𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝐋𝐚𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 Enrollment at @laguardiacc.bsky.social is recovering from the pandemic-era decline. But at the college’s library, staff said that cuts to the workforce in this vital arena are degrading the quality of education. psc-cuny.org/clarion/onli...

I have some free e-print links to this article. Comment below and I'd be happy to share.

A good few days for publications by long-time romance scholars @profromance.bsky.social , @jessicatripler.bsky.social and @emselinger.bsky.social: Kamblé, Jayashree (2026). "Recolouring the romcom: humor, respectability, and race in a 1986 American category romance novel." Comedy Studies.

HELP

ICE is still here in MN, and our neighbors are still in hiding. Rent is due TODAY, and I’m scrambling to raise funds to keep immigrant families in need out of eviction court. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🌷

"The season’s wandering eye for subplots consistently nudges the central lovers out of frame." *BANGS ON THE TABLE*

Talking #Bridgerton and #HeatedRivalry in today’s @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @profromance.bsky.social and I have a piece about adapting romance to the screen. What makes a good adaptation?

In a (vain, probably) attempt to combat the flood of romance-illiterate Valentine's Day thinkpieces, I wrote two of my own this year - one with @profromance.bsky.social about romance adaptations...

Oh this is an amazing deal on a wonderful series

Friday's court order says ICE agents can't stop vehicles that merely follow them. Agents claiming a car is "obstructing" them isn't enough. Judge Menendez says they would have to be "forcibly" obstructing, requiring force or the threat of force. Decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What an act of betrayal to the Hmong community by our own government. People who put their lives on the line during Vietnam.

JFC

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.

"Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law."

I have two ebooks that are always free at all retailers! 1) Grumpy Fake Boyfriend (Kwan Sisters 1) 2) Her Big City Neighbor (Cider Bar Sisters 1) jackielaubooks.com/books/

If you're in the NYC area, I hope you will support this on Tuesday. I'll be there!

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

EASY WAY TO HELP

We literally don’t need ICE for anything

Can confirm I have personally seen three attempts just today of agents in a convoy of ICE vehicles trying to snatch random POCs along Central Ave - and then being chased off by neighbors with whistles. It's blatant racial profiling. Minneapolis city council member says POC should stay home:

🚨⚠️🧊 MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

PROTEST TODAY (1/11) Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE. Billions of $$$ are being funneled into more violence here and overseas. This is not a failure of the system; it is the system. Join us to demand No Wars, No Kings, No ICE: ⏰ 1 PM 📍 East 60th St & 5th Ave Learn more: HandsOffNYC.com/jan11

It's not like policing works both ways. It only works one way. It only oppresses. It just might not be you, right now.

College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle https://theonion.com/college-campus-tour-ends-inside-unmarked-ice-vehicle/

Wilhoit's law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

This has been going on for months - note that she discusses it happening not only to her, but also to her son and uncle, apparently in separate incidents.

I'm really proud of this article. Quyanakpuq @redped.bsky.social for including me on this project. In this discussion between 5 Indigenous academic women, we discuss the intersection between feminism and Indigenous studies, with lots of suggested readings that shaped our thinking in this area.

Happy Loving Day!

Will 2026 be kind to me by January 26th (a girl's birthday)? Thank you to those who helped with Pommy's transition. I had to start a gofundme account so I can travel to San Diego for a trial. Even if you can't give, please share. 1/2 www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

A great way to start the new year! Call on Hochul and your legislators to tax the rich to fund childcare!! act.ourtime.nyc/email-your-l...

"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're going into Zohran's term thinking he's going to "give you what you want" and not thinking of this time as one in which it'll be easier to organize for what you want. . . I'm afraid you will find yourself very disappointed

JPRS 2025 Wrapped! 🎆 Today marks the end of an exciting year for the Journal of Popular Romance Studies: we've published 5 articles, 1 Special Issue, 4 pieces in the Notes and Queries section, and 6 book reviews. Thank you to all authors and readers! We'll see you in 2026 for more #RomanceResearch.

Here’s current workaround

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)

"Romantic fiction, however you define it, is about the things that matter most. It is about how we create community, and where that starts. It is about love and everything that happens because of it."

Additionally, the "AI" industry has the almost undiluted support of governments, the military, education sector at all levels, industries, and even most journalists. 'AI" has weaseled its way into everything, useful or not. Its truly bizarre to still be so whiny about critics and skeptics.

Minnesotans across race and background are coming together to say WE LOVE OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS! we're marching down Lake Street shopping at immigrant businesses and saying with one loud voice: #ICEOutOfMN @seiu.org

This is the preview for Elon Musk’s X on the App Store. Our tech is built by and for pedophiles

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

Going to argue that there is a better romance in #GodzillaMinusOne than in #PastLives. Agree or disagree? Today, Dec 19, at 6 pm EST (zoom or in person). Link to register for this #AAARI lecture series talk is at aaari.info/25-12-19kamb...

As you plan end of the year donations, please consider the Caleb Scholar's program. It is the only program that I know of that provides Alaska Native students how to use their education to support their community after graduation, mentored & run solely by Inupiaq www.calebscholars.org/donation/

Living two lives rn: one where people tell me about the @heatedrivalry.bsky.social show because they know what I read and another where people tell me about it because they think I have no idea what it is or that it‘s based on a book some of us re-read religiously

people who have been criminalised in the uk for their action for palestine are in hunger strike week number 5+ and at high risk for their health. The UK government is pretending not to know about them and refusing to talk to them. Please share to increase visibility and pressure.