#CULTURE

Melissa Ryan

MelissaRyan

.@paulfeig is absolutely right. The campaign against Ghostbusters was an ugly political campaign by gamergate/MAGA bros to hack pop culture. And it worked.https://ew.com/movies/paul-feig-trump-anti-hillary-movement-fueled-ghostbusters-backl

Riley Kane (she/they)

RKaneWrites

Ok, I've read several reviews of THE STATE OF US and with each one I just wonder more and more why someone thought that was appropriate??? And then I remember

kal

kaleaglespkr

this is an answer for an orange shirt day activity regarding residential school. as you can read here, this individual believes reconciliation starts by silencing important issues, stop talking about

Asheesh Kapur Siddique

AsheeshKSi

Ok, #AcademicTwitter, I was asked: what can tenured faculty do to help fix this crisis? Non-exhaustive list of suggestions (plz add): 1. Recognize that you are a worker in a

Gwen Starlight.

GwenStarlight

A: Political thread incoming. Giving a heads up for people who wish to avoid those. A: COVID CWOne thing this last week or so has made clear is how deeply

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

lottelydia

This article, for me, shows one of the problematic side-effects with a national culture built on banging on about “British values” all the time: nobody discussed lockdown for the U.K.

the girl in love with mothman Elle🎃

scretladyspider

Okay but maybe you were a neurodivergent kid and you developed severely unhealthy coping strategies in your formative years because you were walking on eggshells and just had to figure

⚡Yuky ||-//⚡

xd_yuky

T.W In the whole thread Mention of suicide, sexual abuse & sexual harassment.(1) To everyone who says "Always Believe The Victim":Imagine person 'A' is accusing person 'B' of sexual abuse

Radical Arab

iiHMZii

The Dangers of Arab Localism and Al-Shu’biyyah:[Thread] What is Modern Shu’biyyah?The definition of Shu’biyyah in more non-linguistic but rather more casual terms is the anti-Arabian belief. There has been two

Vicky Blake UCU President Elect 🏠STAY TF HOME💻📚

zenscara

Some thoughts on weekends, work, and trade unions (which brought us 'the weekend'!)... obvious caveat we don't all have the same work patterns, some weekend work is contractual, etc -

DisappointedIdealist

DisIdealist

Most of our national media are remarkably quiet about the #LabourLeaks report, so for those who rely for their information on such titans of forensic fact-seeking and fearless speaking-truth-to-power as

pattycore ⚢

gunggaygirl

okay but if we're gonna talk about this, here's a little thread on personal experiences/experiences of friends/former classmates with racism in the blair theatre department, particularly k*ll* *'c*nn*r who is

Abby Franquemont 🇺🇸🇵🇪

abbysyarns

So before I learned to shoot and dabbled in shooting sports, I was under the impression that police were actually well-trained with firearms and practiced regularly and all that sort

Greta LaFleur

GretaLaFleur

Ok, so I obviously fully agree that the “canon” of eighteenth-century Anglophone texts and their authors is a trash fire. But as someone who works on the C18– a field

Rania Khalek

RaniaKhalek

“The US State Department has noted a growing trend in shared disinformation narratives between China, Russia and Iran, all suggesting the U.S. has been ineffective in its response to the

Xelias ♂

AlexisM4es

One of the great misogynistic talking point as always been that women should have children, that their entire identity and purpose is to be breeding stock. It often leads to