“That the Asian women murdered yesterday were working highly vulnerable and low-wage jobs during an ongoing pandemic speaks directly to the compounding impacts of misogyny, structural violence, and white supremacy” advancingjustice-atlanta.org/news/community…
“Hate incidents targeting Asian Americans rose nearly 150% in 2020, with Asian American women twice as likely to be targeted. Stop AAPI Hate received 3,800 reports of anti-Asian hate since March 2020 to February 2021, with 35% of discriminatory acts happening at businesses...”
“...and with women reporting hate incidents twice as men”
@AAAJ_Atlanta Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a civil and human rights group defending protect, and advance the rights of Asian Americans in Georgia. Let’s follow them:
Ok @nytimes, I ran around correcting a bunch of racists inspired by your clickbait headline and now have to go back to work on my grant proposal. For the last time: HAMSTER OVARY CELL LINES USED TO MAKE PROTEINS WERE DEVELOPED IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1957
Specifically it was developed by a white guy at Univ of Colorado who cultured the original cells from a hamster living in a Boston lab. In rodent years that hamster is practically a freaking Pilgrim.
Friends, next Tues. I’ll be part of a public event @LoyolaChicago on endocrine disruption, infertility, sex and gender, inspired by @DrShannaSwan new book COUNTDOWN. We’re framing this issue in queer and trans positive ways. Join me? 🏳️🌈 @QueersInSTEM@500QueerSci@MarchForScience
March 23, 9:30 am CDT. Event is free and open to the public but you need to register: luc.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Warm invite also to the #adoptee community. This issue is about us, too. Declining fertility caused by exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals fuels more predatory adoption practices. You know I’ll be making that point. #adopteevoices @GabrielleGlaser@llmunro
“For much of the last half-century, the U.S. has held contradictory positions when it comes to energy. Car-centric planning makes consumers depend on cheap fuel. But the #fracking industry depends on fuel not being cheap, since such unconventional drilling methods are expensive.”
“....American politicians claim that fracking has made us energy independent, though the price of fuel still depends in large part on decisions made halfway across the world by countries with more say over how much they produce....”
BREAKING: A two-year, four-part, body-burden investigation finds off-the-charts levels of toxic chemicals linked to #fracking in the urine of PA families living near fracking operations in sw PA.
After much trying I was able to snag my first appointment at the state-run center at SUNY Potsdam. That’s a 4.5 hour drive from my house, north of the Adirondacks, past Fort Drum and keep driving, damn near Canada.
I received my first Pfizer vaccine on a volleyball court.
Can’t do a selfie bc it’s a HIPAA protected site.
Arrived 40 minutes early like the Girl Scout that I am and got right in.
Spent my 15 min of post-vaccine observation in a folding chair on a highly polished floor recalling how much I feared/loathed volleyball in HS gym class.
Fellow professors: I’m remote teaching the climate crisis during a pandemic crisis. Instead of taking attendance the analogue way, or allowing Zoom to do it in the digital way, I’ve been starting each class w a mental health check-in.
This doubles as a roll call. Sometimes I go first and set the tone and sometimes I go last but either way students popcorn around and all say hello to each other and offer a few (non compulsory) words about their own mental and emotional state.
The results have been amazing.
First off, I feel like we’re collectively normalizing the idea that these are extraordinary, surreal times and no wonder we go through freak-outs and suffer bouts of anxiety and not being ok. It’s a relief to just say that out loud and then... offer each other empathy.