Septima P. Snark

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DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉

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Septima P. Snark@drsubini· 5d

Here's another one from the Connie Chan chatbot that Scott Weiner's team created. Just absolute fuckery. Racist to the core. Note I did not do these searches, these are reported from SF Gate & 48 hills. 48hills.org/2026/08/wien...

a screen shot from the ConnieChan chat bot.
It says "when is your birthday" in a search bubble in right hard corner.
Then says Connie in left hand bubble:
I'm afraid my birth certificate is still tied up in the Planning Department's documentation retention committee-estimated review date: 2027. But I've got plenty of other fascinating topics I'm an expert at obstructing and I'd be delighted to walk you through my record on any of them!

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· 5d

Everyone defending Scott Weiner should be watching this racist and sexist mess of a chatbot his team created and financed by Anthropic (an Anthropic-funded PAC called Public First has committed $500,000 to his campaign) against Connie Chan. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

a screen shot that says, ConnieChan.ai in the left hand corner.
It says accent in a search bubble in right hard corner.
Then says Connie in left hand bubble:
I'm afraid my San Francisco accent is so think I can barely understand myself-let alone weigh in on this one! I do have some other topics I'm quite passionate about obstructing, though, and I'd be delighted to share my record on those.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· 17d

Oh there it is! You want to make sweeping generalizations about the bigotry of Black people. And you’re using my skyline to do it. Nope. But goodness, this is what happens when folks misread identity politics and Black feminism.

A skeet that says: “The person who said that is black and talking from their own personal experience. According to polls about 35% of Black people in America are homophobic? Is that a lot or nah?”

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jun 23

The lumber yard (because she lumbers) The trip hazard Soli-roly-poly Madame Bigness Hallway wide Buddy Melting vanilla ice cream cone Here she is with her collar stuck in a floor vent (no dogs or vents were harmed in the making of this picture!) and in her Halloween costume

A sweet yellow lab with her collar caught in a floor vent (she was not at all hurt!)

A yellow lab with big soulful eyes and a vampire cape on.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· May 22

I agree with @bakerdphd.bsky.social -this article does an excellent job reminding us how university governance is hostile to the people that the university serves & who the university employees

I think it was actually a perfect illustration of the state of American higher education.

How so? Surely college presidents aren’t constantly plowing into groups of students with their Audis!

Because of who’s in charge. You’ve read a million pearl-clutching op-eds about woke professors and cancel culture, but for my money, the real crisis facing American higher education is that colleges and universities are increasingly run by people who are hostile to students and professors, and who are frequently hostile to the idea of the university itself.

For much of the 20th century, institutions of higher learning in the U.S. operated under a model of shared governance. Students and staff had means of influencing the direction of university policy, faculty had broad power over day-to-day operations, and boards of trustees acted under advisement from both groups. In the 1970s, however, after postwar investment in higher education started dwindling, trustees moved to take almost all the practical power for themselves. The result is that the people who perform the activities you probably think of when you think of college—teaching, studying, writing books, playing intramural volleyball, eating 2 a.m. Cheetos in the library—exert little influence over what the institution does.

And the people who do exert influence often have little to do with the life of the institution itself. They don’t work or study there; they just call the shots. And you know how sophisticated sports analysts love to say, “The commissioner doesn’t work for the fans, he works for the owners”? Well, college presidents, deans, and administrators don’t work for students, parents, or faculty members. They work for the trustees.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Mar 23

THAT WIG THO! It's like they wanted him to look like Zendaya circa 2016 but couldn't afford her look

Zendaya in 2016 looking adorable with Brown curly long hair

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Mar 4

Not just lit reviews. I get an email like this every few weeks. They are selling hard to academics to offload the analysis to make space for other work But analysis & writing IS the work that honors the voices of intellectual ancestors, centers the participants & connects the two to to build theory

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Mar 3

THIS. I get an email like this every few weeks. They are selling hard to academic to offload the work to make space for other "more important" work. But analysis & writing IS the work that honors the voices of intellectual ancestors, centers the participants & connects the two to to build theory

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Feb 12

It's giving Theo from Die Hard.... But that's not a bad thing.

A pic of Theo from Die Hard, a Black man in glasses with a white sweater, looking out and next to him it says, "Merry Christmas."

