Myriam Gurba Serrano
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@jpbrammer
I was once lecturing on Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams and a student fell asleep and I gave her extra credit.
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A lot of people think domestic violence is two people arguing and throwing dishes when it’s really about one person slowly, and often quietly, draining the life from a victim they keep at home.
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It’s not a coincidence that two highly feminized professions, teaching and nursing, are in crisis.
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The children of Gaza held a press conference requesting that you stop facilitating their extermination. They said, “We invite you to protect us.” You have NO moral authority. You are covered in their blood.
I will not rest until every hostage, like Abigail, ripped from their families and held by Hamas is back in the arms of their loved ones.
They have my word.
Their families have my word.
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Some teachers might be wondering, "What can *I* do to end racism on my campus?" For many, the answer is early retirement.
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MY DAD JUST RETURNED THIS BOTTLE OF STRAWBERRY HILL TO ME. He confiscated it from me when I was SIXTEEN…THIRTY YEARS AGO. ITS VINTAGE!
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The families of hostages ALREADY asked for one. And they have been IGNORED.
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If Black women can't sleep soundly in bed without fear of execution, we don't have a democracy to be saved. We have the work of creating a democracy.
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Kids in my classroom just called a Oujia board "ghost google."
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Lol. I can’t stop laughing. Am I naive? Is this real?
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The thing about US culture is that it’s steeped in death but denies people grieving rituals.
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I once did a short lesson for my HS students on “how to do small talk.” Afterwards, kids started showing up at lunchtime to “practice their small talk.”
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This writer wrote a fake ass social justice book. Don't read it because it a) the pinche book sucks and b) it will turn you stupid. Do, however, read my bitchy critique
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At an
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party, guests dined while BARBED WIRE CENTER PIECES adorned the tables. You know, to evoke border chic. 👇🏽
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I know people are freaking out about big fascism, like federal level stuff, but there’s plenty of fascism to fight at the state and local level too. And that’s where our efforts are likeliest to be effective. In our communities.
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The thing about abusers is that their shitty, weird, and dramatic behavior gets you to obsess about them as if they're mysteries worth solving but when you get down to it, they're losers who are really good at wasting everybody's time.
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If I had to cry through math classes, then racists can cry through a history class or two.
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Men who abuse their female partners ARE ALSO abusing their children. Period. There is no “he was abusing the mom in front of the kids.” NO. That violent spectacle is a form of CHILD ABUSE.
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How fucking obnoxious is it to have a bunch of wealthy assholes shut-into their upscale homes wearing high end basics smugly imploring us to "imagine." I'm imagining a radical redistribution of your wealth, fuckers...
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"In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say."
- W.E.B Du Bois
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Look people, Jeanine Cummins didn't know shit about Mexico. She went on a 9 day vacation there, read a couple of books, and then stole our stories. Its not cultural appropriation. Its theft. Some of her material she ripped off of Mexican people's FACEBOOK PAGES.
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If you’re interested in supporting the arts and literature in the US, advocate for universal healthcare.
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Part of the reason people don't want to teach kids about consent, affection, boundaries, and anatomy is because then kids will be able to identify all the fucked up shit happening in and around their homes.
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Black Mexicans exist. And Black Mexicans founded LA.
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One of the privileges of racism is the *immense pleasure* it gives the racist. I wish people spoke about this more, about the sadistic glee that oppressors take in the harm they perpetrate. They aren't ignorant of it. They knowingly revel in what they do.
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You will be visited by 20,000 ghosts…
This Christmas Eve, Jill and I got to speak with some excited young Americans who happened to be very curious about the whereabouts of one Santa Claus.
Thankfully,
@NoradSanta
confirmed that St. Nick is on his way!
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One of the shittiest things carceral feminism has done is link a survivor’s worth to her willingness to pursue state-sponsored punishment of the person who harmed her.
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Every abuse victim knows this pattern too well, the violent spectacle followed by the abuser’s promise to follow the rules which they predictably turn around and piss on...
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The fact that so many people who graduated from US schools are shocked to learn that the US has a LONG history of committing reproductive atrocities against racialized women shows how shitty and "feel-good" history education in the US is.
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It’s almost always victims who go into exile. Rarely do perpetrators have to leave the places they fuck up.
