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Sarah J. Jackson

@sjjphd.bsky.social
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Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics. Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more. Typos and opinions both mine. Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21h
Congrats and thank you in advance for all the important work !!
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 23h
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That’s said it’s desperate and I very much believe it can be stopped with enough public and political pressure. This and whatever they’d think of next.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The search history of officials driving a return to public execution is something I don’t want to think about. I’m afraid we’ve moved from manosphere inspired policy straight into dark web policy.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026
Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay for her efforts to ensure that war crimes and genocide are prosecuted.
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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins
Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At our Foucault conference last month @danlor.bsky.social and I screened a little-known Foucault documentary produced by a Swiss TV network in 1978, MICHEL FOUCAULT: STORICO DELLA VERITA ("Historian of Truth"). 1/ www.rsi.ch/archivi/Mich...
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Michel Foucault: storico della verità - RSI
Ritratti, 1. febbraio 1978
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:
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Poll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion Bans
Plus, Deep South voters are the least likely to say that abortion should never be permitted.
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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Another post about your article! For more info about our org visit survivorsandallies.com 💓
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you for doing this important work!
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We have to get the time to do it on my calendar!!
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Open access research on how student survivors navigate institutional betrayal and barriers. I expect #AcademicSky will find this useful as we continue to try to support our students & work on institutional accountability. (Not sure if authors Wilf, et. al. are here...please chime in if so!)
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The Survivors’ Calculus: How University Survivors Navigate Healing Amid Institutional Betrayal - Sara Wilf, Kalani Phillips, Laura Knittig, Leila Chiddick, Rachel LaPointe, Rina Rossi, Stephanie Katha...
Student survivors of sexual violence face barriers to accessing healing resources. This community-driven study analyzed open-ended responses from 387 survivors ...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The “literacies“ framework is as intellectually bankrupt as polarization right now. We will keep using it because when you’ve got one hammer and the NSF social science funding has dried up everything looks like a nostalgic managerial class nail.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bluesky was down this morning right? Are we back?
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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 06/10/2026
The billionaires (and trillionaire) and their platforms Gotta Go. Don’t even care how they Go now, but they gotta Go.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was pretty explicit what he was processing, I think even at 7 or 8 I understood it or something like it happened to someone and that’s what was so terrrifying
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For those unfamiliar I cannot recommend you watch the film, as I recall it was truly my first exposure to what I would come to know later as sadism, although who knows how adults processed it
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Watched Tommy, yes the film based on The Who album, on VHS as a pretty little kid. Nightmares for years. (Yes I was a latchkey kid hahahamaybewedidneedmoresupervision)
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Omg childhood trauma
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/10/2026
Brazil election moves to runoff after Lula and Bolsonaro fail to garner majority vote, electoral court says.
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Brazil heads to runoff election after Bolsonaro, Lula fail to garner majority vote
Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Brazil’s veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off on Oct. 25 in a runoff for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy.
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paulahackett.bsky.social @paulahackett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
24 years old
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whenever Americans see news from conflict and war zones we are depending on local handlers, teams, journalists and many others in those communities to make telling those stories possible.
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She died covering war for Fox News. Her parents blame the network — and a star reporter
The family members of two Fox News journalists killed while covering the war in Ukraine are suing the network, saying it put getting the story ahead of its people.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
10yo asked what i did at the festival and i said oh it's a book festival, so i just talked about my books, and he said "yikes" under his breath
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lemme go figure out what this is so u can watch!!!
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026
It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.social
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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holding people accountable to existing democratic norms and constitutional law, and for committing financial crimes and human rights abuses, is not being “fixated on revenge.” If someone’s platform is being a moderate you can just say that without mischaracterizing everyone else.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Here’s how! Go to “Accessibility” in Bluesky settings and turn that first switch on. Never forget alt text again.
Accessibility menu in Bluesky settings

Alt text - require alt text before posting - switch to ON
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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...
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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 03/10/2026
"Along the US's southeastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth." www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
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The American coast that refused to let African culture die
Along the US's South-eastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."
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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security
The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ha
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"females"
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
hey everyone if your uni uses turnitin, ask them about this.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.
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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meta is lying to the IRS in order to claim billions in tax breaks. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big sigh. Cornell edited its faq after the NYT story about the CUPD omitting details from the victim statement: “Any mention of sharing “all investigatory information” with the district attorney had been removed from the page.” www.wskg.org/regional-new...
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Cornell quietly edits FAQ page about fraternity sexual assault allegations amid public backlash
On Wednesday, the university removed a sentence stating that campus police “shared all investigatory information with the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office.”
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/10/2026
Skelly price check for October 1: $299 for 12 feet, about $25/foot. Inflation indicators blinking red.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This exchange (the mother daughter one with Kevin and the bluesky response from Lynne) really made laugh, thank you very much
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