Various street art messages and types (murals, graffiti, stickers, and wheatepaste) throughout San Diego captured over the last month. #StreetArt #SanDiego #SanDiegoStreetArt #PoliticalArt #PoliticalMessage

Are you over 18 and live in San Diego? We want to learn about your views and experiences with street art here in our city and your neighborhood. tinyurl.com/StreetArtOpi... #streetart #survey #sandiego #sandiegosurvey #survey #sandiegoart #sandiegostreetart #graffiti #socal #research

🧵 Six months ago today my kids and I moved out of our flat in Málaga, Spain. A year ago, I was preparing to leave. Between visas and travel plans, stress and grading, I was ready to hop on that plane. (1/2) #fulbright #phd #phdresearcher #grants #livingabroad #travel

I just lost the game, thanks to my 11 year old. And this means you lost the game, too. 🫠 #thegame #milleniallife

🧵 (1/2) He always talks about how he's the best at some nonsense. So, let's make sure to give him a round of applause [sarcasm] for this record breaking facts he can add to his stats sheet: #governmentshutdown #politics

Wild to think we have a person in power who believes they're so above the law that it’s justifiable & logical to deny people access to food because they want to take away people's access to health care. Alas, logic was not the MAGA campaign. Nor was humanization. #SNAP #governmentshutdown

Elmo went as Luffy from One Piece for Halloween this year. And the fact he went as a pirate who fights corrupt government rule after PBS and in turn, Sesame Street, had their federal funding cut seems too coincidental to be, well, mere coincidence, and I'm loving it. #luffy #elmo #sesamestreet

Day 5 in a row of writing. ❤️

🧵 (1/2) Explain your WIP. I'll go first. Working on a cool project with @midnightgaea.bsky.social Our pre-teen main character carries ancestral knowledge of deep resistance, while the neighborhood ravens enact it, believing in the future that humans have given up on or just don't care. #writing

February of 2024 I told myself I'd write (non-academic work) daily. Then life got busy. I had to prepare for Spain. Teaching 8 classes, etc. Made a decision yesterday that I'd adopt that again. Yesterday, I wrote 157 words, still significant to me. Today, I wrote 1,028. ❤️ #writing #writer

What if we’ve been missing it this whole time? We’ve always had the answer to life, the universe, and everything, that's clear: 42. What if the Ultimate Question… was simply a multiplication question after all? Because, really, two factors of 42 are… 6 and 7. 🫠 #hitchhikersguide #answertolife

My friend Rhiana is graduating after a tumultuous journey. She still made Dean's List while working, too. She's always that friend who remembers your birthday and celebrates you. Now she's walking across that stage and I want it to be pure joy, not stress about fees. ❤️ (1/2) #graduation #gofundme

What do you admire about yourself? It's so easy to get bogged down by the world, pressures, and narratives that exist out there. So, what is something you find really beautiful about yourself?

As a former Starbucks "partner," the irony isn't lost on me. They shut down stores with little/no notice; some employees even showed up to work only to find out they'd lost their jobs. Boycotts work: $12B loss for Target, $4B for Hulu. Another reason to skip the bux? Here you go.

Transitioning back to SD has been rough, but I finally visited @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social. I haven't been since they were in Clairemont (and been going since 2005.) I took my kids & 2 good friends. It was a nice reminder of what community can look & feel like, even if you don't know everybody.❤️

🧵If we care about public health, how can we ignore the forced starvation and genocide of the people in Gaza Zainab was 5 months old. She needed dairy-free formula for a milk protein allergy. There was none. She starved to death. She is one of thousands. Look at her face. Say her name. Take action.👇

Wild how the anti-mask crowd of 2020, a mask that helped save lives, suddenly became pro-mask in 2025 when the kidnappers of ICE started using them to conceal their identity during kidnappings. It's almost like it had nothing to do with freedom or their ability to breathe. Shocking. 🙄

Somebody is helping me apply for tenure-track jobs. #cats #cat #academia #phdlife #phdcats #academia

Remember when anti-DEI Target lost $12B? Paramount gets 67% from TV & 24% from streaming. If you're pissed they axed @colbertlateshow.bsky.social to focus on boot-licking & Trump foot-kissing, remember: when folks bail en masse, it hits hard. Just ask Target how that worked out.

