First up: a trio of exciting pre-conference workshops from June 22-23 with only a handful of seats remaining! June 22 we'll be joined by @danicasavonick.bsky.social and Chelcie Juliet Rowell for "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design." Excited to see so much interest in this!

“The East Village is the charged, nostalgic backdrop for all of these contemporary queer stories because it was the origin point from which queer life jumped from the fringes into mainstream North American culture.”

"Not everything can be included in a memoir, even if the author wants it to be." Sarah McEachern on "Famesick" and Lena Dunham's memoirist flourishes: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lena-dunham-famesick-memoir-girls-celebrity-chronic-illness

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.

Nobody wants to join a boring movement. Socialists can’t change the world if we aren’t providing people with a good time.

How AI is ruining the messy/beautiful work of teaching & learning, and why so many of us are completely burned out www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Chelcie J. Rowell & I are pouring our little hearts into our virtual workshop "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design." Emphasis on community, knowledge sharing & peer review. Leave w/ an assignment for a class or workshop of your own! ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops...

"I believe writers...have a role to play in liberation work. By restoring specific narrative to abstract casualty data, we restore for readers the urgent somatic obliteration of individual loss." lithub.com/kaveh-akbar-...

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Ahhh this is such a brilliant, urgent, necessary guide to teaching towards institutional and social change! An absolute must-read (not to mention, it's gorgeously written). Bravo @walshbr.bsky.social !!!

"Killing student writing outside the classroom means an enormous reduction in the volume of time spent writing, and learning more generally: it is a loss of thousands of hours of reading, thinking, puzzling over problems, writing, revising."

Excited to talk about Audre Lorde's work as a professor this Friday at Nevada State University!

So excited to be part of this collection! My chapter is about M. NourbeSe Philip’s beautiful, brilliant, and haunting poetry collection Zong!

#TalkAboutHumanities We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together. youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ...

Emily Callaci’s Wages for Housework is a gorgeous history about imagining & fighting for a world beyond capitalism, where people are compensated for care work. “Less work in general; more time for living meaningful lives. Calling work what is work... to rediscover what is love.” I sobbed at the end.

and it occurs to me, if someone was willing to sponsor it, I would happily rework this into billboard format. Put it up in the midst of all these ridiculous ai product billboards! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

“I’m interested in trying to make a case for feminists to think structurally about these major institutions of work, family, and prison…it’s shocking how unschooled we are in thinking at the level of social structures." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Faculty wages decreased and remain below pre-pandemic levels, AAUP's 2025-26 Faculty Compensation Survey confirms. "Two steps forward, one step back. That's been the story for full-time faculty. For part-timers, it's been no steps forward at all. The AAUP data makes that undeniable."

SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Wrote a thing.

My college is rolling out an AI buddy for students and I… want them to have real friends? I am still close friends with people I met in college. They changed my life for the better. They remind me of who I was. When I was great, when I was shitty. One night some of them saved my life.

It was windy 🤣🤣

Trump is flat wrong when he claims that birthright citizenship was intended only for the "babies of slaves." Martha Jones and I have the receipts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Sashay away, Rump #nokings

All SUNY & CUNY folks, please sign!!!

Hoping @danicasavonick.bsky.social will repost and convince friends, colleagues, and students to let their state legislators know they want them to fight for the priorities laid out in this open letter. The time to get involved is now—and every day until we have an Enacted Budget. #PublicGoodU

I spoke w/ a reporter at The Guardian about AI & she used one of my quotes as the title of her article 😂. Thanks to Alice Speri & @theguardian.com for covering our Sisyphean struggle. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

““It creates hours of additional labor ... And makes me feel like a cop” @danicasavonick.bsky.social holding a mirror up to my experience teaching and assessing in this AI hellscape.

I'm co-organizing an #MLA2027 panel on Public Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom -- please submit & spread the word! Happy to answer questions. Abstracts due March 20 @modernlanguage.bsky.social mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

Looks like a ship’s hold

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

Columbia’s dean of AI initiatives on the predatory nature of AI companies on college campuses www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

@nhannahjones.bsky.social on the importance of white folks becoming race traitors www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

“The air-brushed AI commercials spun out creepy fantasies of imitation life, decontextualized knowledge, robotic efficiency. Bad Bunny…—in contrast—gave life to the realities of work, history, struggle, community& joy that make us all human” @emdillon.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...

The Rump administration fired half of the employees working to address discrimination in education & wasted 28-38 million in taxpayer dollars preventing investigators from doing their jobs. www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

A great blog by @cathyndavidson.bsky.social on Artificial Ignorance & Data Sycophancy! cathydavidson.com/blog/artific...

“Defending the university is not about defending the institution itself, but rather understanding the institution as a condition of possibility for other things to emerge.“

I am grateful to Colleen and to @danicasavonick.bsky.social along with everyone who joined our book discussion this afternoon. Open Admissions is a terrific and enlightening read. Get a copy and read for yourselves. www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...

A fantastic article by Jeanelle K. Hope on Black women's traditions of anti-fascist organizing + education as a key battleground in the struggle for democracy @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/blac...

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.