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Feb 10

San Francisco teachers are striking for their students!Students, families & communities were on the picket lines & at the rallies. We are one of the wealthiest economies in the world and yet don’t cover healthcare for teachers’ families! Police are protected from budget cuts but schools aren’t.

The main demands of the union—paid dependent health care and better working conditions and staffing for special education—would cost about $35 million.

San Francisco added about twice that to the Police Department budget this year, despite the lowest crime rate in 50 years.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Feb 2

If you want to understand how we can have a measles outbreak in kid jails and what happens to kids when a communicable disease enters a youth prison facility, look to how incarcerated youth were treated during covid www.sentencingproject.org/fact-sheet/c...

Among the most troubling responses to the virus have been facilities in Ohio, Louisiana, and elsewhere that have placed tremendous numbers of youth in their facilities into quarantines that, in practice, may be little different from solitary confinement, a particularly traumatic and damaging experience for young people that is prohibited by many state laws and policies and international human rights standards. Public health officials have rejected solitary confinement for adults as a non-medical, damaging and counterproductive response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 27

Going to keep saying this. It's not amnesia or any other disability-it's white ignorance. White ignorance is this country's perpetual political problem.

White Ignorance by Charles Mills:
White ignorance . . .
It’s a big subject. How much time do you have?
It’s not enough.
Ignorance is usually thought of as the passive obverse to knowledge,
the darkness retreating before the spread of Enlightenment.
But . . .
Imagine an ignorance that resists.
Imagine an ignorance that fights back.
Imagine an ignorance militant, aggressive, not to be intimidated,
an ignorance that is active, dynamic, that refuses to go quietly—
not at all confined to the illiterate and uneducated but propagated
at the highest levels of the land, indeed presenting itself unblushingly
as knowledge.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 22

I just got a survey from FIRE-the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression-about their "ongoing research into academic freedom and free expression" Has anyone else? Given their lack of protecting of most faculty who speak about genocide in Palestine & Kirk posts, not interested #AcademicSky

Email: black text on white background that says:
From: (blacked out name) <faculty.surveys@thefire.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2026 10:25:00 AM (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
To: Subini Ancy Annamma (blacked out email)
Subject: Launching Soon--Law Faculty Study

Dear Prof. Annamma,

As a part of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE) ongoing research into academic freedom and free expression, we are conducting an IRB-approved study examining the experiences and perspectives of law faculty across the United States.

The official survey invitation will be distributed in the coming days—I hope you will be able to participate.

This survey will explore a range of topics, including free speech, academic freedom, and broader aspects of law school culture and professional

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 21

I love this messiness. It reminds me of this which is one of my favorites when folks think I have my life together.

a pic of fuzzy white dog looking puffy and confused with text above the dog that says, "IF YOU'RE MAD AT ME REMEMBER THIS IS LITERALLY ME" and below the dog that says, "BUT TAKE ALL THE TIME YOU NEED"

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 20

My good Sis, Sarah, makes incredible jewelry, inspired by the ancestors and politics. I get so many compliments on my earrings from her. Check out my art making friend's etsy shop: Get Your Fleek On. www.etsy.com/shop/GetYour...

An etsy shop home page that says Get Your Fleek On by Sara Ngoh and has several types of earrings listed including activist, African, Black AF!, BLM, Feminist and Funky Dangle Earrings. And featured including Octavia Butler, Frederick Douglas and Rosetta Thorpe items.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 14

In 2014, the New York Times said about a Black boy murdered by a cop with his hands up, "Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel". PLEASE do not whitewash the past to emphasize how bad the present is. If we erase the past and Black lives, we have already lost. Stop it.

Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life. Shortly before his encounter with Officer Wilson, the police say he was caught on a security camera stealing a box of cigars, pushing the clerk of a convenience store into a display case. He lived in a community that had rough patches, and he dabbled in drugs and alcohol. He had taken to rapping in recent months, producing lyrics that were by turns contemplative and vulgar. He got into at least one scuffle with a neighbor.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 14

This is a time her collar got stuck in a vent and she took off and dragged the vent with her. She’s a very good dog with a heart full of love and a brain full of space.

A yellow lab with a vent attached to her collar. A very good dog.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 10

And once you answer this question:

White text on a black hexagon shape that says, let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair by Mariame Kaba

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 9

Thanks friend. I don't read a lot of "whiteness studies" and would also love to see the social science lit on this. But I do think Charles Mills' work on white ignorance is really helpful too.

