Staci Willis

@sewnandsea.bsky.social

237

Followers

377

Following

203

Posts

Archaeologist. Boat Person. PhD. Happy CC Prof. Once upon a time an underwater field arch, now mostly a teaching arch. Sewn boats rock.

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Oh, it turns out I figured out what to do with all of my anger! It’s a huge, free essay on whiteness and boundaries and why I spent all of yesterday bopping white liberal racism on the head. www.patreon.com/posts/108254...

I’m actually still very angry about this and I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with it, but absolutely none of my coping strategies will include bullying white marginalized people because I’m actually interested in progress

Racism, Transphobia, and the Bluesky Brigade | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Reply to

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)

Pretty much all the ancient civilizations that "mysteriously disappeared" just moved somewhere else or became a different people. The most egregious of this trope are the Maya, who still live in the Yucatan and who have 6 million native Mayan language family speakers today.

Nice to be reminded about something my city does right! Reading is for everyone. And while we may flood and lose power constantly, Houston's library system is an absolute gem!

Reminder: any resident of Texas can get a FREE digital library card from the Houston Public Library system. Only $40/year for non-Texas folks! Their Libby hold lines tend to be long but you can have up to 15 holds. If your local library system is limited, check it out: houstonlibrary.org/mylink

Reposted by

Staci Willis

If you want access to free books, please get a library card. In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to. Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource. As an author and reader, I support libraries! #books #libraries

Reposted by

Staci Willis

I feel so bad for people in Houston, man

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Remember when 700 people died in 2021 because of the private energy failure during the freeze. Well, they did fuck all to fix anything.

I feel so bad for people in Houston, man

Reposted by

Staci Willis

If you want to block all the people who harassed Jamelle Bouie off the site at once, this list is handy. Hit subscribe, then block.

Weird Bouie reply guys

List by @hockeybear.bsky.social

What the name says. Some accounts on the list are truly horrible all the time and some just made a muteworthy skeet one time. This list is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Jamelle Bouie or anyone other than myself.

Reposted by

Staci Willis

My personal experience at bluesky has been fantastic, much of the good of pre-Musk Twitter and none of the bad. Yet I’ve never felt as pessimistic about the future of this app as I do right now, watching another important Black voice get run off the platform. Seriously, what the fuck, people?

Reposted by

Staci Willis

“A cat 1 hurricane shouldn’t knock out your power system,” said Kerry Emanuel, a veteran hurricane researcher and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. “I think you’ve got a problem with the power company, frankly.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1207202...

Hurricane Beryl Was a Warning Shot for Houston - Inside Climate Newsinsideclimatenews.org The category one storm dealt the city disastrous damage. Houston’s first direct hit from a hurricane in decades showed how vulnerable the nation’s energy capital remains.

Reposted by

Staci Willis

For all the handwringing about democrats "destroying cities" following the BLM protests, it's kinda jarring to watch the scale of actual damage to cities from Republican policies.

The ongoing #Beryl disaster in Houston: still 1M folks w/out power after 4 days, in miserable heat/humidity, after another big outage just weeks ago. "Houston’s electricity distribution system is not working. It is failing us." spacecityweather.com/houston-dese...

Houston deserves a much better electricity distribution systemspacecityweather.com In brief: Today’s post offers some thoughts about the need for a reckoning with power distribution in the greater Houston area, and greater resiliency given the conditions we regularly experi…

Energy capital of the world cannot keep the lights on for residents

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Reposted by

Staci Willis

The fourth largest city in America is still in crisis under a deadly heatwave & the power company can't get hundreds of thousands of households back online, but you'd barely know it from our national news.

850K CenterPoint customers remain without power after Hurricane Berylwww.houstonchronicle.com More than 850,000 CenterPoint customers were without power four days after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast.

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Page A1: BREAKING NEWS: ASHLEY JUDD SAYS BIDEN SHOULD STEP DOWN Page B16: City of Houston has no power for a week and its 105 degrees there and no one's doing anyting to help them boring boring boring

Reposted by

Staci Willis

The Black Trowel Microgrants are back! Funded through a collective, these are meant to "erode ... barriers to make them more permeable for the next generation of archaeologists." A really great initiative, there's links on how to donate as well. blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/r...

Re-Opening The BTC Micrograntsblacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com We are excited to announce a refreshed workflow for the BTC Microgrants. After clearing our backlog, we have developed a new system to ensure the program runs smoothly and effectively. 1. Monthly Appl...

Reposted by

Staci Willis

move over "be someone" new houston graffiti captures the zeitgeist of power outage weary houstonians @chron-com.bsky.social www.chron.com/culture/arti...

'CenterPointle$$': Graffiti captures Houston's anger over Beryl outageswww.chron.com A new Houston graffiti tag might just supplant "Be Someone" for capturing the city's general zeitgeist as CenterPoint slowly restores power to thousands.

Need to find more Houstonians on this app. It's like Beryl didn't even happen here.

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Hello hurricane season

Something worth celebrating today!

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Reply to

Dr. Holly Walters

Because the uncontrolled blood of women disgusts and sullies. The controlled blood of men purifies and is worthy of the highest honors. Welcome to the Anthropology of Religion 101.

Reposted by

Staci Willis

The bloody, painful, terrifying, and very human birth of Jesus is obscene sacrilege. The bloody, painful, terrifying, and very human death of Jesus is sanctity itself.

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

Reposted by

Staci Willis

how do you do, fellow trees? I'm just over here p h o t o s y n t h e s i z i n g, as we trees do all the time, it's so fun

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Reply to

ProPublica

Here's our original report from 2023 on Broadbent, the many allegations brought against him by 94 women, and why a judge threw out their case. W/ @sltrib.com www.propublica.org/article/94-u...

94 Women Allege a Utah Doctor Sexually Assaulted Them. Here’s Why a Judge Threw Out Their Case.www.propublica.org When dozens of women sued their OB-GYN for sexual assault, a judge said the case falls under the state’s medical malpractice law. As the women appeal, lawmakers are asking whether that law should be c...

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Utah OB-GYN David Broadbent Charged With Forcible Sexual Abuse More than 100 women have publicly accused the doctor of touching them inappropriately, but this is the first time he has faced a criminal charge. w/ @sltrib.com www.propublica.org/article/utah...

Utah OB-GYN David Broadbent Charged With Forcible Sexual Abusewww.propublica.org More than 100 women have publicly accused the doctor of touching them inappropriately, but this is the first time he has faced a criminal charge.

Reposted by

Staci Willis

Anyone need some relief from last night’s drama? The US Olympic Team’s gymnastics trials start tonight on NBC!! Simone Biles!!!!! Remember when she had to step down in Tokyo because she had the “twisties”? She’s BACK, baby, and stronger than ever!!