B Williams
@researcherintraing.bsky.social
MA Cultural Studies Student. Research in
critical theory, ecocritcism and psychoanalysis; ecology discourse.
critical theory, ecocritcism and psychoanalysis; ecology discourse.
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Perhaps we should be using what we know about how to change minds, which includes giving up on convincing many people with logic.
And it seems fair to grant that while building trusting relationships is key, it also comes with risk and cost, and one needs to balance self-care.
And it seems fair to grant that while building trusting relationships is key, it also comes with risk and cost, and one needs to balance self-care.
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
Why don't facts change our minds? This article explains the logic of false beliefs and proposes a better system for constructive conversation.
jamesclear.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Perhaps we should be using what we know about how to change minds, which includes giving up on convincing many people with logic.
And it seems fair to grant that while building trusting relationships is key, it also comes with risk and cost, and one needs to balance self-care.
And it seems fair to grant that while building trusting relationships is key, it also comes with risk and cost, and one needs to balance self-care.
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Organize and fight back, together. The power is in our hands, we just need to claim it. Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair:
Anti-Capitalist Resources
These are people and projects that have been essential for my own journey of unlearning capitalism.
hilaryagro.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Organize and fight back, together. The power is in our hands, we just need to claim it. Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair:
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A lot of people need to hear this
July 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A lot of people need to hear this
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Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
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Mental health conditions, like suicides & overdoses, are the leading underlying causes of maternal deaths in the US.
Antidepressants save women's lives—& they're safe.
So why is RFKJr's FDA hell-bent on undermining their use among pregnant & postpartum moms?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Antidepressants save women's lives—& they're safe.
So why is RFKJr's FDA hell-bent on undermining their use among pregnant & postpartum moms?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?
A panel of experts repeated what one women's health expert called "MAHA talking points."
www.motherjones.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Mental health conditions, like suicides & overdoses, are the leading underlying causes of maternal deaths in the US.
Antidepressants save women's lives—& they're safe.
So why is RFKJr's FDA hell-bent on undermining their use among pregnant & postpartum moms?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Antidepressants save women's lives—& they're safe.
So why is RFKJr's FDA hell-bent on undermining their use among pregnant & postpartum moms?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Class still matters in politics – and until living standards improve, Reform UK will continue to prosper | Larry Elliott
Class still matters in politics – and until living standards improve, Reform UK will continue to prosper | Larry Elliott
Disgruntled and politically footloose voters are impatient for action. Labour has to offer them a lot more than warm words, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Class still matters in politics – and until living standards improve, Reform UK will continue to prosper | Larry Elliott
For a current University assignment, we were tasked with creating some kind of presentation on a research method. I went with research activism and chose to use a blog. If interested visit here; researchactvism.wordpress.com
Research activism: Media representation
Bisexual Represenation in Media, a research project blog
researchactvism.wordpress.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For a current University assignment, we were tasked with creating some kind of presentation on a research method. I went with research activism and chose to use a blog. If interested visit here; researchactvism.wordpress.com
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Closing Monday: expressions of interest in ‘Sociology in the Times of Genocide’, a spevial section of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal
thesociologicalreview.org
January 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Closing Monday: expressions of interest in ‘Sociology in the Times of Genocide’, a spevial section of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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What should a postdigital cultural studies look like? Dr. Sarah Murry raises questions around digital economies of attention to answer our provocation, "What is Cultural Studies?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020): https://buff.ly/3W5899k
January 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
What should a postdigital cultural studies look like? Dr. Sarah Murry raises questions around digital economies of attention to answer our provocation, "What is Cultural Studies?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020): https://buff.ly/3W5899k
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After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation
The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
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Welcome to the public domain, Virginia Woolf's A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (1929), a pivotal feminist essay by one of modernism’s most innovative writers, advocating for women's creative independence. 🖋️
Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
#PublicDomain
Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
#PublicDomain
January 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Welcome to the public domain, Virginia Woolf's A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (1929), a pivotal feminist essay by one of modernism’s most innovative writers, advocating for women's creative independence. 🖋️
Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
#PublicDomain
Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
#PublicDomain
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Some interesting words about Universal Basic Income.
The quote comes from the book: Bulllshit Jobs.
The quote comes from the book: Bulllshit Jobs.
January 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Some interesting words about Universal Basic Income.
The quote comes from the book: Bulllshit Jobs.
The quote comes from the book: Bulllshit Jobs.
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As books are burned & banned, it’s important that all of U.S. history is forever amplified and not hidden.
The holiday season meant something very different for American slaves, my ancestors.
ibw21.org/reparations/...
The holiday season meant something very different for American slaves, my ancestors.
ibw21.org/reparations/...
The Dark History of New Year's Day in American Slavery
By Olivia B. Waxman — "Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year's Day the worst of any," one 1842 account explained. Here's why.
ibw21.org
December 30, 2024 at 3:22 PM
As books are burned & banned, it’s important that all of U.S. history is forever amplified and not hidden.
The holiday season meant something very different for American slaves, my ancestors.
ibw21.org/reparations/...
The holiday season meant something very different for American slaves, my ancestors.
ibw21.org/reparations/...
Ah New Years Honours, a pointless holdover of an antiquated system.
December 30, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Ah New Years Honours, a pointless holdover of an antiquated system.
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“Our technology requires parasitical theft to be profitable” is a bold gambit
December 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
“Our technology requires parasitical theft to be profitable” is a bold gambit
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"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about."
December 15, 2024 at 1:16 PM
"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about."
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She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe- "Didn't It Rain?" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)
YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 2:33 AM
She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.
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Looking forward to reading this new #OpenAccess book on efforts to preserve digital artefacts:
Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
December 11, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Looking forward to reading this new #OpenAccess book on efforts to preserve digital artefacts:
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December 9, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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What IS cultural studies, anyway? We've asked the experts in our series "What Is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Ien Ang offers an answer in "On Cultural Studies, Again" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020):
buff.ly
December 9, 2024 at 6:27 PM
What IS cultural studies, anyway? We've asked the experts in our series "What Is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Ien Ang offers an answer in "On Cultural Studies, Again" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020):
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I've put down this #RentControl amendment because spiralling private rents too often push people into poverty & homelessness
We need this to be debated & acted on in Parliament - so please ask your MP to sign up to co-propose my New Clause 7 to amend the #RentersRightsBill
@acornunion.bsky.social
We need this to be debated & acted on in Parliament - so please ask your MP to sign up to co-propose my New Clause 7 to amend the #RentersRightsBill
@acornunion.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 7:45 PM
I've put down this #RentControl amendment because spiralling private rents too often push people into poverty & homelessness
We need this to be debated & acted on in Parliament - so please ask your MP to sign up to co-propose my New Clause 7 to amend the #RentersRightsBill
@acornunion.bsky.social
We need this to be debated & acted on in Parliament - so please ask your MP to sign up to co-propose my New Clause 7 to amend the #RentersRightsBill
@acornunion.bsky.social