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Sean Whitten

@seanwhitten.bsky.social
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
little introspection— “…cost of collecting it in rooms that weren't always built to let me rise, in choices I made that didn't always push me toward rising either, and in a family that carried more of my ambition than I ever asked them to...” Read in full: seanwhitten.substack.com/p/the-tree-i...
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The Tree I Built to Answer a Question I Was Afraid to Ask
On skill, doubt, and the parts of a career that are actually mine to own
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
2026 completed reads started off 🔥
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Incredibly depressed. Missing my friends. Hard, but have to keep boundaries on my born family. And *gestures to everything* all this sucks. so ya idk why I put all this here on internet prolly just need to get off my phone
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
He ain’t lyin’
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TADOHE @tadohe.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🌟 The October @TADOHE Newsletter is live! 🌟 Inside: ✨ Honoring Assata & #IndigenousPeoplesDay 🤝 Standing with #TexasDreamers alongside IDRA &TxILC 🎙️ TADOHE Talks is Back! Join us on Nov. 6 at 6pm 💬 Share your voice to shape our future Read more 👉 mailchi.mp/tadohe/octob... #HigherEd #TADOHE
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Happy to be part of an org like @tadohe.bsky.social that celebrates the diversity of our country, our region, and our state. Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth and a happy Independence Day to Costa Rica🇨🇷, El Salvador🇸🇻, Guatemala🇬🇹, Honduras🇭🇳, and Nicaragua🇳🇮! #OrgulloHispano #VivaLaCultura
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Call Campaign: Thank Texas Democrats for Breaking Quorum ak.democrats.org/call/2025080...
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Call Campaign: Thank Texas Democrats for Breaking Quorum
On Sunday, Texas Democrats broke quorum to stop the clock on a dangerous, racially motivated gerrymander. While Governor Greg Abbott is still denying essential disaster relief for the families affecte...
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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Only Black people are expected to forget their history. All others are encouraged to preserve it.
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“…I believe that somebody real has blinded America in at least one eye. And, in the same way so many Americans feel that "we have ‘lost’ our jobs," we suspect that we have lost our country. We know that we do not speak the language. and I ask you: well, what are we going to do about it?” —J. Jordan
If you choose, you can consider this desperation a minority problem in America, today, and then try to forget about it. But I believe this invisibility and this silence of the real and various peoples of our country is a political situation of language that every one of us must move against, because our
lives depend on it. I believe we will have to eliminate the passive voice from our democracy. We will have to drown out the official language of the powerful with our our mighty and conficting voices or we will perish as a people. Until we can tell our children that the powerful people are the children, themselves, then l do not see why we should expect our children to read or write anything Until we can tell our children that truth is the purpose of our American language, and that the truth is what they know and feel and need, then I believe our children will continue to act as though the truth is just something that will get you into trouble. I believe that somebody real has blinded America in at least one eye.
And, in the same way that so many Americans feel that "we have lost our jobs," we suspect that we have lost our country.
We know that we do not speak the language.
And I ask you: well, what are we going to do about it?
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“…I believe that somebody real has blinded America in at least one eye. And, in the same way so many Americans feel that "we have ‘lost’ our jobs," we suspect that we have lost our country. We know that we do not speak the language. and I ask you: well, what are we going to do about it?” —J. Jordan
If you choose, you can consider this desperation a minority problem in America, today, and then try to forget about it. But I believe this invisibility and this silence of the real and various peoples of our country is a political situation of language that every one of us must move against, because our
lives depend on it. I believe we will have to eliminate the passive voice from our democracy. We will have to drown out the official language of the powerful with our our mighty and conficting voices or we will perish as a people. Until we can tell our children that the powerful people are the children, themselves, then l do not see why we should expect our children to read or write anything Until we can tell our children that truth is the purpose of our American language, and that the truth is what they know and feel and need, then I believe our children will continue to act as though the truth is just something that will get you into trouble. I believe that somebody real has blinded America in at least one eye.
And, in the same way that so many Americans feel that "we have lost our jobs," we suspect that we have lost our country.
We know that we do not speak the language.
And I ask you: well, what are we going to do about it?
