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Julia E. Torres @juliaerin80
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So I'm going to post some links.... All purchases go to supporting initiatives I am a part of/helping to lead. Recently had somebody reach out asking for my Venmo to compensate me for all they learn from me on Twitter. I appreciate that. Here are additional ways...[THREAD]
#Educolor is my heart home. It is where familia, intense dreaming, and powerful activism centered around educational equity starts and ends for me.
#DisruptTexts is a little thing we have going on recognized by @NYTimesLearning and @chicagotribune so let's keep disrupting the literary canon and all THAT.
teespring.com/stores/disrupt…
#projectlitbookclub also has so much of my heart. I cannot describe the joy it brings me to bring THESE books and authors together with children who need/ want them. Libraries are disappearing. Testing culture persists. This is our answer to that.
project-lit-community.myshopify.com
I don't know if y'all are gonna find a #hiphoped T-shirt or hoodie like mine, but follow the hashtag, read the book(s). Support the work! Also, the conference is NOT to be missed. Dopest educational conference I've ever attended.
hiphoped.com/shop/t-shirt/
Also, our #ProjectLITMontbello field trip, t-shirt fundraiser stalled out at about 50% funded. Anything helps! Busses are more expensive than you think!
gofundme.com/project-lit-mo…
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Happy Saturday! Cleaning the chicken coop, then doing some writing today. Last week, a 10th grader checked out Diary of a Wimpy Kid because that's the last book he remembered reading. Another student (who wasn't checking anything out) tried to clown him about it.
We got over that, but I'm noticing more and more the power students have over eachother (with regard to reading culture).
I know we think (and talk, and write) about the fact that telling Ss they aren't reading "at level", then giving them something to read that's "rigorous" and perhaps inaccessible, then evaluating/judging them on their ability to perform a tasks isn't the best formula.
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When we say, "We got work to do," it's important to define the "we", and perhaps shift away from talking and toward actions that will produce results. Shout out to all educators and allies doing the work of making sure students (who will grow up to be voters) #DisruptTexts
Lately, I've been talking with @nenagerman and others about the role of the anti- racist educator in spaces serving predominantly white children vs. spaces with children of color.
Some thoughts: systems and structures predominantly serving children of color are often environments that perpetuate narratives of subordination and white suburban supremacy.
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A thread of gratitude to some important people from my life this week...
Shouts to @TheJLV for matching energies and always being there to help me laugh at myself. Open invite to folks to come see us and match energies with us at the #TOCA summit at CU Boulder next month.
A big hug to Kristen Gilligan at @TatteredCover for supporting #ProjectLITMontbello in ways both large and small. Excited about the big exciting things coming up for 2019.
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This is a very long & detailed "2 PARTS" THREAD where I tried to answer some Q's & give an update on the disappearance ish that happened at work, 12 weeks ago & Significantly how I'm being BULLIED by foremost media & top Talent management Groups/Personalities in Nigeria-
(PS: the bully story doesn't come up until after the 1st PART, towards the end of this Long THREAD)

Been threatened bc I refused to SETTLE for their DIRTY T&C's. Got text-convo s.shots from our post interview talks, after we FELL-OUT
Let me not get ahead of my self, but this is
a long thread tbh, its a lot of time.

[1st PART]

12 weeks since the disappearance thing happened at work, I've actually been in a better place & frame of MIND for a while, but I didn't deem it necessary to update anyone, or correct some wrong impressions by folks on the
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Who wants to hear a nice story about meeting a hero?
So this is a lot, I apologize. But this is the story of how I met one of my teenhood icons while I was still a teenager. But there's a bit of lead up.
When I was sixteen, I discovered Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. It was about three years into it's run. And like the works of Phil Foglio and Don Rosa, it was unlike anything I'd ever seen. I was hooked instantly.
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If you need to DM/chat that’s ok for initial inquiries! It’s also the perfect time to ask for contact preferences if you can’t find them.
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1/ There are a lot of problems to be solved in PE/VC. Human bias, bad investors, crazy arrogance, behavior that comes at the cost of the entrepreneurs.

But one that has a bigger impact than most realize, is the desire by the General Partners (GPs) to raise larger funds.
2/ Lets first establish that approximately 99.63% of PE/VC investors are in it for the money. That’s ok- but let’s just have that as a foundational truth.
3/ To make more money, they either have to be exceptionally good (Benchmark, USV, Sequoia) or raise a lot more money. Every GP realizes that if they raise more money they will get paid more (fees), even if the returns go down.
Time for (super basic) venture math.
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Let me explain what 'punitive psychiatry' is. It's when someone from a distance psychoanalyzes someone and pretends they are doing something other than airing their most subjective prejudices against that person.
In the psychiatric profession, it's considered malpractice to publicly diagnose someone or pretend to be an expert on their thoughts or state of mind without ever having personally examined the subject.
At most, you can make *generalizations* about someone's state of mind or beliefs or philosophy based on a patter of behavior they have publicly engaged in, statements they publicly made, public actions and decisions, and so on.
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Story time, #emptythepews edition.

Warning: suicidal ideation, depression, conversion therapy, unsupportive parents, Christian fundamentalism.

You have been warned.

Story begins in the next tweet.
1: Once upon a time in the late 90s, there were common websites, basic cable and magazines that put out various hotlines you could call in a crisis. If not, there were search engines where you could find the numbers to places like BoysTown and the Suicide Prevention Hotline etc.
2: My parents were SUPER controlling. So much so, that we felt the control in every little way, and suspected other means of control that we did not verify until we had all moved out.
Raised in the QF/ATI-adjacent communities, you can guess at what levels there were,.
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