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Getting the cops out of schools is a good start. But a lot of liberals go into education to BEHAVE LIKE COPS AMONG CHILDREN OF COLOR. All teachers do NOT go into the profession for benevolent reasons.
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Set out a cigarette and a cocktail for Joan tonight.
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The cruelest idea taught to kids is that a shitty childhood prepares them to suffer through adulthood. Oppression doesn't build character. Love does.
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I read a lot of mythology when I was in grade school. Some of it was Greek but most of it was my US history curriculum.
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I've seen cops show more force and violence against kids on public school campuses than they're showing "protecting" the Capitol.
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Shout out to everyone in a constant state of low key panic pretending not to be.
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Today, 2020's most anticipated turd of a book drops,
#americandirt
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If you’re teaching US history correctly, then it should be giving your students the creeps.
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People say I tried to cancel American Dirt. I did not. I recommended it. I wrote that it was a perfect fit for self-righteous gringa book clubs.
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Many teachers who work w students of color don't live in the communities they serve. I've sat on campus and endured fellow faculty talk about how "scary" and "dangerous" and "downright ugly" my school's neighborhood is. They shut up after I say, "I live here."
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Hating victims won’t prevent you from becoming one.
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Half of the unhoused female population lost their housing due to DV. It’s not so easy to “just leave”
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White people love taco tuesday but do they know about Mexican Mondays? In Orange County, not too long ago, swimming pools were segregated and MX were only allowed to swim the day b4 the pool was gonna be cleaned, los lunes.
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To all the stupids who keep griping, “This subject is so important y JC is the only one writing about it…” I present Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s Children of the Land: A Memoir, a 2020 book by a MEXICAN about MIGRATION in his OWN VOICE which EVERYONE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT. 👇
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Dragging women through protracted and stupid court battles is a common extension of DV. If the dude can no longer abuse you at home, he will abuse you, and impoverish you, through litigation.
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LBUSD tells me to LEAVE.
YALE invites me to SPEAK.
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If you're a teacher and no student has EVER complained to you about an experience of racism, it's not cuz they haven't gone through it. It's cuz your students don't trust you.
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Raise your hand if you, or someone you know, has experienced a spike in existential dread.
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If anyone living in this country has ever wondered what it's like to be in a relationship w a dangerously abusive man, you're in one.
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You know who else needs to be toppled? Spanish teachers who insist they teach "Castilian" and will fail you if you use Indigenous words in class.
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Some ppl have asked why many of us just didn't shut up abt American Dirt since making a big deal about it was going to draw attention to it. The thing is, it was gonna be a bestseller no matter & I preferred for it to be a shit-talked bestseller rather than one 100% celebrated.
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Prepping for Hispanic heritage month means I’ve gotta dust off my favorite meme...
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So, the CDC says you can go maskless outdoors if you're fully vaccinated. BUT HOW IS ANYONE SUPPOSED TO KNOW ANYONE ELSE IS VACCINATED? THE "HONOR" SYSTEM?
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Swear to god as I was sitting on the curb after getting quasi-FIRED one of my former students shows up w a BEST TEACHER EVER plaque and some snacks. I'm holding a Socratic sidewalk seminar.
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A massive student protest being led by GIRLS OF COLOR is happening at LB Poly High School. Students want dignity and JUSTICE. They REJECT the white supremacist and misogynst authoritarianism being foisted on them.
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Abusers are not "out of control." They seem that way but when you look at what they destroy, it's rarely their own stuff. It's almost always yours.
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The void he left all around the world is called genocide.
A very sad night for American leadership. The loss of Secretary Henry Kissinger leaves a void all around the world. He was a brilliant voice for the indispensable role America must play in the world. He has been a good friend & mentor since baseball opening day 2009. What a gift.
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Please please please keep masking and social distancing. My nephew has special needs and he’s 5 and he now has COVID. The pandemic isn’t over.
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Hella Mexicans deny anti-Blackness is real. Hella Mexicans are anti-Black. Hella Mexicans deny *their* Black ancestry. Enslaved Africans built México too, just like in the US.
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The reason so many female victims of “domestic violence” understand this political moment so well is that domestic violence is a *form of terrorism* Its not a series of arguments about dirty dishes. It’s a concerted form of hostage taking.
