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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them)
@emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social
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Louisiana Creole Writer, Poet, Educator, and Researcher • MFA, PhD • Poems in the Penn Review, Witch Craft Mag, LaCreole Journal, Eucalyptus Lit, and elsewhere • here & queer 🌈 • Views are my own! Emilymgoldsmith.com
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · Jan 20
I’m new here and glad to join you in this space. My name is Emily (they/them) & I’m a Louisiana Creole person who was raised in S. Louisiana. I’m queer and nonbinary.

I’m a poet! I received an MFA in poetry from UKY and I’m currently an English PhD candidate at USM in Hattiesburg, MS.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d
Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
www.theguardian.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
Fuck Gavin Newsom. I will never vote for him and you shouldn't either.
Excerpt from an article discussing LGBT+ protections in California legislation. It states that Governor Newsom neither signed nor vetoed certain bills. One bill strengthened protections under Sen. Scott Wiener’s “State of Refuge” law. The highlighted portion reads: “At least four bills directly addressed trans protections,” followed by examples such as healthcare and patient confidentiality, streamlining legal name and gender changes, nondiscrimination in health insurance, and inclusive homelessness programs.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t want to “discover,” I want to nap.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 1d
Our ancestors were called uncivilized because their connection to nature challenged the capitalist obsession with controlling land.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 1d
My mom last night:
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d
LOOK AT THE MOON!!!!!!!!!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d
The EFF obtained these docs and shared them with us. Their writeup is here:

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...
www.eff.org
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d
Police said that "family" was worried about her. But the only family member mentioned in the court records is her partner, who was arrested for abusing her and threatening her at gunpoint the day she took the pills, after which she left. He is the one who called the cops
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d
This story is completely insane. After our first article, Flock and the police have aggressively asserted that the woman "was never under criminal investigation by Johnson County." Flock has used it as an example of "clickbait journalism" and its CEO has attacked the reporting multiple times
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
www.404media.co
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 1d
You’ve heard of indescribable? Well, the smart phone thinks I’m untranscribable
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d
I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 2d
Got IRB on speed-dial 📞
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 2d
In my auto-ethnography era ✨
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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 4d
One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d
Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 4d
Trump's $100,000 fee for H-1B worker visas challenged in lawsuit

www.reuters.com/world/trumps...
Trump's $100,000 fee for H-1B worker visas challenged in lawsuit
A coalition of unions, employers and religious groups filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump's bid to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly-skilled foreign workers.
www.reuters.com
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 5d
Call me maybe
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ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 5d
question for the timeline
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 5d
Also, any Louisiana Creole:

Do you know what’s up with new babies and snapping turtles? Like is the turtle soup supposed to bring good luck? Mo pa konne!!
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 5d
Y’all don’t tell me we’re not Circum-Caribbean! I just found out we used to sub oxtail for turtle in turtle soup/turtle sauce piquante when we didn’t have turtles on hand (we use alligator snapping turtles and seasonally, they’re less available/sometimes endangered).
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 5d
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HEALTH INSURANCE
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 5d
"Di moin qui vous laimein, ma di vous qui vous yé." - Louisiana Creole Proverb, Gumbo Zhèbes
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 5d
ICE is now targeting Black Americans.

It was never about immigration. It was always about racism and control.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 6d
When I sleep alone, I love to burrito myself in a fluffy duvet so intently from head to toe that if someone wanted to locate me, they would need to excavate me from bed.
a puppy is playing with a stuffed animal on a rug .
ALT: a puppy is playing with a stuffed animal on a rug .
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 6d
I’m so back!*

*has health insurance again
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