"Let’s just do what we can where we are within our capacity to the best of our abilities. Like, that’s really the best we can be hoping for. And let’s learn from the mistakes we make."
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before Twitter dies: I'm writing a book! It has beautiful cover art from @LoveisWise_! It will be out in August from @thenewpress! you can learn more & preorder it here: thenewpress.com/books/radical-
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In time for the end of COP27 (+ ~ Twitter?),happy to share our paper on“Climate Change, Epidemics and Inequality”/new go-to citation on the links between climate, epidemics and inequality is conditionally accepted at the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 1/n
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RIP to everything in my bookmarks. I really planned to go back to it one day.
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You've got six days to apply to the new SJN Journalists of Color Fellowship. Ten mid-career U.S. journalists will get solutions journalism training, leadership training, mentorship and community of practice — all led by !
Get started here: solu.news/JOC-fellowship
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You can reach me with stories/ tips / etc: sdirks@npr.org
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in the midst of the eulogies and yet another loss, complex & problematic as it has been… trying to find a way to keep open lines of connection: open.substack.com/pub/sandhyaeli
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"For Megan and I, our job is to reveal information. You can’t solve a problem you can’t see."
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HOW MUCH DO WE LOVE 'The Women Of 'She Said'' @jodikantor @mega2e with @zoeinthecities Carey Mulligan on the cover of @marieclaire? SPECTACULAR photo! 
This is a must-read, and @SheSaidFilm is a must-watch: @DaniSMcNally marieclaire.com/culture/she-sa #MeToo #TimesUp #SheSaid
This is a must-read, and @SheSaidFilm is a must-watch: @DaniSMcNally marieclaire.com/culture/she-sa #MeToo #TimesUp #SheSaid1
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A thing 23 year old Umbreen could not have imagined. I don't get weepy about this sort of thing but there's something in my eye right now...
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My name is Nabeela Syed. I’m a 23-year old Muslim, Indian-American woman. We just flipped a Republican-held suburban district.
And in January, I’ll be the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly.
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Her work will blow you away.
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@SehreenNoorAli 
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twitter.com/chrissyfarr/st…5, easily.
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Admit it. You have a spreadsheet you're really proud of.
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Today is my birthday. One thing I'd love is if teachers (high school, college, law, grad school, etc.) took advantage of our offer to send free copies of my book Usual Cruelty to your students. Send me a DM if you have students who want to learn more about the punishment system.
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Super interesting.
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Going back to this "Field Guide to Social Media" that @chandrn_ and @EthanZ wrote for @knightcolumbia last year. The chapter on decentralized networks (like Mastodon) begins on p.24, but the whole thing is wonderful & worth reading. knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illust
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No one better!
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Thrilled to join @NPR later this month as head of audio documentaries, leading the excellent teams on the Enterprise Storytelling Unit. Can't wait to get started! 
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One of the ground rules for this strategic planning process is that we won’t talk about how we did on our last strategic plan.
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This killed me.
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Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"
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"Even after 300 years, Salem’s witch trials remain a defining example of intolerance and injustice in American history. A new exhibition seeks to ask: In moments of injustice, what role do we play?"
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This Halloween, the Center for Women's History at the NYHS has opened a new exhibit challenging guests to consider "how generations of women’s rights activists have looked to the history of witch hunts as a call to defy gender norms." @anna_danzi_halp washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor
“Because what I learned at Emily Carr, and what is obvious from every other Pretendian story, is that people are able to perpetuate their deception through leveraging the power and protection of institutions.”
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Talked to @michellecyca — whose piece on Pretendianism is of one of the best pieces of longform journalism I've read this year — about the ongoing *pattern* of Pretendianism. She's very, very good:
annehelen.substack.com/p/the-pattern-
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and in so many other industries too.... sigh.
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Academic job talk candidate: "Here's a chocolate cake I baked!"
Faculty #1: "I hate chocolate why is this here."
Faculty #2: "Have you considered making pie instead."
Faculty #3: "How does this affect spaghetti."
