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Jenn Lena

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Feminist, abolitionist, anti-racist collector of religious kitsch and novel experiences. Professor @ARADColumbia @ColumbiaSocialSci. Co-Ed of CEL series @stanfordpress. MEASURING CULTURE is out now from @ColumbiaUP She/her.

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why does retvrn to tradition always mean prairie dresses and fedoras but never temple prostitutes and transsexual oracles

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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Yes, I do think it has that implication. And the implication fits with (half of) the social science on “micro” or “sub” fields: isomorphic pressures will result in their eventual inclusion or exclusion from the cannon.

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The branded promo gifts on this tour are gender-typed so I’m complimenting how well the men’s baseball caps “match their penises.” Because I’m a good time on vacation. 😂😳

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Orcspiration's avatar Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social
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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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Jane was a treasure and her influence will be eternal. She lives on in all of the organizers she mentored directly and indirectly. Her memory will be a blessing.

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Amanda Smith's avatar Amanda Smith @amandasmith.bsky.social
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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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Aunt Sylvia’s Home for Wayward Women and Lurid Tulips's avatar Aunt Sylvia’s Home for Wayward Women and Lurid Tulips @socialistboghag.bsky.social
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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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Hayes Brown's avatar Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social
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If this resonates with you as an expert in your field, please feel free to hit me up on how to pitch an op-ed to MSNBC dot com

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Carl T. Bergstrom's avatar Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com
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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.

anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh's avatar Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social
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This takes the sting out of canceling your NYT subscription: free 72-hour digital access with no limit and no strings attached 😎

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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AND it’s the kind of book that has information in it that will make a /material difference/ if they know it. So glad you will teach it!!

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Chris Petkus's avatar Chris Petkus @carolinesays.bsky.social
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“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.

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Travis Dawry's avatar Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social
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"The home of the John Brown Wax Museum in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, has been sold. Now, 92 of the 93 wax figures that help tell the story of Brown, the abolitionist who led the raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, need a new home."

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH's avatar Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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Please share: The UC, Riverside School of Public Policy is hiring this Fall up to 2 Asst. Professors who can conduct research & teaching on the politics of the policy process. Ad below. I'm the Search Chair and happy to answer questions (please email, no DMs). Policysky polisky sociology 🛟📈lawsky

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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If only Mayor Cianci had lived to see this day. 🙄

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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If it's a crime to be homeless then paying an hourly wage that is insufficient to pay for housing means you're an accessory at a minimum

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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What’s the line? “Today was not the day to quit propofol?”

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Jessica Kant 's avatar Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social
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These young activists are incredible. Please read what they have to say and spread it around. Youth organizing is the only thing that gives me any fraction of hope for an otherwise terrifying future.
transkidsdeservebetter.org/trans-activi...

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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Mandatory registration of all bulletin board users in college cannot bode well for human flourishing and self expression, says one expert.

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Stella's avatar Stella @antlervel.vet
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❌ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness ✅ shit was mid

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Daniel Schultz's avatar Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social
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Panic! as the Discourse

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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I’m the problem, for trying to organize Delta airline employees over the help line. But really—we do not have to consent to this way of living and we need each other to get out.

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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I watched it the night before my trip to Paris and told every single French person I could about it (& visiting Americans). Many had seen it and loved it. 😁😅🥐

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Jon Green's avatar Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social
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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine's avatar Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social
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Among his many memorable achievements, Martin Mull is also the source of the famed “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” quip (according to Elvis Costello, at least).

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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SCOTUS holds 6-3 that it is the executive branch now

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Django Wexler's avatar Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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I think a lot of people are gonna read that Ezra Klein piece about non Biden options and how to get there

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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Jesus Christ. This is a nuclear level event.

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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Oh my goodness this is awful, and it just started.

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jon ben-menachem's avatar jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com
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After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-lib...

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Jenn Lena's avatar Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social
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To think that in the same lifetime I get to be represented by Mayors Cianci AND Adams.

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Daniel Radosh's avatar Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social
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Hey for extra fun guess what was the only way for people who still work at the show to find old clips that are important to have in the course of producing said show!

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Will Jones's avatar Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social
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The University of Minnesota Faculty Senate just voted to "approve a vote of no confidence in the leadership of Interim President Ettinger and Provost Croson due to their unprecedented interventions into faculty hiring processes." @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social

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Jelena Brankovic's avatar Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social
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I wrote a little introduction to the research project I am about to start working on soon ✨

If the title “Datafying Universities: The social construction of organizations as statistical units” sounds inviting or relevant to you—maybe you want to check it out!

👉 jelenabrankovic.net/datafying-un...

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jj skolnik's avatar jj skolnik @modernistwitch.bsky.social
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just ran across the fact that andy warhol rented the factory for $200/mo in 1964, roughly $2000/mo in 2024. average rent in manhattan these days (for a place i would wager is much smaller than a giant loft) is double that barriers to survival are also barriers to making art

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