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Arguing that we shouldn't change the names of schools named after racists because the kids don't know they're racists is actually an argument that demonstrates how shitty our schools are.
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Have you stayed in an abusive workplace for the insurance and used said insurance for therapy so that you might be able to tolerate being abused by your insurer? In other words, are you a teacher?
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@unbridled_id
I have worked with too many HS teachers who “countdown” their female students turning of “legal age.”
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Mexican police opened fire on feminists protesting against Mexico's feminicidal environment. The police are the same *everywhere*
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I’m so dead. Just got a gift from my publisher: Mexican alien cupcakes.
🧁🛸👽
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Dude doesn't seem to understand that its, me, the critic who received the death threats. I've been told I'll be shot. I've been told I ought to be dismembered. If I'm murdered for my criticism, be sure to leave my body in front of Flatiron's offices.
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To think of all the books we didn’t, and won’t, get to read because of racial crapitalism...
Between 1950 and 2000, 97% of the novels published by Random House were written by white people, 90% of the novels reviewed in major periodicals were by white people, and 91% of major book prizes were awarded to white authors.
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Yesterday, during the Macmillan meeting, some Oprah ppl insisted that she has chosen Latinx writers for her club, stressing Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In reply, I grunted, "He's dead."
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I am furious that a teacher at my school called a kid the N-word. Now, teachers at my school are texting me, telling not to talk about what's in the papers and to show some "respect" for the district by shutting my mouth.
Is that how its gonna be?
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A white teacher at my school texted me to tell me to stop talking about Libby Huff calling her student the n-word. She said I was making too a big deal out of it and that I needed to show "respect" to my district. 🤐
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"You're telling me no Mexicans are qualified to do anything at a studio? Really? Nothing but mop up?" -Chris Rock
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TW: SA
My ex raped me when I tried leaving him. During the assault, he said two things: “You will obey me.” “I’m trying to get you pregnant.”
Mercifully, I didn’t have his child but the courts know EXACTLY what they’re doing. They’re doing exactly what he did to me.
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I replaced the bed my abusive ex insisted on assembling for me with a brand new one that he will never touch. I’m really relieved and happy.
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Why assimilate when you can interrupt misogynists, wear string bikinis to dinner, scream in Spanglish, laugh at authoritarians and write non-linear prose instead?
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I’m in the LA Times! 🤠
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“Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”
-Ruth Wilson Gilmore
On the left: Ahed Tamimi, Palestinian
On the right: Me, Israeli
Stop making this war about race.
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They see us as thugs, gangsters from birth, but the fact is a lot of POC are just savage...nerds. I was. And am. POC fam, I would LOVE to see your nerdy ass pics from back in the day...👀 (That's me 👇🏼
🤓)
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I'm horrified by what the Dalai Lama was caught doing *on camera* and baffled by the people who have watched the video and are "confused" by it. That's CSA. That's what it looks like. It happens everywhere, everyday...
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Instead of calling Mexicans for "a comment," why not call us to offer us...writing jobs? 🤔
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I still think abt the yt lady writer who asked me if I'd had a "quincewhatever." When I said no, she pitied, "Aw, your family must have been too poor." I swiftly corrected her, explaining that the reason I didn't have one was cuz my parents vetoed my proposed death metal theme.
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If teachers are so damn heroic, then pay us like superintendents.
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"Covid-19 makes us think about our mortality. Our brains aren’t designed for that."
Meanwhile, in México...
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@pronounced_ing
So many teachers use debate in harmful ways. Often, students are coerced into debating their own humanity and right to live and then graded on their ability to perform in a "detached" way, which is always easier for privileged students.
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I’m gonna stop referring to the “push to reopen schools” and call it “the push to kill teachers.”
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OMG This feminist pendeja made it onto the front page of the school newspaper, the High Life!!!!! 🤓😅📚
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When I taught adult ed, one of the best essays a cholo ever turned in was about the day he watched the Night Stalker get jumped in East LA.
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If you can't respect the anger of oppressed people, you're no "ally."
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I’d like to see Latines who get worked up about the loss of Spanish get as worked up about the loss of indigenous languages.
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