Dr. Power

16thC after it was cool. Political theorist @GlendonCampus (ops =/= my employer's). She/elle. RTs were likely a mistake. Single mum.
Curmudgeon extraordinaire.

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

Can't believe I forgot to share how thoughtful the CUP rep from APSA was. I'd hoped to snag a hard copy of my 1st journal pub, but they didn't have the latest RoP left. The perceptive fellow asked if I was in it, took my work addy, & remembered to send it to me! What a Mensch!

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Swedish police confirms that 3 participants of the Malmö Gay Pride Parade in Sweden were beaten up for wearing Stars of David.

The migrant men who attacked them said:

- “Do you support killing children?”
- “You f*cking f*ggots”
- “You think I won’t hit a f*g?”

🇸🇪🇮🇱

[David Hirsh @DavidHirsh]

This Naomi Klein teaching people to embrace antisemitism, in the Guardian:

1. the overwhelming majority of Jews worship a false idol; therefore they're not real Jews.

2. The overwhelming majority of Jews "are enraptured by [the false idol, Zionism]. Drunk on it. Profaned by it."

3. The overwhelming majority of Jews embrace colonial brutality, theft, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

4. The idea of a promised land, where Jews could find refuge from slavery, is in fact a universal metaphor for the liberation of all of humanity, but the overwhelming majority of Jews treat it is a divine license for an ethnostate where Jews can lord it over everybody else.

5. The overwhelming majority of Jews misinterpret transcendental love as a legal deed of selfish ownership.

6. The overwhelming majority of Jews profane what is holy.

7. Zionism, Jewish self-determination, in its essence, necessarily, required ethnic cleansing. But Egyptian self-determination is fine, but is necessarily denied by Zionism.

8. The Pesach story promises Egyptian self-determination from Jewish slavery.

9. The overwhelming majority of Jews do not see Palestinian children as human.

10. The overwhelming majority of Jews are, like Pharoh, murderer of children.

11. The overwhelming majority of Jews are immoral.

12. The overwhelming majority of Jews have violated their tradition of valuing education.

13. The overwhelming majority of Jews are responsible for the destruction of universities, schools, archives, printing presses and the killing of hundreds of academics, journalists, poets - this is "scholasticide", a play on the word "genocide".

14. The overwhelming majority of Jews are responsible for provoking the antisemitism that is targeted against them.

15. The overwhelming majority of Jews should not feel threatened by people raising their voices in support of Hamas.

16. The seder, which promises Jews the land of Israel and in which they yearn, "Next Year in Jerusalem" is a diaspora tradition. and not to be read literally.

17. The overwhelming majority of Jews care nothing for the ecological threat to the planet.

19. Peace agreements with Arab states are partnerships of slave owners.

20. Fear of antisemitism and defence against it is the cause of antisemitism.

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[U2 @U2]

Peace on Earth, we need it now... They're reading names out over the radio, the folks the rest of us will never get to know… Gal and Ayat, Hind and Mila. Their lives are bigger than any big idea.

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

Two seconds scrolling back on here and I'm reminded all over again how this place seems to bring out the worst in everyone. Academics especially, do better. Even here. Even now. Especially now.

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

@Simon_the_Pratt Agreed about the reaction (not to mention dehumanizing language). Logistics Q: are they able to prevent food/fuel from entering on the Egyptian border side?

[Nathalie Raoux @RaouxNathalie]

Un truc m'échappe. Vous espérez quoi à twitter sur le conflit israélo-palestinien ? Le résoudre depuis votre téléphone ?

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

@ConnorMEwing (admittedly, this is far easier said than done even among 'progressive' cis-het couples who wind up falling into exploitative gendered divisions of labour anyway)

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

@ConnorMEwing Find yourself a man who knows how to adult self-care enough not to need/expect a live-in servant to cook, clean, care for and sexually service him simply because he happened to be born into the role of entitled exploiter in a fucked up, arbitrary system of tyranny.

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

@tamar_marvin Weird! Are you the same handle as on here? I'll look for you too!

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

So I'm on that other site that looks like how this site used to look. Same handle. Come and play with me! :)

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

With all the articles coming out about the Nebraska teen sentenced to 90 days in jail for self-managing an abortion, I just wanted to flag something I wrote last week about coverage of the case.

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

Ha, à propos.

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Ok, so the plot twist I wasn't expecting was Reviewer 2 reviewing Reviewer 1.

Also if you can't review something, turn it down. These scholars out here breaking their backs trying to get an article out there & you're putting it through ChatGPT? Lazy, ignorant muthafuckas.

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

@JewishRen @lyonslearning Thanks!

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

There can be few tasks worse than having to read a book by Tony Greenstein. @MarcGoldberg111 has done it, so read his wonderful review - and spot the standard Ken Loach endorsement of this execrable book.

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

@MoppyOpps

[Dr. Power @PowerofAcademe]

Question for fellow humanities peeps who've had success with SSHRC:

Does one include translations of academic chapters and/or primary source materials in that 4pg "Research Contributions" section? If so, under which heading?