#Activism

So, I’m gonna be real for a minute here. This morning was really emotional for me and I just want to process some of what I was feeling and express
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Hello! Day 5 of @DrSafaneh guest tweeting here at @HistoriansOfIran. Writing about the Islamic Republic narratives of women is certainly the hardest, so much good scholarship has been done and
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been thinking about this a lot bc im really angry at whiteness today lol esp whiteness at m*calester and how while its gr8 white ppl understand systems of oppression need
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**A COMPLETELY UNASKED-FOR SEASPIRACY THREAD** Sam here. Since we have nothing else to talk about for a bit, I thought I’d hijack our platform to give you my personal take
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During WWI, Addie W. Hunton led a group of African American welfare workers serving in France under the auspices of the YMCA. The racism Hunton saw in the war radicalized
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Hello World! I'm a tech anthro PhD studying civil society activism in the digital age @oiioxford and @turinginst In this talk I focus on some of their recent efforts to
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It's Indigenous Peoples' Day. Here's a thread by a settler South Asian scholar on Indigenous Studies texts we should all be reading, learning from, citing, and most importantly translating into
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When citizens perceive government as responsive, they're more likely to make claims. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/escaping-the-disengagement-dilemma-two-field-experiments-on-motivating-citiz
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#Yale announced that despite its $30 billion endowment, it will institute a faculty hiring freeze. @Yale hoarding its wealth is nothing new. And among academic workers, it’s always POC who
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That Time I Fucked My Professors Husband (and Her): A Thread So in high school I was in this dual enrollment program where I took college classes and my
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Important reminder that civilian men in armed conflicts are much more likely to be victims of killings than women. And yet, aided by framings of humanitarian crises and protection imperatives
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People on my college WA arguing about comparing Modi and Hitler and someone said Modi is elected. Nobody points out Hitler was too. There's ram mandir and mosque and what
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Some younger friends I've made here have asked me why I was detained without trial in Uganda for one year in 2010-2011.At the same time @RobertAlai posted these files here
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So, against my better judgment, I'm going to do a thread on Palestine. I'm not calling anyone a racist liberal. I'm not telling anyone to don a keffiyeh and pick
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retweeting and being vocal on social network is great and important, but make sure you're not just being vocal in an echo chamber of like-minded people. make sure your activism
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The political right doesn’t offer a better life for ordinary people, especially not for those marginalized. Nor the fiscal responsibility they claim to care about. So they use a domestic
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