🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 | he/they | Asst Prof @VillanovaU | PhD from @GC_CUNY @JohnJayCJPhD | Queer/feminist/critical criminologist
Brooklyn, NY
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finally escaped to the new place, trying to reassemble my list of contacts! anyway I’m maxosb on there
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feels like the consequence of an unfortunate current trend toward conflating an author's writing about harm/abuse with personally endorsing that behavior in real life -- googling writers to find evidence of whether it's morally "acceptable" for them to write about certain topics
back in April Bookforum published a review of Lucas Rijneveld's "My Heavenly Favorite" where the reviewer discussed the trans author's birth assignment at great length, as though it provided moral/artistic justification for the subject. I disliked this!
thechatner.com/p/my-first-le…
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that would be absurd even by itself (I thought we were all familiar with "death of the author" at this point?), but the implication that it's only ethically permissible for a man to write about sexual abuse if he's trans (read: "really" a girl and/or a victim) is really gross
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Max Osborn retweeted
Linda Tirado was shot in the eye with "nonlethal ammunition" while working as a journalist during the Floyd protests. The resulting traumatic brain injury to her left frontal lobe has caused her body to forget how to operate her organs. She's dying, and that cop killed her.
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Max Osborn retweeted
THREAD. The New York Times just published a diary entry about the moment a liberal realized he was a fascist. It's very very weird.
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The results are in, the members of the American Sociological Association have spoken:
THE ASA MEMBER RESOLUTION FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE HAS PASSED!!! 🇵🇸❤️
We are so deeply grateful for you all. Onwards to a free Palestine!
Max Osborn retweeted
So far, 6 Clayton County Jail detainees have died this year, more than in all of 2023. One man, Eric Lee, was held on a $1500 bond on a shoplifting charge. He only had 25 cents for a $3.29 coffee. A report from the sheriff's office states he was homeless.
Less than five months into 2024, deaths at the Clayton County Jail in the Atlanta suburbs have already surpassed last year’s total. The local sheriff’s lack of transparency has only compounded the pain for grieving families. @elizabethweill reports: theappeal.org/clayton-county…
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Committing myself to voice work again and dying at this example of a masculine perceived phrase
ALT Text in a book that reads Masculine-perceived voices tend to create emphasis in a phrase with changes in volume and rhythm, but not pitch. A quick, loud word in the middle of a sentence cues the listener to follow the emphasis of the speaker. Example of a masculine-perceived phrase with enthusiastic emphasis: Dude. This is awesome. Check out that huge bee.
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I can confirm from speaking with defense lawyers that arrested CUNY students have been charged with burglary in the 3d degree while Columbia students are getting misdemeanors. For the exact same behavior. From the same DA's office.
Pretty glaring example of disparate treatment.
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If they took like 1/10th of the money being used to pay police officers to arrest 60 year-old professors and department chairs, and used that to help students pay for college, that would radically change the lives of an entire generation.
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Sure, it sucks to miss a graduation ceremony. I missed my PhD graduation ceremony because of COVID. But you know what sucks way more? Not being able to go to college and graduate at all because the government couldn’t even do the bare minimum to help students.
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As the media breathlessly reports on every graduation ceremony disrupted by protesters, just a reminder that FAFSA was botched so badly this year that experts are predicting a “catastrophic” decline in college enrollment.
Pay attention to who is actually being “disruptive.”
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NEW:
A frontline account, minute by minute, from two journalists inside Columbia, during the NYPD’s ‘dystopian’ nighttime raid on Columbia student protesters.
hellgatenyc.com/nypd-raid-co…
Max Osborn retweeted
At least 20 of Biden admin’s own lawyers say military aid to Israel is illegal.
Blinken has until May 8 to report findings about whether Israel has complied with US and international humanitarian law — via @JGedeon1 politico.com/news/2024/04/29…
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#Sociology folks, if the reason you hesitate to say yes on @Soc4Pal’s resolution is that you don’t know enough - here is a folder chock full of resources on colonialism generally and Palestine in particular!
drive.google.com/drive/folde…