If you advertise an event as a conversation between two leading black women scholars and activists about “Imagining and Building a Better World for Black Families” maybe don’t spend the first 25% of the event let the white male moderator talk about himself and his experiences.

This is a friendly reminder to look for blocked storm drains in your neighborhood while out for your constitutional, and clear them. We are due to get more rain, and Ann Arbor is still under a Flood Watch. #A2Council #AnnArbor

I’m listening to this tape of a panel of gay and lesbian therapists from the 1970s and the gay men are all obsessed with accidentally having sex with their clients in bathhouses and the lesbians are all obsessed with what happens if they run into their clients at poetry readings

Last year, one of my friends bought two cases of Minor Figures oat milk for her and her wife to try to avoid tariff related price swings. She has just re-upped. It’s 8 boxes, 32 cartons total. It’s the same price!

Instead of posting all the ways I'm annoyed at this article, I suffered listening to my voice from a few years ago. As someone who is often the only masc person showing up in countless organizing spaces, there's *been* room for men in the work - but there isn't room for hegemonic bullshit.

I’ve had a rough last week or so and I am so grateful for my friends who have shown up to support me and also sent food. So much food: beef stroganoff, carnitas, nuggs from Wendy’s, a care package from Zingerman’s. It’s gonna take me a while to eat all of this.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

They ripped a parking kiosk out of the ground???

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Someone is setting off fireworks

Going out to eat by yourself can be controversial but it is in my experience an excellent way to increase your chances of getting a seat at the bar during a crowded brunch service.

it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy

Getting dangerously close to writing a think piece about race and sex on Bravo’s “Summer House”

Here we go. Most of the books are at the high schools. The list features the classics: Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Sapphire, etc. But I was tickled by the inclusion of Sarah J Maas and Colleen Hoover. #a2council www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arb...

hmm

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

Frankly, listening to folks at the Supreme Court (which is still 2/3 white) debating the 14th amendment, the history of enslavement, and immigration at the Supreme Court just makes me feel gross

Arguments are both specious AND bananas. As expected.

No, but actually who watches Summer House? I have THOUGHTS

How dare West drop an Instagram statement *after* my Black Feminisms seminar?!?

there are so many things to be angry about but at the moment I really fucking hate the fact that I’m expected to be able to recognize AI generated slop text

Congrats on Donald Trump for inventing the first Pyrrhic Loss

Sticky command hooks are not acceptable under the bar purse hooks!

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

i just think “he had a nazi tattoo” is a reasonable thing to make a red line when deciding whether to support or oppose a political candidate. apparently lots of people disagree, for a variety of reasons. but idk i feel good about it being a red line for me personally

Just heard two boys earnestly discuss adding each other on LinkedIn. Send help.

mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

Here @theguardian.com hides the fact that IOC is mandating sex testing of all women athletes. This policy is not a trans ban: it is a ban against sex variance in women's sports. Nothing like this is done to men. Sex testing normalizes medical abuse. It's not just unfair. It is evil.

Incredibly disturbing but insightful piece on the “kill chain”: “The US military has been trying to close the gap between seeing something and destroying it for as long as that gap has existed, and every attempt has produced the same failure. Maven may not even be the most extreme case”

Castor Semenya: "I have carried this weight. So have other women of colour who deserved better from sport. Reintroducing genetic screening is not progress — it is walking backwards. Women’s sport does not need this. It needs to be abuse-free... This is just exclusion with a new name."

IOC bans transgender athletes from women's category. Says female participants will have to undergo "one-time" gene testing www.olympics.com/ioc/news/int...

One of the truly great things about the world we live in is how many things there are that are vastly more interesting than the Harry Potter series. The list is literally infinite in length.

My institution is currently circulating a survey about care needs from the faculty senate. I think a list of local tuition rates and the small number of vacancies would have accomplished the same goal.

We bombed an elementary school, Bret

Evergreen 🙃

are you counting Ohio

I don't know how DHS is gonna stop Detroit drivers from missing a turn and ending up on their way to Canada but someone needs to build a backup u-turn spot, I guess

Evergreen 🙃

This is grim reading. Even if you dislike aspects of higher education, declines in academic freedom often accompany authoritarianism.

you wouldn’t survive a

Ann Arbor passed a new comprehensive land use plan that would legalize triplexes across the city and effective end exclusionary single family zoning. The things that people have been saying in opposition have been frustrating but sometimes they’ve also been insulting and awful. #a2council

For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism. This is what cryptofascism means. They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels. You’re being played.

I think it’s notable that a whole lot of Jewish (and non-Jewish!) folks are saying that the antisemitism here is as bad as it’s ever been and getting worse maybe worth paying attention to the voices of people who live this stuff

Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Is it bad that these types of opinions make me kind of wish I’d gone to law school? This seems FUN

Not surprised given that we just had two confirmed measles cases in Washtenaw county last week 🙃

That’s not where you’re supposed to stop. And it’s definitely not where you stop when you pull up after pedestrians have already started crossing.

Did you know the youth are watching the original Sex and the City? I got to read two papers for my Black Feminisms course on SATC. Other popular topics included Love Island (3) and Cynthia Erivo/Wicked (3). Honorable mentions for Resident Evil video game and Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt.”