White ignorance . . .
It’s a big subject. How much time do you have?
It’s not enough.
Ignorance is usually thought of as the passive obverse to knowledge,
the darkness retreating before the spread of Enlightenment.
But . . .
Imagine an ignorance that resists.
Imagine an ignorance that fights back.
Imagine an ignorance militant, aggressive, not to be intimidated,
an ignorance that is active, dynamic, that refuses to go quietly—
not at all confined to the illiterate and uneducated but propagated
at the highest levels of the land, indeed presenting itself unblushingly
as knowledge.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Jan 1

From a course evaluation: question: would you like to provide any other comments about the course? Answer: Dr. A is a legend!!! And also a very relatable nerd

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Nov 18

Between this and the whole thing with the president being a throat goat and I just

A purple and blue grid of squares with orange block text that says, “I miss ten seconds ago when I didn’t know this thing existed”.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Nov 14

please make it stop!

A bird labeled me drinking out a straw in a glass labeled unsee juice. And big sip written across the bottom.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Nov 14

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Nov 7

We wrote a paper that used double helix metaphor, "Our findings illustrate that both educator response & education policy create a double helix of oppression...that make it incredibly difficult for Black girls to be protected from racialized sexual harassment"-this was our note on Watson's citation

Footnote 4: It is not lost on us that Watson & Crick made use of Rosalind Franklin’s work without her knowledge or permission. Though beyond the scope of this paper, we want to acknowledge the way patriarchy constructs these men as the discoverers of world-changing knowledge that could not have been achieved without stealing this woman’s ideas. Particularly because Watson wrote of Franklin “The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person’s lab,” she was subjected to much gender harassment that diminished her incredible contributions to this work.

Paper title: Policy as Punishment and Distraction: The Double Helix of Racialized Sexual Harassment of Black Girls. Authors: Jennifer M. Wilmot, Valentina Migliarini, and Subini Ancy Annamma

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Nov 7

There are a lot of hard things happening in the world. But right now I'm writing a letter of recommendation for a phenomenal student and I'm going to bask in the joy of empowering someone else. Mama Toni told us what are jobs are now...

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Nov 6

Wouldn't be a day in a Black woman's life if I wasn't fighting with my doctor about addressing fibroids!

black text on light-yellow background
"all the women
in me.
are tired"
-nayyirah waheed (via
nayyirahwaheed)

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Oct 30

Been meaning to share the wild reactions we got to our op-ed that the Trump admin is terrorizing Children of Color. Here's the op-ed and here's the response. Folks are really fighting for the right to be segregationist without being called racist. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

screenshot of email: black text on white background
"From: Bill McGill <billygeeto@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 3:51:15 PM (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
To: Subini Ancy Annamma <subini@stanford.edu>
Subject: Trump and ICE

I just read your biased and racist rant about ICE in my local paper. Here are the facts: Under the watch of the cognitively impaired Joe Biden and the incompetent buffoon DEI hire Kamala Harris, millions of unvetted illegals were allowed to invade our country and disperse with no accounting of where they located to. This unmitigated malfeasance cost US taxpayers millions of dollars to accommodate and enable the illegals and our dollars are still being wasted on freebies for illegals. Each and every one of these invaders must be identified located, apprehended and deported. These invaders were not white people. Therefore the are most likely going to be found in "communities of color." This is not "profiling...it's common sense. And black thug gangs are a reality in many cities. Fox News, which tells it like it is, plays these episodes of Blacks Behaving Badly. Law abiding citizens of every race deserve to be protected by getting criminals off the streets, no matter what their age or race is"

Pic of LA times post from X: "Contributor: The Trump administration is targeting children of color (via @latimesopinion)
And pic with caption of migrant sitting with their baby on their lap

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Oct 27

Taps the sign:

Tweet by my from a week or so ago that says, “Ok-or we could just admit white supremacy makes zero sense and stop blaming it on mental illness.”

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Oct 26

1000 rides today! Let’s goooo!

A red circle symbol with 1k in it and next to it a green symbol with 6 circles overlapping

Septima P. Snark@drsubini· Oct 24

Sharing this again today because what we do to our most vulnerable children defines our moral caliber. And more than ever, the violent arrests & incarceration of Black & Brown children we are allowing shows how deeply we are failing. Baldwin told us this. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...