Lucy Swanson

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

😍 ok it is going to the top of my summer watch list!!!

I want to watch the Interview with a Vampire tv reboot since I think it deals with similar questions in a way (I started it but got distracted)

Yes absolutely!!

It is so good (understatement!!) and there are so many connections with the Haitian zonbi!

Sorry I totally missed this (have been off of the app this time!) but absolutely LOVED Sinners! I’m really curious about the vampire in the film in relation to race—a potential for a post-racial collectivity?? I haven’t read enough yet about the film but I want to explore this summer!

Really excited for this 😍

DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment (Gift Article) The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.

Meanwhile, while we were watching Congress... #GiftArticle

"DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment" 🗃️🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...

Tan Book cover with green and brown text. Upper right corner has a seventeenth century engraved image of a Black body that looks like classical sculpture with a white head. It is holding a sheaf of cane.

Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!

#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025

As a historian 🗃️ I was grateful to be encouraged to write this for @americananthro.bsky.social. It's important to me not to just write about #Haitian history or the history of US foreign policy, but also to try to redress the effects of our actions NOW.

🙏 for reading! #WelcomingWithDignity

Translation: "we've done really inhumane things to people seeking asylum - and I applaud the President for that!"

(GTFO of the Senate, Mark Warner)

ISO Trans/Nonbinary (Non-English) Language Experts. Want to help make free trans-inclusive resources for language learning and get paid for your expertise? I’m looking for people to participate in an online professional learning network April 1-May 6 who are in-community and can bring their language and cultural knowledge to help us collaboratively develop free language education materials. Do you qualify? 1. Are you trans/nonbinary (in the broadest sense of these terms)? 2. Are you at least 18 years of age or older? 3. Do you know a language other than English? 4. Would you like to work with a language teacher to create trans-inclusive open educational resources? April 1-May 6, 2025 10 hours Flexible Scheduling. If matched with a teacher, you will receive $250 compensation for co-creating an educational resource. Fill out a short interest form or ask questions: https://bit.ly/TLangExpert

ISO Trans/nonbinary people to hire as (non-English) language experts

Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials.

Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert

Please share!

S15E5 - Kris Aric Knisely - Gender-Just Language Education Podcast Episode · Speaking of Language · 02/26/2025 · 45m

“The work that I do is about pushing back against . . . these ideas that we have about language and . . . gender that are really quite rigid . . . Language can’t be separated from the people who do language.” Proud to be involved in this pod with @krisknisely.bsky.social and @cornelllrc.bsky.social

Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial In both “Saint Omer” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” we are meant to identify with the defendants—albeit for different reasons.

Really enjoyed reading "Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial" by Aubrey Gabel on @publicbooks.bsky.social discussing St. Omer by Alice Diop and Anatomie d'une chute by Justine Triet www.publicbooks.org/purging-the-...

San Diego migrant shelter hailed as national model will shut down, with 100-plus layoffs Jewish Family Service said new Trump administration policies have curbed migrant arrivals but highlighted need for pro bono immigration legal services

#GiftArticle from the SDUT for reporting on the layoffs of my 115 staff colleagues at the San Diego Rapid Response Network/Jewish Family Services migrant shelter. We were a NAT’L MODEL & #WelcomedWithDignity legal migrants 24/7 for 7 years. 🤬💔🎁

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/15/s...

Help raise £5500 to save Atis Rezistans art works Iʼm raising money to save Atis Rezistans art works. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

It’s the final weekend of the Zombis exhibition in Paris which includes a contribution by our amazing Haiti Support Group Exec Committee member Leah Gordon. Please support her fundraiser to safely store the artwork of the fantastic Haitian Collective Atis Resistans www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate

Kendrick: actually

Go birds! 🦅

It's so good !

THIS. So many 🤬s say “people shouldn’t have come illegally.”

These folks all came legally! But they’re changing the rules now on them - & these folks *put themselves on file* with the government by coming legally so they’re in worse shape than people who didn’t! 🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

🥹 💜

💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬

Just got the news from the agency where I volunteer with migrants.

No migrants this week, no shelter guests, no airport shifts. CBP is releasing NO ONE to us. Total shutdown.

It might change next week & a few might cross - but it's 💔for migrants & the staff who might lose their jobs.

Thanks, Alyssa! Hi everyone!👋🏻