Rearranged my wall!! All the precious art that I’m proud of all ends up hidden away in a sketchbook or folder so the art on my wall ends up being my more mediocre pieces lol so I categorized some more stuff as ‘mediocre’ and cut them out to display 😅 second pic is my ‘speed test grading’ method lmao in which I check 10 tests at the same time so I’m not biased when checking specific students tests 😌
The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I’m sure it’ll give more options soon.
Vanilla Tumblr: (I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn’t have any. I’m EU so no Live for me).
FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.
A lot of people wanna do “revolution” but don’t wanna do the reading/self-education, a kind of anti-intellectualism which is actually fairly reactionary.
Your knowledge about movement history should be deeper than a Wikipedia article.
And yes, revolutionary orgs often have reading groups! They don’t just read magazine articles! They read books!
There is a world of movement knowledge out there that’s longer than a Twitter thread.
Also the suggestion I sometimes see floating around that people who haven’t been through higher education don’t read and/or can’t understand and contribute to complex social theory is actually, ironically, elitist
One nice starting point if you’re looking for texts to read and work through with others is libcom libcom.org
Many biographies of movement figures for general audiences exist, and they often have a good overview of movement tactics that the person and their colleagues engaged in. Biographies are another access point.
It’s valuable to follow presses that put out collections of speeches and papers from movement figures too, like Haymarket, Verso, Pluto, AK Press, and PM Press. Even reading the sites can give you a sense of what resources to look for.
YouTube can be a dangerous place but also you can find lesser known speeches by people like MLK and Malcolm X there. And you can find edited collections of writing by folks like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who aimed much of her writing at the general masses.
There are also bookstores that make it their mission to help people learn revolutionary ideas and movement history. Three that come to mind are @/FirestormCoop @/bluestockings and @/chariscircle. All have regular, intentional reading groups/events.
Work by academics for academic audiences/on academic presses can be useful, but it’s not the only work out there and if you’re limiting yourself to that frame and/or recasting non-academics as academics, maybe shift your orientation
Anyone who is taking the time to read and write on Twitter through a limited analytic frame of what counts as knowledge and theory should spend some time with books and articles on the decolonising science reading list (or other items like these)
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