Jessica Marie Johnson
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writer, historian of slavery. books: Wicked Flesh (Penn Press, 2020); Computational Humanities (UMinn, 2024). director at @lifexcode.bsky.social. Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
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Thank you to all the peer reviewers and colleagues who supported this project!
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Thank you to all the peer reviewers and colleagues who supported this project!
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Thank you to series editors @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Thank you to series editors @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social
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@lisaironcutter.bsky.social Mark Algee Hewitt, Kasper Beelen, Vanessa Holden, Josh Rothman, Crystal Hall, Julie Damerow, Abraham Gibson, Manfred Laubichler, Mariekej Van Erp, Tobias Blanke, Tassie Gnady, David Kloster, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Lee Zickel 👇🏼
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
@lisaironcutter.bsky.social Mark Algee Hewitt, Kasper Beelen, Vanessa Holden, Josh Rothman, Crystal Hall, Julie Damerow, Abraham Gibson, Manfred Laubichler, Mariekej Van Erp, Tobias Blanke, Tassie Gnady, David Kloster, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Lee Zickel 👇🏼
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Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
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January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼
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My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
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#humanities #highered #neh
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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts
The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
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#humanities #highered #neh
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"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student... Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
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Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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April 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student... Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
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As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants.
So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.
The hypocrisy is outrageous.
So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.
The hypocrisy is outrageous.
April 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants.
So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.
The hypocrisy is outrageous.
So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.
The hypocrisy is outrageous.
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We hope you’ll join us at Red Emma’s tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss the Uprising and what it meant for Baltimore.
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Looking Back. Moving Forward: A Special West Wednesday.
It’s been 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death and the Uprising. It will be the 611th West Wednesday calling for justice for Tyrone West.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We hope you’ll join us at Red Emma’s tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss the Uprising and what it meant for Baltimore.
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Baltimore City Paper tried to cover the Uprising differently, writes Jack Serpick. His father was editor-in-chief of the paper at the time.
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‘A particular responsibility’: What it was like to cover the 2015 Baltimore Uprising
“Everybody was all in.” It’s a bit of a full circle moment to hear this statement come from my father 10 years after I witnessed him pulling up outside our house, looking dazed and half-asleep. I was ...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Baltimore City Paper tried to cover the Uprising differently, writes Jack Serpick. His father was editor-in-chief of the paper at the time.
baltimorebeat.com/a-particular...
baltimorebeat.com/a-particular...
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Find images from the Uprising, shot by photographer Devin Allen, on our Photostory page.
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Photostory: Images from the 2015 Baltimore Uprising
“I think the death of Freddie Gray inspired a whole new generation of activists,” photographer Devin Allen tells me on a phone call earlier this year. At the time of Gray’s death, Allen was beginning...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Find images from the Uprising, shot by photographer Devin Allen, on our Photostory page.
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Jaisal Noor and Logan Hullinger wrote about the Baltimore Legal Action Team, which got its start during the Uprising.
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From emergency response to sustained resistance: How Baltimore Action Legal Team endured after the Uprising
As day turned to night in Baltimore on April 27, 2015, the number of arrests for disorderly conduct, failure to obey, and destruction of property ticked upward. What began as street protests over the ...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Jaisal Noor and Logan Hullinger wrote about the Baltimore Legal Action Team, which got its start during the Uprising.
baltimorebeat.com/from-emergen...
baltimorebeat.com/from-emergen...
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To try to understand what happened in 2015 and to get a sense of where we are now, Baynard Woods sought out people who were involved in the uprising in one way or another.
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A Mass Movement: A History of the Baltimore Uprising, From the Ground Up
On the morning of April 12, 2015, at about 8:48 a.m., a 25-year-old Black man named Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. allegedly made eye contact with a police officer at the corner of North and Mount, where he was walking with his friends Brandon Ross and Davonte Roary looking for breakfast from a carryout. Gray and […]
baltimorebeat.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
To try to understand what happened in 2015 and to get a sense of where we are now, Baynard Woods sought out people who were involved in the uprising in one way or another.
baltimorebeat.com/a-mass-movem...
baltimorebeat.com/a-mass-movem...
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“Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism,” Editor-in-Chief Lisa Snowden writes in her letter.
