Tuesday Links!
* CFP: Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction & Fantasy.
* CFP: Sexual Violence, Social Movements, and Social Media.
* Tonight! I’m talking at this event about Black Panther, oppression, and liberation for the MU Amnesty International chapter.
* The Revealer has an excerpt from Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia.
* Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration.
Re-reading Infinity Gauntlet and honestly it looks like Thanos was just trying to help. pic.twitter.com/PCBlHZsNv9
— Hucky Barnes: The Twintter Soldier (@TylerHuckabee) April 24, 2018
* How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.
* The Professor Who’s Warning the World About Facebook and Google.
* How Dual Enrollment Contributes to Inequality.
* Reading on the Chaos in the UW system.
* “Wisconsin Won’t Remove Names of KKK Affiliates From Buildings. It Will Build an Exhibit Instead.” Could do both, you know!
* Which Animal Kills the Most Humans?
* Woman condemned to live in hell forever.
* “James Cameron Compares His Avatar Sequels to The Godfather, But Admits That Could Be a Huge Mistake.” Oh, you think that could be a mistake, do you?
* The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won’t save American democracy.
* The good news for Trump is that this is the last bit of embarrassing tape footage out there [pauses, touches finger to ear] I’m being told the pee tape is real.
* Woman fined $500 for taking her in-flight apple off the plane.
* Shock report: Man whose only qualification was physical proximity to Trump may not be qualified to run the VA.
* Unbelievable desecration on the Cinderella Blu-ray. Who signed off on this?
The Blu-ray of CINDERELLA (right) has been so scrubbed of grain that they've actually destroyed the linework in some scenes pic.twitter.com/TlqiVk5eY6
— Stephen Duignan (@stephen_duignan) April 23, 2018
* Walking Dead and Fringe Director Seith Mann Will Bring BLACK to the Big Screen.
* The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe.”
* She created a document to warn women of sexual harassers. It’s haunted her ever since.
* This App Can Tell You the Indigenous History of the Land You Live On.
* Your Next Job Interview Could Be with a Racist Bot.
* Here come the climate gentrifiers.
* It’s OK to Say if You Went Back in Time and Killed Baby Hitler.
This is like a painting from the Renaissance. pic.twitter.com/nhmxYxD0vC
— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) April 22, 2018
* Husband-wife Gaffigan comedy team will be Marquette’s spring commencement speakers.
* I say teach the controversy.
Southern Illinois University is recruiting PhD grads for VOLUNTEER faculty positions. Duties include teaching undergrad and grad classes, committee service, and thesis supervision. https://t.co/i1y84exQFc
— Melissa Hubbard (@melissa_hubbard) April 23, 2018
Written by gerrycanavan
April 24, 2018 at 8:32 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Gerry Canavan 
2nd Tuesday CFP on gender violence and media could hold an entire 4-day conference with breakout groups on the scholarly and media implications of THIS:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ldbahr/status/989146344957739008
Scroll Down***and speed-read the last comments-as-asymptotic-compounding ( *** The sci-fi film speculations at the bottom of the thread are prescient )
Convinced that this is where most 21st C family dinner conversation ought to begin, let alone open doors to our children for what’s possible.
#Rachels #futureRachels
Erez
April 30, 2018 at 8:39 am