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Harper B. Keenan

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Asst Prof at UBC. USian in 🍁. studying childhood/imagining pedagogies/unscripting curriculum/trans-ing through life. www.harperkeenan.com

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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · Nov 12

Here to share some good news, which is that a special issue I edited called “The Adventures of Trans Educators: A Comic Issue” has just been released! It features comics created through a collaboration bt trans educators and queer/trans artists. Share widely! www.bankstreet.edu/research-pub...

Occasional Paper Series #52 - Bank Street College of Education

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National Education Association @neatoday.bsky.social · 6d

Public schools can’t afford to lose more teachers. Black teachers make up only 6% of the profession and are leaving at higher rates. Stress, lack of respect, and pay gaps (earning about 6% less than white peers) are driving them out.

Becky Pringle Sounds the Alarm on the Black Teacher Exodus

“We are going in the wrong direction,” the NEA president says. And we should all be worried.

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 7d

When education tops the list in the worst possible way 😭

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 7d

Via NYT Graphics:

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How Much Have Trump’s Cuts Shrunk the Federal Work Force? Shutdown Plans Offer a Clue.

The number of federal employees has been trimmed by thousands since President Trump took office, according to contingency plans drawn up by federal agencies.

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15d

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 18d

universities really need evening child care, given how many courses happen at night. does anyone have this?

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 20d

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Nexstar’s takeover of Tegna would require an overhaul of FCC ownership rules - Poynter

The proposed sale would exceed the FCC’s 39% cap, igniting debate among broadcasters, unions and press groups

www.poynter.org

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 20d

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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Yoshiko Herrera @yoshikoherrera.bsky.social · 20d

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20d

What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.

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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 20d

man i really love the arbutus greenway. i wish vancouver had more stuff like this.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21d

something to keep in mind is that everything the right is currently doing to trans people is just what they have wanted for decades to do to gay people; they just can’t get away with doing the latter right now

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21d

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21d

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.

@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

There are many problems with this statement, but Klein’s fundamental error reveals something much more dangerous: he’s mistaking performance for discourse, spectacle for persuasion. Kirk wasn’t showing up to campuses to “talk with anyone who would talk to him.” He was showing up armed with a string of logical fallacies, nonsense talking points, and gotcha questions specifically designed to enrage inexperienced college students so he could generate viral social media clips of himself “owning the libs.”

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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 21d

Are you at UVic?

Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 21d

I am SO proud to share that our second issue on play as a liberatory practice has been published in The Critical Social Educator! It was such a joy to co-edit this two-part series with Ki Gross (Woke Kindergarten) and Tran Templeton. Please read and share! www.tcsejournal.com/issues/vol-2...

www.tcsejournal.com - Vol. 2 No. 1 Articles

Cover Art by Akiea "Ki" Gross

www.tcsejournal.com

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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 21d

f you work at a university that has especially fantastic policies or programs for employees and students who are parents or caregivers to young children, can you share them with me?

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

www.nbcnews.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21d

coates is genuinely a generational writer

What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to "End Racism," and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk's death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don't know. But the most
telling detail in Klein's column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.

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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 21d

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Harper B. Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social · 21d

f you work at a university that has especially fantastic policies or programs for employees and students who are parents or caregivers to young children, can you share them with me?

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 27d

And Italian relatives of mine only learned in their 20s, I’m talking 2010s, that it was neo-Nazis and not anarchists. They lived their whole lives in Italy thinking it was anarchists. Their parents likely still think that.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 27d

Thinking about the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and how Italy's security services blamed it on anarchists, arrested nearly 100 activists and threw one of them out the 4th floor window of the police station.

The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27d

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 28d

I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · Apr 1

Evergreen article

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Trans Woman Would Actually Rather Be Safe Than Brave

In an uninspiring story out of Chicago, 28-year-old Shelly Deichman would actually rather be safe than lauded as brave for simply existing as a trans woman. “Cis people really like to call me brav...

reductress.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 2

I wrote about how the U.S. refuses to ratify the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.

"ParentalRights.org is an organization that has been actively campaigning against U.S. ratification of “dangerous U.N conventions that “threaten parental rights”

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · Sep 1

This labor day let’s never forget that the President of the United States has laid off a quarter million hard working Americans in the name of efficiency while simultaneously spending $200 million dollars on a golden ballroom for the White House.

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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's no wonder Trump is doing this, since unions are our best and most proven defense against oligarchy and authoritarianism. www.weekendreading.net/p/oligarchs-...

Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We?

Unions make us strong.

www.weekendreading.net

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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights

www.nytimes.com

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