I'm holding oral midterms for my COMM 101 Intro to Media Industries students this week and they're blowing me away. I'm centering the course around "AI" literacy, critical media, and cultural studies, and they're really getting it. They're engaging, passionate, curious

Watching the second season of Shiny Happy People and my youth group experience makes a lot of sense now. As someone whose dearest wish was to be a Christian missionary from age 7 to 19, this is a bit triggering

Are Wayne State library folks trolling?

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

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It's 7 AM and already 80°. Soaked the garden in preparation for the 100° weather we'll have today

It's my wedding day, but more importantly, it's #nokings day.

It's read-our-students'-evaluations-of-our-teaching season; any other teachers want to cry and comfort-eat with me?

This article says the owner wants to rebuild.... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

When students email me assignments that were due weeks ago, all of which I've already graded, with no explanations or text in the body of the email, even though I haven't accepted emailed assignment submissions all term

Attention Comm scholars: come work with me! jobs.naz.edu/postings/4157 I've only been at Naz since August, but I really like my colleagues and students. #ROC

Recently published! Read the publication on "Seeking 'Self-Determination' in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971" by @annaelin.bsky.social in @urbanhistorya.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1177/00961442241288533 @sagepub.com

I'm watching that documentary too and was similarly struck by how, under Mrs. Graham's leadership (not that she was perfect), the paper exposed Nixon's crimes. The public eventually came around. Makes the fact that the WaPo is currently being driven into the ground all the more bitterly ironic

Helpful podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/47iN...

Me: skips the part that calls Trump a liar in the video on mis/disinformation I'm prepping for my Research Methods class tomorrow so I don't alienate right-wing students before teaching them. My fiance's bio prof: records a very cussy first-day lecture lambasting Trump and Musk for their lies 😅

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I got a Facebook account in 2009 and just deleted it fully (it'll take 30 days to become permanent). Weird mix of nostalgic regret and a sense of freedom

Anyone in the Rochester, NY region know of any inauguration protests happening in the city this weekend? I checked Facebook but couldn't find anything (and I'm planning on deleting my FB anyway) #ROC

Designing and preparing courses before the term begins is almost meditative for me. I gather recommendations and advice from experts; assemble lists of resources and ideas; insert those resources into a carefully designed calendar; a beautiful, effective course that meets my students' needs emerges.

I read 16 books in 2024. It's hard to choose, but I think my top three were: 1. How to Say Babylon (memoir; social commentary) 2. The Frozen River (historical fiction) 3. Demon Copperhead (fiction) Follow me on StoryGraph! app.thestorygraph.com/profile/anna...

Opening 2025 with Frederick Douglass's 1857 reflection on Africans and their descendants' struggles for freedom across the Caribbean and beyond: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Dr. García Peña contextualizes our current situation through historicization, reminding us of the significance diversity of Latinx communities and how the Democratic party has failed to account for the realities of those communities. Thanks for this important work

Well this is grim

This is chilling: www.kctv5.com/2024/12/05/1... We've seen a version of this before, almost 200 years ago. My Wayne State colleagues and I wrote a paper about this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Listening to a Today, Explained podcast episode about the neuroscience of reading and thinking about how I much I friggin' love reading. Here's what I'm reading right now: app.thestorygraph.com/books/5a46be.... Just need to finish cleaning so I can get back to reading

Watching the Shirley Chisholm biopic. The struggle and joy and heartbreak are particularly hard to watch in the wake of the 2024 election. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjBe...

Kingsolver's novel has been praised as a more accurate and human representation of rural Appalachian life than JD Vance's "memoir." It didn't disappoint; reminds me of reading and loving The Poisonwood Bible when I was about 16. app.thestorygraph.com/books/5af1dd...

One of the fun things I've done as a scholar is interview smart people about their new books! Here's a throwback from June 2022. I interviewed Louis M. Maraj about his excellent book "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics." Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/black-or-right

Like many, I'm fleeing from Musk's takeover. Hi, all, I'm Anna. I have a PhD in communication and I study race, culture, power, and history. Looking to connect with activists, scholars, and above all, people who are kind. Looking forward to using a platform that works!