Ali Blake
@alirblake.bsky.social
playing in possibilities oriented toward more just ways of living together // graduate study-ing
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I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.
October 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.
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URGENT: ICE Detention Surge in MA - Toolkit
Link to share: bit.ly/icesurge-ma-525
Context: Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50,000 people in ICE detention centers.
Link to share: bit.ly/icesurge-ma-525
Context: Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50,000 people in ICE detention centers.
5/21/25 ICE Detention Surge in MA - Digital Toolkit
URGENT: ICE Detention Surge in MA - Toolkit Link to share: bit.ly/icesurge-ma-525 Context: Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50...
bit.ly
May 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
URGENT: ICE Detention Surge in MA - Toolkit
Link to share: bit.ly/icesurge-ma-525
Context: Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50,000 people in ICE detention centers.
Link to share: bit.ly/icesurge-ma-525
Context: Since the start of the new presidency, ICE activity has surged across the United States, with close to 50,000 people in ICE detention centers.
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Alternately: “it could write the best most efficient and error proof code in the history of technology, and it still would not be worth the ecological and political cost”
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Alternately: “it could write the best most efficient and error proof code in the history of technology, and it still would not be worth the ecological and political cost”
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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A detained US greencard holder's lawyers don't know where he is. They were told he was being held in one facility, yet when his wife went, she was told he was not there. (h/t @premthakker.bsky.social).
When reporting these facts in other contexts globally, we call this disappearance.
When reporting these facts in other contexts globally, we call this disappearance.
March 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A detained US greencard holder's lawyers don't know where he is. They were told he was being held in one facility, yet when his wife went, she was told he was not there. (h/t @premthakker.bsky.social).
When reporting these facts in other contexts globally, we call this disappearance.
When reporting these facts in other contexts globally, we call this disappearance.
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We're getting close to 200 sold, as we enter the last stage of this campaign!
If you've sat on the fence, now is the time to join, to help us send thousands of dollars in raised funds to these critical orgs helping ensure trans and queer refugees to the state of MA find stable housing!
If you've sat on the fence, now is the time to join, to help us send thousands of dollars in raised funds to these critical orgs helping ensure trans and queer refugees to the state of MA find stable housing!
February 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We're getting close to 200 sold, as we enter the last stage of this campaign!
If you've sat on the fence, now is the time to join, to help us send thousands of dollars in raised funds to these critical orgs helping ensure trans and queer refugees to the state of MA find stable housing!
If you've sat on the fence, now is the time to join, to help us send thousands of dollars in raised funds to these critical orgs helping ensure trans and queer refugees to the state of MA find stable housing!
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Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.
February 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.
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Derrick Bell's reminds us: The goal is DEFIANCE. Resist oppression, harass those who seek to harm us and our communities. We will not sacrifice Black & Brown people, Trans folks, immigrants, Disabled folks, and all of us at the intersections of multiple oppressions. Defiance is the way forward.
January 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Derrick Bell's reminds us: The goal is DEFIANCE. Resist oppression, harass those who seek to harm us and our communities. We will not sacrifice Black & Brown people, Trans folks, immigrants, Disabled folks, and all of us at the intersections of multiple oppressions. Defiance is the way forward.
I'm looking forward to gathering again in a few weeks <3 Join us for collective community reflection & growing connections that can sustain our work around Queerness & Learning. I'd love to see you!
Join part 2 of our online series on Queerness & Learning hosted by the Network of the Learning Sciences in Canada. Register for our informal Reading Group on February 21st, from 12-1:30pm EST at bit.ly/NLSCQT2. Recommended readings are listed in the attached poster and registration link.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm looking forward to gathering again in a few weeks <3 Join us for collective community reflection & growing connections that can sustain our work around Queerness & Learning. I'd love to see you!
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Leslie Feinberg
January 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Leslie Feinberg
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I hope that the ceasefire deal truly means an end to the vicious, murderous bombardment of Palestine and I also know that there are not enough ceasefire deals to cover the dead.
The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them.
Never forget.
Free Palestine!!!
The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them.
Never forget.
Free Palestine!!!
January 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I hope that the ceasefire deal truly means an end to the vicious, murderous bombardment of Palestine and I also know that there are not enough ceasefire deals to cover the dead.
