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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@alexanderchee.bsky.social is 100% correct! Women faculty of color in particular end up shouldering all the labor bc of the so-called restructuring (speaking from experience of having been Chair with minimal - nonexistent admin support).

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

From off-Broadway play "Gloria: A Life" GLORIA: “The truth is, I learned feminism from black women.” FLO: “But if you Google Second Wave Feminism—there’s not one reference on the Wikipedia page to a black feminist." The play names 11 Black women. #BlackSky www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/...

screenshot of article titled "11 Black Women Who Helped Shape Gloria Steinem & The Second Wave Feminist Movement".
There is a collage of Gloria Steinem with Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a Black woman who cofounded Ms. magazine with Steinem but who is hardly ever mentioned. She is wearing an afro in photo with Gloria Steinem and they have raised fists, the Black Power gesture. Other African American women include Shirley Chisolm, Flo Kennedy, Aileen Hernandez, Fannie Lou Hamer, Pauli Murray, Audre Lorde

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AAUP @aaup.org · 03/09/2026

“Weaponizing the IRS to attack colleges & universities that uphold & expand civil rights is outrageous. This is blatantly racist political coercion intended to deny minority students reparative opportunities to further their education.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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Schools Giving Aid to Minority Students Could Lose Tax Exemptions Under Trump’s New Rules

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our friends Sharon and Bert Smith gifted us the lyrical and deeply moving memoirs of Jason Allen-Paisant, “The Possibility of Tenderness. A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams” and every page has been marked up.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mochi is showing off her Sealey Challenge pile. August was a special month of reading poetry with our sweet puppy at the break of dawn when she wakes me up. New favorites included @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Jake Skeets, Kevin Young, Lee Seong-bok, Su Cho, Gbenga Adesina etc.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Universities do not represent the interests of professors, who are their rank-and-file labor force, except incidentally. A university is not a coven of professors, much though I wish that were the case.

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Read nothing else about the case but read this please. Allen’s brilliantly calls it like it is like all of us who are not born white experience “success”. #arday

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The Machine That Came for Jason Arday

It wasn't a scandal but a machine—funded, transatlantic, and still running.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My puppy Mochi and I reread aeheelee.bsky.social’s Connotary for the Sealey Challenge and learned about her 2024 volume Asterism: Poems, which we just ordered! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDxut9xA We are one day behind but Mochi insists on consuming each poem slowly (lots of naps btw poems)😃

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“For most of my life, I slept/by the music of sand dunes/ shifting yearlong. But today I/wake up, spot a snowflake/ melting into the window’s glass./ I think I’ll never grasp the true/ width of the wo...

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sealey Challenge Day 17 (late as usual) My puppy and I read Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil which really resonated with us. We still have a pile of volumes to consume together! Suggestions welcome. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDBdKHar/

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Ilulissat “I thought I understood summer for example— the season of fruit and firefly glow—but I never knew it with the midnight sun on my face. Now I know summer as polka dots of sunburst lichen— lik...

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As the mom of an autistic boy and as Black public scholar I am broken about what has been done Jason Arday and his family. And the thing is that now that they know they can actually kill us with words, they won’t stop. #blackacademia #arday #autism

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SuntoadCowboy @suntoadcowboy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

No one should be homeless. No one should have to live in their car, be rationing rescue inhalers & disabled. No one should be all alone w/o support. Please share this info for my friend Désirée ! If you can give to her, it would mean the world! ❤️‍🩹🫂🍀 V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund. me/ f6b181f3d

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Our puppy really enjoyed “consuming” @chenchenwrites.bsky.social’s volume “When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities” during our Sealey Challenge month!❤️❤️❤️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDjPwfdP/

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“Dreaming of one day being as fearless as a mango. As friendly as a tomato. Merciless to chin & shirtfront. Realizing I hate the word “sip.” But that’s all I do. I drink. So slowly. & say I’...

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Dewey-Burdock project — spanning nearly 20 square miles in southwestern South Dakota— secured the last of its necessary federal permits for a uranium mining project last month. There is substantial opposition from Native & environmental organizations. ictnews.org/news/company...

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Company proposing Black Hills uranium mine eyes state permitting restart after 13-year pause - ICT

The Oglala Sioux Tribe and NDN Collective, a Rapid City-based Indigenous advocacy group, have also opposed the project, citing concerns about potential impacts to historic and cultural sites in the Bl...

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

fascism treats disabled homeless poor immigrant women of color like me as expendable. please be the exception. thankful for any and all shares.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/04/2026

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Page 1 of a legal Judgment document from the United States District Court, District of Oregon for Case No. 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on 04/18/26. The plaintiffs are listed as "STATE OF OREGON, et al.," and the defendants are "ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, et al." The document is from United States District Judge Kasubhai. It outlines that final judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiffs on Counts I, II, III, and IV. Item 3 states the Court holds unlawful, sets aside, and vacates the "Declaration of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services RE: Safety, Effectiveness and Professional Standards of Care for Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children and Adolescents".

Page 2 of a legal judgment document for Case 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on April 18, 2026. The text outlines a court order declaring that defendants lack the authority to unilaterally establish standards of care that supersede professionally recognized standards for gender-affirming care in the Plaintiff States. It permanently enjoins defendants and their agents, including the HHS-OIG, from enforcing the "Kennedy Declaration" against providers in those states. The document is dated April 18, 2026, and is signed by United States District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In these terrible times it is comforting to know that my grand puppy thinks that she’s a book.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

As a reader, I’ve surpassed the point of being like “Sarah Schulman’s new book is one of her best yet” to wanting to buy a box of copies and start mailing it to people. And I deeply, deeply hate having to put things in the mail. This book is about why solidarity is so difficult and so necessary.

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The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

Check out The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity - <b>From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime social activist and outspoken critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examinati...

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Jeju citizens awaiting execution during the Jeju uprising, 3 April 1948. Defiant faces.

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Calling all killjoys in Boston, NYC, Philly and DC. Come along and say no loudly and together to the abusers and the harassers and the fascists and the systems they create that create them 🔥🔥

Poster in purple with black writing giving details of Sara Ahmed’s book tour in the US

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Native photographer Travis Novitsky's talk, "Finding Home Among the Stars," sponsored by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters. Also see his book: The Night Sky, Indigenous Knowledge, and Living Connections to the Cosmos. shop.mnhs.org/products/spi... www.facebook.com/share/v/1D7U...

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Carol F @cfpdx.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Today, 5 years ago, 8 people lost their lives during the Atlanta Spa Shooting. Remember the names of the victims: Daoyou Feng, 44 Hyun Jung Grant, 51 Suncha Kim, 69 Paul Andre Michels, 54 Soon Chung Park, 74 Xiaojie Tan, 49 Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33 Yong Ae Yue, 63 www.11alive.com/article/news...

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Community marks 5 years since metro Atlanta spa shootings

The conversation at Gas South Theater was about remembrance, and also how to heal and be stronger moving forward.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A pleasurable evening following Prof, @drsamischalk.bsky.social’s brilliant and inspiring Mandel lecture on “Pleasures of Process and Product in Collaborative Artwork.” I especially enjoyed her sumptuous Bridgerton-themed queer photoshoot images!!😍🥰❤️

Photo of Keridwen Luis in gray shawl and glasses, ChaeRan Freeze in a plain white top, Brandon Callender in a white T and dark cardigan, Shoniqua Roach in a baby pink blouse with puffy sleeves, Faith Smith in a black tank top outfit, Esha Senchaudhuri in a dress with an burnt sienna cardigan, and Sami Schalk in a long-sleeve green dress. They are posing around a wooden restaurant table. There is a bright art piece behind them with green, yellow, and orange fish tails against an aqua-blue background.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack

No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I can’t move past the horrific bombing of the Iranian girls’ school and the immense suffering of their families. My heart aches for them.

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attila @haqistan.net · 27/02/2026

Step up for Désirée. Send her cash. Think on her and read her stuff, it's worth your time. 💕💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost #BIPOCMA

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 27/02/2026

Over 17 THOUSAND people of the Korean #adoptee diaspora in the US, spanning the entire period up to its inception 70 years ago, lack US citizenship because of their adopters’ inaction. americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

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More than 17k Korean Adoptees in US Lack Citizenship. Most Live in Minnesota.

For the more than 15,000 Korean adoptees in Minnesota who lack citizenship, recent immigration raids have caused immense fear and anxiety.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Due to our recent blizzard, flights have been cancelled. I’ll post an update about Prof. Patricia Hill’s lecture as soon as we reschedule it.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

May American lawmakers and courts heed South Korea’s example of dealing with insurrectionists.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Prof. Patricia Hill Collins will deliver the annual WGS Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture, "Black Women's Intellectual Activism, Social Justice, and Radical Hope." This was the last event that I organized with Faith Smith before I stepped down as Chair so it feels extra special. I cannot believe it!!😍

A purple poster with a photograph of Prof. Patricia Hill Collins wearing a hot pink top with a colorful necklace.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Join us for three amazing events on queer crip pleasure, art, and activism with @drsamischalk.bsky.social, our speaker for the prestigious Mandel Lecture in the Humanities.

Orange poster with a photograph of Sami Schalk with a beautiful smile (gorgeous red lipstick), fashionable glasses, and colorful half donut circle earrings, wearing a yellow top.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The Brandeis University Legal Studies and Environmental Studies Programs invite applications for the Madeleine Haas Russell Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous and Environmental Law, a two-year appointment starting in Fall 2026. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/315...

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Brandeis University, Legal Studies and Environmental Studies

Job #AJO31593, Madeleine Haas Russell Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous and Environmental Law, Legal Studies and Environmental Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

tomorrow, Lunar New Year, i go to a mechanic to see what is wrong with—and how to fix—car’s heat that runs cold. sub-zero temps still. please boost my fundraiser so i can afford repairs and stay warm. this is urgent. v SNDesiree c $SNDesiree gofund.me/4c2c43b67

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Donate to Help First Gen Immigrant Get Documents, Survive Homelessness, organized by Sam Dylan Finch

Dear community, The story of what my friend has endured i… Sam Dylan Finch needs your support for Help First Gen Immigrant Get Documents, Survive Homelessness

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department

Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.

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ChaeRan Yoo Freeze @chaeranyoofreeze.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Give Bad Bunny the Nobel Peace Prize already!❤️

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

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