March 2010
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bonesarecoralmade-deactivated20 asked: tumblr coincidences! also how was the interview?
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hiatus time.
So remember that “large [private] Midwestern [Catholic?!!?!] university” that for some reason decided to make me a finalist for their dissertation fellowship? The same one that flies their finalists in to give a job talk-style presentation in front of would-be colleagues and interlocutors? That trip, and that presentation is actually coming up this week. In the sense that I’ll...
When It Comes to Black Even the Left Ain’t Right →
The National Urban League 2006 study, Sunday Morning Apartheid, concluded that 74% of Meet the Press broadcasts contained no Black guests. From January 2009 to January 2010 Democracy Now! has aired 261 shows, that is, one show every week day. Of these shows 88% had no African American guests.* As it pertains to Black America the leading progressive news program is actually worse than...
After Eve, in Honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick →
On February 25, 2010, a small symposium gathered at Duke University to honor Eve Sedgwick. There were four formal speakers—me [Lauren Berlant], Tyler Curtain, Maurice Wallace, and Robyn Wiegman—and then many other testifiers and memorialists. We were all listeners. It was a moving and interesting night. As there were no plans by the event sponsors to publish the talks, the participants...
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New College Graduates To Be Cryogenically Frozen... →
When reached for comment, a spokesman for loan provider Sallie Mae said that educational loans taken out by graduates in cryogenic storage would continue to accrue interest indefinitely at 6.5 percent
neurotical-deactivated20100426 asked: My mother went away for a month long trip. Some ocean liner ship. Anyway, she made a big mistake by leaving me home. I had to roam, so I picked up the phone. Long story short, I left my wallet in El Segundo. And I gotta get it! But until then...where do I keep my jimmy hats?
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Speaking as a black person (though certainly not for black people), I’d like to state something that should be obvious, but that I’ve been reminded that I don’t have the privilege of taking for granted: there is actually so much more to my life—and so much pleasure/danger/trauma/excitement to the word/world—than that which issues from debating about which n-bomb white...
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A Very White Day at the University of California -... →
For the University leaders, protest itself appears to have become incivility, disruptive of dominant institutional arrangements and even at times, for some criminalizable. And free speech is to be upheld only when expressing certain positions but not others, disrupting the peace—a criminal misdemeanor—a characterization of an activity reductively in the case of speaking truth to power but not in...
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allthingsbeingequal-deactivated asked: So Ace of Base was the first record you ever bought. What was the second?
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allthingsbeingequal-deactivated asked: LeVar Burton or Anthony Stewart Head (TWSS)?
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allthingsbeingequal-deactivated asked: Please identify your favorite Babysitters Club character and why.
Anonymous asked: Must James's obsession with self-activity be understood only within the global south and the diaspora with a default memory of postcolonialism et al, rather than in the global north with its peccadilloes for teabagging Beauty Queens? Or is self-activity just not all it's cracked up to be?
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Anonymous asked: what do you think about this take on some of the march 4 actions: http://www.racewire.org/archives/2010/03/anarchists_draw_heat_after_ca_student_walk-outs.html
bonesarecoralmade-deactivated20 asked: okay, the first question is how was march 4th? and then a frivolous question: what is your favourite sandwich?
it's on.
March 4, 2010 To: UC* Community Fr: UC* Public Affairs Re: Campus access due to protest over state-budget cuts As of 5:55 this morning, protest activity in the vicinity of both campus entrances had rendered the campus inaccessible to vehicular traffic. Campus officials are monitoring the situation and attempting to redirect traffic flow away from campus. Please check the following campus web...
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Jay-Z “It’s Hot (Some Like It...
March 4 Day of Action - Google Maps →
curate:
A map of campus organizing around the March 4 Day of Action to Defend Education, compiled by Angus Johnston of the Student Activism blog (http://studentactivism.net).
MARCH 4 Strike and Day of Action REGIONAL EVENTS « →
March 4th is right around the corner and the local, national and international anticipation for this historic day is growing by the minute. Students, teachers, staff, parents and workers from all over California, the nation and the world have been organizing and building for the Strike and Day of Action. Below is a tentative list of events that will be happening on March 4th in California.
If you...
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“According to the Regents’ own data and policy documents, the primary use...”
– Will Parrish and Darwin Bond-Graham, “Who Runs the University of California?”
(This is must-read stuff if you’re in any way interested in the politics and consequences of the ways that public universities are being funded.)
Anonymous asked: What are you in grad school for?
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