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@dani-monster.bsky.social
English Literature PhD Student | Latinx/e Gothic, Horror, & Monsters | Queer-of-Color Critique | Crip-of-Color Critique | Chicana Feminism & Border Theory | Environmental Humanities
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Keep me in your thoughts. I accidentally reminded students to read chapters 6-7 in class today.
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Keep me in your thoughts. I accidentally reminded students to read chapters 6-7 in class today.
Sometimes I get too excited about someone listening to me talk about my research passions and won’t shut up 😂😭🤦🏻♀️
August 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sometimes I get too excited about someone listening to me talk about my research passions and won’t shut up 😂😭🤦🏻♀️
An uneducated population is easier to control.
An illiterate (including media literacy) population is easier to control.
A population incapable or unwilling to think critically is easier to control.
Defunding education and libraries, banning books, promoting unfettered generative AI…
An illiterate (including media literacy) population is easier to control.
A population incapable or unwilling to think critically is easier to control.
Defunding education and libraries, banning books, promoting unfettered generative AI…
August 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
An uneducated population is easier to control.
An illiterate (including media literacy) population is easier to control.
A population incapable or unwilling to think critically is easier to control.
Defunding education and libraries, banning books, promoting unfettered generative AI…
An illiterate (including media literacy) population is easier to control.
A population incapable or unwilling to think critically is easier to control.
Defunding education and libraries, banning books, promoting unfettered generative AI…
Rewatching Grey’s because my mental health can’t take a new show right now. How did I not see how pro-war/military/police propaganda it is? Or how shitty the men are?
July 31, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Rewatching Grey’s because my mental health can’t take a new show right now. How did I not see how pro-war/military/police propaganda it is? Or how shitty the men are?
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Nothing says #July4 like a big juicy slice of watermelon. This yummy fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 pounds. Can you imagine harvesting them in a 98° Bakersfield area field like these workers?
July 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Nothing says #July4 like a big juicy slice of watermelon. This yummy fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 pounds. Can you imagine harvesting them in a 98° Bakersfield area field like these workers?
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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
www.motherjones.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
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This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y
June 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y
Idgaf what the orange man and the South African immigrant are fighting over. I care about abolishing ICE.
June 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Idgaf what the orange man and the South African immigrant are fighting over. I care about abolishing ICE.
It is a well guarded secret, but I’m *actually* just three balls of anxiety in a trench coat.
May 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It is a well guarded secret, but I’m *actually* just three balls of anxiety in a trench coat.
Anyone who is anti-immigrant because of “stolen jobs” is ridiculous, but anyone who believes this and is not anti-AI is extra hypocritical.
May 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Anyone who is anti-immigrant because of “stolen jobs” is ridiculous, but anyone who believes this and is not anti-AI is extra hypocritical.
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😂 but also 😭
May 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
😂 but also 😭
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NASA climate scientists held an educational poster session for the community outside their Columbia University office, where they are being evicted by DOGE. This eviction makes no sense, saves no money, and is incedibly disruptive of their important work. @fedworkersunited.bsky.social
freescience.us
freescience.us
May 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
NASA climate scientists held an educational poster session for the community outside their Columbia University office, where they are being evicted by DOGE. This eviction makes no sense, saves no money, and is incedibly disruptive of their important work. @fedworkersunited.bsky.social
freescience.us
freescience.us
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This kind of thing, by the way, is exactly why a ten year moratorium on "AI" regulations would be a FUCKING TERRIBLE idea.
Without meaningful regulations backing up an ability to sue for damages, there's not much to quickly force these people to stop making harmful tools.
Without meaningful regulations backing up an ability to sue for damages, there's not much to quickly force these people to stop making harmful tools.
I will probably beat this drum for a long time: most people have no idea how bad the state of AI video generation is. It hasn't escaped containment the same way AI image generation did with Taylor Swift last year, and when it does people will freak out www.404media.co/configuratio...
