Jaime R. Wood

#Queer #Teacher #poet #writer #sociologist. Living Voices via #NCTE. #OpenEd activist #CriticalPedagogy acolyte. Latest poem in #Rattle. @[email protected]

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

I'm @[email protected] over at #Mastodon. I'm really enjoying it over there. Join me!

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

@Joseph_Fasano_ "love is the every only god" e.e. cummings

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

@FleurDeLeeArt @the_tweedy I've started saying "wild" instead.

[(they/them) @1N1KO]

I called my dad to tell him about being genderless and how I came to this conclusion about myself and he said “I am blessed to have children who’s existence stretches beyond this realm” and I just want to say that if a 60 year old Jamaican Rastafarian can get it, so can you

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

It's not just that gay bars are supposed to be a safe space.

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

Good advice

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

Sometimes just stopping and witnessing is enough to save a life.

[Leslie Alexander @lesliemalex]

Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread...

This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were four white male police officers surrounding two Black teen girls. 1/16

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

15 years ago my PhD advisor taught me One Weird Trick for editing your own writing. Edit **back to front**, paragraph by paragraph. I still use it and it still surprises me how well it works. When I get my students to do it, it often blows their minds. Try it!

[Noah Buckley @noahvbuckley]

Periodically, I’ll think about how the only reason America implemented free breakfast programs for schoolchildren was because the Black Panthers had a similar program and the government was worried about them winning hearts and minds.

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

Yes! This is how I feel about my past employer. I've told my new team a few times that I was traumatized at my old workplace and might need some time to process what I went thorough. They're really great about it.

[Sara Fung, MN, BSN, RN @saramfung]

There are things that no one talks about after leaving a toxic workplace or toxic team 🧵.

-the period of decompression you go through
-the bad habits you have to unlearn
-the closure that you never get

1/3

[Stepan Hlinka @stepanhlinka]

13 free websites that are so useful they feel illegal to know:

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

I just submitted a poetry manuscript to a press that I'd love to be a part of. It's my 1st book submission in years. I'm not sure why it took so long for me to get back up after the last rejections. I guess it takes a certain stamina to believe there's good reason to keep trying.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

People are happier to help than we expect.

Data: we overestimate how inconvenienced they’ll feel—and underestimate how valued they’ll feel.

Asking isn't always a burden. It's often an opportunity to help others feel capable and useful.

Seeking help is an expression of trust.

[adrianne⁷ GOT HIT BY A TRUCK🤕 @writersrepublic]

Fantasy is when you pretend Black ppl didn't exist in the past and sci-fi is when you pretend Black people won't exist in the future

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

I share this to highlight the fact that a healthy work environment is possible, but it has to be adopted at the top. It was the leadership in my higher ed office who made this impossible. Everyone else, if given the power, would've chosen balanced work schedules. / final

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

My new job (started in April) allows the most work/ life balance I've ever experienced. I work 35 hours/wk from my home office. If I need to flex my time, no problem. Today I'm taking a vacation day. Going to the Oregon coast for a writing retreat. /1

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

This was't my experience working as support staff in higher ed. There, we were forced back into the office after 2 years of working from home, even though most of us could work remotely without it affecting the quality of our work. The paternalism was normalized as unavoidable.

[Jaime R. Wood @JaimeRWood]

@JaloniWilson @Rightturn_only @shaTIRED @notdbird Worship of the written word also assumes that the written word is accurate when often it's not. Look at most of our history books.