Super excited to share my latest article with the wonderful Avery Edenfield: Queer Potential in Professional Communication: “Queer Use” & Terms of Service (the "Online First" version through TCQ). I have 50 free e-links so let me know if you want one!

Now why on earth did I schedule my sabbatical presentation for the Monday we get back from Spring Break?!

Unity Conejo's first fundraiser of the year is here! Come play trivia with us!

I'm at CI & everyone is terrified about what cuts will mean for us as the smallest campus. I'm a CSU alumn & it was the only way I was able to access a college education (B.A. @ CI & M.A. @ Northridge). It's hearbreaking that I'm hoping me leaving for a TT position elsewhere will save someone's job.

I need to post more often here, but big life update (yes, amidst the dumpster fire of everything else): I'll be starting as an assistant professor at University of South Carolina in August 2025. I love CI and will miss it dearly, but am so excited for this next chapter of my life.

It's been a minute since I've been here, so updates: I successfully defended my dissertation on September 19th and am now on the job market! It's been a rollercoaster navigating the job market while still having my regular full-time teaching job, but here we go!!!

Officially finished conducting interviews for my dissertation (thank you to all my incredible participants), just ran my corpus through AntConc, and am drafting Chapter 3... it's getting real!

TY for the amazing response to my call! I only need a few more study participants to reach my goal sample size. In particular, anyone who works in sexual health/education spaces on social media and does some content moderation I would love to chat! A needed area in my current participant pool.

Hey all! I'm still recruiting for my diss study. If you or anyone you know has experience in content moderation (paid or volunteer) and, particularly, has made decisions about "sexual content" (however defined!), I'd love to chat! Email rachael [dot] jordan [at] ttu [dot] edu for more information.

Officially set my automatic reply for sabbatical on my CSUCI email to start on Monday! WHOA. Also, conducting four interviews this week for my diss and working on two other projects. It's really happening, folks! <3

How about today, instead of finishing up and submitting grades and working on that article that won't write itself, I just rewatch all three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials? No?

I'm starting to recruit for my diss study! If you, or anyone you know, has experience moderating sexual content on social media (broadly defined), please send them my way. Feel free to email me at rachael [dot] jordan [at] ttu [dot] edu and I can send you my Study Information Sheet. :)

Apologies if you saw this on the other site, but I got to write a blog post for Teaching & Learning Innovations at CSUCI about the asynchronous service-learning grant writing course that I teach. Hooray! tlinnovations.cikeys.com/innovation/o...

One of my grant writing students from a few semesters ago secured a 25,000 dollar grant for a local animal shelter. So proud of my students and their work from my class! Service-learning is hard, but so worth it ❤️

It's OFMD Season 2 day (and my long teaching day) so cross your fingers that I can stay awake tonight to watch it! I'M SO READY!!

I love Halloween and have had a costume for every one of my 37 years on this planet (even when I was 15 and thought I was too cool to get one I threw together a "Malibu Barbie" costume on the fly the day of). Going to be Misty (from Pokemon) this year and my trooper of a spouse will be Psyduck!

✨ 🔉 Hi! Here's my CFP for a special recurring series on queer/trans sound art for Resonance: The Journal of Sound & Culture. I'm seeking guest essays, audiovisual media, commentaries, interviews, and other editorial items *in addition* to peer-reviewed scholarship! online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

Thankful to teach in such a beautiful place. It makes up for having to eat outside since my office is still closed due to a flea infestation ✨

Thankful for Kaiser's literal drive-thru flu vaccine by my house! (Wish they were still covering the COVID boosters from other pharmacies, though, especially since they don't have the new one yet). Thinking of @lecagle.bsky.social ! My poor cuckoo bird always gets the needle!

Today, you can order four free COVID tests. Go here: www.covid.gov/tests Pass it on.

Passed my quals! *faints* Super thankful for my incredible committee and other mentors in the field. <3

Prescient as my union is on the verge of a strike authorization vote (we're in mediation right now). Super thankful for the California Faculty Association.

Quals Day 1 and feeling like I can actually do this? Hopefully this confidence lasts for three more days!!

Thursdays are my long teaching days so here we go! Excited to meet students in both my Editing Studio sections (one of which is part of a learning community) and to meet my CIMAS students. The other two asynch courses I teach have started off strong this week, as well. :)

I walked into a college classroom to teach for the first time in Fall 2009. In my MA program we were the instructor of record. I've been teaching college students ever since and am so thankful for the work I get to do.

Having an almost teen is wild. I make him laugh. L (laugh crying): I hate you Me: Only because you think I'm funny and actually like me which you feel like you shouldn't since you're about to be 13. L (still laughing): Ugh it's so trueeeeeee. Honestly, though, making him laugh is so great.

new issue of Kairos released today! Read it, like it, share it, cite our authors. <3 https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/28.1/

I love, love, love this whole trilogy. And trilogies that change their focal point character are my JAM.

Officially got a Team Rhetoric feed up: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u4s6ybdap5c5tpy6m4ftqevo/feed/aaaob7mouqxj2. Go subscribe and like it! I’m slowly adding folks. Fill out this Google form to add yourself to the feed: https://forms.gle/tXkZt7b7sTT2TubP8.

I'm the advisor for our Queer Student Alliance this year and just got out of the first officers meeting and it just brought so much joy to my heart. These amazing students have some great plans for this year. <3

Nothing like my cat pushing her head onto my hand right as I'm taking a sip of coffee to keep me humble.

SIGDOC revisions, RSA proposal, quals prep, and course prep oh my! It's all going to be fine, right? 😁

it's job season, if any #teamrhetoric folks want eyeballs on a cover letter for liberal arts college jobs, please feel free to reach out! I've been on several searches and have chaired two. the most common issue I see is people sending R1-type letters to SLAC positions.

Calling today my last day of summer. Older child is w/his dad, younger child is with great-grandparents, and spouse and I are going to spend the day together. Then, come Monday, it's time to get down to semester planning for real. Goodbye, summer.

Me today: this is the latest I've ever begun semester planning (four courses (three preps) and a course release for curriculum development)!! Also me today: well I guess I should take the last day of July "off" 🤷

The semester starts August 21st, my older kid turns 13 on August 31st, and I get my qualifying exam questions at 10am on September 1st. Not the best planning or evil genius? We'll never know.

Feeling pressure about a first post (thanks anxiety) so will just be boring and share that I have a manuscript under review, just got great feedback for SIGDOC proceedings, and just finished my ProComm presentation! Coming at ya w all the queer TPC. 😊