If you're a student at SDSU and you're looking for a cool new class to take for fall, consider taking Sociology 496: Visual Methods with me. A few things planned: photograph, picture books, and more. But! I need about 6 more folks to sign up. Interested? Let me know. #sdsu #sociology #fallclasses

I'm convinced Your Idol did its job so well, that now the algorithms are actually just reflective of Saja Boys' hold on all of us, so we just keep playing the songs and the movie on repeat. And honestly, I'm cool with it. #kpopdemonhunters #kdh #movie #sajaboys

I really should be writing, trying to take some pieces of my dissertation, finished a while ago, and turning them into articles, but instead I keep dancing to Golden, Soda Pop, and Your Idol, so I guess tenure-track possibilities can wait. 😅 #phdlife #kpopdemonhunter

For my async classes, I do a fun syllabus quiz with hidden questions. One I have is, "If you were a resident sociologist on a TV show, what would it be and your catchphrase?” The answers have me grinning. Small thing, but it’s got me so hyped for this summer class. Loving this! #sociology #phdlife

This 4th I can't help but be reminded by Paulo Freire's work. We should be reminded that one of the only requirements for the violation of a person or group of people is to dehumanize them, which means nobody is human. Even those who have internalized the oppressor's beliefs. #paulofreire

In case you’re not up to date on your Constitutional Rights, betting eaten by alligators in a 100 degree swamp is absolutely a violation of 8th Amendment protections against “cruel and unusual punishments.” ESPECIALLY for people who have not been found guilty of a crime.

In some ways, I'm not thrilled about returning to San Diego. In others, I'm ready. I've been gone for almost 6 months. I look forward to connecting with folks & finding roots in my community, like going to writing groups and bookstores (shoutout @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social) 20 more days.

The NEH released its Public Scholars award last month. Notice the mention of how ideals of democracy have consistently been met, while we have oligarchs running the show, and the emphasis on only economic freedom while the rich take away medical care & cut taxes on themselves. #neh #humamities

Yet, this is the regime of government waste and economic prosperity, right? 🙄

Moved out of our flat in Spain 24 days ago. Been back in the U.S. for 15 days. Living there was life-changing for me. Perhaps we were lucky with the neighborhood we were in, but Málaga captured. I am missing Spain a lot, & have every day since we've left. But for some reason today hits harder.

I’ve never truly felt like I belonged. On trips or in familiar cities, I still felt out of place. In Spain, that changed; it became home. Fulbright made that possible. It is more than an award. With it under attack, I’m sharing my story. Want to read more? Check out the link ⬇️ #fulbright #research

My favorite thing about that insane Trump post is that he sounds like he was the matchmaker in a rom com who is so proud of the fact that the "opposites attract" warring couple that he set up for a blind date has now finally decided to get married after a tumultuous 90 minutes.

Just a reminder that dystopian and anti-dystopian books are, in fact, cautionary tales and not handbooks for how to run a society. Just throwing that out there in case, as it seems is so, conservatives didn't know that. I mean, since they like banning books and all.

Is now the point* where we stop calling this a presidential administration and switch to calling it a regime**? Asking for a friend.

My dad's 1964 Impala he's been working on at the Teutopolis Cruise Night #cars #carphoto #photos

If you're a #sociology student at #ucsd then consider taking my Sociology of #HigherEducation course! I cover topics including history, philosophies, outcomes, access, global views, & sociopolitical conditions & "why" through sociological lenses. It's #asynchronous with free, open access resources.

Seen in Dublin #chooselove #dublin #graffiti

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

Though Spain will always be special to me for the time we lived there, Ireland will also always have a piece of my heart 😍 #dublin #ireland #travel #traveling #photos #photosoftheday

I highly recommend EPIC The Irish Emmigration Museum. Such an incredible place that highlights the importance of telling people's stories. #epic #emmigration #dublin #ireland

Streets of Dublin ❤️ #dublin #photography #photooftheday #photos #ireland #travel

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 A massive crowd is gathering in DC demanding that SEIU CA President David Huerta be freed. #FreeDavidEndRaids Find your event here: bit.ly/FreeDavidEnd... PASS IT ON!

Another day in Zurich #photography #travel #photooftheday

Zurich, Switzerland #photooftheday #switzerland #zurich #photos #photo #clocks

The venn diagram of MAGA claiming Biden was unfit to be a leader because of mental deterioration, & those who believe the asannine conspiracy theory Trump has made up about Biden being replaced by a robot yet still believe he is a fit "leader" seem to be pretty close to a circle & it's wild. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Seen in the streets of Granada ❤️ #Spain #graffiti #Granada #España #photos #photooftheday #photography #politicalmessage

Day trip to Ronda, Spain #livingabroad #travel #everydaylife #ronda #españa #photooftheday

Frigiliana, España #spain #livingabroad #españa #photooftheday #photos

Hey #teachers! I'm helping a friend with dissertation recruitment. He's a former teacher & is ONLY 20 survey respondents shy of hitting his sample. Anybody who has been at this stage knows how hard it is, so if you're a math teacher or know #mathteachers, reach out & I'll send the study info. #phd

Looking for book recs. Favorites: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams, Fifth Season by Jemisin, Many Waters by L'engle, Speaker for the Dead by Card (I know his politics😭,) Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Bo-reum, Graveyard Book by Gaiman (I know his harmful patterns 🤮.) #books