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This administration represents the worst of governance! theft disguised as policy, violence masquerading as order, and war sold as necessity. I know there are scholars here who identify as critical. I’m interested in whether that commitment is consistent across forms of oppression.

This is beyond a parody, exposing how universities are not neutral spaces but active participants in the larger project of modernity.

Why do you think education is failing? Multiple studies show that in Texas alone, nearly 40-50 percent of all new hires are uncertified teachers. These numbers are mind boggling.

My grandparents and parents lived through the Civil Rights Movement. Do you really think their attitudes changed that much? Let’s stop pretending that your Mamaw is just a sweet old lady, her history matters.

I’m happy to share that I passed my qualifying exam. One step closer for those three letters.

m so happy to share that I’ve received the Graduate Student Research Support Award from the @TTUGradSchool. This $1,500 award will go toward my ongoing research project on social studies teachers. I can’t thank my advisor enough for writing such a wonderful letter of support!

Hey there! I’m reaching out to share that I’m raising funds for my mothers funeral costs, and every contribution means the world to our family during this tough time. gofund.me/0313a7a98

Thrilled to share my new publication: “Newcomer Experiences in U.S. Public Education: Testimonial Counter-Story Using LatCrit.” It centers newcomer student voices & challenges deficit views through counter-storytelling. Free link (1st 50): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TEK6P...

Was just reminded that DARPA is still flush with research cash and it is clearly the establishment's hope that physical scientists will just turn to research that is functionally an investment in killing people I'm here to remind us: Scientists, you have a choice about what you are in the world 🧪

Tylenol caused me to be gay. RFK needs to really go down the rabbit hole so more white straight men don’t have the same fate as me.

If you think killing over politics is crazy, imagine killing over skin color😩😮‍💨

Never let a white person tell you that violence is never the answer. That’s the wrong message stacked on an even worse one.

Where was all this outrage when this happened? Political violence is terrible. Period! But if dead children were not enough to cause legislative change I can’t see this doing anything either. Let’s face it, the U.S. has a problem with gun violence. Call it out and let’s do something about it!

Does anyone have any recommendations on articles or books surrounding Black feminist thought?

just finished my first methodological paper (with a Michigan State PhD student) about utilizing AsianCrit as a theory and methodology. Now let the peer review process begin!

Pro Black also means letting Black people exist in ways that differ from your view of Blackness.

If you call yourself an ally but stay silent while your LGBTQIA+ friends are under attack, you’re not an ally but you’re a bystander. We see you.

From medical aid workers to journalists to 100,000 Palestinian lives, Israel’s ongoing genocide has spared no one. These are not accidents of “war” but are deliberate acts of violence, enabled by the U.S. that refuses to hold power accountable.

#solidarity #ecumenical #justice #infj💜 #💛🎯💯 #🌸🌸🌸

I don’t know how else to say this but if you still support Israel you are a deeply complicit part of an ongoing settler colonial and apartheid regime. You do not care about the lives of the Palestinians nor the genocide that is ongoing!

To echo what Tupac said, “It wouldn’t be L.A. without Mexicans,” but that goes without saying. Los Angeles was once a part of Mexico and is home to the second largest number of Mexicans in the world.

This is alarming: the National Archives are being closed to the public by the Trump Administration. www.libraryjournal.com/story/what-d...

Obama makes a nuclear deal with Iran to prevent nukes. Trump cancels deal. Iran starts making nuke material. Trump bombs Iran for thinking about making the nukes he enabled. Claims he's keeping America safe. Manipulative, narcissistic, sociopathic

I genuinely believe that to close the empathy gap, we need to read more books. Some recommendations for any adult or young adolescents: -Catcher in the Rye -The Street -Sister Outsider -Through my eyes These are just a few examples. If anyone has any other suggestions please comment below.

“Occupation, however violent, is narrated as taking care of things. In Zionism from the standpoint of its victims, , Said writes specifically of how Palestine was appropriated by being rendered a place that needed a caretaker” -Ahmed

Repression never stops social movements. It only intensifies it!

Call for Participants: Are you a Baldur’s Gate 3 player? Researchers at Texas Tech University want to hear from you! We’re conducting a research study to explore how your gaming experiences—particularly with BG3—influence your lived experiences in and out of the game.

I’m missing Festa Junina in Brazil because COE at Texas Tech is threatening to cut off funding for all RAs who travel over summer break. We are expected to stay in Lubbock, TX (both international and domestic students) for the entire duration of the program. TRASH place

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

Hot off the press: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UIA6W... This piece pushes at the edges of whiteness studies by bringing decolonial thought—something I’ve been sitting with for a while. Grateful to @jairofunez.bsky.social walking through this work with me—this piece means a lot.

I highly suggest thinking twice about applying to a university that punishes dissent while giving the president a pay raise, where their faculty voted no confidence in her ability to lead. www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/e...

In times of tyranny and injustice, when laws oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history. -Robin Hood

Mohsen Mahdawi is free!

Tell your child the truth- what did you do when the children were burning in Gaza?

If you think this can’t happen to you, you’re delusional. When rights are taken from one group, they don’t get handed to another—they disappear for everyone. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

Funny how critical scholars in the U.S. suddenly lose their critique when oppression crosses borders. If your analysis stops at the nation-state, you’re not critical—you’re complicit.

If you are a social studies teacher, please consider participating in this study. A small token of appreciation will also be given out. Interested? Click Here to Participate: www.surveymonkey.com/r/3T3Y39L

“The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.”

When you're accustomed to privilege, equality and equity feels like oppression

We invite proposals for the 2025 CUFA Annual Conference. The theme is Troubling Democracy: Examining Power and Possibilities in the Pursuit of More Abolitionist Futures Location: Washington D.C., December 3rd-5th, 2025 Proposals due April 15, 2025 11:59pm HST See full call at: shorturl.at/Skhqu

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...

Please sign this petition. Dr. Thrasher was unjustly denied tenure due to his commitment to Palestine life.

“You don't get freedom peacefully. Freedom is never safeguarded peacefully. Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach by the ones who are being deprived of their freedom.” — Malcolm X, 1963

I’m in Guadalajara, Mexico, and I ran past this amazing message. Mexico and the Global South truly have more critical consciousness than the imperial colonial empire of the USA.