Monica Heilman
@writingmonicker.bsky.social
sociologist studying race, multiracial identity & whiteness using qualitative & arts-based methods
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“Never trust a professor who makes their grad students pay for their own food or coffee.” -the immortal Chris Krueger, sending me off to grad school
What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“Never trust a professor who makes their grad students pay for their own food or coffee.” -the immortal Chris Krueger, sending me off to grad school
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Girlalala, a 21-year old Black transgender social media influencer, was shot to death Friday in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida.
She was in a car with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Shanoyd Whyte Jr., at the time, and they had been arguing.
She was in a car with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Shanoyd Whyte Jr., at the time, and they had been arguing.
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Girlalala, a 21-year old Black transgender social media influencer, was shot to death Friday in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida.
She was in a car with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Shanoyd Whyte Jr., at the time, and they had been arguing.
She was in a car with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Shanoyd Whyte Jr., at the time, and they had been arguing.
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
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I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
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No secret that I'm a huge @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social fan. This piece is tough, important, and excellent. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-shou...
How Big Should Your Tent Be?
It's striking to me that a lot of people want politics to be about their personal feelings, in which case they're not engaged in politics, though they may be engaged in the sabotage of politics. This ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
No secret that I'm a huge @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social fan. This piece is tough, important, and excellent. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-shou...
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
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I wasn't following Kat's campaign before but now I absolutely will.
What a nice viral campaign ad she just created for her enemy.
What a nice viral campaign ad she just created for her enemy.
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I wasn't following Kat's campaign before but now I absolutely will.
What a nice viral campaign ad she just created for her enemy.
What a nice viral campaign ad she just created for her enemy.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Come to NYC this summer for sociology and so much more! Network with colleagues, walk the Brooklyn Bridge, and ride the Cyclone at Coney Island. The online portal for the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting is open for submissions until Feb. 25: https://bit.ly/ASA26portal. More info: https://bit.ly/ASA2026.
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Come to NYC this summer for sociology and so much more! Network with colleagues, walk the Brooklyn Bridge, and ride the Cyclone at Coney Island. The online portal for the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting is open for submissions until Feb. 25: https://bit.ly/ASA26portal. More info: https://bit.ly/ASA2026.
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"Too often, defendants in cases stemming from moments of mass activation are abandoned by those who cheered the actions of resistors during the heat of a movement moment. We must not allow that to occur. No one should be facing charges for acting in opposition to ICE..."
The federal blitz moved to Charlotte, but the trauma and damage in Chicago are still with us—and DHS says 1,000 agents will hit our streets in March. I wrote about what this moment demands of us: care, clarity, and preparation.
What Now, Chicago? Regrouping After Midway Blitz
Let’s make this a winter of fortification, of learning, and bonding together like the winter snow that federal agents are so afraid of.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Too often, defendants in cases stemming from moments of mass activation are abandoned by those who cheered the actions of resistors during the heat of a movement moment. We must not allow that to occur. No one should be facing charges for acting in opposition to ICE..."
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llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
llps.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
Shameful
The irony here is painful.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
The new owners of Teen Vogue have already erased her column.
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Shameful
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This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
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The writing I want to read on this week’s file dump is from a (former?) sex worker because I think they likely offer a unique point of view on powerful people’s relationship to people (including minors) they perceive as sex toys and sex servants
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The writing I want to read on this week’s file dump is from a (former?) sex worker because I think they likely offer a unique point of view on powerful people’s relationship to people (including minors) they perceive as sex toys and sex servants
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
A few days ago, I saw this lengthy Reddit rant about peer review (sure, valid). It was supposedly someone from Harvard refusing to do any peer reviews to protest the system (hm, less valid).
I did a peer review recently. It took a lot of time. AND it helped me see my work differently. #AcademicSky
I did a peer review recently. It took a lot of time. AND it helped me see my work differently. #AcademicSky
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A few days ago, I saw this lengthy Reddit rant about peer review (sure, valid). It was supposedly someone from Harvard refusing to do any peer reviews to protest the system (hm, less valid).
I did a peer review recently. It took a lot of time. AND it helped me see my work differently. #AcademicSky
I did a peer review recently. It took a lot of time. AND it helped me see my work differently. #AcademicSky
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"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
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Realizing that I appreciate seeing all of your shocked and outraged responses to this, because coming out of Indiana has desensitized me more than I'd realized...
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Realizing that I appreciate seeing all of your shocked and outraged responses to this, because coming out of Indiana has desensitized me more than I'd realized...
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i know that there is an overwhelming number of things that we have historically taken for granted and now have to pay attention to and care about all of a sudden, but i am begging you to pay attention to and care about this, too.
NEW: I wrote about attacks on federal oversight of special ed and what it means for families like mine. I went into this thinking maybe MN kids would be ok, but "As I spoke to experts in federal disability education policy, I began to see the cracks."
www.startribune.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
i know that there is an overwhelming number of things that we have historically taken for granted and now have to pay attention to and care about all of a sudden, but i am begging you to pay attention to and care about this, too.
Realizing that I appreciate seeing all of your shocked and outraged responses to this, because coming out of Indiana has desensitized me more than I'd realized...
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Realizing that I appreciate seeing all of your shocked and outraged responses to this, because coming out of Indiana has desensitized me more than I'd realized...
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Unclear, of course. See this ongoing Indiana case as an example.
indianapublicradio.org/news/2025/11...
indianapublicradio.org/news/2025/11...
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Unclear, of course. See this ongoing Indiana case as an example.
indianapublicradio.org/news/2025/11...
indianapublicradio.org/news/2025/11...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
The cruelty of this order to reverse SNAP distribution is insane.
Republicans are for “state’s rights” when that means promoting segregation and tormenting LGBTQ folks.
When state’s rights means feeding your state’s residents, they are all in for the federal government ensuring starvation.
When state’s rights means feeding your state’s residents, they are all in for the federal government ensuring starvation.
The US Department of Agriculture has ordered that "states must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025".
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The cruelty of this order to reverse SNAP distribution is insane.
Well I've been living under a rock (but maybe that's what finishing a dissertation is) because I had no idea #NaNoWriMo was gone. They've faced plenty of issues, but I've done Nanowrimo off and on since 2015. What a loss.
#writing #writingcommunity
lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...
#writing #writingcommunity
lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Well I've been living under a rock (but maybe that's what finishing a dissertation is) because I had no idea #NaNoWriMo was gone. They've faced plenty of issues, but I've done Nanowrimo off and on since 2015. What a loss.
#writing #writingcommunity
lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...
#writing #writingcommunity
lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...