Katie Baker

neurodivergent grad school student (kidlit) and graduate teaching assistant- she/her, opinions my own and stuff 🌈📚📝♐️

[Katie Baker @_Kt_93]

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” -Richard Feynmann

[Gal Beckerman @galbeckerman]

Pouring one out — along with a piece of chocolate cake, an ice-cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake, and a slice of watermelon — for Eric Carle.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Merry Equinox to all residents of planet Earth. On this day, Earth’s tilted axis points neither towards nor away from the Sun.

Astronomically, that gives us Spring north of the equator, and Autumn south of it.

Also 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime - worldwide.

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

Our hearts are with the families of the AAPI women slain yesterday. Hatred is infectious and cumulative - it begins w pejoratives about race and evolves into acts of unspeakable violence. We must do more than condemn. Our responsibility is to protect and defend. By word and deed.

[Alyssa Limperis @alyssalimp]

Weird that March is next month when March was also last month

[Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin]

Franz Fanon on political education. Every thing depends on the masses no hero, or famous man will save us

[Katie Baker @_Kt_93]

@beth_phelan I just found this out yesterday and I’m still reeling.

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

61 years ago today, 4 North Carolina A&T students held first major sit-in of civil rights movement at Greensboro Woolworth. They were 17, 18 & 19 at time. Spreads to 55 cities in 3 months. A reminder of the power young activists have

[Katie Baker @_Kt_93]

@ravenscimaven Reading about this experience was painful for me as someone who struggles with ADHD in academia. But it was also validating and powerful and I’m so glad you shared this! Thank you.

[Katie Baker @_Kt_93]

ADHD is putting your passport in a Very Safe Place and not writing it down (because how could you forget THAT), then panicking months later when you realize how many Very Safe Places there actually are in your tiny apartment, all of them Very Empty.

[Mitali Perkins @MitaliPerkins]

Cheering hard for everyone who had a children's or young adult book published in 2020. We are grateful for the hope and truth you gave our young people during this arduous, tumultuous year. We see you; we celebrate you. #alayma21 #alayma

[Katie Baker @_Kt_93]

@adamm0rgan North Carolina

[Katie Baker @_Kt_93]

@cja_wordsmith It’s going to be such a good class! I’d take it.

[Alexandra Petri @petridishes]

you call it “putting things away” I call it “hiding them so future me will have no idea where they are”

[Brené Brown @BreneBrown]

This made me laugh so hard.

[Katie Baker @_Kt_93]

@cja_wordsmith Of course 😂 what’s the course?!

[Ally @ally_roza]

You see how Amanda Gorman just made you feel??

This is why art matters so much. It has the ability to cut through and gets right to the heart of the matter.

I guarantee most will forget the majority of these speeches, but it will be hard to forget what she just did today.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

“I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence... Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.”

- Coretta Scott King

[Mara Wilson @MaraWilson]

“I was just in a really weird place at the time” -Me, thinking of literally any time in my life

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

My fellow Americans, one thing I learned from my close study of history in South Africa is that Truth and Justice must come before Reconciliation.

[Katie Baker @_Kt_93]

Starting to worry essay writing won’t be a marketable skill post-apocalypse