Taylor Brooks
@taylorbrooks.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in Sociology •• Researching: US immigration, media, emotions, voice, racism •• critical discourse analysis •• linguistics •• photography 🏳️‍🌈
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mark-bray.bsky.social
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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taylorbrooks.bsky.social
It is great when you find an article that hits the mark, isn't it? I am working all day on my post-viva responses report. Have a terrific day percolating about your data. #PhDSky #JustKeepSwimming
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vicclarke.bsky.social
This was a really fun project to supervise! Conducted by Karen Jones for her MA Music Therapy dissertation. Coauthored with @jazztoad.bsky.social "I’m Coming Out": The Role of Music in LGBTQ+ Identities | Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy share.google/ew4XJFpHDXLe...
"I’m Coming Out": The Role of Music in LGBTQ+ Identities | Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy
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taylorbrooks.bsky.social
Be kind. Also, do not hold on to feelings, talk them out, or they will harm your body. Be kind to you as you are kind to others.
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mcslaven.bsky.social
So I just happen to have published this article on when and why it works to call anti-immigrant policies racist. And this is, uh... not how you do it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is really hard to read. And the thing that is sitting with me the most about it is that it has always legal and possible to do this for decades. The only thing preventing this from having been the norm was a sense of humanity.

This is why we need structural reform. Not just a change in admin.
radleybalko.bsky.social
This passage nearly broke me.
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juliet.social
I'm starting to think we need to bring back a constructive form of shame, which @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social makes a great case for in this excellent piece:

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
Brilliant! 🤜🤛 There is so much relief and sense of accomplishment afterwards, isn't there? I know how much work goes into the Progress Review work; it is no small feat. Enjoy your well-deserved day of rest tomorrow.
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
Momentum, I have to agree, is key to deep immersion and meaningful progression. In case no one has told you today, you are doing great! I am also tasked this week with delving back into my data. I'm finding it interesting. Less than a month left! Going to spend this evening with thesis work. #PhDSky
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
*That* is a good idea! 💡 #PhdChat
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
🙋‍♀️ I am joining you. #PhDSky I am going to do a bit of research and reading for a few hours. For the rest of the day, I will work on my thesis. This is also the big push for me in my #PhD journey.
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
I removed myself just now, too. How rotten of them.
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
Thank you so very much! I am crossing mine also. 🤞
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
Happy working, Rosemary. I'm in as soon as I get the thesis back (hopefully today!). #PhDSky #PhDStalled
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
Oh yes, formatting. 🤦‍♀️ Fix one thing, mess up five other things. 🙃
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
I'm a bit stalled as one of my supers has my thesis to give me feedback, so I am unable to work on it. If I work on another copy, and then the feedback is returned, I won't know where all my changes are to add them to the feedback copy. Frustrating as my hard deadline is in mid-October. #PhdSky
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kitoconnell.com
“This can’t be interpreted…as anything else but an attack directly on trans kids.”

In my first byline for @teenvogue.com, I spoke with trans students, with Texas teachers, and those who support them about this troubling law that's singling out trans, enby and gender nonconforming young folks:
Some Texas Schools Are Making Teachers Deadname Trans Students After New Bill Passed
“This can’t be interpreted as anything else but an attack directly on trans kids.”
www.teenvogue.com
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
It’s exciting. May the entire journey be adventurous and fun!
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jdportes.bsky.social
Impassioned plea for more mixed-methods research (quant & qual) from @timharford.ft.com

"The hard data is never as eloquent as a good story. Humboldt would measure the cactus but also sketch it; drag his barometer up a volcano, but spin a yarn about the epic climb."

www.ft.com/content/d419...
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
www.ft.com
taylorbrooks.bsky.social
Wow! ☺️ How wonderfully exciting your tour sounds. Do you have a couple of weeks to do so?
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littlehen.bsky.social
I need to create something which gives an overview of key theorists for my #PhDSky and how their work (may) overlap/interac. I’m feeling creatively stuck. Anyone seen anything inspiring or have doodles of their own they’d share please?