Jennifer Williams
@drjendwilliams.bsky.social
Knowledge conductor | word worker | avid walker | meditator
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FAM, have you heard of the #EconomicBlackout today? Are you participating?
February 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
FAM, have you heard of the #EconomicBlackout today? Are you participating?
Noncompliance is also an option.
February 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Noncompliance is also an option.
Lorde's words for this moment:
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(1982) Audre Lorde, "Learning from the 60s" •
In February, 1982, Audre Lorde delivered the address, “Learning from the 60s” as part of the celebration of the Malcolm X weekend at Harvard University. Her presentation appears below. online pharmac...
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February 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Lorde's words for this moment:
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
Y'all gave them the keys, the codes, the passwords. Sigh.
February 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Y'all gave them the keys, the codes, the passwords. Sigh.
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Disgusted
Disgusted
New Kennedy Center board elects Trump chair, ousts Rutter as president
President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman and replaced the Kennedy Center’s president Deborah Rutter with Trump ally Richard Grenell.
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February 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Disgusted
Disgusted
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“The liberal establishment has not raised the alarms. Worse, they have often served as the right’s complicit partner, oblivious to the precedents that Trump is now inheriting: broader police power, unaccountable presidential power, generalized repression, and gross restrictions on speech.”
The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
www.bostonreview.net
February 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“The liberal establishment has not raised the alarms. Worse, they have often served as the right’s complicit partner, oblivious to the precedents that Trump is now inheriting: broader police power, unaccountable presidential power, generalized repression, and gross restrictions on speech.”
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Finally, a journalist willing to call a spade a spade.
More of this!
More of this!
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Finally, a journalist willing to call a spade a spade.
More of this!
More of this!
Today is Rosa Parks Day! We can learn so much from this courageous warrior for Black women's bodily autonomy and racial equality.
February 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today is Rosa Parks Day! We can learn so much from this courageous warrior for Black women's bodily autonomy and racial equality.
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“This guide contains 28 selections from Black Film Archive. You will find visions of resistance, childlike wonder, and unending imagination. We will survive the fire this time and the next, and the time after that”
Courtesy of @mayascade.bsky.social
Courtesy of @mayascade.bsky.social
28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month
The 5th Annual Edition of this Black Film Celebration!
blackfilmarchive.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“This guide contains 28 selections from Black Film Archive. You will find visions of resistance, childlike wonder, and unending imagination. We will survive the fire this time and the next, and the time after that”
Courtesy of @mayascade.bsky.social
Courtesy of @mayascade.bsky.social
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On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...
A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
www.dayofactionforhighered.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...
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In this current time I would love to further investment in HBCUs.
They do an outsize job of educating Black people including Black health professionals - for example, 4 HBCU med schools graduate 10% of Black docs.
Would love to see Black celebs, etc increasing donations to these institutions.
They do an outsize job of educating Black people including Black health professionals - for example, 4 HBCU med schools graduate 10% of Black docs.
Would love to see Black celebs, etc increasing donations to these institutions.
January 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In this current time I would love to further investment in HBCUs.
They do an outsize job of educating Black people including Black health professionals - for example, 4 HBCU med schools graduate 10% of Black docs.
Would love to see Black celebs, etc increasing donations to these institutions.
They do an outsize job of educating Black people including Black health professionals - for example, 4 HBCU med schools graduate 10% of Black docs.
Would love to see Black celebs, etc increasing donations to these institutions.
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Chile, let me outta here.
“We can break the law because the president (-elect) says we can” is actually dangerous and terrible.
BREAKING: TikTok restores service, thanking Trump
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www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
January 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chile, let me outta here.
Farewell TikTok, I barely knew you.
January 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Farewell TikTok, I barely knew you.
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Yes
January 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Yes
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“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
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The ethical case for resisting AI
I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…
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January 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.”
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What is Apple Intelligence and do I want it or can I ignore it?🤨
January 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What is Apple Intelligence and do I want it or can I ignore it?🤨
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For anyone to whom it may be useful: Black Mamas Matter Alliance focuses on every aspect of maternal well-being, and accepts donations (+ a few printed goods for purchase).
Although no such organisations should be necessary in this country.
Although no such organisations should be necessary in this country.
Black Mamas Matter Alliance - Advancing Black Maternal Health, Rights & Justice
We envision a world where Black mamas have the rights, respect, and resources to thrive before, during, and after pregnancy. We are a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance. We center Black mamas to ...
blackmamasmatter.org
December 27, 2024 at 3:46 AM
For anyone to whom it may be useful: Black Mamas Matter Alliance focuses on every aspect of maternal well-being, and accepts donations (+ a few printed goods for purchase).
Although no such organisations should be necessary in this country.
Although no such organisations should be necessary in this country.
