If you are an academic who has ever uttered the word “diversity”, “equity” or “inclusion”, you better be asking what you’re going to do about policing on campus. Try looking at @copsoffearth, for starters https://twitter.com/daviss/status/1381471924958683138

I recently gave a talk on organizing for physicists/astronomers, who are largely academics— and one of my comments was that a way you can make yourself useful is looking at what organizing is already underway around you, not just on campus but locally

Academics often don’t want to think about that, because academic institutions are often engaged in violence towards the communities they are in— either through gentrification, or more directly via policing

But if you are faculty, you have access to forms of institutional power and access that could be useful behind existing movements. Could be! Not will be. A lot depends on specifics of your situation

The focus on incorporating marginalized students into institutions that engage in violence towards their same communities— especially through application essays that traffic in narratives of “overcoming”/trauma— is deeply fucked

Put down that copy of White Fragility and ask how you are going to be useful and what risks you are going to take