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“Restoration of a right that should be guaranteed”: public comments on Washington D.C.’s Restore the Vote Amendment Act In 2021, Washington D.C.’s Restore the Vote Amendment Act went into effect, lifting restrictions on voting rights such that felony convictions would no longer impact a district resident’s ability t...

new publication out today!

this paper came from a chapter of my dissertation on restoring voting rights to incarcerated people in the US. in it, i examine the success of DC’s Restore the Vote through the mechanism of public commenting.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer." —Zadie Smith

well i guess im officially back on the job market since I sent my first app of the season out today

when chairing sessions, absolutely. i see this problem a lot though when chairs of divisions are announcing awards in business meetings, which can be extra disappointing considering the honor it is to win one and then your name is pronounced incorrectly.

a fantastic time but now nursing the social interaction hangover of a lifetime lol #ica25

4th? or maybe 5th? day of #ica25 and i’m still mixing up my hyatts

angels walk among us here on earth!!

(it took me four tries to even type that hashtag right)

a woman is sitting on a plane wearing sunglasses and saying `` this is my home . '' ALT: a woman is sitting on a plane wearing sunglasses and saying `` this is my home . ''

sipping on chocolate milk in the back row of the sunday 9 am panel barely keeping it together #ica25

had a dream last night that Marc Maron played me in a reenactment of something and dream me was so excited I was clicking my heels in the air ugh what a beautiful dream

3:30 am shout out to all my colleagues at #ica2025 getting our asses handed to us by jet lag!!! it’s noon somewhere!!

didn’t know it when i booked it but apparently my first flight on the way to #ICA2025 is an inaugural one lol

my husband recently took a >8 hr flight and he watched just one (1) movie: a documentary about yacht rock. he could not wait to tell me everything he learned and he wants to watch it again but this time with me so i can learn too. anyway he's my soul mate.

walked into the cafe with my headphones on listening to bjork. took off my headphones and they're playing bjork in the cafe.

i love secret lives of mormon wives nothing says Smashing The Patriarchy like a baking competition where the husbands rate the wives’ cooking

“when the kids are saying riz do they mean horizontal? if i had a twitter i would tweet that” - my husband

ive had my 2nd sinus infection of 2025 this past week and my brain has been in such a fog that every single convo w my husband has been like this:

me: there's a word im thinking of you know it I know it tell me what it is before i pass out
him: this is making me suffer in ways you can't imagine

would pay myself any sum of money to get something done today

It was a pleasure having you with us in Vienna, @academiuhhh.bsky.social! Thank you for the fantastic presentation 🤩🗣️ and best of luck to the entire INEQNEWS team 🗞️ with all your projects 🍀 We're happy to host you anytime!

have to give a HUGE thank you to @dbetakova.bsky.social and the whole @polcomvienna.bsky.social for the warm welcome this week!! thank you for sharing your desk space and listening to me talk about the ineqnews project ❤️ you are all welcome at my desk anytime!!!

ok!!!! do I know anyone who knows anyone who researches/works with journalists writing about big tech companies and the politics of tech & journalism???

Ridicule! As! Praxis!

Be a hater!

suggesting to my research team that we all do ketamine therapy together in denver like in secret lives of mormon wives

oh yeah i do remember reading in history that this is exactly how they stopped fascism last time

OK, I'll bite. Who's Joe Biden?

never let anybody tell u that evil does not exist

Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

Soft news meets Agenda Setting

Shout out McCombs n Shaw 1972!!!

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