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Today I made the difficult decision to turn down a TT job offer w/o another offer in hand during the worst job markets in years. I'm *very* lucky to have received the offer but in the end, decided I wouldn't be happy (for several reasons that I won't go into here).
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During this process, I realized that just because you're "supposed to" take a job doesn't mean that you should. I'm sharing to normalize prioritizing personal happiness in academia- a decision I'm proud to have made for myself (along with the support of some amazing mentors)
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After many years on the market, I cannot believe that I get to say that I'll be an Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at
@gmucriminology
next year! I'm super excited to join a department with lots of brilliant and kind people.
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Celebrated the weekend by picking up this gorgeous
@prisonculture
book!! Excited to dig in.
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Had an interview on Tues rescheduled bc of the power outages. I happily gave my availability. Today, I was told my interview is cancelled out right bc I wasn't available the 2 days they needed me (on short notice, no less). One of those moments where you wonder about academia...
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I'm a doctor! Really excited to have successfully defended my dissertation earlier today. I'm now ready to relax a bit- first stop Yellowstone National Park tomorrow! 😀
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Just got the official email, so I guess its happening! I will be defending my dissertation this fall and starting 1/2022, I will join
@UWSoc
&
@justice_uw
as an NSF SBE Postdoc with
@john_majoreason
as my mentor. So thrilled after quite the year on the job market!
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So excited to have my first solo-authored article out in the world today! I use data from the Chicago Area Study to explore the relationship between criminal legal contact (CL contact), race, and protest participation.
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Manuscript submitted for review! This is the third time I've submitted a version of this paper that I've been working on since 2015 and I'm hoping third time is the charm. Fingers crossed!
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Very excited to say that today I accepted a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2020-2021 school year 🥳
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The final countdown! One week until I submit my dissertation to my committee. At this point, my coping mechanism is to repeat "A good dissertation is a done dissertation" over and over to myself until I fall asleep at night.
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@ashleytrubin
Thanks Ashley. I'm trying to see it as a blessing in disguise. I don't want to work somewhere that does something like this.
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The project that sparked my dissertation has been published
@LSI_Journal
and I couldn't be more thrilled! With Beth Richie, I show how family members of bond court defendants experience secondary prisonization even before their loved ones are incarcerated.
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Feeling grateful for a wonderful writing retreat with brilliant scholars and even better friends. We are building our way to a new kind of academia! ❤️
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Article by
@gabrielamkirk1
and me is live today at
@Pun_Soc
! I am so excited for this piece to be out in the world.
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Graduated on Friday and postdoc doesn't start until 1/1/2022. Does this mean I'm an academic free agent?
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Currently accepting tips and advice for moving away from a place you love dearly! I'm heading to Philly in August, which I am so, so thrilled about but will have a Chicago-sized hole in my heart.
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Along with
@chiarapack
, I'm really excited to be launching the Punishment & Society Reading Group this semester! First up is Disciplining the Poor on 9/21! Please DM or email me for more info.
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Just got an email notifying me that my first pub is “in press”! Feeling excited and grateful to be co-authoring this piece with my advisor (and wonderful human), Beth Richie 🥰
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Since the moment we met,
@chiarapack
has wowed me with her intellect, but more importantly her kindness. I feel so lucky to have "done" the market with her & I'm so excited for her to be an AP in an amazing department. I can't wait to visit her and her cute lil' baby!!!! ❤️🥳
Now that reality has sunk in, I’m ready to share that I’ll be joining
@UUtah
as an Assistant Professor of Sociology next fall 2024.
I feel so lucky to join a department with such brilliant, thoughtful, and kind scholars. I was truly impressed by them all during my campus visit!
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The ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion cohort has been announced! So very excited to be joining the
@ACLS1919
community and thrilled to be a part of a super impressive cohort. See all of our timely and important projects here:
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Being on the market is so much more fun when you can celebrate the wins of your friend, even when you're up for the same job. So grateful for my little crew (you know who you are ❤️) and hopeful that this can become the norm.
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Prepping for (whatever is left of) the job market for this fall! I will mostly be applying to postdocs but also some “perfect fit” TT positions. I’ve made my spreadsheet and have drafts of my materials. What else should I be doing during this calm before the storm?
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I am finally going to switch over to Zotero next week. Without shaming me (bc I've shamed myself enough while manually doing my diss. citations), I'd love any suggestions folks have about making the process as painless as possible 🙃
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Since grad school, my goal has been an AP job on the East Coast. Some didn't think it was smart to be geo-bound, but I stuck with it & was able to make it work. I'm obviously very lucky but also feel that we shouldn't have to sacrifice our "must haves" just to stay in academia.
