NYT article “How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse,” with the comment “Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.” The image is a vertical floorplan with pods tightly packed that resembles diagrams of slave ships in abolitionist literature from the 18th century
The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.
Intersectionality is so important bc it’s NOT a matter of “the world would be better without religion” bc that same mindset motivates antisemitism, islamophobia, disrespect and destruction of Indigenous sacred places in the name of “progress” over “superstition,” and many others in the same boat.
Poster of a liminal corridor in FU university Berlin saying ‘10 observations from the On Asexualities’ conference
Over the last two days I was at the On Asexualities conference in Berlin.
The aim of the meeting was to catalyse research and activism around asexuality and aromanticism.
Here are 10 observations from the event.
Some of our network members attended the workshop “On Asexualities: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives” at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Berlin last weekend: laurin.tirpitz.me/event/acewor...
A huge thank you to Laurin Tirpitz and Ela Przybyło for organising such a fantastic event!
I can write better and smarter than a bot but it’s taken years of practice. So what will happen if no one learns to write like that is we will have no writers. And civilization will crumble I’m not even kidding.
Really hope all of you wonderful writers have cool stories for us, we're so hyped to be reading nothing but aro SFF for a while 💚
Image description: Includes the above text in white and green with a pink drop shadow. The title is in green meta at the top, outlined in black, with a pink drop shadow, and says, "Ace & Aro Academic Reading Group." The background is hues of purple with squiggle 3D graphics in shades of purple, blue, green, pink, and orange.
Hello! Ace and aro studies folks-- @mcsociology.bsky.social Carroll and I are launching this reading group for new lit.
For more info visit: tinyurl.com/bddvbmar
hot take: forbidden friendship across differences stories are way more impactful and meaningful than forbidden romance across differences stories
From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
This story should be viral
On this #transdayofvisibility please do everything you can to protect trans people. Rising fascism makes this a dangerous world for almost all of us but trans people are especially under attack right now. Speak up against bigotry in your daily life, vote for parties that fight for trans rights!
congrats!!
Die Uni Kassel darf, dank der Landesegierung, nicht mehr "Schüler:innen" schreiben.
Die Uni Kassel zeigt sich kreativ und ersetzt nun jedes Mal "Schüler:innen" mit "Schülerinnen, Schüler, nicht-binäre Lernende an Schulen sowie solche, die sich keiner geschlechtlichen Kategorie zuordnen möchten." 😅👍
Lent idea: straight partnered people give up all forms of intimacy* for 40 days and experience a taste of the “celibacy” they assign to queer people by default
*(no cheating)
The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists
Cover of book concrete and plastic with a montage or perhaps graffiti
Coming up on Monday March 4th:
Kylie Crane will discuss her book Concrete and Plastic: Thinking Through Materiality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series at 4pm Central European time.
Join us for the live talk!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
congrats!! 🥳
Plakat mit folgendem Text: IF YOU THINK YOU LOVE FREEDOM, BUT YOU DON'T CARE IF IT APPLIES TO EVERY ONE, WHAT YOU ACTUALLY LOVE IS PRIVILEGE
So true…
omg love
we also gotta go one step beyond "do not obey in advance" to "do not panic in advance", fam.
check your sources, hesitate before reposting, corroborate stories.
we're more valuable to billionaires panicked than focused, breathing, and remembering our training.
This is a propaganda masterpiece. Tens of millions of people who know nothing about politics will see this & when TiKTok is back Trump will take full credit (& a huge kickback) & no one will care the ban was his idea in the first place. An idea an idiot cadre of elderly Dems went along with. 🤡 💩
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
You either own your weird or get owned by it.
screenshot of a bluesky notification saying: "New follower! Academic Abuse has followed you"
wish it wouldn't 😕 /j
you’re invited… 4th Streamaversary Subathon Saturday 1/11, 10a-6p PT twitch.tv/tyleroakley 100% for @BestFriends Animal Society's LA Fires Emergency Response Fund (donate here: https://tiltify.com/@tyleroakley/splat-pack-gives-back-best-friends-animal-society)
you’re invited…
4th Streamaversary Subathon
Saturday 1/11, 10a-6p PT
twitch.tv/tyleroakley
100% for Best Friends Animal Society's LA Fires Emergency Response Fund (donate here: tiltify.com/@tyleroakley...)
Everyone now leaving X cause Bluesky is FINALLY close to being usable in similar ways have not done so earlier for lack of an alternative not cause they don‘t care about Elon - leaving massive platforms that are vital to people‘s incomes and community networking without alternative is a PRIVILEGE.
das video von der torte in lindners gesicht ist mein highlight der woche
