social science publishing assumes that work that influences policy is more important than work that changes how we imagine & feel. it assumes that we can simply legislate ourself out of this crisis. journals never follow up to see if you implemented the policy recs, performance
I am horrified that my university has decided to invite a white supremacist gang leader and an antigay grifter onto campus. Never felt so much shame to be a Gamecock before.
Today, we're giving a #Pride month shout-out to the singular they, which has been in use for centuries. Among its most famous historical users: Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Jane Austen.
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Yes, I'm aware of his tweets. No, I don't work with him anymore or plan to again. Yes, at some point I'll be less vague. Hell no, I don't agree with what he believes or think it's even a little bit ok. Y'all means all, y'all.
Devastated to hear about the detention of yet another sociologist @sameralatout for standing up with his students. We also learned of students arrested earlier in the week.
All while our disciplinary association maintains a deafening silence.
They didn’t rename the hall after a combatant, or an anti-Zionist, or an anti-Israeli…. They named it after the five year old who died alone and terrified, because Israel killed her family and the paramedics trying to reach her. Powerful witness and beautiful resistance
Just learned that students on my own campus were arrested last week. For some damn reason, this university has its own police force. https://t.co/oY1C9mliDo
These WKCR reporters, I tell you what. This is some of the best reporting I've ever heard under astoundingly difficult circumstances. Everyone at Columbia putting in the work right now and exercising grace under pressure is an example for all of us.
Might sound weird, but I think thousands of kids at elite universities from immense privilege risking their (earned or unearned) status for the lives of people they will never meet is breathtakingly beautiful