Olivia Fleming

Sociology PhD student | food sovereignty, environmental justice, and decolonization | the personal is political | she/her/hers

[Olivia Fleming @H20_Liv]

@TheDazzlingOne Oh my goshhhhhhh

[Dr. Ashley T. Rubin @ashleytrubin]

I'm overdue on everything. Literally everything.

[Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) 🌻 @CJAOurPower]

Uncle Bernie says: “Stop Line 3”!
- Shared from Honor the Earth♥️✊🏿♥️via @anandalee

[Dr. Jaclyn Torkelson @DesertAndReef]

Dear Advisor,

I'm sorry I haven't done very much this week, the country is burning. I am very tired.

Your PhD Student
#AcademicTwitter

[Dr. Kassandra Ford @kassthefish]

Just a reminder that although many students thinking about graduate school may not know what's in that "black box" of secrets (how to get a mentor, how to apply, how to get funding), there are many more who don't even know the black box exists.

We all need to do better. A 🧵

[DOPE @DOPEUKY]

Announcing our DOPE 2021 Keynote Speaker: Dr. @AMReese07!!! 🎉🎊

[So Wylie @sowylie]

BIRD BEATS: BARRED OWL.
I just want all the birders to have a good day! 😂❤️

[The Tweedy Mutant @the_tweedy]

Hey crip-pals (and all chronically ill and disabled folk): please submit your work to Our Crip Notes at https://t.co/xwPdBkP6xc. The humans working on this publication include the super lovely @cheangrchl and @helmccain. Selected authors/artists will receive honouraria!

[Olivia Fleming @H20_Liv]

I’ve had multiple students reach out and share they’re experiencing strain on their mental health. I won’t share the range of details here, but it’s heartbreaking, especially being a student myself experiencing similar strain. Anyone else experiencing this? #gradschool #phdchat

[Dr. Rebecca Gibson @RGibsongirl]

My students: *legit nervous for final projects*

Me: My ducklings, literally just turn something in, please.

[Olivia Fleming @H20_Liv]

We should be reframing this conversation & acknowledge that if land was “ceded” through genocidal violence then it challenges its legality. I’d like to add that there are countless more territories that were forcibly taken from Indigenous Peoples and NEVER CEDED through treaties.

[Olivia Fleming @H20_Liv]

The greed facilitated through settler-colonialism that led to our climate crisis cannot be truly solved by honoring treaties that forced Indigenous Peoples to cede their land through “genocidal violence.” #LandBack #RightsOfNature

[Alex Brown @brown_alex_]

The U.S. signed nearly 400 treaties with tribal nations. It broke nearly all of its promises. The movement to honor those treaty rights today is reshaping the environmental landscape—removing or blocking oil pipelines, dams, culverts and coal terminals. https://t.co/6YiDsGJrVl

[Josh Sbicca @joshsbicca]

Writing about abolitionism and food right now. Slowly and deliberately and in community. So grateful to all the radical food and abolition activists and scholars who have laid a strong foundation.

[Dr. Ashley T. Rubin @ashleytrubin]

Fuck everyone who says historical and archival methods can't be qualitative social science methods.

[Olivia Fleming @H20_Liv]

It’s the difference between surviving and thriving.

[Olivia Fleming @H20_Liv]

Grant the extensions. Prioritize the mental health and well-being of your students over the deadline. Listen to their stories. Validate them. Remind them there’s no shame in asking for help. Tell them they matter and they belong over and over. Ask them how you can support them.

[Olivia Fleming @H20_Liv]

Why I’ll be using Latine vs. Latinx from now on