So many brilliant, creative, and inspiring ideas about how to resist & shut ICE down!

"If resistance is a muscle, June Jordan’s regular exercise of dissent produced a mode of courageous truth-telling that was not limited to foreign policy." Such a brilliant & pertinent essay by Abena Ampofoa Asare radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...

An exciting CFP for the Journal of Lesbian Studies on "Lesbian Erotic Life." Abstracts due Feb. 15! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The test of a great university is not whether it attracts those already trained to succeed, but whether it can recognise and cultivate potential wherever it exists. At a time of deepening opportunity divides, that distinction has never mattered more.”

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems." From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

These students are being brutally harassed by their government and still showing more bravery and integrity than most college presidents.

**Thread** Actions are continuing to spread across the country to protest ICE, the killing of Renee Good and all those killed and at risk from ICE goons.

As Noem spoke, a crowd of dozens of protesters marched from Foley Square to rally outside One World Trade Center, denouncing Good’s killing and ICE’s efforts more broadly. from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:

Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

This is so good! The Baldwin Test offers a framework for challenging the mystifying, celebratory rhetoric of tech companies, with specific questions for interrogating surveilling, proprietary ed tech. Long live critical & creative pedagogy!

Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

ACH 2026 welcomes proposals on all aspects of digital humanities work. Share your research, tools, pedagogy, or community projects with our vibrant DH community. Virtual conference June 24-26. Deadline: Feb 2 🔗 buff.ly/O7y3KaD

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.

Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...

I can’t wait to assign this!!

This should exist in every city in the country.

The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

“When I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.”

Students in my class on Radical Women Writers wrote some really great things, including high school lesson plans for teaching Grace Lee Boggs, Alice Childress, and Octavia Butler - check them out! (& feel free to use and share!) eng622.classroomcommons.org/class-collec...

"fear of an educated proletariat+ resistance to secular, integrated public schooling have been the central motive for defunding public education... public education, the closest thing to a lasting success amid the broader failure of Reconstruction, is in danger." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here. cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...

A round up of a few books I read and enjoyed from this past year. Academic books as well as general interest. Includes references to some Bluesky folks: @aearhart.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social, @eve.gd, @annakornbluh.bsky.social... www.electrostani.com/2025/12/2025...

I'm a big fan of @danicasavonick.bsky.social's "Open Admissions", which looks at one moment of this history (one that overlaps with creative writing, given the people involved). But there's a huge synthesis to be done by someone feeling ambitious. read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

📣Announcing Issue 2 of Emblaze, SUNY Cortland's journal of student-authored literary and cultural analysis! 📣 Featuring essays on Sex and the City, Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca, and the horror film Hereditary! sites.cortland.edu/emblaze/

For 4 more days, you can stream Louis Massiah's brilliant documentary "TCB: THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING" through the DocNYC film fest! www.docnyc.net/film/tcb-the...

Here to ruin your holidays, one history lesson at a time.

🎙✨ Episode #2 is live! What does academic freedom really mean, and why now?  Deep convo w/ Moustafa Bayoumi & Michelle Fine, hosted by Shelly Eversley 🔥💬 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba842N-OJCI&list=PLs4s4YzyzpmGp8pMRWPxR9H4rds1715Cm\ 🎧 Please subscribe! 🔔 #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #CUNY ✊🏽🗽

I took inventory. It looked good.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

I can’t wait for this book!

I think that I will host a virtual discussion group on this book in January. www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi... - If anyone might be interested, let me know. It would be one session.

Getting to share this book with my grad students (most of whom are high school English teachers, all of whom are brilliant readers) has been one of the highlights of 2025- a reminder that thinking, reading, and imagining with others is a kind of paradise 🌱

What skills do young people need for the future of work in the age of AI? Critical thinking, judgment, communication, the ability to learn new things & adaptability. If only there were higher ed departments dedicated to these very things...!!! (Adding to all my syllabi) www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...

It was such a pleasure to talk about my book OPEN ADMISSIONS on @palumboliu.bsky.social's brilliant podcast Speaking Out of Place! Our conversation is available on Spotify and Apple (links below). speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/23/t...

Savonick shows how Bambara, Jordan, Lorde and Rich each came to find radical teaching methods in collaboration with newly admitted Black and Puerto Rican students, and how their experiences with this new pedagogy affected their creative and other writing in profound and lasting manners.

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.” bell hooks’ fantastic, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Providing a necessary reminder of the power of teaching, how teaching transforms us all.

Can't remember the last time I was this excited about a course -- Radical Women Writers, coming this fall!

Absolutely loved this book by Leigh Claire La Berge! Part memoir, travelogue, and critique of capitalism (all of my favorite things), it’s also hilarious and (all too rare) a page turner! Sad to have finished it but very glad it exists.

HELL YEAH!!!!

@jewonwoo.bsky.social & I are co-editing a special issue of Reviews in DH on teaching #digitalhumanities in community colleges! Favorite DH projects related to this topic that we should feature? Please send them our way! #DH #ReviewsinDH

A tiny bright light amidst so much awfulness… I got tenure! ✨ And I vow to use every inch of it to resist the fascism, authoritarianism & plutocratic violence that is terrorizing so many.

If you’ve never been to a protest and you’re watching coverage with trepidation, I urge you—if you can—to challenge yourself to turn out for one. There’s anger, for sure, but the overwhelming feeling is joy in your community, admiration of your neighbors, and the real power of numbers.

Just starting @danicasavonick.bsky.social 's "Open Admissions" book, and the quotations I wrote down already comprise half of the introduction. #Pedagogy

My students are the first undergrads to have their reviews of digital research projects published in Reviews in DH! Read their reviews of projects on Black women writers, gender representation in novels, 19th C disability & 1970s Paris. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n5

Don’t miss the editors’ note, where our guest editors reflect on their process and the value of project reviewing in the classroom reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/editors-... #ReviewsInDH @danicasavonick.bsky.social @kalanicraig.bsky.social @iconodule.bsky.social