I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e
June 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e
Fundamentally, the two lessons of Watergate were that 1. For the press, a criminal president is great for business & 2. Conservatism as a basis of social organization could not survive continuing social progress without constructing total counternarratives to the mainstream press.
i think its a mistake to look for a discrete event. just read the founders’ writings beginning with the declaration of independence. trump is the exact thing they wanted to prevent
June 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Fundamentally, the two lessons of Watergate were that 1. For the press, a criminal president is great for business & 2. Conservatism as a basis of social organization could not survive continuing social progress without constructing total counternarratives to the mainstream press.
Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days, social media was an effective tool for activists to organize and communicate with one another and directly with the public, providing counternarratives to the ones laid out in popular coverage.
June 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days, social media was an effective tool for activists to organize and communicate with one another and directly with the public, providing counternarratives to the ones laid out in popular coverage.
"When we show girls that they’ve always been part of history, we equip them to believe that they can shape its future." In #AHAPerspectives, read how Jessica Ramos teaches counternarratives to her elementary students. 🗃️
Teaching Girls They Belong
Teaching counternarratives deepens elementary students’ understanding of history and helps underrepresented groups see themselves as part of the story.
www.historians.org
July 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"When we show girls that they’ve always been part of history, we equip them to believe that they can shape its future." In #AHAPerspectives, read how Jessica Ramos teaches counternarratives to her elementary students. 🗃️
This paragraph/answer ended: There's a scholar of nonviolence named George Lakey who says polarization is good. That’s when you have clarity. Sometimes people have to pick sides. You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite. You get it by being strong.
April 30, 2026 at 4:31 AM
This paragraph/answer ended: There's a scholar of nonviolence named George Lakey who says polarization is good. That’s when you have clarity. Sometimes people have to pick sides. You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite. You get it by being strong.
If only there were signs or ya know warnings .. maybe constant efforts by certain subsets of historically maligned groups to use that technology to stop this
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Hmm anyway this is what I’m reading
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Hmm anyway this is what I’m reading
May 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If only there were signs or ya know warnings .. maybe constant efforts by certain subsets of historically maligned groups to use that technology to stop this
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Hmm anyway this is what I’m reading
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Hmm anyway this is what I’m reading
Finally got my hands on @meredithdclark.bsky.social 's newest baby “We Tried to Tell Y’all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives”
Thank you for telling the REAL story of Black Twitter & for always including my own contributions.
Go get a copy!
Thank you for telling the REAL story of Black Twitter & for always including my own contributions.
Go get a copy!
February 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Finally got my hands on @meredithdclark.bsky.social 's newest baby “We Tried to Tell Y’all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives”
Thank you for telling the REAL story of Black Twitter & for always including my own contributions.
Go get a copy!
Thank you for telling the REAL story of Black Twitter & for always including my own contributions.
Go get a copy!
Trans rights are under attack, which means trans people don't need counternarratives against fascist propaganda, they just need to like, you know. Pretend it's not real. Make it look funny or illogical or stupid. Yeah, that works, I'm sure it will. Godspeed
May 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Trans rights are under attack, which means trans people don't need counternarratives against fascist propaganda, they just need to like, you know. Pretend it's not real. Make it look funny or illogical or stupid. Yeah, that works, I'm sure it will. Godspeed
It used to be "the left is making up all the stories of hate crimes or brutality." Now it's "don't let your heart be moved by the bad things we're doing."
Inside Trump World’s Plans To Gloss Up Mass Deportations
Get ready for MAGA movies that put a gilded frame around enforcement actions. Democrats are scrambling to develop counternarratives.
www.thebulwark.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It used to be "the left is making up all the stories of hate crimes or brutality." Now it's "don't let your heart be moved by the bad things we're doing."
It used to be "the left is making up all the stories of hate crimes or brutality." Now it's "don't let your heart be moved by the bad things we're doing."
Inside Trump World’s Plans To Gloss Up Mass Deportations
Get ready for MAGA movies that put a gilded frame around enforcement actions. Democrats are scrambling to develop counternarratives.
www.thebulwark.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It used to be "the left is making up all the stories of hate crimes or brutality." Now it's "don't let your heart be moved by the bad things we're doing."
Like it’s cute and very white how much of journalism dances around the reality of how racism was supported by their own desire to not respect Black people on line .. but like there’s a book about it
It’s fascinating how that gets left out
It’s fascinating how that gets left out
February 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Like it’s cute and very white how much of journalism dances around the reality of how racism was supported by their own desire to not respect Black people on line .. but like there’s a book about it
It’s fascinating how that gets left out
It’s fascinating how that gets left out
We Tried to Tell Y'All:
Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives
By Meredith D. Clark
@meredithdclark.bsky.social
Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives
By Meredith D. Clark
@meredithdclark.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We Tried to Tell Y'All:
Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives
By Meredith D. Clark
@meredithdclark.bsky.social
Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives
By Meredith D. Clark
@meredithdclark.bsky.social
I'll be presenting on Pacific Decolonization as part of the panel 'Counternarratives of Postwar Decolonization' on Sunday afternoon with @lydiawalker.bsky.social and Nana Osei-Opare, chaired by @erezmanela.bsky.social and comments from @emleake.bsky.social #aha25 aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...
138th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2025): Counternarratives of Postwar Global Decolonization
aha.confex.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'll be presenting on Pacific Decolonization as part of the panel 'Counternarratives of Postwar Decolonization' on Sunday afternoon with @lydiawalker.bsky.social and Nana Osei-Opare, chaired by @erezmanela.bsky.social and comments from @emleake.bsky.social #aha25 aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...