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Letter from the editor- Issue 59
Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism. I felt pushed to think seriously about the way class com...
baltimorebeat.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism,” Editor-in-Chief Lisa Snowden writes in her letter.
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baltimorebeat.com/letter-from-...
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Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.
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a lot of very important stories and memories in this issue. it was very moving to read even as an editor
Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.
April 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
a lot of very important stories and memories in this issue. it was very moving to read even as an editor
I just had a flashback to 2012/2013. Everything old is new again.
Well, it took about six (?) hours for someone to tell me that all of us who talked about diversity are the reason that the digital humanities grants are gone. That's like claiming profs are liberal brainwashers when we can't even get students to read the syllabus.
April 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I just had a flashback to 2012/2013. Everything old is new again.
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An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show its evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the government's case on Friday. "If he's not removable, I'm going to be terminating this case on Friday"
US given one day to show evidence for deporting Columbia University protester Khalil
An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show its evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the government's case on Friday, a month after he was arrested in New York and transferred 1,200 miles to a rural Louisiana jail.
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April 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show its evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the government's case on Friday. "If he's not removable, I'm going to be terminating this case on Friday"
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New on the SOIL Blog:
"Being present with what you’re feeling in the wake of harm, to feel what's going on in your body, is really freaking hard. I can’t do it all the time but as I’ve worked through historic harm in recovery I was shocked at how feeling my feelings made empathy easier to access."
"Being present with what you’re feeling in the wake of harm, to feel what's going on in your body, is really freaking hard. I can’t do it all the time but as I’ve worked through historic harm in recovery I was shocked at how feeling my feelings made empathy easier to access."
Thank you @miamingus.bsky.social for the space to reflect on practicing transformative justice.
Humbled by the blessings/lessons of practicing TJ, recovery and chaplaincy! Humbled by the blessings/lessons of (nearly) five years in the South.
Here's to laughing, dancing in hell with you, Mia!
Humbled by the blessings/lessons of practicing TJ, recovery and chaplaincy! Humbled by the blessings/lessons of (nearly) five years in the South.
Here's to laughing, dancing in hell with you, Mia!
Feeling Your Feelings: Where Transformative Justice, Chaplaincy, and Recovery Converge — SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project
“It was oddly comforting to know that whether in TJ, chaplaincy, or recovery, the same challenges kept surfacing: holding deep emotions without letting them take control, practicing empathy without se...
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April 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
New on the SOIL Blog:
"Being present with what you’re feeling in the wake of harm, to feel what's going on in your body, is really freaking hard. I can’t do it all the time but as I’ve worked through historic harm in recovery I was shocked at how feeling my feelings made empathy easier to access."
"Being present with what you’re feeling in the wake of harm, to feel what's going on in your body, is really freaking hard. I can’t do it all the time but as I’ve worked through historic harm in recovery I was shocked at how feeling my feelings made empathy easier to access."
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop barring the Associated Press from the White House press pool, finding that it had discriminated against the outlet over its editorial decision not to adopt “Gulf of America” in its news stories.
More details coming:
More details coming:
Judge Sides With The Associated Press In Fight Over Access to Trump
A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet’s access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop barring the Associated Press from the White House press pool, finding that it had discriminated against the outlet over its editorial decision not to adopt “Gulf of America” in its news stories.
More details coming:
More details coming:
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And there it is.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
And there it is.
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We've aggregated relevant @modernlanguage.bsky.social resources, including tips for NEH awardees, links to webinar recordings on threats to higher ed, MLA statements, & links to other resources. Share resources w/ us through the google form, and sign up for the first Strategy Session (April 22).
We've put together a list of resources on legislative threats to higher ed. Visit the site for tips for NEH grantees, webinar recordings, tool kits, MLA statements, and more. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
Resources on Legislative Threats to Higher Education
The MLA is collaborating with other organizations, including PEN America’s Freedom to Learn Network, the ACLS, and the AAUP, to speak out against state and local encroachment on higher education and g...
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April 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We've aggregated relevant @modernlanguage.bsky.social resources, including tips for NEH awardees, links to webinar recordings on threats to higher ed, MLA statements, & links to other resources. Share resources w/ us through the google form, and sign up for the first Strategy Session (April 22).
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New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
April 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
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