Septima P. Snark

@drsubini.blacksky.app

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

A sweet yellow lab with her collar caught in a floor vent (she was not at all hurt!)
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.
Zendaya in 2016 looking adorable with Brown curly long hair
A blue logo that says AIlyze and then some bullshit about AI sabering faster and higher quality for interview analysis.
a logo that says AILYZE and some bullshit about AI analysis being faster & higher quality for qual research.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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
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"
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.
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.
A yellow lab with a vent attached to her collar. A very good dog.
White text on a black hexagon shape that says, let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair by Mariame Kaba
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.
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
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A bird labeled me drinking out a straw in a glass labeled unsee juice. And big sip written across the bottom.
A bird labeled me drinking out a straw in a glass labeled unsee juice. And big sip written across the bottom.
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.
White text on orange background, "“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." Below a side profile of Toni Morrison, a powerful Black women with locs looking to the right nest to her name.
black text on light-yellow background "all the women in me. are tired" -nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
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"
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.”
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a picture of James Baldwin, a Black queer man, looking at the camera. Next to him is his quote, "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." Under that is his name in blue cursive. This quote is from his essay, Notes on the House of Bondage which can be found here: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/notes-house-bondage/
D'Angelo looking fly as hell
red and black background with the words The Killer written in white across the middle.
Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said. “It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”
grey text on black background says, "ou died. I cried. And kept on getting up. A little slower. And a lot more deadly. Assata Shakur, 1988"
Screenshot of professor watchlist page that says: Dr. Subini Ancy Annamma is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University. Following the controversial killing of an unarmed black woman by police officers in Seattle, Annamma tweeted that, “The systemic violence that killed Charleena Lyles is the very foundation of the country.” She then went even further by saying, “There is no time to return to make America great again, unless you are deeply invested in white supremacy & killing of black & brown people…to secure your own white property through racism, ableism, [and] cis-heteropatriarchy.” Her faculty bio says that her research focuses on “increasing access to equitable education for historically marginalized students and communities, particularly students of color with disabilities.”
Screenshot from a tweet from Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo: "The last time the radical Left orchestrated a wave of violence and terror, J. Edgar Hoover shut it all down within a few years. It is time, within the confines of the law, to infiltrate, disrupt, arrest, and incarcerate all of those who are responsible for this chaos." 12:53 pm-Sep 10, 2025-303.2k Views
Screen shot of headline from The Texas Tribune: "Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to firings" Subheading: "After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the course’s published description."
a screenshot of the professor watchlist that says, "Subini Annamma Stanford University Tags: Racial Ideology Feminism Dr. Subini Ancy Annamma is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University. Following the controversial killing of an unarmed black woman by police officers in Seattle, Annamma tweeted that, “The systemic violence that killed Charleena Lyles is the very foundation of the country.” She then went even further by saying, “There is no time to return to make America great again, unless you are deeply invested in white supremacy & killing of black & brown people…to secure your own white property through racism, ableism, [and] cis-heteropatriarchy.”
Headline from conservative newspaper, The Washington Times, "Subini Annamma, Kansas professor: MAGA means ‘white supremacy’" By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
screen shot of a campus reform article: Prof: MAGA supporters are 'deeply invested in white supremacy' Following the shooting of a mentally impaired black woman by police officers in Seattle, Dr. Subini Annamma also tweeted that "the systemic violence that killed Charleena Lyles is the very foundation of the country." A University of Kansas professor recently asserted that those who believe in Donald Trump’s campaign slogan are “deeply invested in white supremacy” and the killing of minorities. 2 pics of my tweets underneath that say, "The systemic violence that killed #CharleenaLyles is the very foundation of the country" and “There is no time to return to make America great again, unless you are deeply invested in white supremacy & killing of black & brown people"
Cover of the book, "They were her property: White women as slave owners in the American South" by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
A skeet that says, “Rfk jr had done more for black and indigenous people than your whole family tree.”
Trump’s only sustained interest is the accumulation of power and money. He is also a narcissist. That means he wants to impose himself on every aspect of our society – as dictators do. He wants to run the world and the Kennedy Center. He wants the Nobel Peace Prize, and the World Cup trophy. He wants to takeover Greenland, and protect the integrity of the “soft, beautiful, stone”[vii] on the new White House patio.
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A Black woman is holding a phone up and the screen says in handwriting, "With all disrespect, GIRL- FUCK YOU."
