LRT When people were complaining about what academic twitter was posting at the start of the pandemic, I thought back to how I curtailed my Twitter usage during Ferguson because it was so depressing to see folks acting on here like nothing was happening.
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We may only show a fraction of ourselves here, but it's an extension of our IRL academic selves. And it says much about what kind of public academic ppl are (if they have already chosen this space for that kind of thing).
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I don’t know. Truly. I’d hate to be judged along these lines. There are crises I care about that I can’t share for a lot of sound reasons—usually because I’m trying to find my place and don’t want to be anymore performative than Twitter already requires us to be.
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Rationally, i knew/know that everyone is here for different reasons and what we show here is just a fraction of our real lives and investments. But....