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UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it. UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu #EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood Even after the original group fizzled, many of its members were able to keep making films with progressive messages.

In 1947, some Hollywood stars including Henry Fonda stood up to anti-communist witch hunts.

Now, Jane Fonda and artists like Viola Davis, Pedro Pascal and Billie Eilish are reviving their organization — the Committee for the First Amendment — to defend free speech again.

buff.ly/B79gBQX #polisky

Oh hey. I curated this show all about feminist tshirts at Chatham University. Please come through! Opening reception (Oct 15) will feature a talk by Dawson which will also be live-streamed. Register for the opening here: chatham.edu/events/detai...

Design by the very talented Megan Urban

Zuko, a black and white tuxedo cat, staring at the camera with big sad eyes

Everytime I travel for work, this exact image of Zuko greeting me after a trip pops into my head and I suddenly feel immense guilt. Shout out to @rachaelvm454.bsky.social for giving him all the pets while I’m gone. 🫶

“Scab Terminator” mutt circa 1980s picket line from @kippdawson.bsky.social’s Solidarity Scrapbooks.

Illustrated flyer for a Summer Book Drive asking for gently used social justice books on topics like race, gender, class, and more. Donations accepted at 116 Suffolk St, NY, Tues-Sun 1-6pm, by 9/1.

Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.

1967. “The Medium is the Message.”
Carnegie Mellon’s Fence

1991. And, last but not least, students protest the Gulf War, taking to the streets around campus and Squirrel Hill alongside Pitt and Duquesne students.

In short, anyone who says protest at CMU has only looked one way or never happened at all, is a liar. 7/7

1991. Students link hands protesting SEI and department of defense contracts anticipating arrests.

1988. Students demand divestment from South Africa apartheid, covering Warner Hall in banners and leading “unapproved” protests across campus. 5/7

1970. Strom Thurmond, notorious racist, was pelted with marshmallows during his visit. The student paper made this iconic series of images the cover of the newspaper mocking him. (Personal favorite) 4/7

1969. Black Construction Coalition protests shut down construction on campus over unfair union policy that kept Black workers from joining. The cover of the Tartan (student paper) read “And they said it couldn’t happen at tech,” referring to administration claiming protest couldn’t happen at CMU. 3

1968. Students raid the ROTC office on campus in protest of the Vietnam war and recruitment on campus. 2/7

T’was the night before D*n*ld Tr*mps visit to Carnegie Mellon, and I’m here to remind you CMU students have always been anti-fascist. Some of my personal favorite CMU responses to fascism on campus through the eyes of student journalists. 1/7

Screenshot of the top of the article which reads: Harvard University Press Employees Say Director Drove Down Acquisitions and Morale Since George T. Andreou ’87 became the press’s director in 2017, staff alleged — in interviews, union surveys, and letters to Harvard officials — that he belittled employees and mismanaged the publishing house. By William C. Mao and Veronica H. Paulus

Output of New Titles by Press (2012 - 2024) figure. Shows trend over time for University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, and Harvard University Press. Early on Chicago publishes the nether number around 140 while Princeton and Harvard were both near 100. But, over time, Chicago and Princeton have pulled away from Harvard so that by last year they publish around 128 while Harvard is publishing only 26.

Y'all know I love publishing industry mess and The Crimson is delivering today! I had no idea Harvard University Press was publishing so little.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Ft. My Mr. Roger’s in the background ✨ (congrats!)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Showed My Photo In A DOGE Hearing And Called Me A Monster. Here's Why I’m Fighting Back. “It was the first time that I had been directly referenced in the halls of Congress.”

"It’s time to stand our ground: not only against homophobia, transphobia and censorship, but for diverse public media, libraries, schools and other institutions," writes @lilmisshotmess.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...

virginia tech's ETD repository has been crashing so often from being scraped by so many bots that they've had to close off external, non-university access. In case you needed more evidence of how LLM training hurts open access.

FORTY remain active. Almost FIFTEEN HUNDRED canceled.

Not all activism is meant for public consumption. If you think all activism requires that everyone know what you're doing, are you doing work for others or for yourself?

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This has been a discussion among many of us for years now. Funding for Humanities was already grossly inadequate; we never had anything to compare to the NSF and NIH. We had a little from NEH, a little from ACLS, but most of us were producing our scholarship with next to no resources. 1/2

Hey @aaup.bsky.social

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Economic boycotts are actually very easy for me because I have no money

In action on the PATCO picket line too!

Coal Employment Project “Women Miners Can Dig It Too” 1981

United Farm Workers in Washington State circa 1970.