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Do you care about incarcerated people and/or access to healthcare? Prison Health News is looking for new volunteers to help us run the organization! We are mostly volunteers and make decisions collectively. Please email prisonhealthnews
@gmail
.com to get involved.
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I'm so excited! The Free Library of Philly has a bunch of amazing free events coming up with
@rwgilmoregirls
@ruha9
and
@KeeangaYamahtta
. All on "sale" at 10a ET today!
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Lease signed, security deposit paid. Officially moving to Madison in August! Would love any suggestions on things to do, places to go, hikes to enjoy, and cheese curds to eat!
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Accepting all good wishes as our pup goes in for scheduled surgery today! Here she is yesterday at the dog beach in Chicago.
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So excited to read this brilliance from
@reubenjmiller
! (stamp from
@PilsenCommBooks
seemed too perfect to leave out)
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My grandmother is in her 80s, has COPD, and uses oxygen every night. I talked to her on the phone yesterday and she told me she's scared, which breaks my heart. I am
#socialdistancing
for her and others like her.
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So excited that this Handbook (and my chapter in it) is out! Thank you to
@cscotthayward
and the other editors for making the process so straight-forward. Looking forward to getting my hard copy soon!
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Can somebody who is tenured and doesn't have children start creating a repository for postdocs? Scouring the internet to find all the relevant positions is exhausting 😅
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Making chocolate croissants is almost as difficult and time consuming as writing a dissertation.
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When I started figuring out how to recruit for my dissertation a few years ago,
@SharlynDGrace
said "Sure, but what if bond doesn't exist by the time you start?" I might be finished with my interviews, but today, the Pretrial Fairness Act was passed which ends money bond in IL!!!
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Just finished our first
@Punishment_CRN
Reading Group and what a success! Thanks to all who joined. I learned so much and really enjoyed our conversation. Next up,
@UptownKastro
's Purgatory Citizenship on 11/9 @ 4p ET. DM me or
@chiarapack
to get added to the listserv!
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Excited to participate in my first Running Down the Walls! From Philly to Atlanta,
#StopCopCity
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Please join us for our next
@Punishment_CRN
Reading Group! We're meeting on November 9th at 4-5:30pm ET to discuss
@UptownKastro
's Purgatory Citizenship with the author, himself! Its sure to be a robust convo about reentry, racism, and abolition.
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Happy to answer any questions about this. I officially started as a Fellow on 9/1 and am already so grateful for the privilege to spend my time entirely on my own work. Highly encourage everyone to apply!
The
@MellonFdn
/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships are open! This fellowship supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the
#humanities
and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.
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Health and surveillance are inextricably linked. The criminal legal system is a public health issue!
This horrific story, about a Texas woman arrested **while having a miscarriage** for missing her court date, both exposes the insanity of “failure to appear” policies and shows how jails’ promises of healthcare ring hollow:
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Starting off 2020 by submitting the first article out of my dissertation for publication.
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Faith Deckard (
@Deckardfaith
) talks about how the risk logic of criminal legal contact is inverted for commercial bail agents at
#ASA2023
a brilliant and fascinating contribution!
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Congrats
@chiarapack
!!!! 🎉
Chiara Packard won the 2023-2024 Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in the Social Sciences for her paper “Prosecution for Services: How the Blending of Coercion and Care Shapes Prosecutors’ Decisions.”
Julia Thomas received an honorable mention for the award.
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Best thing about co-authoring a paper? Getting to build knowledge and friendship with a fellow grad student. Second best thing? Having somebody to celebrate submitting it with!
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I'm extraordinarily grateful to my amazing mentor team as well as a top-line group of colleagues-turned-friends. This year has been a lesson that, when one of us wins, we all win. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by amazing community. Onward!
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True love is waiting until my partner comes back from vacation on Wednesday to watch the new Succession episode.
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I really don't think I could be any happier for my co-author-turned-friend
@Deckardfaith
! Congrats to UCLA for getting the privilege of hiring such a superstar!
Now that the ink has dried and I’ve bought swag, happy to announce that F2024 I’ll be joining UCLA as an assistant professor in sociology!
The journey has been real & I’m overjoyed that things are falling into place.
“Big girl job” loading, now just have to finish this PhD 🤗
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I've been working on my professional website for a few months and finally made it live today (its in my twitter bio)! I'd love any feedback folks have.
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I got an R&R yesterday (!!) and am feeling so grateful for kind and supportive critical feedback. I've gotten nasty reviews before on another paper and the former makes it MUCH more exciting to get back to work to make the paper stronger.
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Just finished
@unapologeticdoc
on
@POVdocs
. Highly recommend for everybody, but esp. folks interested in police/prisons/abolition, social movements, Chicago, and intersectionality. Loved learning more about Dr.
@janaebonsu
and
@BellaBahhs
!