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“…more and more of the people of this democracy will become the powerless. As long as we have an economic system protected by the state rather than state protection against economic vagaries and depredations, then your and my welfare become expendable considerations.”—June Jordan
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2025
Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs. “You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.” “John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
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Michelle Appel @msappel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Huge blow to the IR community - AIR was informed that their contract to provide free IPEDS training has been cancelled. An update on AIR's IPEDS Training Program www.linkedin.com/pulse/update...
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An update on AIR's IPEDS Training Program
AIR has received official confirmation that our subcontract for the IPEDS training program will not be renewed for the 2025–26 data collection cycle. This news is deeply disappointing.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The figures from this are very dope because they split institutions by whether they reported previously considering race in admissions and you see a clear difference. The share of students who are Black in 2024, at institutions that previously used race, is the lowest it's been in a decade.
Screenshot from article of figure showing the share of first-year Black students at select colleges & universities. This graph shows the percentage of first-year Black students in 116 schools analyzed by CBS News from fall 2015 to fall 2024. It shows that the trend in share of Black students for all institutions drops slightly in 2024 but that is being driven by institutions that used to consider race in admissions, which had a sizeable drop. In fact, the share of students who are Black for institutions that used to consider race is the lowest it's been in a decade in 2024.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Been helping the folks at CBS news think through admissions data in a post-sffa world. They collected the largest dataset so far of uni's fall 2024 enrollment by race (and standardized it). Caveat caveat caveat, the clearest trend is: www.cbsnews.com/news/college...
Screenshot from article that reads: Black students experienced perhaps the most significant one-year shift. At the 76 schools that previously considered race in admission but no longer do, the average share of Black students dropped from 6.4% in fall 2023 to 5.3% in fall 2024, the lowest level in the data collected since at least 2015.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is how white supremacist narratives work. This claim has been litigated repeatedly and proven to be NOT TRUE. But they “feel it.” You can’t disprove it. The Lost Cause. Reverse Discrimination. Welfare Queens. The whole thing survives on myths. www.yahoo.com/news/vice-pr...
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Vice President JD Vance says universities are racially discriminating against whites and Asians
Vance’s claims about racial “discrimination” on college campuses come as the Trump administration escalates its political battles with universities over
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 18/05/2025
I cannot stress enough how happy this makes my spirit. The joy that comes from seeing Black people upend expectations and chart new paths is hard to articulate. #Sinners
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Hey @wnba.com what we doing bout this?! No Space for Hate, right?! #WNBA
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
58 points to start 2025 season…
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a man in a suit is sitting in a car and the word bro is on his face
Alt: a man in a suit is sitting in a car and the word saying “bro, that’s a bad look”
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Issues I’ve seen from #SkyTown today: The Sky are not using the rebounding strength we have in the quick O that we are playing Kamilla struggled with Boston (who is demolishing us) Defense is not staying disciplined Refs are making some interesting choices Gotta adjust better as game moves…
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
GAMMEEEEEDAYYYYY
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
#WNBA Season starts today!!! #VoltUp #SkyTown
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Of course. Special shoutout to my colleagues who thought "diversity had gone too far," especially the ones who pretended that diversity statements were oppression.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This kicker is the whole ball game. This is why we cannot rely solely on talking about the ROI of universities to explain its value. Why we have to actually talk about the ways higher ed can be an active force for cultural uplift. That integration is one of the raisons d'être of US higher ed.
Screenshot of article that reads: Some say this moment will pass. That we’ll swing back. But pendulums don’t swing on their own. They must be pushed. This dismantling is coordinated, well-funded, and legally sanctioned. If there is to be an inclusive nudge in the other direction, we will need clarity, community, commitment, and courage. Integration is not peripheral to the mission of higher education. It is the mission — if we understand education as something more than credentialing, more than job prep, more than tradition. What’s under threat now is not a program. It’s a principle: that education, at its best, is inseparable from justice.
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Y’all look how happy I look! Hope you have some childlike play today
Happy man racing his kids and losing
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
NEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo. Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I’m tired.
