Recent news from BU claims that the Center for Antiracist Research suffered from poor leadership and mismanaged funds. I use this story as a jumping off point to think about how universities fail research centers during the setup phase. Universities often value money over everything and do not offer support as a professor transitions from researcher/teacher to administrator.
In its reach it reveals the anti-democratic truth: Georgia cares more for Cop City than for civil liberties and is determined to quell dissent by whatever means it can. The Cop City Indictment Prosecutes Dissent By Sarah Jones, senior writer for Intelligencer I finally deactivated my Xitter account. I wasn’t sure I wanted to go that far … and then…
Finally finished reading David Harvey’s 2005 text A Brief History of Neoliberalism. I started this book way back in … well, I’m not sure … a few years ago. Finally picked it back up and behold, this describes so much of the last 20 years. My margins are full of … “Elon Musk & Twitter” or “2008 recession!” or “and…
In Not a Nation of Immigrants, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz strives to look at the ever morphing population of the United States, to uncover the why and how of the mythology that pervades political discourse on American history. In part, Dunbar-Ortiz recognizes that the looming problems of climate change, polarization, and authoritarianism cannot be fought while sweeping the parts of our history…
A Winter’s Promise (La Passe-Miroir #1) by Christelle Dabos with Hildegarde Serle (Translator) September 13-22, 2021 Recommended by Deirdre a few years ago, downloaded at the time … finally getting around to it. The world splintered long ago. Floating islands, each with it’s own customs, magics, and spirit guardians. Ophelia is a young woman from a sheltered background, a peaceful…
The kitchen in the Pennsburg house was an addition from the 60s, as wide as the house and at least a third deep, it was giant. When we moved to Pennsburg, the floor was linoleum and the cabinets were painted the same sort of light gray-blue that you saw so much during the time period. A triple-wide farmhouse sink, cast…
I love a good revenge film, they’re cathartic and frenetic and steeped in this easy good versus evil existence that never exists in the real world. So … enter a very big haired blonde-ed Kate Beckinsale, add in some neon, some weirdness, and lots of the tiny kick ass woman. I’m in. Low expectations though. Jolt From the beginning ……
We’ve learned so much about the world, about plants and animals, about the oceans and sky … about our history. Yet today, we’re embracing ignorance at alarming rates.
a tiny exploration of the staggering loss of life this last year
On one hand, this is big. Like, really big. Most White people in the U.S. didn’t know about Juneteenth until a few years ago … or maybe still don’t know? Sharing knowledge of history is powerful, sharing the realities of slavery and its legacies, celebrating the “end” is powerful. Particularly for our children. White kids need to know that legal…
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