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With my new postdoc income, I can finally invest in getting better at Spanish!! It is hard and frustrating and humbling, but today my tutor recommended watching "Soy Giorgina" for homework so that means I will never stop paying her.
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This article hits home. My uncle was intellectually disabled and died from COVID in April. He caught it in his living community and his health deteriorated quickly. We said goodbye to him via FaceTime- I wouldn't wish it upon anybody.
An attempted coup in a pandemic, but we can't lose sight of our most vulnerable as we reckon with the crimes of the powerful. Here's a beautiful (and painful) analysis of COVID's impact on the intellectually and developmentally disabled from
@haroldpollack
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I’ve been super busy and haven’t been able to do my usual weekends off for the past month. This past weekend I was finally able to return to that practice (and watched two whole seasons of Selling Sunset 🙃) What a difference it makes! Feeling refreshed as I read & write today 🥰
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@ClaireShrugged
There is a great podcast featuring
@prisonculture
that answers this and many other questions! Find it here:
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My
#SocAF
this week is setting up our new couch and completely forgetting about academia or the job market for a few hours... it felt nice! 😂
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My summer course started this week! I am teaching a 200-level class for the first time and am so excited to see the brilliance that my students will continue to bring to the classroom. UIC students never cease to impress!
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Was there a tweet going around last year about how to write a good extended abstract for ASA? Editing mine now and wondering if I'm focusing the right amount on the right things. Any help appreciated!
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This grant made collecting my dissertation data infinitely easier. Happy to answer any questions folks may have about applying!
ASA has received a grant from NSF to manage Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for the next 4 years. 25 awards up to $16,000 annually. Deadline 11/1.
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I’ve spent a couple of nights this week at the jail paying bond. I’ve been the only white person both times. I’ve seen pregnant women and women with small children wait around for hours. I’ve seen mothers paying cash to get their sons out of jail.
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Doing some Zoom "court watching" today-- the problems with this format are so obvious after only a few minutes. Accused people straining to hear the judge, paperwork unavailable, etc.
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Check out this succinct and informative summary of the Main Line and segregation in the Philly area created by future Sociology Ph.D.
@EasonMajor
! As a native of the area, these are the local basics all Philadelphians should know.
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Submitted a paper to a workshop yesterday and having a full Treat Myself Day today, complete with a purchase of new pants and Panera’s tomato basil soup 🤤 Maybe I should start submitting more papers to things 🙃🙃🙃
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My postdoc has been remote (thank you
@john_majoreason
) and its made my time more productive and my life way easier! Couldn't agree more.
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I also saw this happen with food stamps. Even if people spent "only" a couple of weeks in jail, they could be released without any of the support mechanisms that they had previously used to survive.
People on Medicaid who are in jail pretrial often lose their health insurance.
Medicaid's "inmate exclusion policy" means that while someone is locked up, and the state is paying for their (terrible) healthcare, Medicaid doesn't cover that person. Ok, reasonable. But /1
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ONE day is too long! Many people I interview lose jobs for not showing up to one shift. This starts a domino effect, where they may get evicted, have difficulty finding other employment, etc.
Cash bail detains people charged with serious offenses—but for how long? We found that in some urban, suburban, and rural IL counties more than 50% of people charged with serious offenses spend less than 7 days in pretrial detention.
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Christine was so kind to invite me to co-author this piece with her! It was also a really nice way to dip my toe into law review writing.
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Understanding how the system works and seeing it in practice are two different things. I can’t imagine experiencing it as a family member or friend. We need to end cash bond and pretrial detention. We need to close all jails and prisons. We need to abolish the police.
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Alums from my Very White Undergrad™️ and Very White High School™️ are organizing to make systemic changes towards racial justice and it is very cool and exciting!!! Both efforts are being led by women of color alums, but you already knew that.
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Had our very first student-run dissertation workshop today in
@uicsoc
! It was lovely to be in a room full of peers giving kind, supportive, thoughtful AND still critical feedback 🙌 Here's hoping that I never forget that it can be done.
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Paige is a brilliant scholar and a very, very generous mentor. She has shared more application drafts and given me more helpful feedback than I can count. I feel very lucky to have her as a friend and a colleague, and I'M SO EXCITED SHE'S IN ASR!!!!!
"Gaslighting is primarily a sociological rather than a psychological phenomenon" that must be understood within a social context of inequality, sexism & power. Phew. This piece by Paige Sweet is really, really excellent.
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Using interview data with people on electronic monitoring (EM), we show how sheriff's officers in Cook County punish people being released to EM from Cook County Jail through the manipulation of time and space, verbal threats, and infantilization.
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Studying pretrial release, I often grapple with what true freedom is. Ever since I heard this quote from
@CosbyMoni
, I keep coming back to it: "Freedom is having good choices." Seemingly simple but so, so brilliant.