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#Sinners is in my Top 3 Movies of All Time and has shaken my resolve on which of my Big 3 is actually the Kendrick of them all, in the order I saw them: There Will Be Blood Everything Everywhere All At Once Sinners *Sammie singing* “Somebodyyyy help meeeeee”
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in the grass with #sinnersmovie written on the bottom
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in the grass with #sinnersmovie written on the bottom
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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Black women told y’all
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If you’re gonna hire someone w/ a director title and the j.d. has director level responsibilities and yet they aren’t in your leadership meetings— it’s wise to give them director level engagement in their work or at work or they’re gonna make you look stupid in front of everyone in staff meeting…
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a woman is making a funny face and saying `` same stupidity different day '' .
Alt: a woman is rolling her eyes into a side eye and saying `` same stupidity different day '' .
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 22/04/2025
Higher education coming through Avengers Endgame portals:
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
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Opinion | Our Foreign Students Are Terrified, and They’re Right to Be
The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is the American born citizen who was held in Florida by ICE despite possessing a valid birth certificate. Glad he is out of custody.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Great news for racist conspiracy theorists. Bad news for pretty much every other person on earth.
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Is it okay to hold space and celebrate Harvard for being ten toes in against fascism but two ass cheeks down in defending their first Black woman president?
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a man says yeah i was wondering next to a mannequin
Alt: a man says yeah i was wondering next to a mannequin
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Is it okay to hold space and celebrate Harvard for being ten toes in against fascism but two ass cheeks down in defending their first Black woman president?
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a man says yeah i was wondering next to a mannequin
Alt: a man says yeah i was wondering next to a mannequin
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
White America is squarely responsible for the downfall of the United States of America.
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a group of men are standing in a line and one man is holding a red cup and saying you hate to see it you really do
ALT: a group of men are standing in a line and one man is holding a red cup and saying you hate to see it you really do
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
don’t want to hear about future of AI when IDK if there is a future for my immigrant friends & fam, my Black momma & sis, my Hispanic & Latina cousins, my Asian & Pacific Islander colleagues & mentors, the Indigenous community, & so many who don’t have protections of a g’damn artificial intelligence
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a man wearing sunglasses and a black jacket is standing in front of a microphone and says `` im done '' .
Alt: a man wearing sunglasses and a black jacket is standing in front of a microphone and says `` im done '' .
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I been saying
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Wow, just WOW!! Looks like orange Slim Shady is at it again…👇 What. The. Actual. Fuck. ✨
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Today’s Reading📖: @colearthurriley.bsky.social ‘s “Black Liturgies”: Breathe… Inhale: I am free to not know Exhale: I can rest in mystery Inhale: I may not know what I believe Exhale: but I know it will sound like dignity Inhale: my doubts are sacred Exhale: God, stay close as I wander 🤓
Book cover of Cole Arthur Riley’s Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 22/03/2025
DOWNLOAD YOUR MASTER PROMISSORY NOTES TODAY! RIGHT NOW. If you owe federal loans, only CONGRESS can change those rates. Not these assholes. Do not volunteer ANY INFO to these people. If they lose your information in this chaos, do not tell them anything or pay them a DIME.
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Jennifer Jessie aka Jenn The Tutor @jennthetutor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I have been talking to my historically underrepresented students about fit. Especially, my Black students. Yes, we have the rankings from US News and World report but there are colleges in the top 30 of those rankings where my students lose their light, fail to thrive, and do not have support
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Do international students crowd-out or cross-subsidize Americans in higher education?
Recent growth in international enrollment at U.S. universities has raised controversy. While critics accuse international students of displacing Ameri…
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Sean Whitten @seanwhitten.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If Dr. Bruce Banner was from ATL… *Purple Ribbon All Stars “Kryptonite” beat plays* “…you wanna know my secret?…I-I-I-I be on it all night, man, I be on it all day Straight up pimp, If you want me, you can find me in a RAGE I’m on it, aye, im on it” 🤣 been laughing at myself for 10mins #MCU
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a man is standing in front of a city street with a car on fire .
Alt: Dr Bruce Banner is standing in front of a city street with a car on fire being attacked by an alien and slowly transitions into being the Hulk and punching the alien into the ground
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries
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annus mirabilis 🌠 ♑🪐 @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 15/03/2025
Save to your phones now!
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