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Crystal Fleming クリスタル

@alwaystheself.bsky.social

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Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology at Smith College. Posts represent the views of my cats. One of my books has a 2 second cameo in an Oscar winning film.日本語を勉強します. I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams and/or worst nightmare. I have a lot of ancestors.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · Aug 5

Still basking in the unexpected summer bliss of discovering fields of sunflowers in the countryside of upstate New York!! 🌻🌻🌻

Selfie of me smiling under a blue sky with hundreds (thousands?) of sunflowers behind me. I've got on a black t-shirt and clear Ray-Bans

Closeup of the sunflowers! They're gorgeous!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1h

It's MacArthur day! It's MacArthur day!

I have a little ritual where, every announcement day, I watch the video, read the Fellows' bios, and ask myself how I'm being creative in my own work. Just a nice push to think outside the box.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3K...

Meet the 2025 MacArthur Fellows

YouTube video by macfound

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 5h

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 18h

Purchase it here: bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 1d

🙌🏽🙌🏽

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Indivisible Waves @indiwaves.bsky.social · 1d

Here's our book group flyer for How to Be Less Stupid about Race by @alwaystheself.bsky.social !!

#indivisible

Flyer inviting people to read how to be less stupid about race through October and meet on November 4 to discuss 3 PM at the Waldport public library, Oregon. Event sponsored by indivisible Waves

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L'Histoire de Manon @manonatelier.blacksky.app · 2d

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! Curtis Yarvin is contemplating "how to flee the country"..

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure why this is happening now.. *gestures vaguely* .. but it appears new readers are discovering my old book How to Be Less Stupid About Race. I hope it helps, however modestly.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d

Mad respect for Greta.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, that analysis sure was something!

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Kay Marie @onlykaymarie.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't listened to this album but I thought this analysis was insightful: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjnSDB/

Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of Showgirl exposed a lot of her internal world imo. Please tell me this isn’t obvious to only just me #taylorswift #thelifeofashowgirl #arianagrande #mileycyrus

TikTok video by sotfogsotfog

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d

I will say, it seems she spent way more time working on the album covers than she spent working on the album itself.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d

She’s not beating the boring Barbie accusations..

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. I wasn’t expecting much since she soft launched her move to maga and the frankly weird marketing images. Listened to some cause the radio was playing the whole record. The lyrics were weird and the music meh. She’s had some bops in the past (I’m no swifty) but these were subpar at best.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d

So everyone agrees that the Taylor Swift album is bad right

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 4d

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 3d

Greta Thunberg is being tortured in Israeli captivity, as revealed by fellow activists:

“They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 4d

This album sounds as bad as what I always thought Taylor sounded like before I learned that she’s a talented writer. She’s like, become the worst version of a facscimile of herself?

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 4d

Re: Taylor, it’s kinda weird to get very publicly engaged and then release a song about the size of your fiancé’s manhood instead of/in addition to also convincingly singing about how deeply in love you are with him.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I said what I said.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5d

DHS just lies constantly but this time they let the truth slip. DHS will arrest you if you are Hispanic PLUS literally any other thing that they think is correlated statistically with being here illegally; occupation, English speaking ability, the neighborhood, etc. It is sick.

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