Deborah McDowell
Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Professor, @WoodsonUVA Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellCourage is contagious. Let’s keep going.
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellCan you say the same?! 🤚
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellHow do democracies erode—and what role does education play in resisting authoritarianism? @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social breaks down the warning signs and why schools matter. Register and watch the full conversation: sharemylesson.com/webinars/aft-book-c… @aft.org
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellFwiw 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8 are already required in law or policy and are not being followed so this is already half dead on arrival.
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellFor billionaires, attacking DEI also creates a new set of allies. It gets blue collar workers (especially White men) to side with billionaires rather than against them, by fueling blue collar workers' anger at the fact that they didn't benefit from efforts to expand access to white collar prosperity
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellThe desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving billionaire attacks on DEI. Because marginalized students/workers have led the questioning of white collar alignment with billionaires, and bigotry makes it easy to get privileged workers not to care if the marginalized are pushed out
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellThis desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving the billionaire class's efforts to cut, curb, and control higher education. Because academia is the machine that produces the white collar class. bsky.app/profile/loui...
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellNow, I say decimate because the goal isn't to destroy white collar work entirely. It's to make those "good jobs" so rare that people will do anything to get and keep them. Including and most especially—working to quell public resistance and bolster billionaires' power.
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellThe billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellRichard Kluger, SIMPLE JUSTICE: THE HISTORY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION AND BLACK AMERICA'S STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellKudos to our children's literature scholar colleague! She deserves every single penny *and* a position at an institution that appreciates her as a teacher and scholar.
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellWe don’t talk enough about Alfre Woodard’s performance in Star Trek: First Contact. Stunning. And among other things, brought out some of Patrick Stewart’s moments. He rarely had a partner who could meet his energy, but she did. 🖖🏽
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellI've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellWashington Post publisher Will Lewis, "who has already earned a reputation for showing up late to work when he showed up at all, did not join the Zoom" about the staggering cuts.
- Reposted by Deborah McDowelli suppose it’s fitting that the model the billionaires have in mind when they want to destroy a journalistic institution and make it a reactionary slop machine is The Free Press
- Slime on slime on slime!!
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellWaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast “Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said More in tonight’s Status
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellThe guy that just had his goons seize ballots from the 2020 elections is asking us to get on to something else. Hmm... how about no?? www.salon.com/2026/02/03/g...
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellI’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellRemember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellhow am i suppose to feel patriotic when the founders of my country set up a system to give privilege to an already privileged elite through a series thinly veiled lies about liberty? it was never really suppose to be about us common people, was it?
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellJeffrey Epstein was an absolute atrocity of a human being. I'd rather have John Wayne Gacy over for dinner. And yet he was a magnet to an army of rich, influential people. When people say they want to guillotine all billionaires, this is what inspires such ideas.
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellIf you work in a high school and your students are walking out for a righteous cause: Don’t get in their way, you’re going to look like an asshole
- Reposted by Deborah McDowellexplain to me, very slowly, like the dimwitted child you must think I am, how body cameras or ICE cooperating with cops would have prevented any of the many, many, many law enforcement murders committed by both ICE and cops over the years which were already thoroughly documented on video
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellIt’s fascinating how some people have the gall to say no one could’ve predicted it’d get this bad when they’ve spent a decade saying we were overreacting.
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- Reposted by Deborah McDowellToday at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.
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- The older I get the more I understand what the elders meant when they insisted they had already paid the price of the ticket for we who were born of them. And even though they knew getting on board” without hellishness & fuckery was never guaranteed, we still had our tickets to ride that train.
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