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spooki•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…

"Violence" in Social Movements • 111
They Will Call You Violent
If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because "violence" is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent.
Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of im-prisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to "peaceful protest," they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

““Burnout is also never just about burnout. Collectively & individually, our nervous systems are overtaxed by continuous crises & denial of how much violence we’re facing. Intervening into burnout, therefore, can involve actions like blocking institutional harm or moving from denial to recognition.”

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“Intervening into Burnout: An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.” → youtu.be/w26WpyJH4kA?... This is the last (for now) in the career discernment playlist, sharing in audio form articles previously published in Inside Higher Ed. This one appeared on July 7, 2023. I argue: +

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Intervening into Burnout: An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We’re just a week away from the summer writing group! If you’ve been curious about or wanting to join a #writinggroup, maybe now is the time? There are still spaces to join us on Fridays 10am-1pm ET: heart-head-hands.com/product/onli...

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Writing Group: Meets Weekly Online | Heart - Head - Hands

If you’re seeking accountability and support for your writing, consider joining this online weekly writing group.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I've been writing and sharing poetry more since Helene, because sometimes all I feel are the same lines welling up again and again. Here’s one of those poems. And so much gratitude for each of you writing and finding ways forward in (m)any shapes and ways. <3

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

In this season of life, collective interventions feel more important than ever. I hope this article resonates where it's needed. Link to listen via YouTube: youtu.be/hoEJJbTJxJ8?...

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Honoring Ourselves & Each Other Through Burnout: An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

To this day, I wish we'd use the language of "burn up" instead of "burn out," since burnout is really about the oppressive systems burning us up. But, alas, here is a new read-aloud of my article from 2022 about how burnout/-up is a collective experience and needs collective intervention as well. +

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This mural in Raleigh shows writing out in the world with the text "There is beauty in the mundane" & "slow down and look inwards," alongside street signs, stickers, & the alphabet written in the upper right-hand corner. Wishes for #creating and #writing in many ways, in the midst of everyday life.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

With this longing to write, I want to share again that there are upcoming writing retreats this Friday and back-to-back Wednesday and Thursday next week: heart-head-hands.com/product/writ... Summer writing groups are also starting soon: heart-head-hands.com/product/onli...

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Writing Retreats: Moving Projects Forward | Heart - Head - Hands

These writing retreats are for prioritizing writing time, receiving support for current writing projects, and moving projects forward.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

May always feels like a time for recommitting -- recommitting to creative work, to writing projects (especially those set aside), and to ourselves and the people we write with and for. There's an invitation to start again as spring is in full bloom and the promise of summer awaits. +

This photo, a mural in downtown Raleigh (from my recent visit to Candace Epps-Robertson) shows writing out in the world --> a combination of eyes, plants, and a butterfly, along with the text: "There is beauty in the mundane" and "slow down and look inwards." The colorful mural by @nadasink sits alongside street signs, stickers, and the alphabet written in the upper right-hand corner.

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Israel is starving and bombing Palestinians to wipe Gaza off the map. Now more than ever, Americans must speak out against Israel’s genocide. Call your lawmakers. Demand an arms embargo. Don’t stay silent.

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Americans have tuned out Gaza at the worst possible moment

Israel has a horrifying new plan for “the concluding moves” of the Gaza war. Yet it’s flying under the American radar.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I hope these read-alouds support ongoing career discernment, and I'm here for one-with-one coaching. Reach out anytime. <3 #mayday #careerdiscernment #highered #leavingacademe

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This piece shares three common responses to my news of leaving academia: 1. “Good for you. I wish I could leave.” 2. “You’re so brave.” 3. “That’s a really big decision. Will you be ok?” I also share my emotional reactions and processing around these responses, which truly surprised me.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

For May Day and International Workers Day, I want to share the career discernment article "What I Learned as I Was Leaving." Here's a new read-aloud of this article previously published in Inside Higher Ed: youtu.be/rWoDKJa3-qs?...

