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Sad to report @Sciencing_Bi died from COVID this evening.
She was a fierce protector of people. She let me take my shoulders away from my ears knowing she was meaner and more loving than everyone else.
No one has ever had my back like that. I don't know what I'm going to do.
No one has ever had my back like that. I don't know what I'm going to do.
I dont know what her students or my students who loved her will do.
She made million first nations indigenous contacts for metoostem I don't have the lifetime of good will or knowledge of everyone she helped.
She made million first nations indigenous contacts for metoostem I don't have the lifetime of good will or knowledge of everyone she helped.
The last time I talked to her she was trying to make sure that @mbeisen and @JoshFessel got the Hopi bandanas that she had sent all of us. She's in the dumb hospital checking on if we got gifts.
@JoshFessel had explained to me that things were bad. It just didn't occur to me she'd die. She was so much stronger than me.
Who else is going to tell me that I'm not being strong enough? That the bigger fights are ahead That I have to do better. Who else is just going to be there to call me out publicly for being soft on NIH and NSF? She wasn't nice. She was powerful and she worked so stinking hard
I wanted to go out there so bad when she went back in the hospital. But they won't let you in.
This disease.
She said she was suppose to get Hopi talisman for health as gifts for us but she ran out. God. The irony of running out of health talisman.
This disease.
She said she was suppose to get Hopi talisman for health as gifts for us but she ran out. God. The irony of running out of health talisman.
She changed so much of how I thought about advocacy and power. I don’t want to fuck up Hopi tradition but she wanted to get me a tattoo that matched hers that said “Itam naapyani” which she translated as DO IT YOURSELF (YOU FUCKING IDIOT).
I don’t know anyone she cared about who wasn’t unsure if she thought they, too, were fucking idiots. She probably did? It was the folks IRL that stayed that mattered. The ones she called out who kept talking that she cared about. In her real life and here too, I think.
Even when she was PISSED at me, she’d text me daily. Sometimes to just tell me she still thought I was wrong. It was nothing if not consistent! But also reassuring. She was still there waiting to talk like adults.
It makes me think of how easily we block and shut ppl out.
It makes me think of how easily we block and shut ppl out.
Selfishly I knew she’d get better. She had to be here in a month to help me with being deposed in my harasshole case.
I didn’t bother to think if I had reserves because she did.
She did for the students and staff. She’d happily bare knuckle fight a grabby field assistant.
I didn’t bother to think if I had reserves because she did.
She did for the students and staff. She’d happily bare knuckle fight a grabby field assistant.
“Take them out with a sucker punch to the throat” was her advice. Because, repeat after me, in the words of @Sciencing_Bi ‘Play stupid games, win stupid prizes’
She got kicked off two dig sites for that. She was only sad she couldn’t add dudes she punched to her CV
She got kicked off two dig sites for that. She was only sad she couldn’t add dudes she punched to her CV
She used to joke that I only had six more months to fix sexual-harassment before she just went around clocking people. It made me feel better but also made me work harder.
That’s it I guess. She made me better. She made me work harder. And I’m sad.
That’s it I guess. She made me better. She made me work harder. And I’m sad.
Please read her timeline. She was forced by her university to teach in person until April. Campus closed and she was in the hospital a week later.
Be mad about COVID but be more mad that BIPOC community is most vulnerable and underrepresented on campus. We are killing them
Be mad about COVID but be more mad that BIPOC community is most vulnerable and underrepresented on campus. We are killing them