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Productivity tips I've stumbled upon: For Word, "Focus Mode" lets the doc take up full screen. For Mac users, changing settings to "Automatically hide and show the Dock" prevents looking @ email/messages. Utilizing both right now as I fight myself tooth-and-nail to write, damnit!
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This was a common theme of my interviews and prevented people from going to important doctor's appointments, keeping or getting a job, and/or taking their kids to school. EM is another form of incarceration.
@RevLJoyce
Colleen Gorman of
@CookCoDefender
talks about how Sheriff Dart's electronic monitoring movement request process is so difficult that it has caused her clients to lose jobs and even miss the birth of their children.
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I had many geniuses on my dissertation committee, and now one of them has been recognized as such! Congrats
@reubenjmiller
!!!!! So well deserved.
ABF Research Prof.
@reubenjmiller
has been recognized by MacArthur Foundation w/ a 2022 “Genius Grant” for his exceptional research on incarceration. Congrats, Reuben! We're so excited to continue to follow your work—and all of the research to come from Class of '22!
#MacFellow
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Fieldwork in rural courts is: waiting around for 3.5 hours to see a bond hearing, only for the charges to get dropped.
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From St. Louis City Jail, where they're locking legally innocent people up without any court dates. Forget ethical, how is this LEGAL?
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Please consider giving to the Takeia Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund to honor the inspiring life of my brilliant, kind, and hilarious friend/cohort-mate. The money raised supports a
@uicsoc
scholar-activist who makes the discipline a better place, just like Takeia did. Link 👇
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I am proud of this article for many reasons! It illustrates how punishment is still harmful outside of jails and prisons. It is the 1st that uses my diss. data, and it was such a joy to work with
@gabrielamkirk1
throughout the process. Hope you enjoy!
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Realy looking forward to presenting our paper at this wonderful ASA panel on Sunday at 10:30am CT!
@gabrielamkirk1
Panels! Finding the Sociology in Punishment and Society
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@tressiemcphd
@prisonculture
Hi Tressie-- I volunteer with Chicago's bail fund (and am a huge fan of your work). Would you be interested in donating a signed copy of Thick for a silent auction fundraiser in July?
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I'm very lucky to have research funds to cover the costs of the Remarkable 2 tablet. I used it today for the first time to take ethnographic field notes. I'm excited about how much easier it made things and I wanted to share since I haven't found much about using it in this way!
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Today is the day I switch to Zotero and I cannot speak highly enough of this easy-to-follow video created by
@megan_shaud
for newbies. Thank you, Megan!!!
I am finally going to switch over to Zotero next week. Without shaming me (bc I've shamed myself enough while manually doing my diss. citations), I'd love any suggestions folks have about making the process as painless as possible 🙃
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Help Illinois
#EndMoneyBail
and create a fairer pretrial justice system by filing a witness slip before Tuesday at 1pm!
File your slip here:
Instructions + more info here:
#EndMoneyBail
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This article in
@Chicago_Reader
about
@MOHAVVKJOHNSON
shows the injustice of pretrial EM but also beautifully describes who he is, outside of this onerous form of surveillance. I'm grateful to learn more about Mohawk, and especially to hear his music.
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Huge! This will have a positive domino effect preventing a lot of arrests/charges/convictions. One small step towards ending criminalization of poverty.
⭐️ THIS. IS. IT! ⭐️
@GovPritzker
signs our bill into law!
Illinois OFFICIALLY ends the practice of suspending licenses to collect parking ticket debt.
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This time tomorrow I’ll be taking my prelim exam aka the thing that has sucked life out of me all summer! Looking forward to getting it over with 🎉
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Cherishing today as a moment where I feel happy about being a grad student!! Great morning spent with
@MeghanDDaniel
getting work done outdoors over scones. (Mostly tweeting this so I can look back in approx. 2 months when I inevitably start questioning all my life choices again)
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UIC 2020 budget: $8.31 MILLION for campus cops, but only $3.31 million for African American Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, and Latin American & Latino Studies COMBINED.
#CopsOffCampus
#DefundUICPD
@thisisUIC
@SusanPoserUIC
@Geaux_Rex
@UofILSystem
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If you submitted an NSF proposal and you didn’t cry in the process, was it ever really an NSF proposal?
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Excellent news to see heading into the weekend!!! So excited for and proud of
@MeghanDDaniel
and Claire! 🎉🎉🎉
NEW! Claire Decoteau &
@MeghanDDaniel
: Genetic explanations retain dominance in the autism field, despite continuing challenge from advocates of environmental perspectives, because dominant actors are able to co-opt and subsume them under a genetic frame
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Dissertation Workshop lives on!!! So grateful for this group of people, who are both brilliant scholars and wonderful friends!
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