Samira Rajabi

We are so lucky to have you!

The hold that Bluey has on me and my daughter is truly unreal.

I meant to our community, but then it will be YOUR community too! What a perfect typo 😆

Very excited about this opportunity to bring good folks your community! Apply!

I spent the day with my parents, spouse and kiddo, away from the news, from work, like a tiny respite from reality, pushing away all the hard, and for a moment, while I was up for air, I really breathed, the sweet magical air of family. Now I’m back, ready to hold on like hell to what matters most.

Why is Instagram exclusively advertising me iridescent Danskos tonight?!

On January 16 of this year, I got gamma knife radiation on my #acousticneuroma brain tumor. Tomorrow, my mom gets the same procedure for the breast cancer in her brain. I can’t pinpoint it, but the discomfort welling inside me is deep, full of grief, and complicated. This journey is wild.

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.

We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

Thank you for that ❤️. It’s been a year now and she is okay but it took a definitely toll and it was all over a fairly minuscule monthly amount. Holding so much space and support for you and your parent. These journeys are taxing and I’m here if you need a stranger friend!

Insurance changed my mom’s cancer treatment, for three months she received a biosimilar not realizing it was truly a different adjuvant therapy. It had catastrophic effects on the course of her cancer treatment. Using insurance is truly the hardest bit. BUT WE KNEW THIS.

The best advice I’ve heard in a long time about how to survive (dare I say thrive?!) in academia as a person of color is to “believe yourself” - believe your experiences, your insights, and your emotions. Holding on to that as I charge forward in an ever changing educational climate.

Watch out world because @glengomezmeade.bsky.social and I just got matching fortunes! Mogul status, here we come! (Honorable mention for Josie’s very sweet fortune!)

Is this what people mean when they say sleep hygiene?! Work from home has quite literally turned to work from bed but I have to say, it’s my most productive spot in the house.

Club classics for the win, for sure!

It has been quite a year, my friends. I got my baby to love Cowboy Carter, though.

Mantra while lifting “one more rep” always gets you to the next one. 🥰💪🏽

Beyoncé was robbed in this best album competition

🥰☕️💻📚❤️ @glengomezmeade.bsky.social

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Writing a book is not thinking about writing the book, it is certainly not complaining about writing a book, & it is not (just) painstakingly assembling the data for the book. Sometimes writing is just that, writing. Might as well do it in a vibey coffee shop between meetings and daycare pick up.

Got to meet the new chancellor today with CMCI and my #mediastudiesbuddies @cumediastudies.bsky.social @cuboulder.info what a joy to share some time with you all!

As a Highlands mom, I gotta say, we don’t go down without a fight.

Trying to show up more in spaces where I feel heard and seen and can offer that to others. Today it’s the cultural collective meeting for bipoc faculty (which includes invites for some cool initiatives!)

Come work with meeeeeeee 🤩🤩🤩

I feel seen 🥰

Congrats! Can’t wait to get a copy!

Graphic on black background with the cover of a book titled "Appropriate Negotiate Challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies". The author is Elisabetta Ferrari and it's published by University of California Press. At the top, "Out today" is written in bold letters. There is a QR code which links to the book's page on the University of California Press website.

My book, Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge, is out today from @ucpress.bsky.social!

It’s a book about the politics of digital technologies and why they matter, for social justice activists and for all of us.

Order it here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

Working on a second academic manuscript and genuinely wondering at this point if tidying my work space is a crucial part of the writing process 🧹🧹🧹

First day back from a holiday, sitting in my car in the parking lot, wishing my work away 😑

The level of complicity is astounding, disappointing to say the least. CAIR asked for an apology but that wouldn’t be enough. www.reuters.com/world/middle... CEASE FIRE NOW.