PhD, Sociology. First gen and working class. Asst Professor at Michigan State U. Pronouns: she, her, hers
Joined December 2008
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PLEASE. Let the police catch the shooter and make sure all of our students, faculty, and staff are safe before using this situation to make a point - any point - about guns. My students are barricaded in classrooms and running for their lives, and it's devastating. #MSU
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We stand in solidarity with the workers at @HarperCollins , who are currently on strike due to unfair working conditions. If you do, too, please sign their open letter: docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/…
#InSolidarity #UnionStrong
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Solidarity
#ShowUp tomorrow, Nov 17th at 9 am for the Bargaining Kick-Off Rally. If you ain't there, UMich won't pay fair.
Ways to #ShowUp
1) Attend the rally
2) Attend a bargaining shift bit.ly/bargsesh
AND
3) Retweet, share our message widely!
ALT Vomit emoji in center. Caption reads Show Up or Throw Up @UM's Indigestible Offers! bottom starburst reads: If you don't show up, your wages won't go up. Kick-off Rally begins 9 am @Diag. Bargaining session begins after. Bargaining begins Nov 17th.
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Your vote always counts! Less than 2% separated the two Democrat endorsed winners from the next two, both Republican endorsed. But the difference in attitudes towards MSU workers and academic freedom was 100%.
1.8 million absentee ballots in MI. MSU students lined up for hours on end, waiting to vote.
Raindrops ok roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.
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Our president has co-signed a letter addressing some of the comments made at Friday's board meeting. 🧵
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This university just dismissed me as a geographer on the TT along with 32 other professors. So apply at your own peril. This is looking more capricious every day.
75% of US faculty are contingent, and it's common for faculty at smaller colleges to teach 4-5 classes a semester + service + advising. I've done some peer reviewing, but when you're constantly searching for jobs and building debt trying to stay alive in this system, where /
is the time?
You're asking the majority of available faculty to do a service that helps 25% get better, more secure and generally higher paying jobs than most of us will ever get, and you're asking for that service for free.
In other words, you're asking /
This may be an unpopular opinion, but:
There is no reason to earn a PhD beyond personal fulfillment.
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Reproductive health care is a basic human right, and we are appalled by what occurred today. @PPact @PPofMI @mippadvocates
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Guns have no place in the classroom. We stand with March for Our Lives and are committed to making common sense gun control legislation a reality.