Black text on white background with bookmark icon next to text: I strongly discourage you from using AI bots/programs to complete assignments. There is evidence that use of AI facilitates labor exploitation of Global South laborers and risks severe environmental repercussions. Many AI platforms rely on stolen intellectual labor of artists and some platforms are used to engage in sexual harassment and exploitation. Further, in many cases, these AI bots provide incorrect and unreliable information and citations. All of this exploitation for, what Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom calls, “a mid technology”. Often, the social and intellectual harms outweigh the positives. It is for these reasons, the use of AI is prohibited in this class. Concurrently, I am not interested in participating in a surveillance structure that claims to “detect” AI-produced material, creating a hostile dynamic between you and your instructor. College is a time for you to decide who you want to be, how you want to engage the work, and take some degree of control. We will discuss this more in class. ***Generative AI statement is adapted from Dr. Shantel Buggs
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San Francisco Latinx Democrats call for Trevor Chandler’s Resignation as a SF Democrat Chandler holds executive leadership with AI Surveillance company Flock Safety, which has shared data with ICE and federal agencies illegally San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club vehemently condemns Trevor Chandler’s active leadership and employment with Flock Safety, which has been reported by municipalities and publications nationwide for illegally sharing data, including license plate information of drivers with federal agencies, including ICE. As Public  Affairs Director at Flock Safety, he is directly in concert with the Trump administration’s efforts to target our community. Chandler must immediately resign as an elected member of the SF Democratic Party, as he is complicit in the very targeting Democrats claim to resist. His continued leadership roles signal that the current San Francisco Democratic Party does not care about immigrants, as long as corporations continue to profit while they illegally leak surveilled data to federal agencies.
Me in a mask smizing
A person holding a sign that says, “I hate a neutral ass bitch. Stand for something hoe!!”
Some home made art: A James Baldwin quote that says “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality” above the quote are the words on a yellow background Palestine, Trans, Black, Disabled and on the bottom on yellow are: undocumented, queer, immigrant. Also the words Protect Youth are at the bottom in brown
An inclusive pride flag that has the rainbow plus the Black, Brown, pink, blue and white triangles. I’ve the top printed in back is: this is our city with a small drawing of the Golden Gate Bridge and on the bottom printed: we only answer to the community!
Screenshot of tweet that says, “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” March 15, 2021
Poster that shows people holding several movement signs and the quote by Frederick Douglass, “Power concedes nothing without a demand – it never has, and it never will.”
Black text on white background: Generative AI*** I strongly discourage you from using AI bots/programs to complete assignments. There is evidence that use of AI facilitates labor exploitation of Global South laborers and risks severe environmental repercussions. Many AI platforms rely on stolen intellectual labor of artists and some platforms are used to engage in sexual harassment and exploitation. Further, in many cases, these AI bots provide incorrect and unreliable information and citations. All of this exploitation for, what Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom calls, “a mid technology”. Often, the social and intellectual harms outweigh the positives. It is for these reasons, the use of AI is prohibited in this class. Concurrently, I am not interested in participating in a surveillance structure that claims to “detect” AI-produced material, creating a hostile dynamic between you and your instructor. College is a time for you to decide who you want to be, how you want to engage the work, and take some degree of control. We will discuss this more in class. ***Generative AI statement is adapted from Dr. Shantel Buggs
a screen shot of the Department of Philsophy website with a pick of a sculpture with black text on white background that says, "Our Student, Mohsen Mahdawi It has come to the attention of members of the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University that one of our students, Mohsen Mahdawi, was detained in Vermont by agents of the Department of Homeland Security. We express our horror and dismay at the fact that a legal resident of the United States — someone who has been accused of no crime — should be detained in this manner. We would like to convey our sympathy and our support to Mohsen, to his family, and to his friends. We call upon the Provost and Acting President of Columbia University to assist by all means, including through the provision of material and legal resources, any Columbia student targeted or detained—and seemingly only for having exercised their right to the free and peaceful expression of political opinion."
White text on Black background, "For some women, it means the warrior's painstaking examination of yet another weapon, unwanted but useful". Yellow text: Audre Lorde, the Cancer Journals
Image description: A gradient grey circle that says "Protect our Muslim, Immigrant, Refugee Neighbors” Under the circle in two lines, it says: “You belong here! “All are welcome here!”
Image description: A white background with half a box outlined in black with black text that stretches across the top and says, "PROTECT TRANS KIDS!" & "GENDER AFFIRMING CARE:" Then in two columns of 3 rows, it lists 1-6 that says: 1. Supports & affirms the gender identity of trans youth 2. Consists of a step-by-step process with social changes (e.g., shifts in name, hair pronouns, clothes) 3. Includes possible physical interventions (e.g. hair removal, voice coaching, puberty blockers) 4. Has a regret rate of less than 2%. Compared to a regret rate of 14% for all surgeries. 5. Reduces anxiety, depression & risk of suicide in trans youth. 6. Provides better mental health outcomes when provided to teens versus adults. At the bottom it says, "Gender Affirming Care Saves Kids' Lives!"
A wine colored leather cover of a planner
Me in a green shirt and orange hoops with a black k95 mask.