Lesley Larkin
@lalarkin
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Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Author of Race and the Literary Encounter
Joined July 2009
Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.
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jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins
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Join us 7pm TOMORROW 3/17 for our keynote lecture! Writer/scholar @TamikoN discusses Japanese American incarceration during WWII and her connection to resisters' stories profiled in her new graphic novel @WeHerebyRefuse. Register for our free online event: https://t.co/KHAysiemcX
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I can't wait to welcome Tamiko Nimura to NMU tomorrow as this year's DCRP keynote speaker. Register for this exciting event at https://t.co/a6kImRvr6L
#nmudcrp #weherebyrefuse
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So pleased to take part in this exciting event!
Be sure to join us for our next #ELSIFridayForum on February 11, "#Genomic Imaginaries: Sparking Dialogue between #ELSI and Literary Studies," featuring Lara Choksey, Lesley Larkin @lalarkin, & moderated by Rebecca Wilbanks. Learn more & register here: https://t.co/n0GhFQiKEY
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.@SenRonJohnson: "I do not believe America is a systemically racist nation. I wish the current leaders of some of these movements would really go back and reread MLK Jr’s speeches and his approach to achieving greater racial equality." (1/2 of quote)
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Such a cool project, and an honor to contribute!
Our “How Reading Shapes Us” blog is back with a wonderful essay by Lesley Larkin. Please check out her beautiful and thought-provoking reflections on reading Black literature as a white reader. @lalarkin
https://t.co/ZsySmOCsEC
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Me no cry because cookie is finished. Me smile because cookie happened.
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THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF IS A FUCKING COVID HOTSPOT GO HOME WITH YOUR BIGOT WIFE YOU FUCKING HOMOPHOBE
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Pence Instinctively Addresses Harris’ Husband In Audience During Debate Responses https://t.co/1akULWl1Q3
#Debates2020
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Police culture can be insular and tough to penetrate, but the public can hold law enforcement accountable. Here are important methods and context you need to know.
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Thank you, Governor.
The events of the last couple of weeks have really sent a clear message that black lives are under threat every single day. We cannot live in a society and a country where our rights and dignity are not equal for everyone.
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You're killed police, you're told it's your fault. You're killed by covid-19, you're told it's your fault. You live in neighborhoods saturated with poverty, you're told it's your fault. Rarely are you told about the policy, about the history, about the literal knee on your neck.
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-End Qualified Immunity -Establish a national use of force standard -Create database of decertified officers -Support community oversight -Demilitarize police -Deprioritize minor offenses -Investigate all fatal police shootings -Promote alternatives to 911 For starters...
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Exactly. When do scientists stop searching for an unknown genetic cause based on an implausible hypothesis rooted in a backward & disproven concept of bio race invented to justify slavery & white supremacy, which has produced nothing but health inequality & diverts social change?
@JessicaTutles @kelseycpriest @Health_Affairs It has been explored. See, eugenics. See, medical history textbooks. See the work of @DorothyERoberts, Harriet A. Washington, Karen and Barbara Fields, the list goes on. See the recent project by medical students at Berkeley @bernielim on abolishing race-based medicine.
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So last week for Thanksgiving I ran a headline saying “Turducken Is Performative,” paraphrasing @kimseverson. Over the weekend I got an email from JUDITH BUTLER
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DYK? NMU is the only public university in the nation to offer a course held in a lighthouse. #ShareNMU
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