Faculty UC Irvine. Finding Charity’s Folk. Slavery scholar. Digital Humanities. Speaker. ΔΣΘ. Radical Dreamer. Podcaster. r/t not endorsement https://xitter.gq/t.co/quFxuHZ71n
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Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Kermit the Frog told this year’s graduates at the University of Maryland that “life is better when we leap together.”
The beloved Muppet and creation of the late Maryland graduate, Jim Henson, delivered the main address at the university’s commencement Thursday evening in College Park, Maryland.
Kermit told the graduates, if they were “willing to listen to a frog,” that it’s important to stay connected to their families, friends and, perhaps most importantly, their dreams.
“The truth is,” the Muppet said, “dreams are how we figure out where we want to go, and life is how we get there.”
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
The fact that people could have so much sympathy for diddy 18 year old daughters but not for the 19 year old Cassie that was contracted to a 10 album deal and than pursued and abused by a 36 y/o is baffling to me #DiddyTrial
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Yall need to pay close attention to how the men in your lives are talking about this #DiddyTrial . Cassie IS the victim and that devil in human flesh is the predator. There’s no grey area, no “willing participant” BS, no devil’s advocate nothing!
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Alex Fine made a great statement via Cassie’s lawyer about the narratives online about how he must feel sitting there listening to her testimony and how he saved her. He said that’s an insult to the years of painful work she did and that she saved herself.
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
The Illinois House just passed the Sonya Massey Bill, mandating full background checks BEFORE hiring police. Sonya was killed in her kitchen by a Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy with a long history of misconduct. brnw.ch/21wSGD4
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
80-yo Linwood Riddick just walked across the stage at South Carolina State with a BA in Music — decades after pausing college to serve in the military and navigate segregation. He kept his promise to finish what he started. No excuses. Just dedication. 💪🏿🎓
🎥: @BillieJeanTV
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Congratulations to Prof. @DorothyERoberts on being named a 2024 @macfound fellow! Click to learn more about Roberts and her work exposing racial inequities in health and social service systems. #WomenAlsoKnowLaw buff.ly/4eOX7Mf
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Just learned that the documentary based on my new book is airing at 9 PM EST TONIGHT on select PBS stations nationwide. I'm not sure if it will air in your area but if so, I hope you watch!
pbs.org/wnet/chasing-the-dre…
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai arrived to the #Emmys with a red handprint over his mouth in solidarity with missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Historian of slavery here, Republicans wanting to disqualify Kamala Harris’ candidacy on the basis of the Dred Scott decision in 2024! But with this Supreme Court you never know.
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Feel free to call student occupation of a building disruptive, aggravating, etc. But for UCI leadership to label it as *violent* is insidious for a number of reasons (1/6)
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
A tenured UC Irvine professor (of global studies) is being arrested for protesting alongside students: “We cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy.”
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
UC Irvine just sent a mass alert about a protest turning “violent” on campus.
But when you view live footage at UCI, you just see a peaceful group of students.
You also see police on the rooftops threatening students with chemical weapons, tasers, batons, and rubber bullets.
At UC Irvine, hundreds turn out to demonstrate in support of Palestine ocregister.com/2024/04/25/at…
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Today is one of those moments where we have to remember that the cops were not actually defunded in 2020. The ruling class actually doubled down on funding them, to repress us in moments like this.
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
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Also, Mumia Celebrations in San Diego, Mexico, Berlin, UK and France!
Jessica MillwardPhD retweeted
Today, Faith Ringgold is known worldwide as an award-winning artist, celebrated children’s book author, professor, holder of 23 honorary doctorates, and activist who never gives up a fight.
ALT 🖼 Faith Ringgold, “American People #18: The Flag Is Bleeding,” 1967, oil on canvas, 72 in x 96 in., Courtesy Glenstone Museum and ACA Galleries, New York, © 2021 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York 📷 Photo: Rava Films, Courtesy Glenstone Museum