Faculty #4: "I didn't have time to taste but here's a thought."
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“There are no new pains. I say this a lot as an Audre Lorde quote. I constantly read from all of the thinkers and people before me that have already explored and dealt with the same issues.” Great interview.
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“The Media Emboldens a Police State”: A conversation with movement lawyer Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin): theappeal.org/media-embolden
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Go @andshedontstop, @darosulakauri, & @piravilela! twitter.com/catchlight_io/…
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Nov 1 5pm ET: Join , , Sustainability for Microplastic Madness film screening & panel discussion on making of film, research, and youth activism on #plasticpollution. In-person or virtual. RSVP required (free!): eventbrite.com/e/microplastic
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Time and time again, people come here to die, and end up choosing to live.
Beautiful story from about an end-of-life facility for homeless people in Salt Lake City:
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Per this article, active duty Marine (and attorney) worked with his brother, also an attorney, to steal an Afghan child from her family - making a fake passport and telling her family to bring her here for medical treatment when they really planned to just… take her.
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This Marine lawyer helped an Afghan family escape Kabul so he could then force an adoption of the orphan baby these Afghans had become the guardians for. apnews.com/article/afghan
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NYT Opinion Video is hiring a Reporting Fellow. We want someone with great reporting skills, and a portfolio of inventive story ideas. Video experience is a bonus, but not required. Please share with any stellar journalists. Medium agnostic! nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/jobs
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I have conversations like that at least once a week, no joke. I just got a text from someone else right now. Hours of my week, every week. Hours I’m happy to spend because these are great people, but just think about that, and about how many people are doing that all the time.
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Who do you think is helping that woman?
Just a few days ago, I talked to a WOC who has been advocating for herself, for a promotion+raise at her company. The company responded by sending her to a workshop on advocating for yourself in your company. She responded by calling me.
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And: “I’ve asked many times what I can do to get promoted, & I don’t get a good answer. I’m thinking of leaving. And it will be my company’s loss since they didn’t offer me the opportunity to advance. I hit a ceiling that didn’t need to be there.” Anon South Asian Woman in report
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From about the experiences of WOC: “Asian women & Black women are less likely than white women to say senior colleagues have taken important sponsorship actions on their behalf, such as publicly praising their skills or advocating for a compensation increase for them.”
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I have seen women, esp WOC, spend significant time and energy on this work in every place I’ve worked. It is not acknowledged, tracked, or compensated. But it is DEI work, same as trainings, company sponsored ERGs, & that heritage month email - the stuff we recognize as work now.
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What is this work? It includes (1) building the secret support groups (2) helping colleagues process sexist and racist experiences and problem-solve their way through workplace issues, and (3) advocating for others when they’ve been unsuccessful or know it won’t go well.
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My observation: included in this work is the free-to-the-company coaching that women (and especially WOC) receive *from each other* and I wish we’d name that more often.
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The work women do to support employee well-being and foster diversity, equity, and inclusion takes time (per the report, more than TWICE as much time as what men are devoting!) and emotional energy, and too often results in burnout.
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“Compared to men at their level, women leaders do more to support employee well-being and foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.” This is “work that dramatically improves retention and employee satisfaction, but is not formally rewarded in most companies.”
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Friend at sent over their latest research on women in the workplace. [leanin.org/women-in-the-w](leanin.org/women-in-the-w)!
A few highlights and an observation: (🧵)
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Really looking forward to having this conversation today! 5 pm. Virtual. Open to all.
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This is a wonderful reminder.
Stop acting like your experience with family is your students’ experience with family.
#RealCollege
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A reminder that many college students were raised by family who aren't their blood parents. Aunts, uncles, grandparents, step moms/dads, cousins, family friends, godparents, foster parents...this is not uncommon. Be mindful of this with students, don't assume familial status.
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Such wonderful news!
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A gender equal world begins with legal change. I’m humbled and thrilled to join Equality Now’s incredible team in the fight to end discrimination and violence against women and girls. twitter.com/equalitynow/st…
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