The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them.
Never forget.
Free Palestine!!!
The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them.
Never forget.
Free Palestine!!!
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I'm reading news of an imminent ceasefire deal. I'm praying that the violence truly stops, that we don't see drawn-out death by another name. I pray that we all stay alert and awake regardless of what comes next.
None of us are free until Palestine is free and a ceasefire is not freedom.
None of us are free until Palestine is free and a ceasefire is not freedom.
January 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm reading news of an imminent ceasefire deal. I'm praying that the violence truly stops, that we don't see drawn-out death by another name. I pray that we all stay alert and awake regardless of what comes next.
None of us are free until Palestine is free and a ceasefire is not freedom.
None of us are free until Palestine is free and a ceasefire is not freedom.
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Deadline Jan 31 for Graduate Student Travel Awards – $250 to support travel to the AERA 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver. New QTBIPOC Opportunity Awards $250 for QTBIPOC scholars attending AERA. More info in our January newsletter. www.canva.com/design/DAGcD...
January 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Deadline Jan 31 for Graduate Student Travel Awards – $250 to support travel to the AERA 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver. New QTBIPOC Opportunity Awards $250 for QTBIPOC scholars attending AERA. More info in our January newsletter. www.canva.com/design/DAGcD...
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New map from The Washington Post shows properties alleged to use rent-setting algorithm RealPage www.washingtonpost.com/business/int... This is what it looks like in Boston.
January 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New map from The Washington Post shows properties alleged to use rent-setting algorithm RealPage www.washingtonpost.com/business/int... This is what it looks like in Boston.
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Planning your writing calendar for 2025? Consider including us in your plans! @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue, “Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education”, through @jqtsie.bsky.social. The quoted thread has all the info you need! Abstracts due 5/30/25.
Since I'm back here now... share this @jqtsie.bsky.social special issue call with your networks! I'm co-editing!
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
Abstracts due: May 30, 2025
Full call: QR code/in the replies
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
Abstracts due: May 30, 2025
Full call: QR code/in the replies
December 26, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Planning your writing calendar for 2025? Consider including us in your plans! @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue, “Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education”, through @jqtsie.bsky.social. The quoted thread has all the info you need! Abstracts due 5/30/25.
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Just beyond words
The US govt pressured the aid groups to withdraw the claim because it disputed the number of people affected - who could not be accurately determined because so many had fled. The fundamental problem of not enough food for too many people remains.
apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com/article/gaza...
The US says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern.
U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north Gaza.
apnews.com
December 26, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Just beyond words
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BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM
BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
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Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔
Nikki Giovanni
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 10, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔
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Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world.
📸: Alexa Wilkinson
📸: Alexa Wilkinson
December 6, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world.
📸: Alexa Wilkinson
📸: Alexa Wilkinson
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my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social:
I interviewed trans teens across the U.S.—including L.W., the 16-year-old at the heart of U.S. v. Skrmetti—on their fears and anxieties about the threat of gender-affirming care bans and a looming Trump admin.
"Trans healthcare is suicide prevention, at its core."
I interviewed trans teens across the U.S.—including L.W., the 16-year-old at the heart of U.S. v. Skrmetti—on their fears and anxieties about the threat of gender-affirming care bans and a looming Trump admin.
"Trans healthcare is suicide prevention, at its core."
U.S. v. Skrmetti: Teen At Heart of the Supreme Court's Trans Healthcare Case Calls It "Body Horror"
What trans teens fear about U.S. v. Skrmetti, reported from the steps of the Supreme Court.
www.teenvogue.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:00 PM
my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social:
I interviewed trans teens across the U.S.—including L.W., the 16-year-old at the heart of U.S. v. Skrmetti—on their fears and anxieties about the threat of gender-affirming care bans and a looming Trump admin.
"Trans healthcare is suicide prevention, at its core."
I interviewed trans teens across the U.S.—including L.W., the 16-year-old at the heart of U.S. v. Skrmetti—on their fears and anxieties about the threat of gender-affirming care bans and a looming Trump admin.
"Trans healthcare is suicide prevention, at its core."