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What I Learned as I Was Leaving: An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is the article I've long needed as an educator saying "no!" to presumed neutrality and the push to hear "all sides." It's published in Diverse Issues in Higher Education and by writing group member Alice Ragland (congrats, Alice!).

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I'm so grateful for Alice Ragland writing and sharing "Not All Opinions Deserve a Microphone in the Classroom": www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/arti...

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Not All Opinions Deserve a Microphone in the Classroom

We should be teaching students how to evaluate evidence, not how to politely entertain lies.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thanks again for the many ways of striving to show up, lift each other, and affirm all that we love. Continued wishes -- truly, casting spells with our words, ways, and wills -- for protection and provision.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Part of how I manage my emotions around endings is reminding myself of what continues and will begin again. So, I'll share that registration is now open for summer writing groups (Fridays 10am-1pm ET): heart-head-hands.com/product/onli... +

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Writing Group: Meets Weekly Online | Heart - Head - Hands

If you’re seeking accountability and support for your writing, consider joining this online weekly writing group.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Many weeks, I kept the hardest tasks (oftentimes less my core writing and more the things I was avoiding or resistant to) until our group time because I knew I could work on them when surrounded by others who care. +

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Being together has created space for naming and relating and processing and inspiring and grounding and firing-up and making life possible. +

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I'm emotional as writing groups are ending this week, surely because these past few months have been such a brutalizing time and because the people and community co-created have meant the world to me. +

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 20/04/2025

Not even the dead are safe in Gaza. Palestinians fear Israel has bulldozed Gaza’s largest cemetery—erasing generations, even in death. Graves destroyed. Bones scattered. This is not war. It’s genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...

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Palestinians fear Gaza’s largest cemetery has been destroyed. Not even our dead can have peace.

Al-Sharqiya Cemetery, near Gaza City, is the largest cemetery in Gaza. It has been inaccessible since the genocide began and many fear it has been bulldozed and destroyed, along with the remains of…

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

While taking in this administration’s actions, as anyone who has ever been bullied knows all too well, just because they are using intimidation tactics, threatening, being abusive, harmful, or exerting oppression, this does not at all mean that they have prevailed. It just means they are bullies.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I am repeating to myself often "give it to the water" and imagining that I can pour out and offer up what I can't carry alone. Here's a view of Beaver Lake on a recent evening walk. I am so grateful to live here, near water and surrounded by mountains. Sending love on this spring weekend. <3

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Consider listening to this past article. Check out the YouTube playlist on career discernment. And reach out for coaching anytime.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I also discuss logistical, financial, emotional, and relational matters because planning a career move involves considering nitty-gritty details in addition to the big questions of career discernment. +

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

In this piece, I share stories of re-orientating myself through counseling, allowing myself time to grieve, and experiencing a concussion as the physical manifestation of the mental exhaustion that motivated my decision to leave. +

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This new read-aloud shares the article “Planning to Leave?" which was published in Inside Higher Ed (IHE) back in 2018: youtu.be/h2AzR8xsq6g?...

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Planning to Leave? An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The U.S. pays 17,900,000,000 in federal tax dollars for the Israeli military’s weapons, but could instead fund:

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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Across higher ed, “I have never seen a climate of fear like this in my life" Todd Wolfson & @chenjerai.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social tell me. "But I’m seeing something else too... that fear is turning into anger & that anger is turning into action" Listen to our vital conversation @therealnews.com

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‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universities

by Maximillian Alvarez
April 11, 2025

“I have never seen a climate of fear like this in my life anywhere. We’re getting hundreds of emails every single day from faculty, staff, and students [saying], ‘I need a safe place to stay.’”

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Check out the post for some grounding prompts and reading resources. And thanks to Candace Epps-Robertson, Ph.D. of Full Circle Writing, LLC for gifting the accompanying photo of a handwritten sign that asserts: “Courage is contagious!”

