Yuki Schwartz

When Liuzzo acquired this knowledge, when she got Woke, she was transfigured into a traitor to her race and a menace to The Homeland. For being a menace, for being Woke, she was killed—as was Renee Good. (As was Alex Pretti.) But revelations have their blessings, too. In this case, a life, however brief, that is clean, and does not depend on the oppression and debasement of others. The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them.

Ta-Nehisi on Minnesota, and Culture War as war www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Except they add milk to Velveeta and Kraft singles, which is why I as a lactose intolerant fella can’t eat it.

My brain read this in Eeyore’s voice and it’s just about perfect.

Try now!

Oh hi! We can totally talk about this! I wrote my dissertation on this very thing and am working to turning it into a book. Feel free to send me info so we can connect IRL!

I have a friend who’s needing some help navigating the medical system in Northern Italy, so if anyone has advice, contacts or suggestions for organizations that can help travelers in need, please connect!

I’m one person and no expert, but I think it’d be weird to not see Mexican Americans, who live in a place that was Mexico less than two centuries ago, repping Mexico’s flag and embracing/honoring their ancestry when engaged in active resistance of their government targeting them for their ethnicity.

Aw dang. Sending love to @novenacarmel.bsky.social and her family, may he rest in Power!

Love it

The purpose of public protest is to make the violence of the state visible for the whole world to see. What’s happening in LA is the same violence that’s happening to immigrants across the US, but visible bc folks are protesting. Let’s support each others’ protests!

Please stop shaming people on social media for not “putting their bodies on the line.” Not everyone can protest. And protest isn’t the only way to bend the arc of the universe toward justice. It’s takes a lot of people working in a lot of different ways working together. Build the solidarities.

💯 Isn’t it telling that people who claim to take the Bible literally always treat Jesus’s care of people figuratively? And as someone who wrote a whole ass dissertation on why shame is important for compassionate politics, yes, you’re 100% correct that some of us need more shame.

I’m normally a Cardinals fan but picked the Mariners for my AL team. Damn if they’re not edging out my NL faves with this 😭🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

😭 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 That’s just gorgeous …

I think about this a lot, how many people think their friends are exempt from the law. I think a lot about how prevalent the “that law/rule doesn’t apply to me or my friends” is such a hallmark of white privilege. It’s a very white-privilege salvation narrative.

Still putting the As in #LGBTQIAP*. Happy Pride Month, fam. We got each other.

#🖤🩶🤍💜 #🏳️‍🌈#🏳️‍⚧️

Furious. Grief-full anger at this administration’s move to pull Harvard’s ability to register international students.
There’s no step of my entire academic journey where international students haven’t played a huge role in helping me learn, as a student or professor. This can’t stand.

I try not to be an utter Pooh-pooper about AI, but it bugs me that this is something people think AI is good for. Especially scholars. What is the point of our work if not to develop the ideas and insights we generate out of our experiences/contexts/relationships with each other and what’s divine?

My partner is a member of an internationally known amateur choir and their seasonal show is coming up. A joy of my life is getting to quietly sit nearby and listen to him rehearse his part, and watching as he sings along with a practice track as he walks around the apartment.

Sending kindness and soft spaces to rest for:
—folks whose moms were abusive
—folks who have difficult relationships with moms or mother figures
—folks who nurture and mother in ways that don’t reflect the mainstream image
—trans, nonbinary, agender, and aroace parents whose mothering gets ignored.

Assigning characteristics to people based on where they were born or are from as opposed to (or alongside) the actions they have taken and the roads they have traveled is very much a hallmark of imperialism, especially the US kind. I’m more up for info like this.

This also!

The US inability to think of itself through a lens of diaspora is clearly on display with this “ The Pope is American” fervor. Yes, he was born here, then became a naturalized citizen of Peru. He is also Peruvian.

I used some TTRPG mechanics to teach a workshop on social location and intersectionality and it was definitely a rough draft but super fun. The game loosened up what is usually a tender subject and primed great discussion and questions. Definitely something to build on.

This is a great example of how the opportunity to resist oppression is everywhere.

There is so much that a PhD does not prepare you to do as faculty. Advising around this scenario was definitely not a topic. How are you journeying with your advisees who are on F1 visas on how they navigate their dangers? About any support your school might provide?

How I arrived on Bluesky

I hate the advice, “Make time to write.” My life and time is so intertwined with others, I can’t just “make time.” I have to enlist their support, or engage in mutual support, to create space to write. This isn’t about my discipline to write every day, it’s about my openness to let them care for me.