations like an absolute boss. I’m gonna drive so much innovation you’ll think it’s Miss Daisy. I’m gonna position us so well in this evolving educational landscape, you’re gonna think I’m Charles Darwin.”

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Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens

submitted 108 days ago • 40 comments

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

submitted 108 days ago • 327 comments

The economics of misogyny and the soon to be installed rape-ocracy. Great thread.

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