Katie Kearns

Landscape archaeologist and Assoc Prof @UChicago. Working at the interface of classics, environmental history, anthropology, and geography.

[Katie Kearns @CMKearnsy]

"...the way forward is clear: meet your neighbors, document what you observe, and practice your freedom of speech. Expanding our understanding of who our neighbors are, and insisting upon upholding each others’ rights, will be the way we hold on to ourselves."

[Invisible Institute @invinst]

VFTG Issue 47: On the Federal Occupation in Chicago - https://t.co/6HiQivzWmQ

[Katie Kearns @CMKearnsy]

real ones remember Early Edition

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Dolly Rebecca Parton RIP, ❤️
US singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian #WomensArt

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library.

Here's what the charity does ⬇️
https://t.co/wYj727Ao9I

[Katie Kearns @CMKearnsy]

@Augusta_McMahon 🙃

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

Everything is dumb and bad right now, but at least reporting on the new Melville statue is appropriately horny.

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

as promised I solved the discourse

https://t.co/eIQRXcqlF4

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

The Sameer Project started from a desire to help our Palestinian people differently - with dignity, without conditions, and in a way that returned agency instead of creating dependency.

We continued because the genocide continued.

And now, we are devastated to say that The Sameer Project is being forced to pause our daily operations.

Not because the need has decreased. Because the money has run out.

We are panicking. We are stressed. We are heartbroken because we know exactly what this pause means for the people who rely on us.

Mothers still need to feed their children. Families still need drinking water. The elderly and sick still need medication. People are still being killed in airstrikes and shootings while the occupation continues to manufacture deprivation by restricting aid.

We have always been an emergency response group. When you donated, we spent that money immediately on people who needed help NOW. We did not save it for some predictable tomorrow, because in Gaza tomorrow has never been promised.

Now we are reaching a point we never wanted to reach: we do not have enough coming in to keep responding.

This pause is not administrative. It is not harmless. When food, water, medicine, transportation, and emergency assistance disappear, people can die.

We desperately need you to understand the urgency of this moment.

Please help us restart operations. Please donate. Please share. Please do not let Gaza lose another lifeline.

In the coming days we will share with you exactly how to be part of the solution - how to bring The Sameer Project back. The need did not stop and neither can we. Stand with us…

❤️‍🩹 - The Sameer Project Team

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Money out of politics.
Money in your pocket.
Medicare for All.

Michigan...

We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

[Emek Shaveh @EmekShaveh]

1/6 Emek Shaveh congratulates the State of Palestine, the Municipality of Sebastia and the people of Sebastia on the inscription of Sebastia as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Palestine. It is a decision that is both a historic recognition and an urgent warning.

[Katie Kearns @CMKearnsy]

omg omg omg omg

[LeBron James @KingJames]

another championship.

I believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team and I am so excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time.  

Thank you LA. Miami I’ll forever love and Northeast Ohio will always home!

🙏🏾🫡👑

[Leo Daube @leodaube]

Me at the British Museum

[Katie Kearns @CMKearnsy]

"some people see [the genocide] as a truly global socio-environmental happening: a generalized global pollution of the very social and cultural air that we breathe wherever we are."

[American Anthropologist @AmAnthroJournal]

New essay alert! Check out "Writing About Pierre Bourdieu Amid a Genocide" by Ghassan Hage. #Anthropology

https://t.co/t3S1THGLKQ

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

Hearing that all would be well in the humanities if we just pursued the Truth

[Emek Shaveh @EmekShaveh]

3/4 As if antiquities are by definition exclusively Israeli property.
This is the logic of annexation. <<

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

[Jazz, MPH 🇬🇩 @JazzShoots]

Last week, my 7 yo daughter did her year end project on the Harlem Renaissance and the influence of art/culture in NY over time. She recreated this photo using felt.

R.I.P. Sonny Rollins

[Katie Kearns @CMKearnsy]

On Nakba day we remember that it is an ongoing process of the erasure of Palestinians from their land and heritage, and that the field of archaeology has been and is complicit in that erasure.

[Katie Kearns @CMKearnsy]

Mahmoud Darwish:

The archaeologist is busy analyzing stones
In the rubble of legends he searches for his own eyes
to show
that I am a sightless vagrant on the road
with not one letter in civilization’s alphabet.
Meanwhile in my own time I plant my trees.