#Inequities

Jamwanda

Jamwanda2

DO COLONIAL HISTORIES MATTER TODAY? For the less politically literate - usually richly clustered in opposition honeycombs - short answer is: THEY DON’T!!! Those don’t concern or bother me; they

JeannieLin

JeannieLin

Diversity in historical romance: The difficulty is this -- and you have to take yourself out of the context of any book for a moment and try to reframe historical

cancerconnector

CancerConnector

Something I’ve been thinking and talking about a lot during this #COVID19 pandemic is how seemingly small differences are being magnified in likely long-lasting ways. A THREAD (mostly about academia,

Christine Limonte, MD

christinelimont

Currently attending the @ASNKidney webinar, "Going Beyond the Statement: Dismantling Systemic Racism in Nephrology". Excellent discussion so far! Will share some points that stand out to me here... "Race is

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

I'm going to tell you something good this morning. I spent most of my adult life (~30 years)outside of academia, working with non-governmental organizations from New York to South Africa.

Los Angeles Times

latimes

The pandemic has underscored many inequities in society. One in particular involves weight bias and flaws in healthcare. We explain:https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-08/analyzing-covid-vaccine-inequity-through-obesity-lens T

Sarah Jacobson

SarahJacobsonEc

As our semesters ramp up, I want to share a resource that may be useful to #EconTwitter for #TeachEcon purposes: the YouTube series @anythingbdismal, which made 6 great episodes (ep

Rebecca Sibilia

RebeccaSibilia

We've got a new report out today that is particularly important in the face of the coming financial crisis, addresses a problem that everyone in the education community will face,

Catherine Fonseca

cathygoweeee

#ccli2020 keynote by @benicolebe: Euphemistic use of the word 'transformation' already being deployed to inspire a false sense of hope, to sugarcoat devastating cuts, or to enshrine the continued drive

Dr. Pragya Agarwal

DrPragyaAgarwal

THREAD For anyone interested in reading about Critical Race Theory (also the politicians who throw it around without ever reading about it) here are some good resources:1. This is a

estair

estair

Today is my first official day as a tenured associate professor of law - cause for celebration and immense gratitude. In fact, I will spend today wavering between anger and

babybel rolling down a hill

balfies

I have an arts undergrad and a business post-grad, and the skills I learned in my undergrad have proven to be far more useful in the day to day of

Ḟreyjạ

utotranslucence

‘...the nature of power is that it never stays equally distributed, and any attempt to force equality of power itself becomes hierarchical.’May become a thread of quotes from The Guru

Solomon Dersso, PhD

SolomonADersso

South Africa’s Covid-19 economic stimulus plan — opportunity out of crisishttps://mg.co.za/article/2020-04-21-south-africas-covid-19-economic-stimulus-plan-opportunity-out-of-crisis/ Quite a number of encouraging staff coming from SA’s approach to #C

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ Most if not all of us who are first generation from #India have close family members who are struggling to fight through this current #covid19 surgeIndia broke its case

IWMF

IWMF

Time to shout out more powerful stories from our community of #BadassFemaleJournos! Women journos: thank you for keeping the world informed during this pandemic – we see you, we appreciate