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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Sword Bisexual
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Sword Bisexual
@shengokai
Martial artist, motorcyclist, and comics philosopher. Areas: Japanese phil, race, gender, disability, and tech/AI. Pragmatic Dragon. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Joined March 2009
- I think 2023 will actually be harder because none of us, not a single person except for the massively privileged, has had a moment to recover from the sheer horror and unrelenting brutality of the past few years.
- Roe is a massive disability rights/disability justice issue. Not simply because disabled persons have sex, vigorously, enthusiastically, and quite often, but because there's a long history of the state imposing abortion on disabled persons.
- Anyone who thinks universities are hotbeds of wokeness has never sat through a curriculum committee meeting with a "diverse" course on the agenda, has never witnessed the resistance to approving "area studies" programs, and has never watched faculty argue over hiring priorities.
- I'm this close to making my online syllabus two sentences: "Fuck it, you all pass. Stay safe."
- I'm going to put this out there: perhaps we're seeing an uptick in adult ADHD cases because many children with ADHD grew into adults with ADHD whose professions, personal lives, and living spaces provided them with the necessary scaffolds to manage their ADHD.
- Before Labor Day ends, I want to remind everyone that higher education runs on the exploitation of precarious faculty, junior faculty, and graduate students, as well as the support staff who are routinely exploited by administration and their collaborators in the faculty.
- Lucasfilm robbed us of a story about a man forced to serve an oppressive government who discovers he can be more than what they forced him to be while simultaneously baiting every Black fan into believing that we'd get Boyega as a Jedi. I will NEVER forgive this injustice.
- Colleagues, none of our institutions are prepared for what our Black students, staff, and faculty are going to bring back to them in the fall. Not a damn one. Everything happening in our streets is going to be into our classrooms, in our committee rooms, our departments. (1/n)
- Once again I am asking you to stop using Adderall as a stand in for some kind of moral or personal failing. Every time you do, you demonstrate your lack of empathy for people who need stimulant medication to function specifically, and people with disabilities generally.
- People seem really upset that I'd suggest a good education in the sciences should connect the sciences with their socio-cultural impact. To be clear, this knee-jerk reaction, that science is not and has not been political, is a big part of the problem.
- Gonna say the quiet part out loud. The media treatment of Fetterman, the constant questioning of his ability to serve, is literally an intensification of what every disabled person has to endure when we insist on living beyond the limits of ableism.
- Fuck tenure, I want revenge.
