Molly Farrell (she/her)

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Trapped by Mark Maguire & Setha Low explores the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states.
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The Hair Does the Talking In my youth, when I wore a kufi, what my hair looked like became a source of wonder for the people around me. I took a foolish pleasure in holding on to that kind of power.

Do yourself a favor and read this stunningly beautiful essay (and peek into his book out next month) by Hanif Abdurraqib. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

OPINION: PAMELA PAUL As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.

As A Kid, I Thought The New York Times Wasn't Bullshit. I No Longer Do.

Rowling, Pullman, Lewis: all undergirded by a Christian theology of sacrifice.

Lloyd Alexander—existentialist philosophy! Free will and real hard choices!

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This is the photo I always lead with when I teach about her

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Invitation to Guest Lecture of Molly J. Farrell (Ohio State University)

I'm honored to be sharing my work with the English Department at the University of Siegen in Germany today! www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglist...

America has a life expectancy crisis. But it’s not a political priority. No national strategy exists to reverse a years-long slide that has left the United States trailing peer nations in life expectancy.

Americans can expect to live shorter lives than people in

Canada
China
France
Germany
Japan
Norway
U.K.

And dozens of other countries.

**So why isn’t it a political priority?**

Our months-long investigation tried to get answers.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/...

OOP!

An early Christmas/late Hanukkah gift to share: My book on colonial numeracy, or what we learn when we learn arithmetic, _New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America_ is under contract with @stanfordpress.bsky.social! I'm counting on (get it?! 😆 ) a happy and productive 2024 😀🧮📖

Editors’ Picks 2023: The Best of NACLA's Online Coverage Join us in taking a look back at our most memorable web stories of 2023.

Humbled to see that my piece, “The Institutionalization of Anti-Haitianism” was named one of NACLA’s Editors’ Picks for 2023. There’s still so much work that needs to be done.🇩🇴🇭🇹 nacla.org/editors-pick...

Editors’ Picks 2023: The Best of NACLA's Online Coverage Join us in taking a look back at our most memorable web stories of 2023.

Check out @ayendy.bsky.social’s essay, “The Institutionalization of Anti-Haitianism,” named one of North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Editors’ Picks for 2023. nacla.org/editors-pick...

Or even better (and shorter!): write well.

That may very well mean revising to be more concise, but it also means being clear and attending to your audience

Appropriately, currently reading in the Charlottesville airport

Christopher L. Brown · Funhouse Mirror: ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ Perhaps the greatest shame of the Atlantic slave trade was that it inspired no shame at all. In their own time, Britain...

Once again @jbouie.bsky.social 's newsletter points me to the best weekend reading. This article by Christopher L. Brown on Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery is great. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Humanities and Jobs Data: What's the Real Story? - The Scholarly Kitchen Escalating attacks on the humanities often cite the problem of employment for humanities majors; a new report shows otherwise.

One of the most frustrating narratives links humanities majors w poor employment prospects and outcomes. “The data really does say otherwise.” I wrote abt the new & important Humanities Indicators state level report for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social 🗃️ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/14/h...

Honesty for Ohio Education on Instagram 73 likes, 5 comments - honesty4ohioed on December 13, 2023

Ohioans, call DeWine to tell him to veto this state-sponsored bullying of trans kids: www.instagram.com/p/C0z2MxCr-yt/

Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza. The German Green Party-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation, “in agreement with the Bremen Senate,” is withdrawing from awarding the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought to the Russ…

“An open letter from the Bremen DIG stated that honoring Gessen (a Jewish writer whose grandfather was murdered by the Nazis) “would contradict the necessary decisive action against the growing anti-Semitism.””

Upon Arrival: Making Family in the Korean and Dominican Diaspora Upon Arrival: Making Family in the Korean and Dominican Diaspora written by Joey S. Kim and Ayendy Bonifacio  Joey’s Story  My

Thrilled to share this co-written essay with @ayendy.bsky.social on our families' immigration stories! Thanks to the editors Robb Hernandez, Stephen Hong Sohn, and Francisco Pedraza at Asian American x LatinX Critical & Digital Studies! aaxl.ace.fordham.edu/upon-arrival...

Here for this proposal. "The bills would require the private universities to start paying their full annual property taxes and for that money to be redistributed to the City University of New York, the largest urban public university system in the country."

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Pearl Harbor Reminds Us of the Danger of Conspiracy Theories In the aftermath of national or international crisis, it can be all too easy to project blame onto entire identity groups.

On the anniversary of that day which will "live infamy," Dec. 7, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor, delighted to have this piece out with Cameron Givens on conspiracy, crisis, and response @madebyhistory @TIME

That hand on the left is like book stigmata

Happy Birthday to all who celebrate: The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in Columbus, OH on December 8, 1886, breaking off from the Knights of Labor, with the first president as Samuel Gompers (of the then much celebrated Cigar Makers International Union) #AFL #Columbus

By an 8-7 vote this terrible higher education overhaul bill passed the House committee in Ohio this morning, despite overwhelming opposition, with a hearing and vote scheduled at the absolute last minute, not permitting testimony or time for interested parties to gather.