Uyghur/Han politics; marriage as colonization
https://supchina.com/2019/08/07/uyghur-love-in-a-time-of-interethnic-marriage/
In case you feel like getting really mad about how Uyghur women are being portrayed as ideal brides, with Uyghur men "safely" locked away in concentration camps.
So proud to know @nick_kapur@twitter.com
https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1164233656799506433 < thread deconstructing Monopology: Socialism
And then Ted Cruz got mad at him
https://www.mediaite.com/news/ted-cruz-got-mad-at-guy-who-said-monopoly-socialism-edition-board-game-was-stupid/
Study concludes that the best way to disrupt hate groups online is to fucking ban them:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/tracking-online-hate-groups-reveals-why-theyre-resilient-to-bans/
complaining about cis queer bullshit
@velexiraptor women and femmes is a cursed linguistic construct that doesnt describe or elucidate anything whatsoever imo
Etiquette
Before jumping into someone else's mentions:
✅ Am I being contrarian?
✅ Do I already have a relationship with this person, or am I being inappropriately familiar?
✅ Am I "ironically" doing exactly what this person just said not to do?
✅ Am I derailing another legitimate discussion in order to get on my own favourite hobby-horse or to one-up this person in my knowledge of social issues?
✅ Am I saying "Are you surprised?" when they're disappointed?
✅ Am I providing unsolicited advice?
activism, fatigue, transphobia ment.
I've done so damned little of my real job (teaching, writing) today, because of the time I spent researching university policies in order to see what can be done about some really transphobic, hateful language one of our students was subjected to from a staff member.
Even if the time put into it is objectively not that much, the mental burden of dealing with it all is just completely bloody exhausting.
But how much worse is it for my students? So onwards.
the (lack of) social life of academia, communal sadness
I mean, oh no, how terrible to live a life where I have friends who want to invite me to things, but it just feels grindingly awful to say no time after time after time.
the (lack of) social life of academia, communal sadness
Solidarity is inviting a sad friend to write and weep together. We've both had hard years personally, but the wheels don't stop turning for either of us.
Said sad friend is one of like... three people I can envision meaningfully socializing with in the semester I need to finish my book manuscript, and I don't know how to politely tell literally everyone else in the world to please stop inviting me to things.
The Carnegie Library System workers have unionized and this gleeful piece about it is hilariously good https://splinternews.com/hahahaha-suck-it-andrew-carnegie-1837268365
#TheKashmirSyllabus – A List of Sources for Teaching and Learning about Kashmir 《Added to my growing list of activist syllabi 》 https://t.co/shzc0S90eN
fieldwork progress report, mental health
In addition to all of this I've also checked in with people from past fieldwork. And working on article edits now.
Ye gods this has been a productive trip. I'm so much harsher to myself than I deserve—but as I was typing to my partner earlier, there's
"...something about the constant temporary feelings, and the rush to see people, and the never really getting to settle in"
that always makes me a mess, and makes it easier to be unkind to myself.
@guerrillarain attempted criticisms of sex work accidentally criticizing the conditions of all labor under capitalism = 😽👌
Linguist, anthropologist, disoriented newly independent academic
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