NJ students in grades 6-12 will now learn about “the history of organized labor, notable strikes throughout history, unionization drives, and the collective bargaining process and existing legal protections in the workplace.” This is genuinely so important, and so good to see. Jersey strong, baby!!

It’s funny how you often have to step away from a manuscript before being able to make further progress on it. Truly shows how we’re not fully rational beings and sometimes we need time to just ~ be ~ away from our work before we can move forward.

Very cool how Thomas & Alito were found to have taken exorbitant bribes over the years and not a goddamn thing was done about it

In lieu of having pierogi left to sell they were collecting donations for a trans rights organization and so, as you can see, this at least is right in the world.

This is a canary in the coal mine. Humanities programs are highly endangered, even the departments with reputations for discipline-defining job placement are treading water. What’s tragic about the University of Chicago case is that cuts are almost certainly elective and ideological.

Absolutely wild that I, someone from a working class background, am trying to get a PhD under socioeconomic conditions that make it nearly impossible for folks like me to do so. Currently living paycheck to paycheck and I only got this far—near the end of the program—with savings from a previous job

Bought some raw sliced almonds at Trader Joe’s and they’re such great additions to salads

I think that, instead of calling white people by that racial term, we should call them "European Americans" instead. The latter term foregrounds their immigrant--and settler colonial--backgrounds in a way that "white" can obfuscate. This is especially critical during today's nativism.

It's really amazing how quickly a nation will go fascist when the fascists control all of the branches of government and a compliant media. 🥹

I woke up really early today and want to take a nap but my body just won’t let me, so now I just feel like an angry infant.

Developing a pistachio allergy later in life has been so sad because there are so many delicious desserts with pistachio in them 😩

The decisions by Rep. Don Bacon (Nebraska) and Sen. Thom Tillis (North Carolina) to not seek reelection illustrate how little room there is in the party for dissenting voices and complicate the GOP’s path to keeping its majorities in the midterms.

Backlash to AI is coming and honestly we might actually save the English major by just advertising it with: Write with your human brain. No bots allowed.”

I love how my liberal ass home county made county bus rides free bc it was cheaper to do so than upgrade the fare machines lmaoo

“Be an English major. We make your brain grow. No AI needed.”

Horrific political assassinations took place in America, & we’ve totally erased it from the National Conversation™️ because they happened in the Midwest instead of Manhattan & we’re not a serious country. Incredibly depressing on so many deep, pathetic levels. May their memories be a blessing.

The. Classes. Are. Popular. I didn’t teach intersectionality because it was my gig. I taught it because those classes had waitlists and overenrollments. You do not ever ever trade your base for status. Especially not in the middle of an authoritarian crime spree.

(1/2) A possibly hot take members of #teamrhetoric need to recognize is that rhetoricians should have greater training in political philosophy during their doctoral educations.

(1/2) For my dissertation, I am conducting an IRB-approved study on leftist activist rhetorical and organizing practices in higher education. The title of the study is Advocate Literacies Responding to College and University Power: Practical Wisdoms in Action. Further detail...

“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Beyond Vietnam,” April 4, 1967

I’m realizing I never shared my first article on here, so here goes. Please read my article linked below to get a sense of specifically anti-Central American nativism and how its analysis required an intersectional feminist border studies perspective: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...