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Antonia Randolph
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Black queer feminist jawn. And how. She/They pronouns.
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An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science.

Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.
This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data on Trans Patients, Then Quit the CDC — Assigned
John Weiser, a doctor and researcher, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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New: The UNC System could make all course syllabi public records and openly available online.

The system frames the potential move as a benefit to students. But critics say it could put professors at risk and violate their intellectual property rights. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
UNC System Weighs Requiring Course Syllabi to be Public
Campuses have reached different conclusions about whether syllabi are public records. Now the UNC System wants to dictate that they are.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
I got to meet Prof. Choy my first month at NYU film in 1995. She was a loudmouthed, hard drinking, chain smoking New York indie director. The real deal. “Who Killed Vincent Chang?” had a huge impact on me on what doc film was and could be. RIP, Professor. They don’t make ‘em like you anymore.
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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tavia.bsky.social
There should be a national conservatory for the preservation of funk. The musicianship in those 70s bands is beyond beyond.
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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louiseseamster.bsky.social
the travesties pile up
thetriibe.com The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d
NEW — Despite a last-minute effort to extend time for occupants to find other housing and receive housing assistance, residents of the South Shore apartment building raided by ICE must move out by Friday.

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Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE
The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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When A Byrd Flew To North Carolina Central
University

Jazz trumpeter #DonaldByrd pioneered jazz education programs at Historically Black Colleges.

#SaggGenius
#BornOnThisDay
www.ncarts.org/blog/2019/04...
When A Byrd Flew To North Carolina Central University
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II aka Donald Byrd is probably most remembered as a Detroit City born Hard Bop maestro. In the mid-1970s Byrd began to collaborate with the Mizell Brothers -- Larr...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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In this final article (part 3) of the Ms. Magazine series on the links between misogyny, gendered violence and political extremism, @milleridriss.bsky.social talks about 'Misogyny, Racism, Power: Connecting the Dots in the Violent Far Right':

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Misogyny, Racism, Power: Connecting the Dots in the Violent Far Right
Cynthia Miller-Idriss' new book Man Up explores the links between misogyny, gendered violence against women and political extremism.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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2026 Summer School:
Anti-Racism, Social Justice, and the European City,
University of Padua (Italy)

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arjec 2026
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December 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Why 1 in 4 inmate deaths happens in the same federal prison in North Carolina
A quarter of federal inmate deaths occur at North Carolina's Butner prison complex. Some federal inmates only arrived at its medical facility after waiting months or even years for care elsewhere.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Come work with me! Salary range $85,000-$100,000. Benefits include a union, fairly low insurance premiums and so many cat photos. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
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New York City, United States; Remote, United States
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December 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: Jackson County Board of Elections votes 3-2 to close the Western Carolina University early voting site despite it being one of the most active polling locations in the county. This is active voter suppression and we will not stand for it.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Circulating a petition against a proposal to force UNC system faculty to share their syllabi publicly, a move that would potentially exposing faculty to bad faith actors without necessarily improving student access to syllabi (which are already accessible in the course catalog) #AcademicFreedom
Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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This Unruly Witness: June Jordan’s Legacy

Becky Thompson in conversation with Maya Marshall, hosted by Charis Books

Friday, December 12th at 7:30 pm ET

RSVP to attend (in person in ATL or online): charisbooksandmore.com/event/2025-1...
This Unruly Witness: June Jordan’s Legacy Becky Thompson in conversation with Maya Marshall, hosted by Charis Books Friday, December 12th at 7:30 pm ET RSVP to attend (in person in ATL or online):
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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NC Republicans are stripping voting sites off college campuses because they’re afraid of young people and their power in elections. And that’s a powerful message for me to take to college campuses across the state in 2026. So run afraid, NCGOP. It won’t change your outcome.
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination will be available for pre-order in December.

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Audiofuturism - andré carrington
A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before ma...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I was deeply honored that the cover is original woodcut artwork made by Jamaal Barber. Check out this video of his process

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December 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins

THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto

by Steven W. Thrasher

cover art by Jamaal Barber

Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Cover art of the book "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" by Steven W. Thrasher. The cover is a black and white woodcut, with the title appearing over the images of three African American faces. To the left, is a face without eyes, in profile. To the right, is a man in a suit with no eyes looking forward. In the center is a police officer with eyes. Inside of him is a Black man on his knees, appearing to have been whipped. They all tower over raised fists.
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year

