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4 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Guess what day it is?

The 4th day of 2021.

Well, yeah, but it is also FREE ARTICLE DAY for @womeninhighered

Check out the new articles from the January issue and all the other free articles from previous issues: wihe.com/articles/
Mary Lou Santovec writes about the important work of The Center for Prison Education at Wesleyan University CT (in partnership with Massachusetts' Middlesex Community College): wihe.com/article-detail…
@krgpryal writes about the importance of acknowledging not only the suffering of other people but our own: wihe.com/article-detail…
In my column, I confess that 2020 was pretty much a nail in the coffin of my optimism and hope for the future.

But those habits are harder to kick than I thought:
wihe.com/article-detail…

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Dr. Kelly J. Baker (she/her) Profile picture
6 Jan
I'll never forget or forgive all the people who told me, in 2016, that I was overreacting about Trump's violent, white supremacist rhetoric because they were "just words."
Listen, my scholarship is on white supremacist movements and white Christian nationalism. I knew that Trump's rhetoric would lead to violence because that's what happens.

But so many folks just didn't want to believe it.
So, these folks decided that a scholar of white supremacy was "overreacting" when instead I was drawing from my research to say Trump's rhetoric was never, ever "just words" but always held the potential and likely possibility of violence.
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6 Jan
Our school board sent out a letter to parents today to say that county's virtual school academy will no longer exist for 3-12 grades as of the 25th of this month.

All of those kids will put in one of two completely different virtual options not run by the county.
For K-2, our school district will still have district teachers for their virtual classrooms, but it won't necessarily be the teachers that they have now.

My 1st grader could get a brand new teacher, and I didn't know about it until the first day of this semester.
It seems that our brand new superintendent realized that having teachers do both face-to-face ad remote teaching SIMULTANEOUSLY was bad for both the teachers and the kids.

I completely agree that it was a terrible idea.
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5 Jan
Who* would have guessed that sleep is required to be able to focus on work?

*everyone
So, yeah, my focus is shot because my sleep has been shit lately.

Shocking, right?
Also, my oldest is taking a final in my office, and I'm quietly stressing while she works on it like a champ.
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28 May 20
So many of these plans assume that people will follow the rules.

Spoiler alert: They will not.

chronicle.com/article/Welcom…
Every time, I hear one of these plans about socially distant classrooms in K-12 & higher ed, I think about how impossible it will be to enforce with kids & college students.
Removing some chairs from a room doesn't mean students won't bring the remaining ones together.
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20 Sep 19
Hi lovelies, I usually don't respond to folks (men) who want to claim that I'm not an expert in white Christian nationalism or religious intolerance in American history.

But, here are the receipts.
First, I wrote a book on white Christian nationalism!

kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-244…
And a @nytimes op-ed on white nationalism as not new. It has the best title ever.

nytimes.com/2016/11/25/opi…
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19 Sep 19
Now at a panel on Christian nationalism in the Age of Tr*mp.

I think this is missing *white* before Christian.

(But, I would, wouldn't I?)
Um, white Christian nationalism isn't new. It didn't suddenly appear before 2016.

It's been around for....awhile.
I get that it's a better story to suggest that white Christian nationalism is *new*

Suddenly, it seems to just now appear & journalists rush to cover it as *new*

It's not new. It's just a recent example of a longer history.
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