jasmine @jasminee@scholar.social

Decolonization is an ongoing struggle

Who's that in your AVI, Jasmine?

That's a screenshot from the film Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas) with Maggie Cheung.

Besides being a fantastic and dizzying/disorienting film, I have a soft spot for it bc I first watched it in a class with Prof. Yiman Wang, who would advise my undergraduate thesis! Here's the essay that she wrote on Maggie Cheung and the film Irma Vep: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/492536

against genres of human a la Wynter

So many people have made quarantine playlists on Spotify (quaranTunes, if you will) that the suggestion algorithms are as chaotic and themed around isolation/illness/washing hands as you expect them to be

Anthony Ryan Hatch and Kym Bradley, “Prisons Matter: Psychotropics and the Trope of Silence in Technocorrections,” in Mattering, ed. Victoria Pitts-Taylor (New York: NYU Press, 2016), 224–41.

Has this been shared here yet?

The COVID19 syllabus : https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1dTkJmhWQ8NcxhmjeLp6ybT1_YOPhFLx9hZ43j1S7DjE/

tho honestly big ups to whoever has the patience to read these things/read anything these days

🎶covid-19
oh, my hands are so clean
at this moment,
disinfecting! 🎵

🎶shortness of breath
tightness in chest
at this moment,
i am dyyyying 🎵🎺

There was supposed to be a sit-in for my union yesterday and it was canceled because... well, look around you

Anyways, I had invited my undergraduate students to the sit-in (part of my ongoing quest to make grad labor visible on this somewhat conservative campus) but had to tell them it was canceled 😣I did get one email of support from a student though 😭❤️

I was going to present at SCMS 2020 (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) in April, but it just got canceled this morning

:(

I'm really sad.

I too am trying to switch to an online model for classes -- the videoconferencing app that my university uses can't really host 15-20 people at a time, which is hard, and I don't know if my students are living precariously or don't have reliable WiFi for online classes/videoconferencing/etc

I basically had to add additional writing exercises to their homework load (something I don't feel good about)... I hope I can think of something better soon.

This is why there is a movement to get cops off campus. The university's response was not to provide alternative housing or care for their students, but to send in campus police in riot gear to use tried and true repression tactics

(honestly why does campus police even have ACCESS to pepper bullets?!)

students at the University of Dayton Ohio were ordered to leave their university housing due to fears of covid19 -- rendering many of them homeless (I've seen a fair number of students demand refunds for the $$$ they've paid for housing if they aren't allowed to live on campus)

a crowd of ~1k students blocked off a street in Dayton and campus cops shot pepper bullets at them

video/thread here: https://twitter.com/FlyerNews/status/1237597991826948096

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019).

this is gorgeous

Here’s a great solidarity statement from Sussex UCU to UC Santa Cruz:

https://ucusussex.wixsite.com/strike2020/post/sussex-ucu-solidarity-with-graduate-student-strikers-at-the-university-of-california

The strike has continued and spread to other UC campuses. You love to see it.

https://rustbeltradio.org/2020/02/26/ep34/

"The Asian Prisoner Support Committee speaks about internationalist abolition and strategic interventions to stop deportations of all those caught up in the crimmigration system –the crossroads of criminal and immigration law– and what it takes to bring back those who have been deported."

https://payusmoreucsc.com/pledges-to-refuse-taships-vacated-by-terminated-grads/

^ now thats what i call solidarity

Donate to the strike support fund here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fund-for-striking-workers-at-ucsc

The TAs will need financial support to make up for lost wages, and the loss of their healthcare.

UC Santa Cruz just fired 54 TAs for participating in a wildcat strike, withholding fall quarter grades, and demanding a cost of living adjustment.

Fuck the UC.

HR rejected:
- food subsidies
- reform to the sexual misconduct investigation process
- affordable housing
- divesting from fossil fuels AND ICE/CBP

and they won't even negotiate wages until we drop those things

fuck HR fuck the university

In my mind, Sarah T. Roberts' "Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media" makes a case for unionizing Silicon Valley workers,,,,,,, especially the content moderators

https://www.behindthescreen-book.com/

https://payusmoreucsc.com/rent-burden-calculator/

I used UCSC grad student's rent burden calculator and

my monthly stipend: $2200
months I am paid: 8
monthly rent: $730

my rent burden is 49.77%

i fuckin hate the university!!!