Muzzled by DeSantis, Critical Race Theory Professors Cancel Courses or Modify Their Teaching
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It’s easy to dismiss the conservative crusade against #CRT as political theater without real consequences. But most colleges & universities offer social science and humanities courses that address racial inequality and systemic racism, and the anti-CRT laws are already having repercussions for people who teach or take these classes in red states.

#race #education #Florida

https://www.propublica.org/article/desantis-critical-race-theory-florida-college-professors?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Work from home has been a huge boon to employment access for disabled people.

“The jobless rate for disabled workers — typically in double digits and 12.3% two years ago — dropped to 5.8% in November … the lowest rate for people with disabilities since record-keeping began in 2008.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-12-15/long-left-out-of-job-market-people-with-disabilities-reap-benefits-of-covid-19s-teleworking-boom

CNN, WaPo, NYT journalists' accounts were restored. The Intercept and independent journalists were not. We've gotten the worst of it all: the criticism of being the “mainstream media” but without the backing or protection of being the “mainstream media.”

It is going to take me some time to figure out how to use Mastodon but I will figure it all out, I reckon!

Please apply for our two-year Helaine B. Allen and Cynthia Berenson Postdoctoral Fellowship in WGS at Brandeis University on Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS). https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23731 If you know of students or junior colleagues, please encourage them to apply!@chanda @safiyanoble @maxliboiron

Thank you Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for generously supporting our Sawyer Seminar on “Imperiled Bodies: Slavery, Colonialism, Citizenship and The Logics of Gender-Based Violence,” led by Anita Hill & Harleen Singh w/ our WGS faculty. We are so excited for this opportunity! #MellonFoundation #genderbasedviolence

11/28/22: For tonight’s vigil on campus, they had expected 2 dozen. Hundreds upon hundreds turned up.

I have been teaching (elite, therefore circumspect) Chinese students for the past two decades. I have never yet witnessed this level of collective anger, thoughtfulness, passion, despair - and willingness to speak out.

#china #a4revolution

We're hiring! Please help spread the word about this exciting new position in Black feminist history at the University of Toronto!

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Associate-ProfessorProfessor-Black-Feminist-History-ON/565431817/

#histodons #feminism #BlackFeminism #BlackStudies #AfricanStudies #UofT #UTSC

#introduction I’m a diasporic Korean who grew up in Ethiopia and Kenya, a #feminist scholar and a historian of Russian Jewry at Brandeis U, avid reader (esp. books by writers of color and translated works), lousy Chair of a fabulous WGS department. Feeling a bit forlorn without my Twitter community of fierce activists, scholars, and writers. Pictured below is my brother who teaches at Yonsei U and my mischievous self when we landed in Addis Ababa in the early 1970s lol!