ale (they/any)

phd student @ brown, bargaining co-chair @GradLaborOrg, unionized @swcdartmouth, trying to think about literature, ecological crisis and the sugar plantation

[ale (they/any) @alemgoa]

in june i graduated with my b.a. which means i finished my thesis. i was and still am very proud of this project—incomplete as it may be—and im looking forward to refining portions of it in the coming years. thank you to those of you who made this journey possible :)

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

Babe, CUNY Grad Center is one of the most respected institutions of doctoral education in the country. And depending on the field, superior to many Ivies and other private R1s.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Zionism is a death cult

[ale (they/any) @alemgoa]

This is... really funny. Like so ridiculously idiotic that it's just pure comedy.

"Where's the reserve army of labor for professors?"

[📕 @SwampCommunist]

@IqrisL64399 I'll answer in part with another question: how can they be proletariat? Where's the reserve army of labor for professors? The surplus of labor? How do capitalists increase their rate of exploitation?

The majority of the intelligentsia is petit-bourgeois.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.

[ale (they/any) @alemgoa]

At the stage in my PhD where I finally need to tackle this. Only 30 pages in and can already say it's peak... can't wait to teach students this text when Alison Entrekin's new translation comes out

[PS⚡️ @Neelaasapphire]

Sugar cane women workers in India HAVE THEIR UTERUS REMOVED to avoid missing a single day of work.

This is where your misogyny should end and voice the inhumane working conditions of people across the world!

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

Footage from an Israeli aircraft shows thousands of starving Palestinians running towards an aid truck, before it bombs and kills them all.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Ban Ki-moon, then secretary-general of the United Nations, commented on how, in his visits to some of the most forgotten areas of the world, there was a common factor: the presence of Cuban doctors.

“They are always the first to arrive and the last to leave.”

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

If you know how much Chicago (or any other university) is paying to give everyone on campus Claude Enterprise, my DMs are open. I am curious how this expense compares to the apparently “too expensive” humanities PhD programs Chicago has cut. I bet the answer is illuminating!

[ale (they/any) @alemgoa]

My most anticipated book of the summer... if anyone wants to get me a birthday gift

[Kali @Kali_de_Armas]

It's easy to make fun of terms like "penis envy," but when you really get down to it, all Freud was arguing is that the process of gendering a child necessarily involves dysphoria, that dysphoria is an inherent dimension of gender, and that being made a gender is not easy on you.

[Ryan Geddie @RyanGeddie]

Paris commune barricade location, now a KFC

[GL @gldivittorio]

Bar

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivan miner on strike: The police are raised by working class families then grow up to shoot at their own people.

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

“The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you…”

[eleanorina @_eleanorina]

"Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads."

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

been noticing this lately, especially on here, that the rise of widespread illiteracy has also created a kind of person who wants to demonstrate their capacity for language through grammar and usage pedantry that often has absurd results like this

[finn 🍉 @ironasss]

despite working less than half the year, we make barely triple the median salary :(

[JoeI @whitefeelimgs]

Countless America deliberately earn no more than $15,000 a year so they can give their brat kids thousands of dollars worth of fish knowledge on the tax payer’s dime