when students tell you they're taking your lgbtq studies class so they can be more informed for discussions with their loved ones 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🥰

So, so proud of my students in all three of my classes this semester for the post-election discussions we had about it, the observations they made, and the questions they asked. Wednesday was a great teaching day.

bought myself a nice new notebook and nice new binder and nice new pens for the class im taking this semester but now im under doctor's orders to limit the weight of my backpack as much as possible so i cant even use them/am bringing digital copies to class :(

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

this is my fourth year at my job which means some of the students i taught in first year writing in my first semester are graduating this year and i just 😭 🥰 am so proud of them

My first time at TYCA NE this morning and every conversation with work friends and acquaintances is going like this bc I can’t bear to be normal Work friend: Hey Olivia! how are you? Me: Well everything is scary and terrible but I’m good I guess 🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻

they should have used a less upbeat/cheery automated voice for the active shooter training module

today i learned i have an expanded health benefit through my union for out of network costs not covered by insurance that i havent been using for the last 3 years, because i didnt know about it, which would have saved me thousands of dollars in medical bills 🙃

the chatgpt suicide story getting published the day before i start teaching first year writing again is just utterly heartbreaking

replaying lego star wars the skywalker saga and primarily playing as Cassian so I can pretend he survives rogue one and continues getting assigned to various missions involving acquiring 1200 kyber bricks in various creative and whimsical ways

tfw you get all excited bc someone else has your tabling sign up spreadsheet open and then it turns out it's just you, with the same spreadsheet open in another tab

#TeamRhetoric, I'm enrolling in a graduate certificate in LGBTQ+ studies -- on my CV, do I put this before my PhD (since it's more recent) or after, since the PhD is more important and, in my case, the certificate is kinda an extension of my PhD (same school + they're giving me transfer credit)

we watched all of "Adults" last night and my favorite line is "we live in a post-deBlasio, pre-Avatar 3 world" So true

how do i tell instagram im not nonbinary/don't want to buy a binder and also i dont want to sell my eggs bc i keep getting nothing but ads for binders and "SELL US YOUR EGGS"

At CUNY 4 faculty members have been fired and a student has been suspended, likely as a result of pro-Palestine activism. We must stand up and draw a line in the sand: no more repression at CUNY. @oliviawood.bsky.social www.leftvoice.org/the-road-to-...

Some fanfiction ideas I will never write but would love to read: 1. Multiverse crossover where Peter Parker and Clark Kent are assigned to work together as a reporter/photographer team covering Superman and Spiderman and they don’t know each other’s secret identities

My roommate is watching the severance season 2 finale and I’m realizing I can tell whether the innie or the outie is speaking in the camera scene without even looking or really paying attention to what they’re saying, just by Adam Scott’s vocal work

I covered the (unexpected, to me!) primary results for @leftvoice.bsky.social www.leftvoice.org/zohran-mamda...

Anybody working on movement rhetoric (esp labor movement) stuff or want to do a pedagogy presentation and want to submit a panel together for RSA?

My Twitter feed has been increasingly showing me right wingers complaining about Starbucks strikes like “Your boss has the right to tell you what to do lol” and NO actually the boss doesn’t have the right to make changes to working conditions without negotiating with the union!!!

Right now outside NJ Transit's $500 million headquarters NJ Transit engineers are beginning to show up to demand that they be paid what they deserve!

One of my students told me that rather than the melting pot or salad bowl analogies for living in a diverse society, his grandma likes “chicken soup” — in chicken soup, all of the components remain separate/distinct, but they also take on flavors from the other components

Yesterday was my 13 year anniversary of coming out to someone for the first time ☺️ NC was passing an anti-marriage equality constitutional amendment and I was 16 and had only just realized I might want to get gay married someday two weeks prior and I felt like I needed support in that moment

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Had to refund my revenge of the sith ticket for tomorrow morning bc it was the only time this week me and my coworker’s schedules lined up for our meeting 😭😭

Incredible opening to Andor s2 ep1, so silly, I love Star Wars

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

We ratified our contract in January and just yesterday were notified when we’ll actually get paid For me, ratification bonus in May and then raise/backpay in August, 7 months after ratification and 2.5 years after the previous contract’s expiration 🙃

Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, gave birth to their first child today, a baby boy. In a statement, she said, “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family…”

I was sad bc responsibilities piled up and I won’t be able to go get a PS5 so I can play Oblivion Remastered after work but then Bethesda did me a solid and the game’s seemingly not coming out today anyway

lol someone in the classroom next to mine is teaching about the French reformation, what an example of (surely inadvertent) Protestant shade

About to be on my third economic crisis and fourth pope and I’m not even 30

I just finished the movie and goddamn I forgot Wicked is about a university president collaborating with the state to disappear oppressed academic workers who they want to prevent from speaking

Gotta get soooo ahead on my work this week bc if the oblivion remaster rumors are real every free hour for the rest of the semester will be spent on the ps5 i will buy as soon as the rumors are confirmed

went to grade annotated bibliographies today only to discover i left all the blank rubrics at work and now i have to go into work over spring break to get them 🙃

Yes!!!!

My white lotus finale take is that if that man had been willing to wash even one dish then his son’s life wouldn’t have been in danger

I looked for this on AO3 and I didn’t find any

It sucked that the hybrid setup meant we couldn’t hear anyone who wasn’t specifically coming over to visit us zoom folks, but I was nonetheless very happy to participate even in a limited way ☺️

Yay to everyone of course, but especially yay to Keisha!!!

This is me and I'm very sad to be missing everyone! But my Labor Caucus co-panelists will be sharing some slides on my behalf + I'll be at the hybrid Queer Caucus meeting tomorrow #4C25

A Florida high school teacher has been fired for using a student's chosen name instead of their deadname, a first under a 2023 law signed by Ron DeSantis. “She is a beloved teacher that changed her students’ lives” said one parent leading a petition with 7,400 signatures demanding her reinstatement

We watched Jurassic Park tonight and it was great but let me tell you it would have been better if the visiting experts were Mulder and Scully

17 immigrant students at CUNY have reportedly had their legal status revoked

One good thing in the current sea of bad things is we managed to bring more balance to the number of composition sections offered in fall vs spring to increase our ability to offer more of our adjuncts 2-2 teaching loads (qualifying them for health insurance + other benefits) instead of 2-1

Need to make a wealthy friend who will pay for me and my sisters and our partners to travel for Eclipse 2026 any of you have wealthy friends

The rent, the internet bill, and the printing bill all going up in the span of a month 🙃

When we’re playing fuck marry kill at the severance finale watch party and I learn all my friends wanna kill Mark???

Student workers at Columbia are bearing the brunt of Trump’s attacks on higher education and fighting back. @oliviawood.bsky.social www.leftvoice.org/columbia-stu...

Thread of photos from the @swcolumbia.bsky.social emergency rally today following the expulsion of their union president and roughly a dozen other students last night , will post video later once I get home and can verify my email