Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸

Jess stands at a microphone at the back of a coffee shop reading from their book "Abolition Time" as people seated at tables listen.

Jess is seen standing and gesturing in mid-sentence at a book talk on a small coffee shop. They are wearing a pink dress, black boots, and a keffiyeh.

Got some pictures from my local coffee shop book talk from one of the attendees. I enjoyed reading from "Abolition Time" and talking with folks about art & social justice. And it was really well attended for a small town in the northern New Mexico mountains!

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A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
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I remember learning about "The Plan" in my very first year of college and how immediately it made so much sense to me as a white person who grew up on Long Island. White flight + austerity politics as whitelash against the Civil Rights Movement is and was real.

Israel is a structurally evil nation-state. Genocidal in its founding and maintenance. The torture of members of the Global Samud Flotilla is a fractional insight into how that country operates as a settler colony that kills, maims, terrorizes, and humiliates the Palestinians indigenous to the land.

Petition to purge the phrase "compassion fatigue" from the English language.

"Abolish ICE" has been the bedrock demand for two decades. It needs to be a mainstream position, now.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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The phrase "We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us" written in chalk on a green chalkboard.

I've been teaching "anti-American" content that could be construed as "extremism on race/gender/migration" for my entire career and have gotten in trouble for it before. It's weird now that when I walk in the room as trans I'm embodying "extremism on gender." But I will never stop teaching what I do

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000.

Gift link.

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Feeling this every semester especially in my Composition classes, but this semester seems worse than most recent years...

My PhD alma mater is fucking embarrassing. Cornell upper administrators are a bunch of political cowards who have shown time and again that literally defending genocide is more of a core value to them than free speech. Embarrassing and disgusting.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

I hope every journalist, comedian, professor, podcast/talkshow host, and politician that did "both-sides" takes about "cancel culture" and "free speech" for the past decade loses sleep over how absolutely ridiculous they have been while we see that censorship has fully become foundational GOP policy

Love and unwavering militant solidarity to the people of Palestine.

From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.

Globalize the Intifada.

A colonized people being faced with genocide have the right to resist by any means necessary. I support that right for the people of Palestine without equivocation or qualification. There is no tactic that I condemn. Genocide must be stopped. The occupation must end.

UN inquiry says Israel’s war on Gaza is genocide, holds gov’t responsible Using statements of Israeli officials and evidence on the ground, a UN report finds Israel is committing genocide.

The UN officially determines that Israel is committing genocide.

How many reports need to confirm what Palestinians have been saying for years?

Does international law protect anyone from Western imperialism?

I want to be something other than cynical today.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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This is why these jokesters should never be cops: they always try and make the evidence fit their narrative instead of just following the evidence.

So apparently people are losing their jobs for literally responding to CK's death by quoting things he himself actually said.

Idk, if using the man's own words that he stood behind repeatedly is "speaking ill of the dead" then maybe that says something about the dead.

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A screenshot of a faculty page with the following text: Jess A. Goldberg Assistant Professor of English, Undergraduate Studies Coordinator for English, Co-Director of Gender & Women’s Studies Ph.D. Cornell University, 2018 jagoldberg@nmhu.edu 505-454-3329 Pronouns: they/them Teaching and research interests include American literature, abolitionist thought, Black studies, carceral studies (prisons, policing, and criminalization), gender studies (especially queer and feminist theory), critical race theory and ethnic studies (with a focus on white supremacy), legal humanities, environmental humanities, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism.

New faculty page headshot is up and for the first time in my career the photo makes me smile more than the text. What a wonder of a cocktail of makeup, a new haircut, and hormones is for gender dysphoria.

If you are not anti-imperialist, you are not against political violence.

Oh and another one: intervening in another country's politics to force regime change when you don't like who they elected is political violence.
Today is Sept 11, the anniversary of the US-backed coup of the Allende regime in Chile that resulted in the brutally repressive right-wing Pinochet regime.

Until I see you making a public declaration against political violence EVERY SINGLE DAY because of SOMETHING on this incomplete list, I don't care what you think about Charlie Kirk. And not only that, but if you don't speak up every single day but are now, you are literally part of the problem.

And the list goes on. This is why I can't listen to American politicians or most Americans in general "condemn political violence." You don't actually condemn it. You wake up every day happy to live a life made possible by it. You're only against political violence when it happens to the powerful.

-Settler colonialism
-the death or malnourishment of every single impoverished person in a country that has billionaires
-Union busting
-institutional racism
-Food deserts
-For-profit healthcare and medicine
-Climate change denial
-deploying the US military in majority-minority cities

Things that are "political violence":
-When people die due to lack of healthcare
-police violence against Black, Brown, trans, and disabled people
-ICE raids
-Raiding houseless encampments
-mask bans
-Cop cities
-Supporting literal genocide in Palestine
-Prisons
-anti-trans bathroom bills

Raiding homeless encampments is a form of political violence, btw.