Dr. காயத்ரி

If she can do it, we can all do it.

Christmas card from Baptist Church

Annual reminder from my cleaning lady that I ought to repent and confess…or else!!

Nick Kristof must be humanely housed in a simulation where he can play Captain Save a Ho, run for political office, and write equivocating op eds without harming himself or others

I’m so sick of reading this woman or reading about her life every few months on the NYT.

Urgent: If you are a faculty member in New England and a resident of CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT, please sign this letter to the senators (before Dec 4th) demanding immediate and permanent ceasefire: forms.gle/f8viaDZQD15w...

Screenshot of a tweet from Mike Davis (@mrddmia on Twitter) which reads: "The violent Black underclass is a danger to America. Especially to hard-working, law-abiding Black Americans and other minorities trapped in their ghettos. We must resume the mass-incarceration of these thugs. In the meantime, Americans must arm up. These monsters will kill."

Just saw a horribly racist post I normally woulda blocked and moved on from

But then I noticed the poster's bio, which includes that he clerked for Justice Gorsuch & was Chief Counsel for Nominations to Senator Grassley

This disgusting racist had a key role filling the federal judiciary, I'm sick

The kids have been home practically all week. Which means bits of playdo stuffed into the couch, stickers glued to the floor, odd pieces of small toys squirreled away under pillows, cheerio trails that lead nowhere. And there’s still one more day left in the weekend.

Noooooo 😂 damn i needed this

I noticed a typo in one of the job apps I submitted weeks ago. It’s one of those moments that’s going to haunt me randomly five years from now. And now I wanna vomit.

The funny predicament of poc in this country--we either have to deal with Tr*mp-supporting racists or well-meaning liberal racists. This is not including the many poc anti-Black racists. Whats a multidimensional analogy for Scylla & Charybdis?

Reading a student paper trying to figure out how to make a capitalist country like the US better. It’s unknowingly arguing for socialism 😂 Every. Single. Time.

A lot of students are home already so I had to teach a Zoom class today, my first since 2021. Flashed back to early pandemic and realized how much teaching over Zoom sucked so much. Students still came through though.

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker
more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...

tweet by @BenZeisloft with an AI photo of skeletons in long pink robes and pussyhats behind giant ballot boxes, saying "70% of unmarried women voted to enshrine child sacrifice into the Ohio state constitution."

new Halloween costume just dropped

Writing is thinking, the process of writing is where the learning happenings. The goal is to learn, not just to produce text. I don't think I'm stuck in the past for believing this.

Rupi Kaur declines White House Diwali invite over Biden's support for Israel

All the cliche poems don't mean a damn thing in the grand scheme of things

When the moment came, Rupi Kaur was a real one

Israel vows to keep up Gaza attacks as Palestinians face mass displacement Israeli leaders say offensive will go on amid ceasefire calls, as rights groups warn 1.5 million Palestinians displaced.

Reporters Without Borders warns that journalists in Gaza are in ‘imminent danger of death,’ noting that ‘nowhere is safe’ for them amid ongoing Israeli air raids. In the past month of war, 41 journalists have been killed, while more than 50 media premises have been hit.

The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation — study it now Social-media researchers overemphasized the platform now called X for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new and frightening, we risk paying too little attention. Social-media resear...

This piece in Nature on disinformation summarizes how quickly the descent of X/Twitter has gone "it has become a ‘natural experiment’ in what happens as a company reduces existing trust, moderation and safety teams."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tweet from @BTnewsroom: BREAKING: Activists are blocking the entrance of the Port of Tacoma where a U.S. ship believed to be carrying weapons to Israel is docked. Days ago it was blocked in Oakland. The ship is currently unable to depart.

If you’ve been going to protests, consider participating in direct action like this as well! We need a diversity of tactics and we *especially* need to disrupt the flow of blood money into the pockets of genocide profiteers! If we had to pick only one tactic, this would be it.

They're actually gonna do it. They're actually gonna blame TikTok.

allpoetry.com/The-Diameter...

I haven’t had such a peaceful morning in several months—as soon as this thought appeared, I knew I had jinxed it by thinking it instead of quietly enjoying it

Outside of college campuses, I see very little visible support for Palestine. In my 30-mile daily commute, I pass by many many Israeli flags and “i stand with Israel” lawn signs. And none for Palestine

Relatable stuff 😬

I don’t post much on instagram so I didn’t know how to do a story 🤦🏾‍♀️ I learned how to do that just to post about Palestine. Everyone should know what’s going on even if they hear it from a nobody like me.

150 women a day are giving birth in Gaza without electricity or clean water. 50,000 Gazan women are pregnant right now and 5,500 will give birth in the next month www.npr.org/2023/10/28/1...

I can't take sports in this country seriously at all. I just learned what MVP stands for and that it's used seriously. Like this is what I would tell my toddler, that he's the most valuable player, to praise him and get him to feel important. I can't imagine saying this to a grown ass person

Sometimes I have a hard time telling if my students are familiar with the cultural references that I make to American books or movies. And I don’t know if it’s because I’m foreign or if it’s a generational thing or both. Like no one’s heard of Pearl S. Buck much less read one of her novels🤯 how?!