"It is important to highlight the concrete cruelties of this administration and that anyone could be next. There is no protection in a mafia state. You are not safe even if you think you are. But you are safer when you acknowledge the existence of the goddamn mafia, & band with others to expose it."
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"Recent political culture pushed us to place ourselves into neat little categories and rely on algorithmic gadgets: shed those dependencies. Be strange and obnoxious and loud, like an American! Be furious while grinning, like an American!"
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"COULD" have implications? I'm accustomed, or addicted, and it's hard to give up, but this morning's Times delicately tuning up its fiddle while we burn could be (in NYT-speak) the last straw for me.
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Can't tell you how excited I am about this.
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The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
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Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Professor, Seton Hall Law School. Torts, Healthcare Law, Disability Law, Employment Law, Family Law, and Empirical Legal Studies. My scholarship: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2440349
Longmore Institute on Disability Interim Director @SFSU / Co-Director of San Francisco Disability Cultural Center / all-around access nerd
Litríocht na Gaeilge, Léann na hÉireann, early modern Irish (as in Gaelic) literature, activism, LGBTQIA, teaching Irish to the Fighting Irish, feminism...founder-member of the soon-to-be-dissolved Department of Irish Language and Literature, Notre Dame
Forfatter & professor i sosiologi. Skriver om kropp, kultur, fortellinger, politikk og selvforståelse. Semi-jevnlig nyhetsbrev 👇🏻
https://www.jangrue.no/
Retired from teaching (UC Davis American Studies), still researching and writing on everyday militarism, visual culture, and atmospheric politics through a feminist lens. Happy to be back living in Oakland.
Writer, teacher, friend, mother, sister.
October 28: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025)
Now writing: “Women & Democracy in the C19 U. S.” (Edinburgh UP)
Also (for now) a humanities chair
https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels
disability activist and cat lover
Berkeley PhD & JD, needs to buy a vowel. Possibly a Hardack to follow. Author of _Your Call Is Very Important to Us: Advertising and the Corporate Theft of Personhood_ & _Not Altogether Human: Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance_.
Parent, partner, teacher. Early childhood education. Pies. he/him
Storytelling aerialist; professor of folklore, ethnography, research ethics; US Parachute Team (speed skydiving); skeleton athlete. Views are my Bengal cats'.
Community. Culture. Creativity. #DISABLED #SayTheWord! Dir. of Engagement, ReelAbilities Int'l. Occasional cool stuff with Turner Classic Movies, Film Quarterly & PBS. Proud member: Americans for the Arts, Association of Independents in Radio, PEN America
a little shortish; a little greenish
