Robin L Turner
@robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app
Mostly a reskeeter. tradition, gender, land tenure, and resource politics in Southern Africa. I block would be followers without profiles.
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11 years ago today.
I know we're in a good mood today, but...Tamir Rice should still be here. It's been 10 years and he should be 22 now. RIP to the kid.
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
11 years ago today.
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"Decolonizing Linguistics" by
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz is also #OpenAccess
The 20 chapters cover a wide range of languages & linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) various disciplines and subfields
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz is also #OpenAccess
The 20 chapters cover a wide range of languages & linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) various disciplines and subfields
July 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Decolonizing Linguistics" by
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz is also #OpenAccess
The 20 chapters cover a wide range of languages & linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) various disciplines and subfields
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz is also #OpenAccess
The 20 chapters cover a wide range of languages & linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) various disciplines and subfields
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
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Another example of the burdens created when tech companies behave as untrustworthy social actors - people then go to great lengths to protect themselves even when it’s not necessary, at personal cost and compromising their ability to use the technology that does work
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Another example of the burdens created when tech companies behave as untrustworthy social actors - people then go to great lengths to protect themselves even when it’s not necessary, at personal cost and compromising their ability to use the technology that does work
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Because it apparently bears repetition:
You do not make fun of people for things like their weight, height, voice, baldness, ancestry, etc.
Even if they are horrible people. That is not a get out of jail free card.
Pick something else. Preferably in the actions or thoughts zone.
You do not make fun of people for things like their weight, height, voice, baldness, ancestry, etc.
Even if they are horrible people. That is not a get out of jail free card.
Pick something else. Preferably in the actions or thoughts zone.
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Because it apparently bears repetition:
You do not make fun of people for things like their weight, height, voice, baldness, ancestry, etc.
Even if they are horrible people. That is not a get out of jail free card.
Pick something else. Preferably in the actions or thoughts zone.
You do not make fun of people for things like their weight, height, voice, baldness, ancestry, etc.
Even if they are horrible people. That is not a get out of jail free card.
Pick something else. Preferably in the actions or thoughts zone.
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This will impact cis women of color very hard, I guarantee it. The same type of people like to call out people for potentially being trans are the same type of people to be anti-immigrant and anti-Black.
22 Nov 2025 -- Leaked, unpublished guidance from U.K.’s Equality & Human Rights Comsn recommends excluding trans people from restrooms single-sex spaces & encouraging others to question those in spaces suspected of being trans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Trans people banned from single-sex spaces based on their appearances in leaked UK guidance - LGBTQ Nation
"This is a license to discriminate based on looks, plain and simple."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This will impact cis women of color very hard, I guarantee it. The same type of people like to call out people for potentially being trans are the same type of people to be anti-immigrant and anti-Black.
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As outgoing Mayor Eric Adams weighs appointing new members to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board during his final weeks in office, tenant groups have a message for any potential candidates: Don’t take the gig. citylimits.org/as-mayor-ada...
As Mayor Adams Looks to Stack Rent Board, Tenant Groups Press Potential Appointees to 'Refuse' - City Limits
Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams is weighing new appointments to the Rent Guidelines Board in an effort to block Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pledged rent freeze. But finding candidates willing to take the p...
citylimits.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
As outgoing Mayor Eric Adams weighs appointing new members to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board during his final weeks in office, tenant groups have a message for any potential candidates: Don’t take the gig. citylimits.org/as-mayor-ada...
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How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
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On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
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Secure platforms are only as secure as the people you let into your chats! Always keep in mind that messages on end-to-end encrypted platforms can still be screenshotted, and take care in groups that are open
Just logging on here every day to share more enraging news articles www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Secure platforms are only as secure as the people you let into your chats! Always keep in mind that messages on end-to-end encrypted platforms can still be screenshotted, and take care in groups that are open
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Progressive campaign organization Justice Democrats added a fifth fighter to its lineup of primary challengers today. She’s a community organizer whose babies-not-bomb...
Justice Dems Pick Longtime Organizer to Take Harlem - The American Prospect
Darializa Avila Chevalier is challenging AIPAC-backed Rep. Adriano Espaillat and pledging to take the affordability fight to D.C.
prospect.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Progressive campaign organization Justice Democrats added a fifth fighter to its lineup of primary challengers today. She’s a community organizer whose babies-not-bomb...
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SAT, NOV 22: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Memorial Service at Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Dr, 4-8PM. “Celebrating the life of our legend and mother.” Hosted by G.L.I.T.S., Black Trans Liberation Kitchen, and more. RSVP for the service, repass, or both. www.glitsinc.org/rsvp #QTPOC #LGBTQ #NYC
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
SAT, NOV 22: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Memorial Service at Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Dr, 4-8PM. “Celebrating the life of our legend and mother.” Hosted by G.L.I.T.S., Black Trans Liberation Kitchen, and more. RSVP for the service, repass, or both. www.glitsinc.org/rsvp #QTPOC #LGBTQ #NYC
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I honestly think more red states are like this than folks realize and for real, given our most recent electoral results, GOP reps have to be stress-puking at the idea of making their margins ANY SMALLER AT ALL.
