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Marissa Kessenich

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English PhD candidate at UVA studying historical recovery and African American literature | Texas Ex🀘| she/her πŸ“Charlottesville, VA

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JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

25.03.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9217    πŸ” 2249    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 33

Her crime was writing an op/ed. Her visa was valid, but she wrote an op/ed

26.03.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 656    πŸ” 267    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 28
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

Tweet from Yuval Abraham: "A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach β€” and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

24.03.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9453    πŸ” 6600    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 510

Thomas Jefferson, famous advocate for color blind meritocracy and equal opportunity.

08.03.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2290    πŸ” 286    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 11

Sincerely hope folks begin to realize at some point that compliance will not save you. Institutional position will not save you. What we are seeing is a wholesale dismantling of higher education piece by piece.

08.03.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Speechless and disgusted. The UVA BOV is an absolute joke.

08.03.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Trans people exist, have always existed, and will loved and valued, no matter what their government tells them.

(Also, I’m a part of the government, and I’m here to tell you I love you + I won’t stop fighting for you no matter what!)

22.01.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2590    πŸ” 297    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 19
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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

β€œOnce you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. β€œThat means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

18.12.2024 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 16870    πŸ” 6541    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 344
AP Human Geography website showing 2 instead of 3 available videos.

AP Human Geography website showing 2 instead of 3 available videos.

So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).

07.03.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1623    πŸ” 621    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 91
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Worth noting that Tim Longo is the common thread in almost all off of this.

25.02.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretextual traffic stops + security theater + incredibly poor messaging + unexamined local law enforcement mutual assistance agreements + local leaders unwilling to seriously examine public safety + past failures with minimal accountability = today in Charlottesville.

25.02.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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"For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper" (Joseph Fasano)

poets.org/poem/student...

24.11.2024 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 424    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 14
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#Blacksky #booksky

24.11.2024 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0