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About that trauma that lives in the body…
Content Warning: PTSD in real life, abortion on TV, sexual assault on TV, same-sex intimate partner violence on TV . . . . When I was 18 or 19 years old (1998ish), I was an undergraduate teaching assistant for an introduction to women’s studies course at UMass Dartmouth. The class was held in the Women’s… →
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Subcultural #HERStory matters.
Subcultural #HERStory matters. I thought I’d share just a slice of the #graffitigrrl herstory I share in my book for Women’s History Month. →
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An Open Letter to POC at SUNY New Paltz
An Open Letter to POC at SUNY New Paltz →
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Solidarity Does Not Require Sameness #WomensMarch
there has always been and will always be controversy and conflict in coalition. →
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Go Back to Puerto Rico?!
(Originally a Tweet thread. Posted here because not everyone is on Twitter): The #GoBacktoPuertoRico comment, response, and reporting has my blood boiling and heart hurting. A thread on the comments and why this moment is important for #Latinx solidarity across geographical/racial/ethnic difference. I am raging at @RepJasonSmith specifically, and the #GOP generally (perpetually) b/c of… →
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Indelible in Our Collective Hippocampus is Her Testimony: Performing Feminism after Kavanaugh’s Confirmation
Lilith, the collective street artists responsible for spray painting Blasey Ford’s testimony at Yale, speak out. →
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When the Grrlz show Me Love!
This will be quick. I had to put my beloved 18 year old cat to sleep on Saturday, so I have been in a very sad place. Then today, I was tagged in a Facebook post by the Girls on Top. And instead of sad tears, I got to shed some happy ones. <3 They stenciled… →
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Why I use Digital Pedagogies: a not-quite manifesto on teaching in the age of digital feminist movement.
For better or for worse, feminist ideologies, representations, and actions are now widely circulated online and my job is to prepare students to be leaders of our collective feminist future. I firmly believe that we must train our students to wield the tools in the digital sphere as weapons for revolutionary decolonial social justice projects. →
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A Collective Response to Racism in Academia
A collective of women, gender non-binary, and Indigenous faculty of color across institutions and disciplines wrote a response to the recent Chronicle of Higher Education survey on racism in academia. Here is the link to our letter. View at Medium.com We ask that if you are on twitter, please share your thoughts/retweet/etc and tag Chronicle… →
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The Crisis in Puerto Rico is a Feminist Issue.
My girl Anita, of Feminist Frequency, invited me to leave a message on her Feminist Answering Machine. I was originally going to post about my #fortify collective self care project, but couldn’t focus on anything except for the crisis in Puerto Rico. Since the hurricane hit I’ve been waiting and waiting for some kind of… →
Jessica N. Pabón, PhD 