rebeccmeister | So, things.

I continue to be really impressed by the

marshallprojectemail_feed, which provided me with the following link, among many others.

This is one of those uses of my tax money that makes me angry:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/06/police-brutality-lawsuits-cities-settlements-credit-ratings/612301/

Apparently a number of academics are participating in a strike for black lives today:

https://www.shutdownstem.com/

My biggest issue with this is: where are you, fellow academics, every other day of the week, month, year? For the biologists especially, why aren't you already working to decolonize your biology courses? All you need is a teaspoon to dig down ever so slightly and you will find out so much about how biology is caught up in racism and colonialism. I don't know why any biologists would ever think they were exempt from this work - except that hey, that's white supremacy at work, right? Especially male white supremacy.

So I feel I am at a tangent with regards to this particular effort.

But you can rest assured that I will continue to read, vote, listen, donate, and speak.