Brittney Cooper

El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power.

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

The thing that gets on my nerves about Graham Platner is the way folks keep being shocked that racists are very often rapists and rapists are very often racists. See also SCOTUS. See also POTUS. Racism and patriarchy are intertwined bc they are both about dominance reinforced through violence.

First day of Plait/Form at the RAGElab hosted by @profcrunk.bsky.social was amazing! I even got to try a new craft. See next post!

I have a new children’s book out. You can pick it up wherever books are sold!

Thank you @profcrunk.bsky.social for calling out the issue underlying the scourge of mass shootings in this country. Mental health is the easy answer, and it is obviously part of the problem, but the patriarchy rotting our society from the roots has to be addressed. www.thecut.com/article/shre...

I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos. www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c...

The President of Rutgers continues to dismantle DEI despite the fact that we are a state school and the voters of New Jersey roundly rejected all things Trump last November. It is infuriating. He and the entire leadership team at Rutgers are all Black people btw.

I have taken up quilting. Unfortunately that puts you in proximity to sympathizers. Just this morning I told somebody “the confederacy lost,” not knowing i was right on time. As I usually am. Happy Happy indeed!

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

Perfect combo here.

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

% Black tenure-track faculty doesn't increase--it declines between 2004 and 2024! The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data

Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.

Attacks on academic freedom are off the chain right now. But we are a mighty bunch when we stick together.

She didn’t even say a disparaging word. Why are Black women the casualties of white men’s wars?

Among the things I am thinking abt is how the left fared after Breitbart died, and after Scalia died. And wondering how things will go this time. And now going back to my fiber crafts and gardening. (I finally have some tomatoes.)

“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.” THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.

If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.

Not the children out here believing Harriet Tubman wasn’t real. Jesus, help the children.

OK Y’all. 2 yrs ago I uploaded a pdf to Notebook LM, a Google AI that could convert pdfs into notes. Today I learned it has an audio feature where it will generate a “podcast” of two people talking about the article. I am now listening to a “podcast” abt the article I uploaded in 2yrs ago. WILD!

How somebody gonna protect the homeland when they can’t watch their purse at dinner? Also who carries 3 stacks to dinner?! WTF.

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Really jarring reading this piece at The Guardian abt the ICE Detention Center in Jena Louisiana where Mahmoud Khalil is being held, and thinking abt my genesis as an activist 18 years ago in Jena, when my fellow PhD students and I chaperoned a bus of Emory undergrads to the Jena 6 protests.