L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

First W of the season! Go Racing!

RACING LOUISVILLE DUB 😤 #LOUvORL

I should say (as I do in the essay) that both Vladimir and Rooster have a lot going for them, and that accurately representing university life isn’t their main purpose. But at a time when higher ed is in the culture warrior crosshairs, it’d help if our pop culture were more plugged-in to reality.

Like a lot of other TV critics, I couldn’t help but notice that we got two shows set at colleges this month. As someone who spends a lot of time around teachers and students, I found these shows’ cliched approach to modern higher education frustrating, so I wrote about why for the AVC.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

They didn’t give the man a turkey leg and he never forgot.

Toyotathon Jordan Love plus Thanksgiving Jordan Love is like the powers combining for Captain Planet.

She is simply 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙀𝙎𝙏!!! 😤 In just her 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 as a head coach, #RacingLou’s Bev Yanez has been named the 2025 NWSL Coach of the Year! This makes Bev the 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 American and 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 former NWSL player to win this award! 🥇

GO ON GIRL 👏 Emma Sears has been named to the NWSL Best XI Second Team!

The Queen of the midfield has 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃 👸 Taylor Flint has been named to the NWSL Best XI Second Team!

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Oh, and after all the millions of dollars spent on advertising, the harmful policies and all the demagoguery... Stop. Picking. On. Trans. Kids. The Rs lost to me four times in six years. That should've been a hint. But apparently it wasn't, so the voters made their thoughts crystal clear tonight.

History! Racing Louisville in the playoffs for the first time ever! LFG!

“If you are in the masters house, did you honestly think you would live there comfortably?”- PHC on resistance within the academy… 🫢🥴🫠 #ASA2025 #BlackFemSoc

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either - nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks - concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life literally the only 2 options

This, on teaching as opposed to research in higher ed, made me smile:

If you're worried about your daughter losing at sports to a trans kid just wait until you hear about "tall kids" or "rich kids"!!! There's a thousand reasons why one kid might win over another and gender identity is like not even on the list

Poor and working class students of color ALSO face the bullshit racism from people like Andreessen who use their existence as a shield from a real discussion about social inequality in society and as a mechanism for distributing the psychological wages of whiteness that white solidarity depends on.

Of course Andreessen's position is racist as fuck but I wanted to directly address what he's avoiding discussing: the actual barriers poor and working class students face to accessing higher education -- including the white ones. Of course poor and working class students of color face the same ones+

The white students who are struggling to make ends meet are not struggling because Black and immigrant students got into our university. They are struggling because of a shitty social safety net & high tuition because people like Andreesen don't pay sufficient taxes/the state doesn't pay its share.

<diligently updating the list of career paths on the university’s “Major in Mathematics!” poster>

It’s the same reason colleges have academic deans.

The central premise of Trumpism is that white guys are inherently the most capable and qualified people for any meaningful position. As a white guy who spends a lot of time with white guys, I can assure everyone that premise is fundamentally wrong

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

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/2 There is an ethos fashionable in America that if YOU think foreigners should be detained in camps and I think you are a shit for thinking so, that makes ME the intolerant person. It is not an ethos for which I have any respect, and I am less and less inclined to conceal that.

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Bluey is a delight but sometimes makes children ... Too Playful

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

You will get ready for it, but you will not BE ready for it.

Explain your WIP badly: You know podcasts? The things one of my students called "radio for old people"? What if we had college students listen to them for class? Could we make that work?

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I'm extremely basic and I love ALL of my friends' family photos at a pumpkin patch. Hell yeah, pose that baby on top of that pumpkin.

The Haitian blood libel is activating my basest "love it or leave it" tendencies. Like if you want to live under an authoritarian ethnostate, there are plenty of options out there for you, but in THIS country we're trying to do a multiracial creedal republic.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,111,899!

[P] Happy Bell Riots Weekend to all who celebrate

This is true: If elected as Vice President, Tim Walz will have the highest office ever held by a sitcom neighbor who gives advice in the third act

Me turning on canoe slalom: What the heck is this sport? Me thirty seconds later: That dude really needs to work on his hairpin turns.

Project Community is a model of creating a transformative student experience through community-based learning. Find out how it works in “Sociology in Action: The Experiential Pedagogy of Project Community” by Rebecca D. Christensen in Sociological Focus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Community-based learning (CBL) is a transformative experience for students, but often requires a large investment of time from faculty. Community-engaged field trips are an alternate instructional tool for instructors to achieve the core benefits of CBL in a more manageable way.

Feeling burnt out in academia? Matthew H. McLeskey and Laura Obernesser offer techniques for managing emotional labor in their article “Strategies for the Unequal Distribution of Emotional Labor in Graduate Student and Contingent Teaching” in Sociological Focus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are you looking for ways to engage students while discussing social justice? Do you want to get them thinking about how to apply what they are learning in the real world? Check out “Vignettes for Social Justice Learning” by Angela M. Adkins in Sociological Focus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As sociology instructors, we oftentimes find ourselves teaching controversial topics to our students. Are you wondering how to promote critical thinking in an era of polarized classrooms?

Do you want to understand the role that sociology will play on campuses in the post-Floyd era? Farrah Gafford Cambrice describes the possibilities from the perspective of HBCUs in “Reimagining HBCU Sociology in the Post Floyd-Era" in Sociological Focus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....