@thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io
Post #1637110
2026-04-24 04:02 UTC
it's hit me like a ton of bricks after a day of dissociating
UT leadership have abolished the black studies department here
it hurt so much to hear the professor say today that this was his final lecture as a professor for the aads department
i'm feeling so many emotions: disappointment, disillusionment, weariness, rage, despair
and i know that they have done this because they are cowards and that they can never extinguish our power
but i am nevertheless drowning in grief right now.
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@thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io 2026-04-24 04:32
some other deps they have abolished: american studies, women, gender & sexuality studies, mexican american and latino studies this is a result/an iteration of manufactured austerity. a mainstay in authoritative regimes they argued removing deps with some of the school's most notable and prolific scholars as professors was for financial reasons partly--UT Austin is the most highly funded public university in the country we need more people paying attention to this. like, yesterday