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Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology. Race, gender, class, work, and spatial mobility
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apnews.com/article/clim... Scientific societies say they'll step up after Trump puts key climate report in doubt

Positivity is on clearance #SignOfTheTimes

Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Perfect Victims Join Mohammed El-Kurd & Robin D.G. Kelley for a virtual conversation to launch Mohammed’s new book Perfect Victims & the Politics of Appeal Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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While my mother was in the hospital, physicians decided her reproductive life should end. While she was in labor, she was told that she had to consent to tubal ligation for the doctor to deliver her baby. This was part of a national program, sanctioned by state governments, that sterilized women.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

Demand that your local school board takes a stand and adopts policies that keep schools safe for all students, no matter their immigration status: indivisi.org/safe-schools

When I was a gay kid the government was letting gay people die When I was a bilingual teacher the government was dismantling bilingual education Now that I am a researcher of race the government is coming for DEI The government has always attacked people like me And I have always resisted

“This is some alternate reality that they’re trying to impose on the world that’s counter to the lived experience of not only transgender people, but other people who know and love us.”

He thinks it’s a game show. Every week, another 3 cities, they play every day until they get to 1500. They are tearing people away from their children and terrorizing large swaths of people whose only crime was fleeing violence or wanting better for their families. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

And this probably includes the pulse ox

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NWSA 2024 "Report on the Status of Women and Gender Equity Centers". Our work and struggle don't disappear because G&F Studies programs and departments go defunct or become criminalized. commons.case.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Ending my Affect Theory and Feminist Inquiry course with an fun and critical student-led discussion of how those who engineer in technologies of digitized touch (Broch and Varma 2024) and those in plastic surgery (Jarrín 2017) invoke innovation in similarly ways.

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Great Pull, but I’m happy to report that Miles Powers set came out of actual research of different spiders. I was looking for things specifically different from Peter…

I am AI critical despite having a background in AI because I can rattle off a parade of examples where people who look like me, sound like me, or are in situations I have been in are currently actively being harmed by misuses of an AI-based technology. Most of them started as I describe below.

Via @simona_bearcub2.0 @redhornwoman @akn.n8v.lz @comradecami @lostnativeproject on instagram

I didn't take 📸 of my doordash 🍜 but I'm gonna post about it anyway.

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we need professors that are not naturals at academic writing we need professors who didn’t have perfect grades we need professors that went to community college we need professors that went to non-selective institutions we need professors that have always struggled to belong

Add to my #blackjob as an academic, my #menopausejob of walking back into rooms to retrieve the thing I forgot when I went in there the first time #😤 #work #genx

I was never a xwitter user and find the skill of "packaging my thoughts for consumption" within the #bluesky character limit to involve more of a learning curve than anticipated. #anthropology #qualitativeresearcher #chattyethnographer #communitiesofpractice www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/t...

Central America(s): Sights of Knowledge Production, Call For Pitches w/ NACLA Submit by Dec. 13!

Chanterelles #🍜 #soupseason

A new collection of essays explores the role of cultivating radical resistance through care in growing the world we want.

My Friendsgiving may not end well but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we can weather the tears together. #games #friends #ethnography

HR 9495 makes me think back to the social science debate about whether the state was in retreat from or restructuring its function in relation to social welfare. Regardless, the outsourcing to non-profit entities and private interests has been real. HR 9495 would additionally criminalize care.

The nonprofit killer has passed the house.