Sharon

@pensyf

Modernist by training, Hufflepuff by nature. Reads a lot. Ask me about my feminist vagenda.

Oakland, CA
Joined September 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    7 Nov 2017

    I got really mad about whitewashing and other forms of erasure a few months ago. This poem was the result:

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    Apr 3

    It makes no sense to sell men and women grossly stereotypical ideas about gender when our Bible has men writing poetry and women bankrolling Jesus. It’s almost like social and political factors play a greater role in our theology of gender than the Bible does.

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    Apr 1

    So, I'd like to give a personal example of what empowering POCs vs performing SJW. My 1yr of grad school, I had a White male colleague, Kirk, who never used the words ally, woke, etc. I saw it in his actions. 1/5

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  4. Mar 30

    I hope I never have so much money that I start treating people like things

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  5. Mar 28

    Finallllllly hoooooome!!!!!

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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 27

    stop telling girls to be nicer to the boys who abuse them

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    Mar 26

    GEORGIA VOTERS Time to call your state reps. Not sure who they are? Go here to find out.

    We need your help calling attention to these voter suppression bills being pushed by Georgia politicians. Text VOTE GA to 44939 and we'll connect you with your GA state rep.
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  8. Mar 25

    Welp, "have my car stop working in the middle of the interstate" is no longer one of my Never Have I Ever things....

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  9. Mar 21

    100% would subscribe

    I wish there were a podcast called ‘The Baby & the Bathwater’. It would review media, discussing the good and bad elements, and end with a brief bonus review of a bath product
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    Mar 18

    Remember: a toxic workplace is more likely to change you than you are likely to change a toxic workplace.

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  11. Mar 14

    Last day of packing and cleaning before we move. I am tired and my brain is like a sieve right now.

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  12. Mar 12

    I can honestly say that I have also been met with far more kindness and love, by far more people, than I could ever have predicted. I have more hope than ever. I believe in community even more. I am grateful. 3/3

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  13. Mar 12

    I have been hugely disappointed by people I trusted and loved, and I have hugely disappointed myself (still dealing w/ the shame of running out of time/motivation on my dissertation). BUT. 2/

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  14. Mar 12

    The last 2 years have been a stripping away of everything I once thought I knew, thought I was or would become. There are large swathes of this internal reworking I'm still unprepared to talk about. 1/

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    Mar 6

    "Desperate for assistance, students turn for help to another faculty member, often a woman. This professor is torn: She wants to help the abandoned student but she knows that, by doing so, she is enabling a system."

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  16. Mar 10

    So far this strategy of taking care of myself during this move as though I'm a toddler - snacks and naps when I'm overwhelmed - is working well.

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  17. Mar 9

    I'm Too Overwhelmed by Packing and Want to Hide but Also I'm Too Controlling to Let Someone Else Do It: a Memoir

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    Mar 9

    “The election itself was the single most harmful event to the whole movement of reconciliation in at least the past 30 years. It’s about to completely break apart.” When they show you who they are, believe them. And then govern yourself accordingly...

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  19. Mar 8

    One of the life-giving places in my world this past year has been in a FB group for progressive Asian American Christians. I was honored to write a reflection for their Lenten devotional:

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  20. Mar 8

    Happy International Women's Day to everyone except the corporations using today to try to sell me things.

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  21. Mar 7

    I went to Emory for undergrad and 100% believe this story is true

    Replying to @RadioFreeTom
    When I did diss research at Emory, they told me about a construction crew that brought their own Pepsi vending machine to the work site. By noon, it had been removed and replaced with a Coke one.
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