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Protest and Pedagogy | Home Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School

📚 *New* from UGAP's Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South series, 'Protest and Pedagogy' reveals how Black teachers and students in Charlottesville turned classrooms into sites of resistance during the 20th-century freedom struggle.
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Everybody should read this book by friend of the pod David Backer!

AI powered drones from US & Israeli tech companies--as well as the 2000 lb bombs & all our other lethal military technology. It's hard to look into these faces & not feel the horror of what we have done.

historians...Not to mention the artists. Who did you think the Palestinians were? With their 10 Universities, 98% literacy rate & more PhDs per square mile than most places on earth. So many. Taken out by 2/

This scholasticide was intentional. The world lost astounding minds. I'm so grateful for this tribute, but it could be an hour long & still not include everyone--philosophers, poets, literary scholars of all periods in world literature , physicists, biologists, mathematicians,1/

AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined

I posted three main figure from the article below

www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Killing Abortionists: A Symposium - First Things Paul J. Hill, convicted of killing an abortionist and his security guard in Pensacola, Florida, has advanced the following rationale for his action: “Whatever force is legitimate in defending...

p.s. Here is the link to the First Things roundtable.

In conclusion: consider literally *any* counterfactual scenario where a liberal or left or queer or POC or Muslim (or or or) academic attempts “irony” in the way George did when discussing lethal politicized violence. How does that go for them? Do they get a puff piece in the Chronicle?

Nobody called for RG to be fired. But they were baffled as to how the same adults firing staff over their personal social media posts (esp. after other politicized deaths) could take him seriously as a guru of “civil dialogue,” much less pay him thousands to lecture undergrads about it.

“Oh, it was sarcastic!” was obviously not a satisfactory answer for them.

Once I assigned this roundtable + failed to add sarcasm tags to George. Big accessibility fail! Many students read him literally.

They were horrified: Why are these higher ed ppl platforming + celebrating (lavishly!) a guy who *affirmed in writing* the vigilante executions of gynecologists?

The piece — which was part of a roundtable published a couple of months after the murder of physician John Britton in FL — was almost certainly intended to be read as ironic.

He was satirizing people who say they are “personally” anti-abortion but won’t impose this position on others via law.

#OTDIH: 21 years ago today the conservative Catholic magazine First Things published Robert P. George’s “pro-choice” moral justification of the vigilante murder of abortion doctors.

Stop ethics-washing this guy.

Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.

Is the “strange and wicked problem” for colleges so-called grade inflation, or is the issue the widespread cultish (and creepily punitive) insistence that grades have any place in learning whatsoever?

IN THIS ESSAY, TITLED “ENOUGH OF THIS COP SHIT,” I WILL…

#edsky #pedagogy #edusky

organizing is not concierge service.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Two posts asking whether university administrators have thought about the consequences of purchasing and promoting AI for college campuses given a well documented college mental health crisis, and pointing out that university investment and endorsement may signal to students that dangerous technology is safe and beneficial

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Shadow of My Shadow

Run, don't walk, to read Jennifer Doyle's *Shadow of My Shadow.* You've still got time to order it during Duke UP's biannual 50% off sale. @dukepress.bsky.social

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Love Us Back: Queer Commitment After Institutional Betrayal Podcast Episode · Nothing Never Happens · 11/01/2025 · 1h 20m

Our latest episode is dedicated to anyone who has ever done work they love in an institutional context where harassment + betrayal are endemic. What pedagogies emerge in/from that dynamic? Can we make institutions that love us back?

Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.

Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”

snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

‘You just have to learn to play the game’: survival, resentment and resignation in women academics’ narratives of precarity This paper discusses precarious academic labour and its implications for gender and interrelated inequalities, drawing on narrative interviews with temporarily employed UK women academics. It ident...

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant