@heidiipp.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ University of Denver & Iliff School of Theology • exploring intersections of on-screen storytelling (film/TV), memes, religion, & conspiratorial communities
On a beautiful, sunny Thursday afternoon…I became a doctor 🥳
11.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
29.03.2025 20:31 — 👍 11603 🔁 4411 💬 133 📌 168Major shoutouts to Gunner (my dog sitting bestie for the month), my incredible supervisor Lynn Schofield Clark, my supportive community for loving me and feeding me (and taking all my frantic calls), and every blooming tulip in Denver 🌷
26.04.2025 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After 6.5 years in this PhD program, 5 years of studying QAnon, and 40 hours of sleeplessness before clicking “send”…
I have officially submitted my full dissertation draft to my committee. If all goes well, I’ll be a doctor in 2 weeks 🙌🏻
I love this new poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer so much.
15.04.2025 01:15 — 👍 100 🔁 20 💬 9 📌 2
Images of protests and crowds across the country. HANDSOFF APRIL 5TH 2025 BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO SAN DIEGO IDAHO UTAH OAKLAND (AND SOOOO MANY MORE!)
They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks.
#handsoff #50501protests
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
From Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,”
"you are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice"
That line hit me hard
The biggest reason government officials aren't giving any specifics about the criteria by which these arrests and deportations are selected, is that the criteria is "pro-Israel think-tanks and advocacy organizations created lists of troublesome individuals and gave them to us."
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
A passage of text describing an incident where a victim was attacked by two men who punched and kicked them. The victim escaped into a restaurant, pursued by the attackers, but was protected by customers. The attackers reportedly used the phrase "Semper Fi" and referenced "Trump ending transgender acceptance in the military." Police arrived shortly after.
A group of men violently assaulted a transgender veteran in Seattle walking home from work. They cited Trump's trans military ban as they beat her.
One of the perpetrators was already wanted for domestic violence and was previously charged with a hate crime.
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/03...
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24.03.2025 23:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0this feeling is SO real. you are certainly not alone. at the very least, we can create community from this, and we will find ways to support each other until job opportunites are less bleak. you research is important and (sadly) it's relevancy is not going anywhere. just take it one day at a time ✊
24.03.2025 23:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to be included in this fantastic new book!
rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
Would love to be added 🤓
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