In recent years, the field of DEI has come under attack from an anti-“woke” backlash, driven by opinion writers and public speakers whose ideological arguments are completely disconnected from the actual debates going on in our field.

Right now there's a no confidence vote against our schools administration and they decided to have a big police presence including dogs

Oh for gods sake what is wrong with people? I’m childfree and it’s just weird to go around saying you ‘dislike’ children even if you are childfree. They’re among the most vulnerable groups in any society, and we all have a responsibility towards them.

If you think that trash you just heard from the Supreme Court about protecting J6 rioters will *ever* be applied to peaceful Black protesters, think again. Just yesterday, the Court allowed Louisiana to continue hunting deray
My latest in The Nation
thenation.com/article/activi…

On Monday, the Supreme Court effectively eliminated the right to hold a Black Lives Matter protest in three US states.

On Tuesday, the same justices were very, very afraid that January 6 insurrectionists are being treated unfairly.

vox.com/scotus/2413208…

i just feel like i need to tell you guys that a girl i worked with in college is now a 'somatic healer' who is going lightly viral on tiktok for telling people to pee on money

Beth Moore Jay D. Johnson Sheila Gregoire--She Deserves Better is here! Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler wrote about similar experiences in the foreword.

Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War g.co/kgs/WaVzSJD

If You’re Not Free To Get Other People Sick Against Their Will, Are You Really Free At All?

I love how half of the transphobes are like 'trans people didn't exist until 2023' and the other half are like 'every famous woman from the 1800s was trans'

In the past hour an Israeli drone fired a missile into a group of children in a playground. 11 children have been killed with more injured.

Hani Mahmoud reporting.

‘Humanitarian aid in Sudan is constantly being blocked by all the belligerents’
➡️ go.france24.com/VWh

My AJE piece:

'It is critical to seize this moment and send a message to the US empire that business as usual, where US dominance determines international economic, political and cultural directions, is neither wanted nor tolerated.'

aje.io/z9727i via Al Jazeera English

Judith with the Head of Holofernes, by Charles Mellin, 1630, 📸 by Brian Babineau

For more on the phenomenon of classical art and architecture as coded language for white supremacy and far extremism, see:

newstatesman.com/politics/2018/…

In Germany, this movement has gone so far as to have certain extreme right politicians recreating the kinds of German settler communities favored by völkisch thought and by Hitler and Himmler.

e-flux.com/architecture/s…

The point here is that so-called 'classical' art and architecture has become for the extreme right and white supremacists a kind of coded language for expressing extremist ideas about race and culture.

🧵 On Those Classic Cultural Twitter Accounts

Someone on here questioned why I would say that accounts like the one below are dog whistles for white supremacy.

Well, ok. Let's do this.

An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia.
trib.al/T7Vh9f5

AfD-Spitzenkandidat Maximilian Krah hat eine verdächtige Nachricht von einem prorussischen Politiker bekommen, es ging um 'Kompensationen'. Hat Krah Geld bekommen? Das FBI befragte ihn dazu, er weist die Vorwürfe zurück.

spiegel.de/politik/europa…

🚨 Genocides continue on Gaza , The bombing is violent and crazy.

ارتفاع العدد الى 10 شهداء جراء استهداف في مخيم المغازي وسط القطاع