I largely agree with your analysis but I would personally add a fourth point that “Having never faced an actual primary, in 2024 or 2020, she and her positions were still indistinct enough to the electorate to make lies and counternarratives far too easy to swallow”
March 7, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I largely agree with your analysis but I would personally add a fourth point that “Having never faced an actual primary, in 2024 or 2020, she and her positions were still indistinct enough to the electorate to make lies and counternarratives far too easy to swallow”
anyway i think more people would benefit from some self-examination of "i enjoy this thing but i know criticisms of it are correct and have a right to be heard, perhaps those criticisms are even vitally, urgently important counternarratives to stories about benevolent power"
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
anyway i think more people would benefit from some self-examination of "i enjoy this thing but i know criticisms of it are correct and have a right to be heard, perhaps those criticisms are even vitally, urgently important counternarratives to stories about benevolent power"
Thrilled that Meredith Clark's book on Black Twitter is out today! We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives. I can see this being on 1000 syllabi. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thrilled that Meredith Clark's book on Black Twitter is out today! We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives. I can see this being on 1000 syllabi. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
"Read these as a salve, a balm, a map.." 📌📚
- Dionne Brand
*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*Counternarratives,John Keene
*Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
*The Lonely Londoners, Sam Sullivan
*The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
- Dionne Brand
*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*Counternarratives,John Keene
*Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
*The Lonely Londoners, Sam Sullivan
*The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
November 6, 2024 at 11:50 AM
"Read these as a salve, a balm, a map.." 📌📚
- Dionne Brand
*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*Counternarratives,John Keene
*Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
*The Lonely Londoners, Sam Sullivan
*The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
- Dionne Brand
*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*Counternarratives,John Keene
*Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
*The Lonely Londoners, Sam Sullivan
*The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
"Read these as a salve, a balm, a map.." 📌📚
- Dionne Brand
*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*Counternarratives,John Keene
*Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
*The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon
*The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
- Dionne Brand
*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*Counternarratives,John Keene
*Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
*The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon
*The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
March 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Read these as a salve, a balm, a map.." 📌📚
- Dionne Brand
*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*Counternarratives,John Keene
*Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
*The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon
*The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
- Dionne Brand
*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
*Beloved, Toni Morrison
*Counternarratives,John Keene
*Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
*The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon
*The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
Great conversation with @hystericalblkns.bsky.social on the book COUNTERNARRATIVES by @jstheater.bsky.social which is really one of the most important books to me & a lot of people on LitHub.
Christina Sharpe on John Keene’s Counternarratives
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Christi…
lithub.com
August 6, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Great conversation with @hystericalblkns.bsky.social on the book COUNTERNARRATIVES by @jstheater.bsky.social which is really one of the most important books to me & a lot of people on LitHub.
Counternarratives exist. You're talking to one. Though, since you said your opinion is of no importance, I fail to see why you're still talking
May 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Counternarratives exist. You're talking to one. Though, since you said your opinion is of no importance, I fail to see why you're still talking
Very dystopian stuff:
Canadian political candidates are getting pitched on signing up their supporters for apps that scan social media for negative comments about them, use AI to come up with counternarratives then post AI-generated comments defending them from their real human supporters’ accounts
Canadian political candidates are getting pitched on signing up their supporters for apps that scan social media for negative comments about them, use AI to come up with counternarratives then post AI-generated comments defending them from their real human supporters’ accounts
Politicians are being sold AI-powered 'digital fighters'
A new app gets around bot bans by recruiting real people to post political messages generated by AI.
www.nationalobserver.com
February 25, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Very dystopian stuff:
Canadian political candidates are getting pitched on signing up their supporters for apps that scan social media for negative comments about them, use AI to come up with counternarratives then post AI-generated comments defending them from their real human supporters’ accounts
Canadian political candidates are getting pitched on signing up their supporters for apps that scan social media for negative comments about them, use AI to come up with counternarratives then post AI-generated comments defending them from their real human supporters’ accounts
Now that the e-ink is dry I can share! I signed a book contract with Ohio State University Press for my first book, NecroComics: Counternarratives of Death in Latinx Graphic Life Writing.
#AcademicSky
#LatinxStudies
#ComicsStudies
#AcademicSky
#LatinxStudies
#ComicsStudies
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Now that the e-ink is dry I can share! I signed a book contract with Ohio State University Press for my first book, NecroComics: Counternarratives of Death in Latinx Graphic Life Writing.
#AcademicSky
#LatinxStudies
#ComicsStudies
#AcademicSky
#LatinxStudies
#ComicsStudies
"The New York Times is trying to operate with one foot in both realities – a world where Gaza is being starved but special credence must be given to Israeli counternarratives. That’s not tenable. You can’t partially commit to the truth." 👏 👏 👏
August 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"The New York Times is trying to operate with one foot in both realities – a world where Gaza is being starved but special credence must be given to Israeli counternarratives. That’s not tenable. You can’t partially commit to the truth." 👏 👏 👏
Communications matters at least as much as policy. The battle for public opinion on Trump's immigration policies could come down to which side makes the best documentaries:
Inside Trump World’s Plans To Gloss Up Mass Deportations
Get ready for MAGA movies that put a gilded frame around enforcement actions. Democrats are scrambling to develop counternarratives.
www.thebulwark.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Communications matters at least as much as policy. The battle for public opinion on Trump's immigration policies could come down to which side makes the best documentaries: