Jessica Somers

PhD Candidate in English at USC. CSU and cc alum studying colonial domestic objects and homes in 19th c. global anglophone literature.

[Jessica Somers @jessicasmrs]

@rbb3e Congratulations! Looking forward to reading

[Joseph Zeballos-Roig @josephzeballos]

Wow: 1 parent was briefly arrested for urging police to enter Robb Elementary

"Once freed from her cuffs Ms. Gomez made her distance from the crowd, jumped the school fence, and ran inside to grab her 2 children. She sprinted out of the school with them"
https://t.co/WOMwBYW6qs

[Jessica Somers @jessicasmrs]

Available for preorder! Will be ever so patiently waiting by my mailbox come April. https://t.co/kcDDZftZAJ

[josh! @queersocialism]

angela davis, from abolition democracy:

“the challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression. rather, it is to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded.“

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

does racial representation in the white house comfort the deported?

[J • @julideda]

“If talking about sexism and racism is heard as damaging institutions, we need to damage institutions.” @SaraNAhmed

[josh! @queersocialism]

the biggest most beautiful scam about reading is that the more you read, the more you have to read… does that make sense? reading, to me, is amongst the most succinctly humbling human experiences. the more i read, the more i realize i do not know shit about shit 😭

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“The dash is the consciousness leaping, it’s like a bridge from one idea to another.” —Hilton Als https://t.co/s9YRBdKWON

[Jessica Somers @jessicasmrs]

Post a character who has your vibe

[Myriam Gurba Serrano @lesbrains]

Post a character who has your vibe

[josh! @queersocialism]

feels like one of the first rules of understanding geopolitics in an imperialist-colonial context should be to recognize that empire is never operating colonially in “good faith,” or for any other purposes than its own interests

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Stonewall was a riot.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The executive officer of internal affairs in the Norfolk Police Dept. donated $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse with a message:

“Every rank & file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.” https://t.co/VVuiAfG3iX

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Calling for “peace” without addressing these death-dealing institutions is just an affirmation of the state’s monopoly on violence

[Jessica Somers @jessicasmrs]

Had a wonderful time presenting on imperial intimacies for #spectaclesofdecline! Thanks to the organizers for having me.

[AEGS @aegsusc]

USC Literature & CW PhD students: join us Monday, 1/25 from 12- 1 PM to learn more about the field examination!

[Durham Mutual Aid @DurhamAid]

"no matter who is in the White House ... we need #MutualAid to survive and to build resistance movements of hundreds of millions of people who can fight to stop the systems of extraction that govern our lives and build a world we can survive."—@deanspade
https://t.co/AVRP8EZRrR

[Palestine Legal @pal_legal]

Outrageous. A month after censoring a Palestine webinar at San Francisco State (@SFSU), Zoom has censored two other campus Palestine events—this time at the University of Hawai'i Manoa (@uhmanoa) and NYU (@nyuniversity).

Tell @zoom_us this needs to stop.
https://t.co/s6qdwLFZOZ

[radical theory @radicaltheory]

angela davis, from ‘are prisons obsolete?’

“people tend to take prisons for granted. it is difficult to imagine life without them. at the same time, there is reluctance to face the realities hidden within them, a fear of thinking about what happens inside them.”