Puleng Segalo, Professor of Psychology at University of South Africa reimagines psychological inquiry, not through lab experiments - through embroidery. Her work with women exposes hidden trauma & resistance. Read about her journey from Zamdela to the world stage mauabiomagazine.com/puleng-segal...

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

I love your work! So glad you post here! From a fellow ceramicist who has only recently managed to touch clay again for the first time in forever…thank you for inspiring me to dare to post a pic of this little pot I made!

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

MUST READ!

Just so folks are clear - I'm waiving all donations for my contributions (training/convening) to this effort. All facilitators are volunteers - and I am hoping that they will reimbursed for their labors by donation But this is a space being created to keep us all going:

These meetings are organized to support professional and *natural* helpers (caretakers, parents, activists, teachers, medical and mental health care providers, community organizers, advocates - anyone in danger of burnout, over-extension or demoralization

We currently have about 9 active facilitators who have committed to holding a once monthly Gathered Meeting by donation - so I'm hoping we will be able to have a couple meetings each week for folks to be able to drop into or attend regularly

Gathered Meeting is a space to sit still and in silence together, to draw on our shared strengths and resources, grieve and celebrate together when necessary, and stay grounded in the work in front of us. You are welcome to come sit with us as we build out a network of resting spaces

Dear Hilary I would very much like to come to your party and so would Hilary. Thank you for asking us.

THIS THREAD!!! 💖💖💖

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?” Audre Lorde

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

I would encourage anyone dedicated to the causes of academic integrity, social justice, and (funnily enough) free speech to sign this petition in support of a brilliant NU professor whose tenure application was denied for the baffling and contradictory reason that he stands up for his students.

Any of my #cancer patient or research peeps had their grants revoked or #clinicaltrial stopped due to the new regime's #waronscience and #waronresearch? 👇

And here is a link to my legal defense fund www.gofundme.com/f/support-dr...

Here's a letter you can sign to oppose the denial of tenure, already signed by some of the writers, thinkers, professors and activists I respect the most in the world forms.gle/Rn9Rmq5fQUhq...

One blessing in this process has been consistently being affirmed. One of the external tenure reviewers, Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, shared his evaluation of my case and gave me permission to share it. His assessment was ignored. You can read the letter here drive.google.com/file/d/11fm2...

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Reading this I gasped in agony & horror/moral injury. I feel this as the most intense punch to the gut (& soul) as someone who has had 3 separate breast cancers and who has been a fierce patient advocate. Please send my love to your friend. @jonrauch.bsky.social This is beyond unconscionable.

A great read from @juliusgoat.bsky.social , plus it delivered the belly laugh I desperately needed on this miserable morning!

Hey, ladies! I'm looking to talk to women age 65 and up about whether they still get screened for cervical cancer and why. Give me a shout!

AOC speaks for me.

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

Yes. I’ve started meditating and thinking “courage” on the in breath and “fear” on the out breath. Safety is a thing I used to cling to and the new regime has made me realize I’m better off clinging to courage.

When I was diagnosed with a mysterious cancer in my central nervous system- I had one professional regret: I wished that I had spent my professional life helping people feel brave instead of safe. I’ve been focused on that ever since.

New from me in LitHub: The lack of solidarity from the American media has led directly to its current death spiral. Where is the moral courage at newspapers and journalism schools? Where is the outrage of the press corps? Silence = death, lithub.com/stenographer...

This whole beautiful thread! Must read! 💖💖💖

We can't save the world with games, but we can be part of why it is worth saving. We can't save the world with art, but we can brighten it. We can't save the world with play, but we can be a reminder of our humanity. We can't save the world with joy, but we can be a reprieve before the fight.

The Trump Administration’s treatment of Mahmoud Khalil is inhumane and unconstitutional. Today, I was proud to join NYS Assemblymember Valdez, NYC Council Member Avilés, and 27 city, state, and federal officials to call for his immediate release.

the amount of mealy-mouthed people crawling out of the woodwork to imply mahmoud khalil doesn’t deserve our full-throated support is evidence of the conditions that allowed him to be disappeared in the first place.

MASSIVE protest marching through Manhattan right now against the ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. Endless stream of people chanting “No cops, no KKK, no fascist USA.” Easily a thousand people. Zero NYPD presence.

i love this. and as a Jew, I love this (because this is who most of us are):

If you’re feeling demoralized, know that psychological warfare is part of the enemy’s tactics and manage your PUBLIC response accordingly

I so very much needed these words from Katie Farris this morning. Chapter 8, “Hope and Grief Can Coexist,” of Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba opens thusly:

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

Hello friends. I'm launching a weekly newsletter for @thenation.com. Check out my first installment, where I have, among other things, *all the smoke* for Elissa's Slotkin's pathetic, Republican-coded nonsense. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Because if it wasn't, the Western imaginary would have to reckon with the presence of African states long before European contact. Empires that exceeded in power and wealth those of Europe at the time. Societies deeply integrated into diplomatic and trade networks linked to the Med, Arabia and Asia.

Africa's absence in the Western lens on world history isn't an accident. It is by design. It began in the early years of European contact with the continent and has continued until now. It's not that Africa is absent from history, as people often claim. It is that Africa was erased from history.

This is unfathomable. I had the honor to attend the AACR @theaacr.bsky.social annual meeting as an advocate member of the Scientist<->Survivor Program. Imagining it without the NCI there… and knowing of all the research that is being decimated. I just can’t with all the willful desecration.

He also says “never before has a US president capitulated to an enemy.”

Some of the most privileged + protected white people were in the room last night and not one was willing to stand with Rep. Green.