'Configuration Issue' Allows Civitai Users to AI Generate Nonconsensual Porn Videos
404 Media found that people were using Civitai to create nonconsensual AI porn videos of anyone for a small price.
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This kind of thing, by the way, is exactly why a ten year moratorium on "AI" regulations would be a FUCKING TERRIBLE idea.
Without meaningful regulations backing up an ability to sue for damages, there's not much to quickly force these people to stop making harmful tools.
Without meaningful regulations backing up an ability to sue for damages, there's not much to quickly force these people to stop making harmful tools.
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This is HUGE.
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is HUGE.
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
Sometimes it hits me that for my extended and in-law family wife/mother > person.
I officially hold two Master’s Degrees: English Studies and English Literature.
It’s hard to keep going when your accomplishments aren’t recognized, validated, and celebrated.
I officially hold two Master’s Degrees: English Studies and English Literature.
It’s hard to keep going when your accomplishments aren’t recognized, validated, and celebrated.
May 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Sometimes it hits me that for my extended and in-law family wife/mother > person.
I officially hold two Master’s Degrees: English Studies and English Literature.
It’s hard to keep going when your accomplishments aren’t recognized, validated, and celebrated.
I officially hold two Master’s Degrees: English Studies and English Literature.
It’s hard to keep going when your accomplishments aren’t recognized, validated, and celebrated.
The immense guilt at not being academically “productive” is so real 😂😭🤦🏻♀️. Like it’s legitimately only been ten days since the semester ended and I NEED the recovery time. But I can’t turn off the guilt!
May 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The immense guilt at not being academically “productive” is so real 😂😭🤦🏻♀️. Like it’s legitimately only been ten days since the semester ended and I NEED the recovery time. But I can’t turn off the guilt!
Don’t mind me over here having a panic attack at the gym, trying to do my physical therapy exercises while surrounded by gym bros, because of Due Process and Habeas Corpus.
Seriously though, how are we just supposed to go about our day to day? How are people walking around like everything’s fine??
Seriously though, how are we just supposed to go about our day to day? How are people walking around like everything’s fine??
May 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Don’t mind me over here having a panic attack at the gym, trying to do my physical therapy exercises while surrounded by gym bros, because of Due Process and Habeas Corpus.
Seriously though, how are we just supposed to go about our day to day? How are people walking around like everything’s fine??
Seriously though, how are we just supposed to go about our day to day? How are people walking around like everything’s fine??
Today at PT, a new (to the practice) person sat in on my session and told my PT, “I’m officially old. I just turned 30!”
😂😭😭😭😭😭🤦🏻♀️
😂😭😭😭😭😭🤦🏻♀️
May 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Today at PT, a new (to the practice) person sat in on my session and told my PT, “I’m officially old. I just turned 30!”
😂😭😭😭😭😭🤦🏻♀️
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Idea: having students create vampire characters (simplified Vampire the Masquerade ttrpg) and complete their reading journals for the course in character.
Mexican American Literature: Vampires
Texts: Borderlands, Certain Dark Things, Vampires of el Norte
#academia #coursedesign #literature
Mexican American Literature: Vampires
Texts: Borderlands, Certain Dark Things, Vampires of el Norte
#academia #coursedesign #literature
May 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Idea: having students create vampire characters (simplified Vampire the Masquerade ttrpg) and complete their reading journals for the course in character.
Mexican American Literature: Vampires
Texts: Borderlands, Certain Dark Things, Vampires of el Norte
#academia #coursedesign #literature
Mexican American Literature: Vampires
Texts: Borderlands, Certain Dark Things, Vampires of el Norte
#academia #coursedesign #literature
What do you do when you are a grad student explicitly engaged in queer of color critique, Black and Chicana feminism, crip of color critique, and Latine/x studies when your university bans these words and culls classes?
April 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What do you do when you are a grad student explicitly engaged in queer of color critique, Black and Chicana feminism, crip of color critique, and Latine/x studies when your university bans these words and culls classes?