Dr. Lauren Steele (PhD)

Assistant Professor of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies-Ithaca College HCI, CSCW, & social theory

[Tim Howles @AimeTim]

1. It is with great sadness that we learn the news of Bruno Latour’s passing today. He was an intellectual giant, a friend, & someone whose work inspired me greatly. A thread for those who want to know more about this extraordinary life.

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

Being American is more than a pride we inherit—
It’s the past we step into, and how we repair it.

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

We knew it was coming and yet it still took my breath away. I have no words.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Frederick Douglass: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man w/o at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Juneteenth doesn’t mark the emancipation of the enslaved, but emancipation of the US. We shld all rejoice & work twd our mutual liberation.

[Racheline Maltese @racheline_m]

Cis people: I need you to understand (and help others understand) that “the trans debate” is NOT relevant “to only a small number of people” but to everyone. Thread below for why:

(This is focused on cis women, but cis dudes I need you to listen too. You are also in danger.)

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering and voting for the axe. Because its handle was made of wood, and they thought it was one of them.

[feminist next door @emrazz]

Good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns about as often as good guys stop bad guys from doing anything.

[Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck]

I look forward to hearing the same folks who have been insisting that teachers just can’t be trusted to decide how/what to teach their students now argue that the solution to school shootings is for those same teachers to be armed.

[Capitol Hill Books @chbooksdc]

If I didn’t know better, I’d say books about racism and the lgbt folks are not the biggest threat to school kids.

[Dr. Bryan Leyva @DrBryanLeyva]

Pediatrician here. I want people to know that death by firearm is not rare in kids. In fact, it has been the #1 cause death in this age group since 2020. In 2020 alone, 4300 children died from firearms. That’s equivalent to one Boeing 747 plane crash every month for 9 months.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

In 2022, more children have been killed in school shootings than police officers have been shot in the line of duty.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

These are elementary school children who woke up this morning. Who ate their favorite cereal. Who tied their shoes in double knots. Who laughed with friends on the bus. Now more than a dozen are dead. This isn’t normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. It can’t keep being this way

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Critical race theory literally explains why Great Replacement Theory exists, but now just days after a white supremacist massacre the same people who created an entire book-banning hysteria around CRT are justifying and promoting GRT. Absolutely shameless.
Absolutely shameful.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Love how cryptobros have gone from, “LOL, stop being poor,” to “It’s not nice to make fun of people who have lost money,” in like 2 weeks.

Know where all the money went? To people who sold earlier than you did. They got real money in return.

[Frederick van Amstel @fredvanamstel]

I’m probing the possibility of a weekly study group in English for the Design & Oppression network next year. please RT if you would like to join