Richard Gere on the spreading infection of authoritarianism: “I come from America, which is in a very dark place, where a bully and a thug is the president, but it doesn't just happen in the United States - it’s happening everywhere "
@Greg_Gerke “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Dr. King
“Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination,” Leslie Silko
“Black is a Country,” Amiri Baraka
“When the First Voice You Hear is not Your Own,” Jacqueline Jones Royster
"Speaking in Tongues: A Letter…” Gloria Anzaldua…
1/ Let’s talk about Liv, Meta’s AI bot claiming to represent a “Proud Black queer momma.” The creators behind Liv? Ten white men, one white woman, and one Asian man. No Black creators. No cultural context. What does this say about their relationship with Black women? A lot. 🧵
Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch.
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research
“@GOP and the @IowaGOP government of Iowa has essentially solidified their position on these issues: they are the party of Christian Nationalism and corporate greed, not the party of freedom…” https://t.co/a9kgHQQnnv
“And that’s the point, that’s what they want us talking about. Those who delete their “trans terrorist” posts after being conclusively proven wrong will try the exact same schtick in a few months, after the next mass shooting goes viral.” #transvestigate https://t.co/NarZsz4ODD
Elon Musk, whose net worth is over $500 billion, met with US Senators, whose average net worth is $2.3 million and who make $15,000 a month with fully paid health benefits, to discuss cutting social security benefits to people who get an average of $1700 per month.
Let that sink in.