In sitting in seat 7 or 8 because it lets me be next to two of my heroes. But the real answer is that I’m giving my seat away to a young gay black kid who is full of questions.

In-house citation checkers that are paid well should be a part of any academic publishing system. Peer reviewers aren’t the solution to this problem of hallucinated citations in academic publishing.

Thank you for the plug @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social ! 😎

Deva Woodly says it better than I can.

#TeamRhetComp #WritingStudies #Pedagogy Check out the latest CCC special issue call! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We do not deserve Teyana Taylor. She must be protected.

This is called "apartheid."

What SCOTUS did to the Voting Rights Act and their rationale for their actions constitutes a vicious attack on Black citizens. It’s not right. It’s not okay. Such things should be stated clearly. This decision is wrong and harmful. It is a moral failing to ignore the reality of racism in the USA.

The president of Texas Tech’s accreditor says they have not received any complaints about the system-wide censorship against gender and sexuality. Here’s how to file one! sacscoc.org/app/uploads/...

This is unsurprising but also disgusting. What a stupid question and when Raskin sought clarification, she gave a stupid, generalist answer. You’re a journalist. You e job is literally to expose and contextualize events. Am I wrong for believing that?

This is a very good piece. As soon as he rubbed that monster’s hair I committed to never watching his show again.

It will be extremely interesting to see what institutions like Fenway Health and NYU Langone do now. The ostensible reason for their ending of youth gender care is now gone - will they resume care for all the trans kids they abandoned?

i respect season 2 of the pitt for saying "ignoring your depression & trauma doesn't make you the sympathetic hero, it makes you a problem in the fucking workplace"

I'm doing a thing! And it's about it's more than just Sally Barry, but she kinda changed the world and isn't as well-known.

Is this what people with power and money think? “I really need you to hear my deepest thoughts; I believe they will fix everything that’s wrong with our society.” Groundbreaking. What Palantir looks like right now

I love that Charlie XCX declares dance floor music dead and Madonna is like “hold my beer, Charlie, imma do this thing over here.” We about to see if the goddess still has it and I, for one, can’t wait for it! 🍿🍿🍿

3rd homes should be taxed higher. 4th? Even higher…

Dynamic pricing is vile and needs to stop. Good on ya Maryland for doing something about it.

This! It’s wild how quickly unis just embraced all this shit as inevitability.

I wrote about how US media is laundering authoritarian anti-gender politics through a frame of viewing restrictions on trans people as being led by progressive European countries rather than the reality that it is illiberal autocratic states. www.thedissident.news/the-launderi...

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Hey #4C26 #4C27 #TeamRhetoric #RhetoricAndComposition Award season is upon us… look over the criteria and deadlines. Nominate your favorite works and people! cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards?...

Notice how they never cite a study or statistic that justifies AI use in the classroom. Why? Bc there is basically no evidence that AI improves student learning outcomes (and they know it). Politicians are putting corporate profit ahead of student needs—a corporate-backed science experiment on kids

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

"If the data centers we rely on are built on the infrastructural remains of colonial and imperial ideologies, we must interrogate how these spaces and histories shape our engagement with the newest manifestation of these ideologies."

“Shush” is @toriamos.bsky.social ‘s new single and damned if this album isn’t shaping up to be magnificent 🥹😍

Senate Democrats voted multiple times to fund TSA separately from ICE. Republicans voted it down every time. Republicans are to blame for today’s airport chaos — all because they’re happy to keep letting Trump’s thugs terrorize our communities with no consequences. Remember this.

Happy publication day! @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and I have a chapter in Storied Practices: Positionality in Writing Studies, edited by Kristine Acosta, Michelle Cowan, Rebecca Rickly, Nancy Small, and Erica M. Stone. The whole collection is here: wacclearinghouse.org/books/practi...

So happy to see this out in the world. Check out chapter 46!! @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social is a joyful and challenging co-author. Love him the pieces! wacclearinghouse.org/books/practi...

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

So happy for Autumn Arkapaw! She’s so talented. A quick fact: Ryan Coogler has only ever worked with female cinematographers. His team represents the best of us.

Autumn Durald Arkapaw wins #Oscar for best cinematography 🥹

Malcolm-Jamal Warner forgotten again!! #Oscars

The camp queen in me LOVED Babs breaking out into song🥹 We are lucky to witness her final live performance.

This bit between two white guys about gifts to each other isn’t landing😑

The Casablanca bit was perfection #Oscars

I was hoping #UglyStepSister would win its only nomination but I get why Frankenstein won. #Oscar

That @mistycopeland.bsky.social moment at the #Oscars was for her and all the beauty of ballet and a celebration of #Sinners. It is only a little bit of a fuck you to someone who got it so wrong. Let her be magical w/o him.

Thank you @oliviawood.bsky.social for organizing an #Adequate talk at the CUNY Graduate School today! So wonderful to learn with y’all! With @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social and @crystalbc.bsky.social and @planbreakeramy.bsky.social

I literally gasped when I saw this León Ferrari image.

Capitalism is just basically about getting people addicted to things (gambling, porn, salt/sugar/fat, social media, drugs, etc.) and profiting from it. Marx's g-g, g-$-g, $-g-$, $-$ is now $-A. And our misery continues. Great work everyone.

Yep. The 25th requires courage and a spine 🤷🏼‍♂️

I love that a famous celebrity is getting dragged for saying no one cares about opera & ballet. I hope we can resist giving his off-handed & untrue statement outsized consequence. He said a stupid thing. Let it go as just a stupid thing he said. I still admire him as a talented young actor.

My take on this is you’re gonna have a difficulty with rhetorical negotiation if your default is tear down. And yet… Some things need to end. And some folks know enough to need them to end. But what then is a learning space? How must it be different from whatever is outside it?

Such kind and characteristically passionate words about #Adequate Thank you, @impossiblephd.bsky.social for taking a moment to share them🥹

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

This could be dope. This could be horrible.

That's right. Our display copies will officially be cheaper than a bottle of smart water at the #4C26 convention center Starbucks (plus you won't have to wait in a 20 minute line). Come and get em 8AM - 12PM!