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19 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Wow. Those AirBnB hosts are now claiming $981 in damages against me.
Details: they took photos of every minor mark on the walls, mud on entry rug, dirt on a ledge, dirt on oven knob, etc. to claim $225 of professional cleaning to an LLC that has the exact same address as the hosts’ real estate company. The stay already included $63 cleaning fee.
They are claiming we left a 12 inch scratch on the floor that will cost $475 to repair. Also claiming we did $281 in damage to cheap beds which were creaky when used so I assume already weak/damaged but broken when 2 fat people slept in them.
In their review of me as a guest, they mentioned that I made a “false” discrimination claim against them and then put “(of course)” immediately after. You know, like racists do. Claiming that Black folks are of course going to claim racism is racist.

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It’s so important to emphasize that rarely do white people recognize or admit that they are being racist. It’s antithetical to how they perceive themselves. This is because white folks are taught to understand themselves as neutral and to define racism as blatant hate.
Rarely are white folks able to comprehend or be self-reflective about the ways white supremacy shapes their entire lives & behaviors. Yet people of color feel the racial bias, assumptions & projections in our interactions with white people daily.
For most white folks racism is unconscious, deeply entrenched, & unrecognizable in its various manifestations in part bc of the way the law has set up hate crimes to require clear evidence of racial hatred. White people think if they aren’t calling you slurs, they aren’t racist.
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I think it’s very adorable when students send me e-mails introducing themselves at the start of the semester. It’s 1000% unnecessary but that’s way it’s so sweet to me. Their enthusiasm gets me more excited for the semester.
I’m teaching our 101 intro class this term & even though it’s one of the more challenging classes to teach logistically with 240 students, it’s also one of my favorites—a chance to influence so many young folks & introduce them to basic feminist concepts.
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It has been over 280 days since the Wisconsin GOP tried to pass any legislation & this is what they offer. Horrific. Shameful. An absolute fucking disgrace. Wisconsinites ought to let them know that we’re tired of them playing politic games w/ our lives.
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Last semester I watched student after student deal with exposure in their living spaces, quarantine housing, illness and the illness of their loved ones. Students who stopped attending classes to care for sick family members or younger siblings while parents were ill.
The idea that anyone, but particularly those who are supposed to be the leaders of this state, doing something to make the pandemic more dangerous, not less, is infuriating. Everyone should be angry about this no matter your political affiliation.
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This is a #thread speaking directly to all 27 state senators who proposed a resolution to end the mask mandate & the declared public health emergency of #COVID19 in #Wisconsin
Fuck you Steve Nass for trying to end the mask mandate.
Fuck you @JulianBradleyWI for trying to end the mask mandate.
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I worked in the dean’s office, the student community engaged learning office and the women’s center. I always worked at least 2 jobs plus a summer job as a student. I think a lot about how different my experience would have been if I didn’t have to do that.
I think having to work so much only to have white boys whose parents were paying their tuition question why I couldn’t just chill out & party like they did was an early awakening moment for me. They lived in a totally different universe.
One time I had to explain to a peer that I only ate on campus because my scholarship included room & board. He genuinely asked me why I didn’t have a credit card from my parents to use and I didn’t know how to explain it to him.
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Story #thread. Content warning: medical interactions

OK so as a fat Black queer disabled woman I hate going to the doctor. Some medical professional always says some weird, oppressive, offensive shit to me. So I only go when it’s bad.
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Rather than just tell me to lose weight she actually listened & sent me for a bunch of tests. Today I learned that I have B12 deficiency—as in levels so low they could not give an proper reading. Somewhere below 170 (typical range is 200-800).
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