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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · May 6

On Friday, April 25th, I became the first* African American woman to earn tenure & promotion in the Univ. of Vermont’s College of Education & Social Services history.

Naturally, I went home to reflect on my educational past & to think about my future.

*(sadly, yes, in 2025)

1/2?

Photo of Brit, a light-skinned Black woman, wearing a dimming stud earring in her top hole, “door knocker” earrings that say tenured in the lower hole, removable gold teeth, a ring on her right index finger, and holding her hand in the Aloha-style to emphasize the earrings and teeth. She’s wearing a Black Mac Duggal gown and standing on ATL’s iconic Jackson Street bridge where you can see the city’s skyline.

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 1h

I’m going to be cremated for sure. I told my peeps if I die first to go ahead and spend that extra cash on something I would do like travel or getting drunk.

Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 16h

Why do funerals COST SO DAMN MUCH?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

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ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 16h

Damn a coffin cost $4000??? Yall can bury me loose

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 2h

I genuinely never envisioned being single ever again… if you got to see our little “engagement” photoshoot you know I thought it was forever.

But shit happens and onward we go. That includes being okay with how both things and people come and go.

To my other newly single girls: keep going! 💜

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MoistBob DripPants @triskaidekaaa.bsky.social · 2h

I know that’s right❤️❤️❤️

Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 2h

lol… my flight attendant bae picked up a shift just to fly across the world to take me on a date on another continent, in case anyone was wondering if I’m still spoiled!

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 2h

lol… my flight attendant bae picked up a shift just to fly across the world to take me on a date on another continent, in case anyone was wondering if I’m still spoiled!

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Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 3h

As a reminder

Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods by Michael Quinn Patton

is fantastic and I very much appreciate it as I approach my dissertation proposal (and eventual data collection)

I give @drbritwilliams.bsky.social full credit for recommending it

Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 4h

Reading the end of this textbook has me like "this 700+ page textbook is all about qualitative research but... What even *is* research?"

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 4h

Lmao

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7h

I don't like to do "we're cooked" pronouncements but I am going to escort myself offline to stare at my garden

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 5h

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 5h

Uh my ancestors have only had "legal" equality for less than 60 years and now that just ended, but ok.

Timo van Esch @fibonaccieu.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine living in Gaza.
Trying to survive while USA-made bombs destroy your very vegetable markets.

You think your job market sucks now?
These autocrats are rolling out an AI-filled job market.
Flattening Gaza is just a tactic.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h

What happens now that Republicans shut down the government?

- Federal workers stop getting paid
- Air travel could be delayed
- Food inspection services may be delayed
- Head Start services may be disrupted
- Passport + Visa applications could slow
- National Parks may shut down

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Emily Fishbein @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social · 12h

Myanmar has faded from global attention, but its people continue to endure excruciating violence on a daily basis. Monday, the military junta conducted another round of deadly airstrikes, targeting a peaceful candlelight vigil on the Buddhist holiday of Thadingyut (1/2)
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

www.bbc.com

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 11h

I screamed so loud my best friend came running.

They’re eco friendly around here so of course the light goes off after so long without movement!

See if I touch any switch again without lights. Nope. No.

Constance @drconstance.bsky.social · 11h

Girl 😭

Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 11h

I hit wrong button on the bidet at my hotel and I might have just created a second butt hole in my butt crack!

This is what I get for not knowing Korean!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

The last round of death threats I got with @drbritwilliams.bsky.social flipped a switch in me.

And because of them, I'm not at all nice or welcoming of any fucking douchebag that supports that media ecosystem... Ain't gonna pretend about it either even at professional events. Fuck em all.

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

I’m about to embark on my longest direct flight ever taken. 16 hours. 🥴

I haven’t slept in 22 hours, so theoretically once I’m in my seat I should knock out for the first 6-8! I have my pillows, eye masks, snacks, etc.

I have some Netflix & work downloaded for the rest. What’d I miss?

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Democrats are pressuring Republicans to extend billions of dollars in federal tax credits that have dramatically lowered premiums and contributed to record-low rates of uninsured Americans. n.pr/4gV0VOa

Why Democrats are casting the government shutdown as a health care showdown

Democrats are pressuring Republicans to extend billions of dollars in federal tax credits that have dramatically lowered premiums and contributed to record-low rates of uninsured Americans.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 1d

I keep getting adverts for meal prep services but to me they just look like Meals on Wheels, but funded by venture capital, not the local council

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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Christ

@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t trust people who befriend people less attractive than them. Desperate to be “the hot friend”. Enjoy parading yourself around with your pet hog.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 1d

Library workers, what are we going to do?

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

"We must work [twd] direct control of universities. If we do, we’ll be of real use to our knlwdg allies—gov't scientists, public health advocates, local... jrnlsts, community rschrs, theater company directors, et al.—in bldg the self-governing knwldg systems we need to block authoritarian implosion"

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 2d

When we understand that our history is diverse, it changes our outlook. I hope that this Black History Month, we all take the time to uncover the history lessons we were denied in school

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-many-more-generations-will-be-denied-black-queer-history-before-we-take-action/

How many more generations will be denied Black queer history before we take action?

When we understand that our history is diverse, it changes our outlook. I hope that this Black History Month, we all take the time to uncover the history lessons we were denied in school

www.wearequeeraf.com

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