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I miss when Twitter was truly great like the time a guy got upset at someone calling out a cricket team and started explaining how bowling worked and at the end OP was like "thanks for explaining btw I hold the world record for most career outs in cricket history"
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A beautiful feature on my Politics of Chocolate class @wellesley.edu. Thank you, E.B. Bartels for your kind write up.

I really love this class and will always be grateful for the gift it’s been.
My students are incredible. I am very lucky.

www.wellesley.edu/news/sweet-s...
Sweet studies
Through Chipo Dendere’s “The Politics of Chocolates” class and the Wellesley Week of Chocolate, students learn about the world’s favorite treat
www.wellesley.edu
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Oh, this is just too rich.
Chief presidential shit shoveler has family member detained by ICE.
White House spokeswoman Leavitt now has a family connection to an ICE arrest
Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area woman who is the mother of Leavitt's nephew, is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana.
www.wbur.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
We tried the Antwerp Hands chocolate in my class. My students had many thoughts. I learned a lot about the chocolates during my research summer in Belgium. Can’t wait for you to read the book.
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I am really glad I attended the African Studies Association (ASA). The preparation for a conference is always very daunting to me- figuring out parenting, travel; housing, Ubers etc but, once I got there, saw colleagues and friends. Learned new things oh - it was perfect.
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Five hours apart
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I listened to all of Majorie Green Taylor’s speech so you don’t have to.
She is not reformed. She spent 3 minutes of 10 on her “I hate immigrants” speech. She argued that she’s been more hateful and right wing than Trump. She is mad that most unhinged bills haven’t been passed.
She still sucks
November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If you’re at the African Studies Association (ASA) come to our panels on African Women Biographies. We are in International 8. Great panels. Next session starts at 3:45pm.
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Survived my first Tornado. #otf #orangetheory
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.

newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation
Operation “Charlotte’s Web” continues.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Boston 😭😭😭on racism the northeast has shown me flames. After living in Atlanta this has been hard!!!
100%. Elizabeth Spiers is right.

Aside:
If you ask Black folk that have lived all over this country 🙋🏿‍♂️what the most racist city they've lived in is, the most common winner is Boston.

Ironic, but Black folk can't convince white folk that Black folk understand which city is more racist.🤷🏿‍♂️
If you're talking about me, that is not what I said. The whole thread started bc a bunch of supposed progressives were like fuck the south, buncha racists, and I said that if you think of the south as all MAGA white people you are throwing a lot of people under the bus--especially Black Southerners
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"

Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project

published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Look I’m just trying to prepare y’all for the inevitable VF profile on “the quiet strength” of Majorie Taylor Greene
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.”

“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.

That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)

The grad is from China

Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"

Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package

bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I am actually quite excited to read the new APSR articles. Looks like a good collection of articles.
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My concern when it comes to southern states is often black, native, and other POC people doing their best to fight a system of deep oppression. While those voters make up small numbers in the bigger scheme of things their votes, voices &efforts matter. We can learn a lot about resistance from them.
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Watching the beast in me and do we all agree that we don’t at all trust Meredith Grey’s mother? She is guilty of whatever it is you assume she did.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
All this conference talk has heightened my anxieties about attending the African studies association. It’s not always a safe space for black African women. We’ve all heard the assault stories from that conference 😭😭😭
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Does everyone remember the prof who put an ad on Craigslist explicitly wanting to hook up with women going to one of the big conferences? Was it MLA?
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I think I did this in 2017 when I was last on the job market. Presentations too. Scary and wild.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM