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@thrasherxy
Sep 15, 2020 • 28 tweets • 19 min read • Read on X
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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 Image
2. Epigraphs by @strongthomas @edyong209 & Zoe Leonard Image
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”)

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… Image
6. Readings: Don McNeil, "Your Ancestors Knew Death in Ways You Never Will" "nytimes.com/2020/07/15/sun…
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 @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"
10. WEEK FOUR - Scapegoats

Soundtrack: @MykkiBlanco "Hideaway"

Readings: @JuliaLMarcus and @drjessigold “Colleges are Getting Ready to Blame Their Students"
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
11. @apoorva_nyc, “‘The Biggest Monster’ Is Spreading. And It’s Not the Coronavirus" nytimes.com/2020/08/03/hea…
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”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
19. Video: @ForensicArchi, "THE KILLING OF ZAK KOSTOPOULOS," @ForensicArchi forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…
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.
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.") Image
22. Readings: @Arbuthnott, @JCalvertST and @philipsherwell, "“Revealed: Seven year coronavirus trail from mine death to a Wuhan lab" drive.google.com/file/d/1zXtE1B…
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…
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"
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 ... ImageImageImageImage

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🧵Today is one of the darkest days yet in modern journalism. I want to write a thread about the martyrdom of journalists Abu Hatab & Omar Zaino, who are among the 30+ people massacred at a café journalists used for its WiFi, and about Bayan Anu Sultan, who was badly wounded.
First, say his name: Abu Hatab, journalist, photographer, friend of many. Murdered today by US/Israel Image
And, say his name: Omar Zaino. Journalist, loved by many, murdered today by US/Israel Image
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For people who think I am close-minded and unbending: I have done a 180° on assisted suicide, and I changed my mind by reading and thinking with disabled scholars and activists
I actually do think people should be able to end their lives if they wish, with compassion and as little pain and stigma as possible. (My biological mother took her life in a gruesome, violent way.) And I think almost everything should be decriminalized. Unfortunately…
the PUSH for assisted suicide is not rooted in reducing stigma or compassion, nor is it rooted in getting folks what they need to address the root causes of their suicidal desire (housing, poverty, proper mental and physical healthcare)…
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This is *still*’ interesting. When Oprah was the host of the Oprah Winfrey Show and endorsed Obama, the candidate did not pay for the show—Oprah (Harpo Productions) did. When Oprah endorsed Harris, the candidate paid for the show. An important power shift in media.
Of course Oprah, a billionaire, could have paid her staff as her quite legal contribution to the cause. Instead she let, perhaps, Black women earning minimum wage who wanted to see Harris elected and gave their meagre earnings to the campaign pay for it instead.
What’s most interesting to me as a media scholar: @JonnyDiamond added a line to my @lithub column about the Winfrey endorsement that it was “basically a recreation of the Oprah Winfrey Show”—and now Oprah is literally admitting that! lithub.com/in-american-em…
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If you accept the truth that under Obama/Biden/Harris, more people

— were deported
— died of Covid
— were killed in genocide and wars w US weapons & $

then there is no need to panic about Trump/Miller/RFK. Hold onto your folks, your values & your work. Stay the course. Calm!
Panic, in general, helps no one. It keeps you from breathing right, it keeps you from seeing clearly. Lots of folx have been working hard to get vaccines (Covid/flu/mpox) out as Biden dismantled Covid vax infrastructure. Work & learn w us, we’ve been at it for yrs now
An asset we may have: millions who passively accepted Obama deportations, Biden vax delivery destruction & Biden/Harris genocide might now be angry abt Trump doing these things. WELCOME THEM GRACIOUSLY WITH OPEN ARMS! ALL HANDS ON DECK!
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1/4 I filed for tenure today, as has been planned for years. It has been too much pressure being investigated while also filing for tenure (a huge moment in any scholar's life in the best of circumstances), so imagonnatakeaminute to sit with what I have accomplished. I WROTE 47 journalism articles New York Times, New York, Guardian, Lit Hub, Scientific American, Atlantic, Slate, Rolling Stone 4 academic articles + 3 academic book chapters Contexts, Souls, Harvard Law Sympoisum, Imagining Queer Methodsm, Contemporary Literary Criticism 2 books The Viral Underclass (病毒 下层社会 疾病与不平等 在美国的碰撞) The Overseer Class AS I COVERED 3 PANDEMICS (SARS/MPX/HIV)
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I SERVED by In 5 years, I SERVED by Helping start the new NU media PhD committee Helping hire ISGMH’s new associate director Advising Bernie Sanders on health/HIV policy Serving on ad hoc Covid committees Helping develop safer sex Covid & MPX guidelines Doing an MPX (monkeypox) campus teach in Setting up MPX vaccine clinics Setting up mutual aid for our migrant neighbors Becoming a phlebotomist & doing HIV outreach Reviewing about 20 book manuscripts Protecting students from the police Overseeing student summer research Writing visa letters for foreign LGBTQ journalists Organizing support for trans ...
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