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@mchris4duke

Director of Libraries at MIT. Intersectional, queer, butch, lesbian, feminist. Working on my -isms. Freedom is indivisible AF. Tweets & opinions my own.

Cambridge MA
Joined March 2008

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    20 Feb 2017

    "The danger lies in ranking the oppressions. The danger lies in failing to acknowledge the specificity of the oppression." Cherríe L. Moraga

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    MacArthur Genius Ai-jen Poo Brings Actor to Media Party

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    21 hours ago

    "Critical Algorithm Studies: A Reading List," , referred to by .

  5. no pics, but tonight's dinner was chicken thighs marinated in buttermilk, garlic, & lime, then baked; plus acorn squash w/ cinnamon & brown sugar.

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    Today in History: novelist, folklorist, dramatist & anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston born, 1891

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    As of today, the Berlin Wall has been down longer than it was up.

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    23 hours ago

    New year's resolution: get the hell off of Academia ".edu", which has ramped up their efforts at monetizing authorial vanity to an unbearable degree.

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    23 hours ago

    Dallas County swears in its first ever black sheriff

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    23 hours ago

    “Survival Analysis of Faculty Retention and Promotion in the Social Sciences by Gender” by et al

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    Jan 7

    Women in academia, beware of the “fake leadership” (clean your colleagues’ mess & keep the trains running on time) position presented as the real thing. Let’s aim for “real leadership” roles that make us The Boss not “bossy.”

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    Jan 6

    In response to an audience question about talented young women who are hesitant to lead, cites : if you don't lead, you're probably opening a vacuum that a bad manager might fill.

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    Jan 2

    Top 10 reasons isn’t getting us to artificial general intelligence. A critique of deep learning, 5 years into its resurgence, by

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    Jan 5

    Our Fall 2017 BCALA News is finally online in publication-presentation format. Sorry for the delay. If you haven't already read the great book reviews in it, now is the time. Check out this 1 on a title about African American medicine during the Civil War

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    Netflix & windchill -7

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    Jan 6

    Good news, y'all...the Libraries are open for the final weekend of winter vacation! If that's not incentive enough, we've got heat. Come in out of the cold.

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    Jan 3

    Boston, Kenmore Square, 1950s:

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    Jan 5

    Hey, , are you sharing your work on ? Why not use CORE? It’s a nonprofit platform run by the MLA; work is indexed by Google Scholar et al; you get a DOI; nobody has to sign up to download your stuff—and we don’t send creepy emails!

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    Jan 5

    A great lake and a volcano are in a Twitter war.

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    Jan 4

    I want to prove something to someone. Please RT if you are happy with a female Doctor.

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