I'm not kidding lol the Indiana GOP gerrymandered so hard that anything done to redraw lines can only lose Republicans votes lmao they really hit peak voter disenfranchisement and have no other way to steal votes now!
" “In fact, I mean, if you really got too cute, you could find yourself at 6-3"
" “In fact, I mean, if you really got too cute, you could find yourself at 6-3"
Why Is Indiana Resisting Trump’s Redistricting? The Senate President Explains.
Rodric Bray is doing what he thinks is right, even when the president calls him a “RINO.”
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I honestly think more red states are like this than folks realize and for real, given our most recent electoral results, GOP reps have to be stress-puking at the idea of making their margins ANY SMALLER AT ALL.
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Part of what's bothering me about this is that this is my childhood they are writing about & getting wrong. But also I am an academic who believes that words and facts matter, and the WFH's most significant accomplishments, in my opinion, happened at the 1995 UN Conference on the Status of Women:
Women and Sustainable Development - Global Women's Strike/ Wages for Housework/ Selma James
Para 247 of the Platform for Action agreed at the UN Forth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995. The fact that environmental degradation results in more work for women, and that eradicating poverty...
globalwomenstrike.net
July 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Part of what's bothering me about this is that this is my childhood they are writing about & getting wrong. But also I am an academic who believes that words and facts matter, and the WFH's most significant accomplishments, in my opinion, happened at the 1995 UN Conference on the Status of Women:
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Bumping this thread bc there is yet another long form review out that purports to summarize the text and in the process gets it wrong, this time demoting my mom to a founding “member” of an organization she started. Founder. That’s the word!
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
So there is a review this week in @thenation.com of a book that is 1/3 about my mother and grandmother and their organizing work, and this is now the nth review that states the misinformation that the Wages for Housework Campaign ended in the 1980s.
This is completely false. 🧵
This is completely false. 🧵
The Enduring Lessons of Wages for Housework
Emily Callaci’s history of the international feminist movement examines the influence of their intellectual and political victories.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Bumping this thread bc there is yet another long form review out that purports to summarize the text and in the process gets it wrong, this time demoting my mom to a founding “member” of an organization she started. Founder. That’s the word!
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
Why is it so hard to tell women’s stories with respect
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I worked for an architecture firm in NY in the early 2000s that was an early adopter of the “cloud.” Then, on August 29, 2005, our entire website disappeared. Gone. Bu-bye.
Turned out our “cloud” was a server in New Orleans, which was swept away when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees…
Turned out our “cloud” was a server in New Orleans, which was swept away when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees…
Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I worked for an architecture firm in NY in the early 2000s that was an early adopter of the “cloud.” Then, on August 29, 2005, our entire website disappeared. Gone. Bu-bye.
Turned out our “cloud” was a server in New Orleans, which was swept away when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees…
Turned out our “cloud” was a server in New Orleans, which was swept away when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees…
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Unfortunately regularly necessary reminder that End-to-End Encryption does not protect you against needing to thoroughly and routinely vet your comms.
“The FBI gained access to conversations in a ‘courtwatch’ Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.”
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Unfortunately regularly necessary reminder that End-to-End Encryption does not protect you against needing to thoroughly and routinely vet your comms.
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Congratulations to BTG member Jamie J. Hagen on her new book!
Read Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding, published by Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Read Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding, published by Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Congratulations to BTG member Jamie J. Hagen on her new book!
Read Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding, published by Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Read Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding, published by Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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"Three years after the release of the first comprehensive roadmap to address difficulties faced by family caregivers of older adults and people with disabilities, the Trump administration has quietly erased transgender caregivers and caregivers of color."
#USA #Healthcare
#USA #Healthcare
Trans people and people of color have been quietly erased from national caregiving plan
The decision ignores the stark reality that underserved communities experience greater negative impacts from caregiving, from financial hardships to worse health outcomes, advocates say.
19thnews.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"Three years after the release of the first comprehensive roadmap to address difficulties faced by family caregivers of older adults and people with disabilities, the Trump administration has quietly erased transgender caregivers and caregivers of color."
#USA #Healthcare
#USA #Healthcare
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If SCOTUS conservatives gut VRA protections from election discrimination, it won't just threaten POC seats in Congress. It is more often used to protect local elections — like in Fayette, TN, where officials used racist voting maps to ensure an all-white county board:
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If SCOTUS conservatives gut VRA protections from election discrimination, it won't just threaten POC seats in Congress. It is more often used to protect local elections — like in Fayette, TN, where officials used racist voting maps to ensure an all-white county board:
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
boltsmag.org/voting-right...
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“Mahmoud Khalil is suing Donald Trump’s administration over its refusal to release its communications with shadowy anti-Palestinian organizations and individuals in the lead-up to when it arrested the student protest leader last March.”
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“Mahmoud Khalil is suing Donald Trump’s administration over its refusal to release its communications with shadowy anti-Palestinian organizations and individuals in the lead-up to when it arrested the student protest leader last March.”
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New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it