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

When I recognize fear, then I can remind myself that it’s a friend and an invitation to root deeper into courage. I can cozy up to fears, asking: What is scary? What parts of me are scared? What parts of me know what to do when scared? How do I make decisions and take action when scared? +

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

These days I find myself experiencing fear or saying “so much is scary.” So much is! There’s so much injustice. What and who we care about are being attacked, fired, dismantled, criminalized, disappeared, abducted, deported, cut, killed. The language isn’t strong enough. The fear is ever-present.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 04/04/2025

Watch the full conversation between @blackquantum.bsky.social & Fred Moten, talking about Dismantling the Master's Clock here www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdR-.... Thanks to the legendary @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for this meeting of minds! Purchase your copy at www.akpress.org/dismantling-... 5/5

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CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Rasheedah Phillips with Fred Moten

AK Press and City Lights celebrate the publication of Dismantling the Master’s Clock On Race, Space, and Time By Rasheedah Phillips Published by AK Press Pur...

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NPR @npr.org · 03/04/2025

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

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Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

My weekly curated list of must-reads and some final thoughts for the week. "I believe we can do better. I see better every day in the decency of people who choose to act, defy authority, and care for each other. I know we can amplify that spirit and create more safety and justice in this world."

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Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on the Consequences of Trying

I believe in our potential and creativity, even in the face of the mess this country has made.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2025

ICE has already moved Rumeysa Ozturk to Louisiana in violation of a court order signed last night ordering her not to be removed from Massachusetts. This is rendition to avoid legal process and to torture detainees in Louisiana. apnews.com/article/tuft...

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Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

A lawyer for a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We hope the piece will reach others in our discipline of writing studies, where we have been shaped and feel responsibility. We hope, too, that it may reach beyond the field to other academics seeking to counter epistemic injustice and to all of us learning & longing to practice accountability. <3

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The article arises from longings: longings for accountability rooted in loving relationship; longings for unlearning and liberating from interlocking oppressions; longings for recognizing, reckoning, and redressing wrongs; and longings for being accountable in our work as scholars and educators.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

With gratitude, I share a new article: “‘Because We’re Going to Mess Up’: Practices for Accountability—Not a Piecemeal Approach” co-authored with Rasha Diab and published in CCC. Here's a post sharing more about the article, including how to get a copy: heart-head-hands.com/new-article-...

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New Article: “Because We’re Going to Mess Up”: Practices for Accountability—Not a Piecemeal Approach | Heart - Head - Hands

This post shares a new article: “‘Because We’re Going to Mess Up’: Practices for Accountability—Not a Piecemeal Approach” (with Rasha Diab).

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

So, on this equinox, I hope that we can show up with tired eyes and sharp teeth. Toward more witchy words + ways + wills. Strong-willed commitments to justice and fiercely loving relations. More calling, co-signing, petitioning, resisting, creating, outcrying, +++

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It's the spring equinox, and I want to send blessings on this day of new beginnings. But I've also been struggling. Collectively, there's so much violence & so much heartbreaking. I'm full of rage and certainly cursing a lot. Personally, I'm trying to say hard things & to stay with hard emotions. +

Photo shows me with tired eyes and sharp teeth, near a small lake surrounded by mountains. Some trees have red buds, and some pops of green appear against the mostly brown landscape.

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Wishes for continued intervention + recognition of both/and + protection and provision from every direction. <3

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In one of today's emails, a friend-and-colleague shared nature photos, and these gave me the chance to take a deep breath before plunging back in. So here are some photos from recent walks and the reminder that there's beauty in the world too. +

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It really matters whenever others acknowledge the incredible violence -- from disappearances to bombings, from firings to genocide. It really matters whenever there are attempts to connect, to reach out and relate despite / because of it all. +

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Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her) @bethgodbee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I've found myself writing today about what times we're living and writing and attempting to intervene in! There's so much day to day ... and I'm finding myself so grateful for each person in my life, each bit of correspondence. +

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

ALL EYES ON PALESTINE: The Israeli military is resuming its all-out assault on Palestinian families in Gaza, drastically escalating its violations of the ceasefire, killing and wounding hundreds.

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