Notices by Andrea is resting (thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io)

-meet with students and be aware of travel plans. Some departments are providing international students who must travel with departmental letters they can carry with them.

-compile resources available in your locality and provide this info to students.

-cover your ass bc this hostile administration is actively searching for reasons to punish empathy

Hoping this is helpful for someone

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-as private citizen create a rainy-day fund for in case students need legal services. International students have largely been told as individuals to lawyer up but that is not financially feasible for many, if not most.

-inform yourself of the unique situation international students are in at your particular institution.

-offer clarity to your students: will your dept/institution be willing to step in if there's a visa revocation? Will there be online options to complete degree programs?

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If you are a progressive-minded US university prof looking to support students on visas but don't know where to start and/or feel hamstrung by your institution, here are some ideas

-Some international students feel completely unsupported by their departments rn. It is both relatively easy and immediately impactful to indicate to your students that you care about their circumstances, and to foster connections with them

-as a private citizen, tap into community organizations advocating
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Ideas off the top of my head for "remotely useful"

Getting familiar/involved w the organizations in or near ur community that have been putting in work

Actually engaging with the politically disengaged with the intent to listen and understand instead of being so unpleasantly superior that they actively avoid u

Donating to and sharing someone's need asks; helping build a digital infrastructure of mutual aid

Participating in consumer blackout movements (like last Friday)

Etc. Not hard

Just saw another long ass blame-game thread regarding November and it really seems like a lot of ppl are more interested in their perceived correctness and other peoples' wrongness than anything remotely useful

blame and shame non-voters all you want but are you going to do something more beneficial to your community than making yourself feel right and good or are you gonna try out empathy for once. I held my nose and honestly some of y'all make me wish I hadn't, 92٪ be damned

It's the first Sunday of Black History Month in the US. How should you celebrate it?

By paying Black people. Yup.

Need help with that? Here's a Black-centered #MutualAid thread.

https://mastodon.social/@ashleyyrain/113909013144810693

https://blackqueer.life/@deliberately_me/113924192177103076

https://weirder.earth/@thief/113907565761959067

https://blackqueer.life/@binch/113851200709847267

*Please boost, and donate as your means allow. Black folks, add your mutual aid asks to this thread as you see fit. Peace, rest, and prosperity.*

With US Black History Month arriving soon and the generally sorry state of affairs in this cosmic joke of a nation, I want to start another Black‐centered #mutualaidthread.

If you are informed you may know that in the wake of the LA fires Black ppl's gofundmes have recieved less attention and fewer donations than white ppl's.

So if you're Black and interested, pls comment this thread with ur gofundmes/kofis/whichever fundraising method u use 🖤

Others, pls boost + donate.

What I really need 3rd parties to do rn is NOT evaporate into the ether, and take on the opportunity that arises with folks who are obviously jaded with this system.

Because it's clear dems are increasingly more interested in placating the far-right and keeping those policies that enable future mass extinction events. We need people who will actual advocate for us without talking down about "knights in shining armor."

Some may have a hard time understanding that the United States was a fascist entity before Trump was ever involved. Questions for you:

What do you think "manifest destiny" was?

What do you think Jim Crow was/is?

What do you think snipers on top of university buildings is?

What do you think children in cages is?

What do you think mass incarceration is?

What does police brutality support?

How and why does the US have imperial holdings such as Hawaii, Puerto Rico, hell, its own mainland?

As a genderqueer Black person with the capacity to give birth living in Texas, I'm finding a lot of you white liberal cishets to be overly dramatic. You just woke up in the same country we had yesterday. Instead of despairing that you don't know what to do, pull your self together and get in where you fit in. Stop depending on others to do your political work for you and become involved beyond telling people who they should vote for every 4 years.

I literally *cannot* allow myself to be dragged into the pits of despair and inaction. That could cost me my life. Obviously today is a sad day and we're scared, disappointed, disillusioned. But I really think some of you, particularly white liberals, are performing a learned helplessness that does nothing but place a larger burden of labor onto people like me. I saw this same thing 8 years ago. Do your fair share this time, please.

Now would probably be a good time to re-up on your birth control. And to start tracking your period without an app.

@mekkaokereke @hannu_ikonen I say that they leveraged white men's racism not to say they didn't have plenty of their own, but because they specifically appealed to white male political leaders in written correspondence pressuring them to grant white women the right to vote by saying their votes would cancel out white men. You don't have to tell me some white women are white supremacists, I experience this reality daily 😅

@hannu_ikonen @mekkaokereke they made Ida B Wells-Barnett and other Black women go to the back at rallies and attempted to get the right to vote by leveraging white men's racism, saying their votes would cancel out Black men's.

Fuck golf fr

"I've had 4 masto profiles. No one can stand me because I'm an asshole. I'm going to make that your problem today."

I love Dr. Staceypants fr 😭
"Yawn…Another Election, Another Lecture From Obama To Black Men"

https://www.blackenterprise.com/obama-lecture-black-men-to-vote-kamala/

Same w language like "trauma dumping" (I have rarely if ever heard/seen this word used when a white man does it. Interesting) and "boundaries."

All of these terms hold value for sure; but, they are often used to suppress the healthy expression of those who might benefit from them because of the power dynamics of our society.

Westerners' tendencies toward pathologizing and institutionalizing non-normalized behavior then become iterated in language originally meant to empower.

I feel like the language of "unhealed" is becoming a weapon against the most vulnerable/marginalized people. Showing up "unhealed" in a space shouldn't be grounds to be rebuked from it. No one is completely "healed" anyway.

So what ends up happening a lot is that certain (neuro)types' ways of coping are socially acceptable and others are not. So the "unhealed" become more and more isolated, thus making it even harder to heal because it's p much impossible to heal in isolation.

America runs on oppressin'