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Melissa Thompson

@mmt98

Award Winning Online Educator & SW Professor | Compassionate Pedagogy |Trauma Informed Practitioner|LGBTQQI NB Super Ally|Runner|Bibliophile |#swtech #edtech

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Beginnings can be hard; they also can be beautiful. Follow me on my journey as a writer. I’m using Substack and you can subscribe to my work for free. Enter an email and you’ll receive a new piece in your mailbox every Sunday. I hope you’ll join me.


Never heard from them. Never will fly @AerLingus again.

Three weeks and no reply or support from @AerLingus . Just how long does a reply take? Can someone respond soon please ??!!??



Performative activism: done to increase social capital. There is little to no risk in this type of activism. Real allyship & activism requires taking risks w/those who are facing injustice. Are tenured profs willing to resign UMich doesn’t divest? @UMichFSJP

BREAKING: University of Michigan Faculty Senate Assembly votes for divestment from any company invested in the Israeli war in Gaza

UMichFSJP's tweet image. BREAKING: University of Michigan Faculty Senate Assembly votes for divestment from any company invested in the Israeli war in Gaza


If you are going to #APM I would be so grateful if you’d test out Threads during APM. I know it’s a big ask. I’m grieving the loss of community since leaving X and am hoping more folks will try this out. #swtech


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We don’t actually care what you wear, Senator Collins. We just wish you would vote on the side of women and the poor.

Sen Susan Collins says changing the Senate dress code “debases the institution,” joking she will wear a bikini tomorrow. “Obviously, I'm not going to wear a bikini,” she said, “But the fact is, as I understand it, I could!”



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Open Online Office Hours: Ungrading Edition Join me for a special series of conversations about grading and assessment throughout Fall 2023. These will be generative conversations, shaped by participants, without predetermined outcomes. jessestommel.com/open-online-of…


ChatGPT Resources for Faculty – University Center for Teaching and Learning “For all these reasons, the Teaching Center will disable the AI detection tool in Turnitin effective immediately.” teaching.pitt.edu/resources/chat…


Just a check in - do you assign reading quizzes in your courses? I have strong views about this but want to check myself by seeing what others do and their reasons behind it.


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SSW Professor Jonathan Singer, PhD (@socworkpodcast) was recently named a Social Work Pioneer by @nasw. Read more about this extraordinary recognition here: luc.edu/socialwork/sto…


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As far as online shouting goes, I will point out that I spent years screaming at y'all about imminent climate collapse and people acted like I was crazy to think it would happen so quickly. But I was right about everything down the line. So here's another freebie of horror:


I am sewing in the sewing app under heymmt. Would love to connect there.

mmt98's tweet image. I am sewing in the sewing app under heymmt. Would love to connect there.

Three weeks and no reply or support from @AerLingus . Just how long does a reply take? Can someone respond soon please ??!!??

I’ve flown @AerLingus to Ireland in the past. Never again. 25th anniversary trip: breathtakingly rude flight crew, broken seat trays (wouldn’t stay up & we couldn’t get help - for a 7+ hour flight), dirty plane, food shortage & loss of inflight movies. I feel robbed.



It's Substack Sunday! Read "A Celebration of Love and Summer Flavors" and share your thoughts and own memories with me. I'd be grateful to you if you would share this widely with your networks mmtmsw.substack.com/p/a-celebratio…

mmt98's tweet image. It's Substack Sunday!  Read "A Celebration of Love and Summer Flavors" and share your thoughts and own memories with me.
I'd be grateful to you if you would share this widely with your networks

mmtmsw.substack.com/p/a-celebratio…

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303 Creative has never sold wedding websites. There was no gay couple looking for her services. Still, she admits she entered the public market in order to discriminate against LGBT people, citing her faith and a "calling from God." The fact this case was even heard... #SCOTUS

Chasten's tweet image. 303 Creative has never sold wedding websites. There was no gay couple looking for her services. 
Still, she admits she entered the public market in order to discriminate against LGBT people, citing her faith and a "calling from God." 

The fact this case was even heard... #SCOTUS

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GOP Supreme Court Justices have ruled forced births and “straight-only” businesses are legit, and policies leading to racial and economic equity are not legit. Sexism—homophobia—racism—classism are connected. Their defenders are in solidarity. Their opponents, we, must be too.


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To our LGBTQ+ community: Illinois is your home. Our state will always be a beacon of equality and hope for all. We won’t stop until you can live freely and openly as your truest selves. And we won’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

GovPritzker's tweet image. To our LGBTQ+ community: Illinois is your home.

Our state will always be a beacon of equality and hope for all.

We won’t stop until you can live freely and openly as your truest selves. And we won’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Stern suggestion: Leaders in higher education need to be trained & ensure training on how every step in the the admissions process should trauma informed. This is unethical & unacceptable. Students should not have to relive trauma in order to be admitted to college.

this thread — Black and Latino students should not feel obligated to relive their traumatic experiences to gain access to higher ed. Took me a long time to realize that my academic accomplishments, scientific curiosities were valid in and of themselves.



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Also want to restate, the biased LCSW test is NOT an indicator of competency. You are going to make an amazing LCSW and we look forward to the day you get the license you are no doubt qualified already to hold.


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