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Brittney Cooper

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I think this is a really important op-ed from the Mellon Foundation today, doubling down on their philanthropic commitment to humanities research and encouraging universities and other foundations to do the same. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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With Humanities at Risk, How Mellon Sees Its Role (opinion)
Some may disagree with our emphasis on broadening who shapes the humanities. The real challenge to the field is the decline in overall support.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
powerful piece by @profcrunk.bsky.social on the existential threats levelled at Black women scholars, including Dr. Cooper herself "Black Feminist Waymaking Under Fascism" @feministstudies.bsky.social open access here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/434/arti...
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The thing that gets on my nerves about Graham Platner is the way folks keep being shocked that racists are very often rapists and rapists are very often racists. See also SCOTUS. See also POTUS. Racism and patriarchy are intertwined bc they are both about dominance reinforced through violence.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 09/06/2026
First day of Plait/Form at the RAGElab hosted by @profcrunk.bsky.social was amazing! I even got to try a new craft. See next post!
Photo of Plait/Form tote bag with three books Photo of program with a photo of Dr Kay Dr Kay smiling in a brown shirt Dr Kay and her bestie/co-collaborator Dr. Tillery smiling in a hotel lobby
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I have a new children’s book out. You can pick it up wherever books are sold!
Cover image of new book Mama Says I’m Fine. Pink against red backdrop with image of Black mother and daughter on the front.
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sknorc.bsky.social @sknorc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Thank you @profcrunk.bsky.social for calling out the issue underlying the scourge of mass shootings in this country. Mental health is the easy answer, and it is obviously part of the problem, but the patriarchy rotting our society from the roots has to be addressed. www.thecut.com/article/shre...
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The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’
When a man shoots his wife and children, the term you are looking for is patriarchy.
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I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos. www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c...
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The President of Rutgers continues to dismantle DEI despite the fact that we are a state school and the voters of New Jersey roundly rejected all things Trump last November. It is infuriating. He and the entire leadership team at Rutgers are all Black people btw.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I have taken up quilting. Unfortunately that puts you in proximity to sympathizers. Just this morning I told somebody “the confederacy lost,” not knowing i was right on time. As I usually am. Happy Happy indeed!
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Perfect combo here.
Post of Trump portraying the Obamas as apes

Post of Trump admin barring calling Medgar Evers' killer a "racist"
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Domination is the only thing that gives emotional meaning to having all that power. They have more money than can be spent in a million lifetimes, but money can’t buy happiness. It can buy the power to induce collective misery, which will feel something when too much money still feels like nothing.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
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Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
% Black tenure-track faculty doesn't increase--it declines between 2004 and 2024! The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Attacks on academic freedom are off the chain right now. But we are a mighty bunch when we stick together.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
She didn’t even say a disparaging word. Why are Black women the casualties of white men’s wars?
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Among the things I am thinking abt is how the left fared after Breitbart died, and after Scalia died. And wondering how things will go this time. And now going back to my fiber crafts and gardening. (I finally have some tomatoes.)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.” THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Not the children out here believing Harriet Tubman wasn’t real. Jesus, help the children.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
OK Y’all. 2 yrs ago I uploaded a pdf to Notebook LM, a Google AI that could convert pdfs into notes. Today I learned it has an audio feature where it will generate a “podcast” of two people talking about the article. I am now listening to a “podcast” abt the article I uploaded in 2yrs ago. WILD!
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
How somebody gonna protect the homeland when they can’t watch their purse at dinner? Also who carries 3 stacks to dinner?! WTF.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A bunch of women rode a hitachi magic wand to space and that is literally the only useful purpose for a hitachi. So I feel like that should be the convo.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
wordinblack.com/2025/04/tari...
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Tariffs Are Crushing Black Women, Advocate Warns
Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are causing significant economic hardship for working women, particularly lower-income Black women.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Form Wendy Brown’s “Resisting Left Melancholy”: “But left melancholy is Benjamin's unambivalent epithet for the revolutionary hack who is…attached more to a particular political analysis or ideal-even to the failure of that ideal-than to seizing possibilities for radical change in the present.”
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
it is so deeply gratifying that Elon Musk stumbled upon a race that he'd never heard of before in a state he was probably only vaguely familiar with, made it his whole personality for a month, claimed that western civilization was on the line, committed felonies, spent millions, and FUCKING LOST
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Really jarring reading this piece at The Guardian abt the ICE Detention Center in Jena Louisiana where Mahmoud Khalil is being held, and thinking abt my genesis as an activist 18 years ago in Jena, when my fellow PhD students and I chaperoned a bus of Emory undergrads to the Jena 6 protests.
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‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish
Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
To the conversation about “exiled academics” I would just say some of us academics of a darker hue definitely pointed out that a lot of the radical academic set would flee the minute things got bad.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Conversation is excellent! stateofthepeople.media
stateofthepeople.media
State of the People | 24 Hour Marathon
The State of the People is a 24-hour livestream where we will center the truth for the people instead of letting disinformation go unchecked.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Same. I’ll be joining these folks tomorrow at 4pm.
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Counterprogramming in response to the Orange menace’s address tomorrow.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Democrats should boycott the State of the Union. Democrats keep calling this man a unique and dangerous threat, but never ACT like it. For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
The Democrats Should Boycott Trump’s Speech to Congress This Week
Refusing to attend the speech would be the first indication that Democrats are not just playing politics—and playing them badly—but resisting.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I miss the days when billionaire vanity projects were, like, commissioning nude sculptures and buying sports teams… instead buying every means of communication we can think of
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
There is just no end to this elite capture of the news media and use of it to seed their intellectually vacuous, fundamentally corrupt failing neoliberalist ideology. This shit sickens me. Free markets don’t free anybody but the white boys who have been free forever. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
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Washington Post Opinion Editor Exits as Bezos Steers Pages in New Direction
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#WeNeedJoy #TVOff I am just sending a personal note of thanks to Joy, for always being a great supporter of my work and career and for consistently bringing excellent news coverage and commentary and doing so with integrity.
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‘aesthetically terrifying’ @aruss-updates.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
@profcrunk.bsky.social on a Banned for Life panel in Brooklyn noting w/ attacks on the federal level, we need to be local—when states rights have never been our friend. Also on the panel: @toure.bsky.social, @elienyc.bsky.social, @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social (by video) & @drjasonjohnson.bsky.social
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Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Homework or debate team practice. Or riding around with my teammates in my friend’s 1993 aqua green Honda Accord. And you?
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/02/2025
If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE
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