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🍉Prof. Thrasher is with our students🔻

Sep 15, 2020 • 28 tweets • 19 min read • Read on X

@MedillSchool

1. It's Back-to-School Eve, and that means one thing:

Time to tweet out this term's new @MedillSchool @NU_PAS @NorthwesternU interactive syllabus,

The #ViralUnderclass: How Journalists Cover Outbreaks, Depict Humans as Viruses, and Make News Go Viral

@strongthomas

2. Epigraphs by @strongthomas @edyong209 & Zoe Leonard

@Menelas74

3. WEEK ONE - I make soundtracks for my classes. This yr's will start w "U" film by @Menelas74
vimeo.com/271836714

Readings: "Panopticonism" by Foucault americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/…

"“Ferguson & the Criminalization of American Life" by (the late) Graeber gawker.com/ferguson-and-t…

4. WEEK TWO - Parasite! Class and Neoliberal Capitalism

Soundtrack: Jung Jae-il/믿음의 벨트 (“Opening”)

@etammykim

5. Viewing: Parasite, Bong Joon Ho

Readings: @etammykim, “How South Korea Solved its Mask Shortage”
nytimes.com/2020/04/01/opi…

@balhorn_max, “Parasite: A Window into South Korean Neoliberalism”
jacobinmag.com/2019/11/parasi…

6. Readings: Don McNeil, "Your Ancestors Knew Death in Ways You Never Will" "nytimes.com/2020/07/15/sun…

@TheLivingMJ

7. WEEK THREE - Race/Racism

Soundtrack: @TheLivingMJ, "AIDS is God's Punishment"

Readings: @JuliaLMarcus, “The Fun Police Should Stand Down"
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@TheLivingMJ

@TheLivingMJ @JuliaLMarcus 8. Readings:

@Ethnography911, “Race, Epidemics and the Viral Economy of Health Expertise,” thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2020/0…

@edyong209, “How the Virus Defeated America,” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

9. Video, "The Story of Ebola"

@MykkiBlanco

10. WEEK FOUR - Scapegoats

Soundtrack: @MykkiBlanco "Hideaway"

Readings: @JuliaLMarcus and @drjessigold “Colleges are Getting Ready to Blame Their Students"
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@apoorva_nyc

11. @apoorva_nyc, “‘The Biggest Monster’ Is Spreading. And It’s Not the Coronavirus" nytimes.com/2020/08/03/hea…

@byadamrhodes

12. WEEKS FIVE & SIX - Borders

Soundtrack: “AIDS prevention song en español” (artists unknown")

Readings: @byadamrhodes, “As Puerto Rico Battles Hurricane Season, HIV-Positive Folks Begin to Brace for the Worst”

@byeliseam

13. @byeliseam, “The Shortages May Be Worse than the Disease” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@grahambrewer, “American Violence in the Time of Coronavirus,” hcn.org/issues/52.6/in…

14. Video, Frontline, "Forever Prison" pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…

@scottlong1980

15. Soundtrack: "Hija de Perra - “Reggaetón Venéreo”

Readings: Chris Bell, "I'm Not the Man I Used to Be"

@scottlong1980, "HRC and the vulture fund: Making Third World poverty pay for LGBT rights"

paper-bird.net/2013/11/04/hrc…

@oyemalu

16. New work-in-progress from the brilliant @oyemalu. Check out their recent work, featured in Duke's Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus

read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-ab…

@ZachWritesStuff

17. WEEK SEVEN - AUSTERITY, FROM ATHENS TO APPALACHIA

Soundtrack: Zachie Oh/Zak Kostopolous, "Sweet Transvestite"

Readings: @ZachWritesStuff, "The Coronavirus Is Blowing Up Our Best Response to the Opioid Crisis" newrepublic.com/article/158645…

@chasestrangio

18. Readings: @chasestrangio, "Appreciation: Lorena Borhas," washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

Eleni Kostopoulos, "“My Gay Son Was Kicked To Death, And I'm Still Seeking Justice" huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zak-kost…

@ForensicArchi

19. Video: @ForensicArchi, "THE KILLING OF ZAK KOSTOPOULOS," @ForensicArchi forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…

@Kassandra_Fred

20. In class guests: A conversation with @Kassandra_Fred and @ZachWritesStuff on the role of austerity in disease transmission, harm reduction, drug use and wellness.

@ferrisjabr

21. WEEK EIGHT - ANIMALS

Soundtrack, "Ebola!"

Readings: @ferrisjabr, “How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases” nytimes.com/2020/06/17/mag…

Fast Food Nation, Chapter 9: "What's In the Meat?" (Spoiler: "there's shit in the meat.")

@Arbuthnott

22. Readings: @Arbuthnott, @JCalvertST and @philipsherwell, "“Revealed: Seven year coronavirus trail from mine death to a Wuhan lab" drive.google.com/file/d/1zXtE1B…

@sarahschulman3

23. Video: "United in Anger" (UnitedInAnger) by Jim Hubbard and @sarahschulman3

24. WEEK NINE - The Liberal Carceral State

Soundtrack: Dr. Curtis Woolf, "The Hepatitis Song"

Readings: Dara Kam, “Florida not required to treat prisoners with costly medication for Hepatitis C, court rules” tampabay.com/florida-politi…

@SamTLevin

25. Readings:

@SamTLevin , “Oregon prisoners evacuated due to fires are being pepper sprayed by guards" theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s…

26. WEEK TEN - Presentations

Soundtrack: St. Pedro, "Phone Sex"

Soundtrack: Pet Shop Boys, "Being Boring"

27. WEEK ELEVEN - Presentations

Soundtrack: Sufjan Stevens, "Visions of Gideon"

@ginakolata

28. For final projects, students must read one of the following four books in its entirety and use it as an analytical frame (@ginakolata) or ...

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I have been thinking through something and it won't go away. I do not in any way want to minimized the horror of Gaza. I have seen three of these solidarity encampments grow, thrive and be dismantled, and I see how they are a metaphor for life in Palestine in some ways.

Each camp is its own little world. Life is modest, and not easy, but people carve out a little world, and they make something beautiful. Jews, Christians and Muslims live together relatively peacefully, until the police or Zionists show up and create chaos and bring violence.

People share what little they have, and give one another a sense of abundance. They make little worlds out of color, language, music, dance, the sun. They share real community. But eventually, either thru deceptive negotiations or brute violence, the little world is destroyed.

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May 7

Today I am meditating on two of Baldwin’s quotes about children— “For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become” and the one below. They both mirror how I feel about students—as teachers, they are all ours to protect.

I am a college professor, and I teach and learn with (and from) adults, and I do not mean to infantilize them. But I do feel protective of them, and I am aware that all faculty have a responsibility for the wellbeing of students, whether they are on our campus or others.

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Thank you. I had a touching but sad exchange w a young person at DePaul, when they were having a tough moment. I asked them if they were a student there and they said kind of sheepishly no, they were a student at a community college but they wanted to join the protests.

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May 4

Greetings friends from Lincoln Park, Chicago and Day 5 of DePaul University’s Liberation Zone. It’s a GORGEOUS day. To counter the lies fed to you by cops, uni admins, the mainstream media, the White House & Netanyahu himself, let’s look around at what’s happening here!

This is a Catholic Vincentian school and its Christian values are being interrogated by students in many places. As you enter the Liberation Zone, there a wall (50 feet long?) of names of children killed in Gaza.

As soon as I walk in a lady asks me if I would like some lunch. I demur bc I am going to a BBQ after but I accept some coffee. The lady and I recognize each other from Day 2 and I ask her it she works here. No, she’s “just Palestinian” and here to support the students. I say

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Apr 29

BREAKING: for weeks, @shahanmufti & I have worked together to co-author & gather 50 signatures for a letter demanding the New York Times commission an independent investigation of "Screams Without Words." @laurawags has the story @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

Our letter was signed by more than 50 professors of journalism and communication at more than a dozen universities across the United States and Canada. It was delivered to A. G. Sulzberger and the NYT editor of standards and can be read in full here: washingtonpost.com/documents/adc3…

As we laid out in our letter, there is a lot of precedent for this. The Times itself followed up an internal investigation of its staff reporter Jayson Blair. And @RollingStone commissioned @columbiajourn to do just this after their UVA disaster. cjr.org/investigation/…

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No, I am not tenured. How will I account for yesterday and today and tomorrow? Will our board forgive me when I go up and let me stick around? Doesn’t matter. This is the job: to speak about important matters. And protecting our students is the only thing that matters right now.

We must speak against the genocide. We must speak about the state and corporate suppression of free speech on our campuses. And we must backup our brilliant, brave, creative and wonderful students—putting our bodies between them and uni admin or cops if we must.

This is the job. It has been disappointing, but not surprising, to see how few tenured profs show up and speak up compared to untenured and contingent faculty, grad student workers, librarians and staff. But many GOT tenure BECAUSE unis reward silence in moments like these.

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