My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
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Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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after 3 years, i was laid off by rolling stone. im appreciative of my time there, but i know this is opening a better path🙌🏿

putting everything into my newsletter for now, plz subscribe: andrejgee.substack.com

+ a gofundme for anyone who'd like to help: www.gofundme.com/f/offering-s...
Donate to offering support after rolling stone layoff, organized by Andre Gee
Last week, after three years at Rolling Stone, I was unexpectedly laid off. Appa… Andre Gee needs your support for offering support after rolling stone layoff
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December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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definitely need this.
The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions—but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain. Our society places so much weight and attention on those who become the first or only of their identifying group that we miss one of the inherent issues in that model. This book is about the kinds of compromises made by a small but influential group of people from minoritized groups in the United States as they have entered segregated institutions in highly visible positions. People in the overseer class wield enormous institutional power, even necropolitical power over who lives and who dies; it’s just that their power is predicated upon repressing other people who look (or speak/have sex/come from places) like them. The most obvious contemporary overseer is the Black police officer. The Overseer Class begins with this quote from James Baldwin from 1967: “The poor, of whatever color, do not trust the law and certainly have no reason to, and God knows we didn't. ‘If you must call a cop,’ we said in those days, ‘for God's sake, make sure it's a white one.’ We did not feel that the cops were protecting us, for we knew too much about the reasons for the kinds of crimes committed in the ghetto; but we feared black cops even more than white cops, because the black cop had to work so much harder--on your head--to prove to himself and his colleagues that he was not like all the other n******.” But this dynamic does not only exist within law enforcement, it exists in many different spheres and The Overseer Class explores what it looks like in mass media, universities, corporate America, the military, and government. A powerful current and local example of this quandary can be seen right here in the ongoing saga of New York's Mayor Adams. At the end of the day, The Overseer Class aims not only to educate us and start this discussion but to provide a framework for challenging that dynamic. It is a weighty topic but one that Dr. Thrasher is well-equipped to handle.
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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So proud to be in community with fabulous thinkers like @jean23bean.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I had the good fortune of being in the room for this conversation between the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and my equally brilliant colleague Prof Matthew D. Morrison.

Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Hanif Abdurraqib at Stanford | On Art, Survival, and the Heart’s Work
YouTube video by Stanford Arts
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December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’

Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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checking back in to assess progress in enacting this policy proposal
louiseseamster.bsky.social Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Apr 17
From the linked Heritage policy paper--
this isn't about making better jobs that don't need college and provide in house training, this is about erasing the opportunity to get an education so people take whatever jobs are offered, and start cranking out kids during peak fertility years: pre *25*
Education policy changes can help to stem the tide of declining fertility rates by ending governmental inducements to delay entry into the workforce, staying in school longer, getting trapped with debt, and postponing family formation. Young people are driven by public policy to stay in school longer than they otherwise might. Heavily subsidized student loans and repeated offers of debt cancellation that may or may not materialize provide young people with strong incentives to remain in school longer than necessary rather than complete their education and find a job. People who start working at younger ages are more likely to get married younger and have more children. Limiting student loan inducements will level the playing field between school and work, allowing more people to pursue work and start families at younger ages, resulting in a higher married birth rate. The longer it takes for people to complete their education, the longer they delay pursuing employment, and the older they are when they start to seek spouses and think about having children. Among women with a postsecondary degree who have children, 42.9 percent have their first child when they are 30 or older. Among women with only a high school degree who have children, only 8.5 percent wait until they are older than 30 to have their first child.20 Gladys M. Martinez and Kimberly Daniels, “Fertility of Men and Women Aged 15–49 in the United States: National Survey of Family Growth, 2015–2019,” National Health Statistics Report No. 179, January 10, 2023, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr179.pdf (accessed November 4, 2024).  Among women with a bachelor’s or higher degree, 21.8 percent will never have children, compared to 11.5 percent among those who ended their formal education with a high school diploma.21 Ibid.  Ease of healthy reproduction peaks around 25 and naturally drops with age, accelerating dramatically throughout the 30s.22 Darae Woo, Saeyoung Jae, and Sangshin Park, “U-Shaped Association Between Age at First Childbirth and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study,” Maturitas, Vol. 161 (July 2022), pp. 33–39, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378512222000287# (accessed November 4, 2024). Pregnancy complications also increase with age, which leads to greater C-section deliveries, which, in turn, dramatically limits the number of additional births without complications or need of C-sections.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I was informed the Department of Education was shutting itself down and yet they have been making a dramatic blockbuster-style preview of their new ideological project? youtu.be/bUNVdCduGKg?...
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM