Lily Scherlis @lilyscherlis
writing in @thebafflermag, @Parapraxis_Mag, @guardian, @cabinetmagazine & more / PhD candidate at UChicago / also video + performance lilyscherlis.com Joined March 2012-
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Obsessed with the fact that @UChicago raided the encampment in the middle of the night just so they can set up different tents to collect more donations to fund genocide...
All swipe access to university buildings has been suspended.
really absurd seeing the undergrad zionists you just deescalated doing homework in the library
11 elected officials tell @UChicago admin: “engage student protests in good faith, support their first amendment rights, and refrain from police intervention. We do not want to see our young people dismissed, arrested or brutalized.”
Reviewing job applicant: *sees Ivy League degree conferred in 2024, arrest record coming up blank* Care to explain the gap on your resume?
"no one is left to document what is happening at hamilton hall" — wkcr reporters, escorted out
So proud of students at UChicago as they demand divestment, disclosure, repair, and justice for Palestine! Show up, UChicago community; you're needed on the quad, at "UChicago Popular University for Gaza." Rally at noon today!
So proud of students at UChicago as they demand divestment, disclosure, repair, and justice for Palestine! Show up, UChicago community; you're needed on the quad, at "UChicago Popular University for Gaza." Rally at noon today!
Good morning from the University of Chicago, where students have just set up their Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
in middle school I went on a date with my crush to an open-air concert in Schenley Plaza, solidarity with Pittsburgh comrades!
in middle school I went on a date with my crush to an open-air concert in Schenley Plaza, solidarity with Pittsburgh comrades!
Chicago, today at 12 pm I am giving a performance lecture about the perils of predictive technology in the insight industry, if you want to swing by hutchinson courtyard on your lunch break loganexhibitions.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/st…
“The war on Gaza is being rewritten for American audiences as a ‘campus war.’”—@lint_ax, with an incredibly timely piece on how a campus panic is made. parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-c…
finally time to update my teaching wardrobe!
finally time to update my teaching wardrobe!
ah yes, the weekend, when every cafe is required to invite a guy to do something awful on a mod synth all day
Ryan Ruby @_ryanruby_
22K Followers 2K Following Novel: The Zero and the One @twelvebooks 2017 | Poem: Context Collapse @7StoriesPress 2024 | Nonfiction: Ringbahn @fsgbooks 2027
katie kadue @kukukadoo
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Sarah Osment @sm_osment
9K Followers 2K Following Works at UChicago. Freelance editor & indexer. Views my own. She/her.
samuel catlin @lint_ax
5K Followers 2K Following doomed professor | all views mine, as my employers would happily confirm | he/him/his
UChicago GSU - UE⚡ @uchicagogsu
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak
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Dan Sinykin @dan_sinykin
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Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué @hadeejasouffle
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David Hering @hering_david
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jams @jagarcol
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470 Followers 447 Following Author of TO A DISTANT COUNTRY (PSA, 2024) | winner of the Emily Dickinson Award | poems @ A Public Space, Iowa Review, Boston Review, PEN America, elsewhere.
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Dr. Michelle Laura Fl.. @DrMichelleFlood
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竹田ダニエル(�.. @daniel_takedaa
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Ryan Ruby @_ryanruby_
22K Followers 2K Following Novel: The Zero and the One @twelvebooks 2017 | Poem: Context Collapse @7StoriesPress 2024 | Nonfiction: Ringbahn @fsgbooks 2027
Tobi Haslett @tobihaslett
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katie kadue @kukukadoo
17K Followers 878 Following foremost zucchini fritter on twitter | “endlessly quotable” | author of DOMESTIC GEORGIC @ uchicago press
Sarah Osment @sm_osment
9K Followers 2K Following Works at UChicago. Freelance editor & indexer. Views my own. She/her.
samuel catlin @lint_ax
5K Followers 2K Following doomed professor | all views mine, as my employers would happily confirm | he/him/his
UChicago GSU - UE⚡ @uchicagogsu
8K Followers 2K Following Graduate Students United at the University of Chicago - UE Local 1103: fighting for better working conditions since 2007.
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak
12K Followers 4K Following Associate Professor | Writing Program, Champlain College | opinions my own | HANGING OUT (paperback out Jan 2024 - https://t.co/W6qMAtVnKf)
Dan Sinykin @dan_sinykin
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Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué @hadeejasouffle
2K Followers 544 Following living empanada // poet, gay latino, author of Madness, etc. // PhD candidate in English at UChicago, research in sexuality studies // same @ on Bsky
olivia stowell @oliviastowell
4K Followers 1K Following getting a phd in being a sexy unique restaurant
Nate Wolff @proffwolff
8K Followers 5K Following Highly respected Moby-Dickfluencer | Associate Director, The Frank Norris Center for the Dental Humanities
Jane Hu @hujane
11K Followers 907 Following
Rebecca Colesworthy @RColesworthy
14K Followers 5K Following Sr. Acq. Editor @SUNYPress. Author: Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Views are all mine. She/her. “An easy edit.”
David Hering @hering_david
13K Followers 2K Following Writer | Critic | Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize finalist | Literature, cinema, visual arts | Writing a book about ghosts | David Berman, we miss you
V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams
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Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese
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Leigh Claire La Berge @marxforcats
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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites
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UChicago United @UChiUnited
2K Followers 147 Following Coalition of UChicago's POC students + orgs working to build student power through #CommunityCentersNow, #EthnicStudiesNow. Collaborating on @care_not_cops
SJP Chicago- طلاب.. @sjpchi
6K Followers 204 Following SJP Chicago is a unified front of Chicago SJPs advancing the liberation of Palestine & committed to supporting, uplifting, & connecting each other.
UnitOfTheAbsolute @UnitOfAbsolute
687 Followers 4K Following autobiography of a red / friendly drone / @redmayseattle / JSIS @UW / rt = reading
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Dylan Montanari @dylanmontanari
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SJP at UChicago @SJPatUChicago
2K Followers 147 Following Official account for Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of ChicagoHadn't seen this one. I finished the semester yesterday discussing Audre Lorde's famous line, "your silence will not protect you." Now this, from Act Up.
I successfully defended my dissertation proposal today but it’s at a social work school named for an arms dealing family. Complicated feelings. I’m a candidate but my defense happened hours after a police raid that targeted my friends.
Grateful to @emanabdelhadi, who stayed up all night when her students needed her. SHAME on UChicago, which waited until profs like her went home near dawn (& students slept) to raid. Prof. Abdelhadi is back on site as students face arrest & suspension, follow her for updates.
What is it with zionists and live-streaming horror. x.com/zubkbr/status/…
i can literally see my friends be handcuffed over insta live at the fit encampment...
🚨HAPPENING NOW: sources tell us that police are entering the FIT encampment; we've heard reports of tear gas, multiple arrests, and riot police. This is the last remaining encampment in NYC.
I don’t really have all the words for what the past week has been. The most radicalizing exercise of care, the most strenuous and challenging principled struggle, the most connective and humanizing learning experiences I’ve ever had.
All eyes on Rafah.
BREAKING: Israel’s criminal invasion of Rafah, the last place of refuge for Palestinians in Gaza, has begun. 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah are now being attacked through air, land and sea, in the middle of the night.
I don’t. That’s why I oppose the mass slaughter of Palestinians committed by Israel over the last 7 months. It’s also why I oppose police raids on peaceful students.
There's something about this idea of closeness as transgression that activates the deepest impulses of my faith. Restricting one's ability to share space with the persecuted – the reviled peacemakers – is for me an attack on freedom of religion as well as freedom of speech.
The implication of admin's heavy-handed tactics – scanning faculty IDs near the encampment, to name today's insult – is that one is doing something wrong by standing in physical proximity to the "bad" students on one's own campus. It is disgusting and I reject it absolutely.
The violent crackdowns are appalling, but so too is the transformation of campuses into police states: ever-present surveillance, demands for identification, restriction on movement, visible domination. A historic disgrace.
Today I found myself, for the first time in a long time, feeling intimidated – worried about the consequences for standing up for students and for Palestine. And then I got so angry that I was made to feel that way that it dissipated like a bad dream.
All that remains of UChicago Free Gaza University after police assault. But as @emanabdelhadi reminded us at the protests immediately following: the encampment never was the tents, it was the community students built dedicated to a world of liberation w/o checkpoints or walls.
Look at all of the people using the part of the quad the encampment was on. It’s a great thing the admin cleared it, so all of the students could use it freely
New MO statement says CPD “expressed an unwillingness to participate” in clearing the U of C encampment with U of C police. Cook County Sheriffs provided backup instead; per source, the university called the sheriffs
BREAKING: Mayor’s Office statement on U of C says @ChicagosMayor “reached out to U of C leadership to reiterate serious safety and operational concerns about this plan”
its weird to actually have a good reason to be on uchicago's campus for alumni weekend
the TNY fact-checker asked me "is it true you became a writer?" 😭
If you have not been paying attention to Lucy Ives, now is the time to start. Her new essay collection is going to rearrange the landscape come October
UChicago Police are not letting Legal Observers from @NLGChicago enter the quad. UChicago reaches new lows by the minute, sinking further as it desperately defends its investments in genocide and colonialism.
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