Dr. Maya Weeks
Feminist political ecologist, artist, beginning grazier. I live on YTT Northern Chumash & Salinan land. Affiliated researcher at UC Davis Feminist Research Institute & lecturer at Rutgers University; views mine. mayaweeks.com
- "UUP, PSC/CUNY and the Rutgers academic unions strongly support an escalating, comprehensive and coordinated series of national actions by unions, faith, organizations, businesses and communities to oppose the militarization of our country."
- Got clocked immediately as a surfer while simply purchasing a pastry 🌊 Yes, I suppose I was magnetized by the west swell that I could feel in the atmosphere 🫡
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- Reposted by Dr. Maya WeeksAttention Artists of Philadelphia! The time has come to find an artist for our next Philly Biodiversity Mural! This project will take place in April/May. Pay = $20k The form to apply is as short as I could possibly make it. Please tell your friends and apply! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- This combined with men propping each other up while ignoring the expertise and skills of people who are not cis men makes me sick.
- I dreamt that I was on a big boat and poems HAD to be read and I was digging through my duffel bag and various boat storage spaces and the depths of my phone for poems for us to share over mic with one another at sea 🌊
- Reposted by Dr. Maya WeeksWater off the Southern California coast is SIX DEGREES warmer than it typically is this time of year. Data from the Scripps Pier in San Diego: shorestations.ucsd.edu/about/scripp...
- It is the time of year when I share: if you would like a copyeditor (or, heck, maybe even a translation editor) for a piece of writing, I have availability for a couple of editing clients! Please don't hesitate to get in touch if I could be of service to you for something you're working on.
- Reposted by Dr. Maya WeeksYou just have to keep doing your work. There's a lot to do.
- Reposted by Dr. Maya WeeksIt feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
- No, YOU'RE applying to perform at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
- Reposted by Dr. Maya Weekswhen i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY
- Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
- My neighbors brought home a lamb and the lamb and I made eye contact and honestly it’s hard to say who was more excited in that moment.
- These financial differences are not inherent in culture. These are policy choices. We could do this in the U.S. too!
- Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0
- “[B]y the time a risk is fully understood, the opportunity to manage it has already passed”
- This is kind of why I trained up as a shepherd before I even wound up considering researching wool production hehe
- Reposted by Dr. Maya WeeksNew postdoc opportunities in my group at Rutgers-New Brunswick, working on sea-level rise projections and/or coastal climate risk assessment & management
- Reposted by Dr. Maya WeeksMethane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
- Reposted by Dr. Maya WeeksICYMI - two unique job opportunities open at @climatecentral.org: + Climate Data Scientist (closing soon!): www.climatecentral.org/open-positio... + Associate Product Manager: www.climatecentral.org/open-positio...
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- Driving through the tiny town I grew up in poverty in blasting “Independent Women, Pt. 1.” A win is a win.
- “Fiskerättigheterna privatiserades också under den här perioden och det ledde till minskad konkurrens och att fisket drevs helt av vinstintresse utan större hänsyn till fiskbestånden, visar forskarna.”
- Reposted by Dr. Maya Weeks“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
- I'm just a feminist critical geographer who does artistic research looking for storage tools for her tools.
