~Mrls

Slowly but surely

We should start making demands yes #academicsky #academicchatter

Omg the new pope is Black
#Blacksky #Blackademics #academicchatter

Dang, me and some of my closest friends all have Master degrees now. Oh time, how you are a construct. #Blackademics #academicchatter #booksky #writersky

I’m finally seeing Sinners tonight yay. I’ve avoided a lot of the discourse on it, and I hope it’s not annoying when I join. #Blacksky #booksky

The Met Gala was a high mid this year. #Academicsky #booksky #academicchatter

Had a lovely walk in the sprinkling rain with a professor while walking back to the department and it’s one of my fave things that have happened since starting my PhD.

I wish for more moments of humanisms here. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky

In 2025.

I think a lot about the failures of feminism, but still very much believe in it. (end)

When the onus is on all of us and within a dynamic that’s equitable.

This struggle is physical, mental and emotional, from mothering to sexual gratification. From toleration to the utter bottling of our own emotions (cont.)

And though this has largely changed since I’ve spoken up about it, it has been revealing in how familial gender dynamics under patriarchy perpetuate (internalized) misogyny and this idea that women need to struggle to uphold the family unit (cont.)

I would receive a lot of criticism or pushback on ….almost anything about myself lol, where as my bro he would get by criticism free most times (cont.)

Thankfully the dudes in my fam aren’t (all) jerks and us fem folks aren’t submissive by any stretch, but it’s the subtle things about some of the dynamics that really has me gagged (cont.)

This and the whole storytime (thx for sharing). As someone who grew up with that conditioning straight from the family, I can attest it is truly difficult to deprogram. (Cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #writingsky

#booksky #academicsky #academicchatter

#Blacksky

Writing about this. It’ll be clearer what I’m saying soon. (end)

This is reflected in the fact that the systems that be are utterly failing us.

Something that I’m thinking about with this “turn around” is the aspect of “ruinousness.” We reflect the ruins of a society when it begins to fall (cont.)

She gives historical context to what we’re seeing from gen z now.

The turn to conservatism, which I call “diet conservatism”, she claims is a form of gen zers wanting to “hack the matrix” and not hustle in the same ways millennials do/did (cont.)

YouTube video by Becauseimmissy_ Is Gen Z A Flop Generation?

I used to hate speaking in “generationals” when it first became a thing, bc it was giving divide and conquer.

It still is, but I think more of us talk with nuance about it now.

I like this vid from Becauseimmissy_ on YouTube (cont.) #academicsky #booksky #academicchatter

youtu.be/mjHGucZCYU0?...

Literally a when-I-have-time read it’s sickening 🥲 #Academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky #booksky

All I want to do is just read all three books of this Divine Comedy #Academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky #booksky

#Blacksky #Blackademics #academicsky

Believe it or not!
The roller skating community often refers to skates as “8-wheels of freedom.” 🛼💨

#skating #rollerskating #skate #skater #rollerskate #Skate #Community #QuadSkating #RollerRink #RetroSkating

At least the rule of law would be upheld, and we’d make progress on winning the war for human rights.

It would make our fighting easier (end)

At least there wouldn’t be this rapidly growing precarity, this deepening darkness, this culture of fear (cont.)

But at least there wouldn’t be the establishing of a *regime* through fraught-ways of artifice, performance, competent incompetence, and chronic substance abuse

In which we become incredibly bound up in (cont.)

It would still be uphill battle after uphill battle

And the -isms would persist, which were still not at the midway point of the hill or close to the center of the flank (cont.)

But to say that liberals would also conduct the same business as the maggots in a soft girl era is where you loose me (cont.)

I agree with the “liberals and maggots are alike” argument to an extent.

To compare them makes sense within the context of a binary and levels of extremity (cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky