Not to mention an accessibility crisis. Online teaching opens up so many possibilities for people; losing it means leaving disabled people in the dust again

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

The trans people in girls' & women's sports case is horrific in too many ways to fully account for, for me, right now. But just to say, in the big picture it is part of an effort to legislate trans people out of existence. "Fairness in sports" is a BS distraction from the intended extermination.

Birthright Citizenship was perhaps the most straightforward legal question to come across the SCOTUS this century so the fact that it wasn't 9-0 is hella scary but at least it was the right decision.

There is no grieving great enough for Kohen Wiley. To wish Kohen's family peace or condolences is so insufficient I can't fathom it. May Kohen's memory be a blessing to his family. Abolish the police. There is no reforming this. Abolition now.

C19 American Lit friends: What are a couple of great go-to readings on Mark Twain's evolving political views from the pro-slavery and racist southern sympathizing he grew up in and retained for decades to his more fully-fleshed out left/progressivism towards the end of his career?

Hello from Albuquerque Pride.

Good morning. I want to try to use summer to post more on here, perhaps professionally about what I am trying to write. But, priorities: Israel and the US are still committing genocide in Palestine. And also waging imperialist was in Lebanon and Iran. These imperial powers need to end.

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

Eight years after completing my PhD, I got a tenure & promotion letter today. Now Associate Professor of English and Director of Gender & Women's Studies at New Mexico Highlands University. I want to do some research to see if there have been any trans faculty given tenure here before me. 🤔

What a wonderful graduation weekend at NMHU 💜 The class of 2026 is significant for me because it marks my fourth year at Highlands, making this kind of my "senior year" in relation to first-year students who began the same semester as me.

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” @c19americanists.bsky.social @aaup.org

Something I haven’t seen mentioned is that more than TSA work at airports! Janitors, food service, retail, etc. I have no faith that security clearance to work at an airport will keep those people safe from ICE, especially brown and Black people with accents.

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

Taught Loretta Ross's formative essay "The Color of Choice" in Feminist Theory this week. And it feels a type of way to return to it post-Dobbs, as the US is starving people to death in Cuba, facilitating a genocide in Palestine, waging war on Iran, helping Israel to murderously steal Lebanon's land

Do not let the Western media manufacture consent. Hold the anti-imperialist line. You can be against the oppression of Iranian people by their own regime and not use that as excuse to support a US & Israeli act of aggression. Western bombs do not bring freedom or liberation to the SWANA region.

This has always been ICE and in truth policing for Black, Indigenous, and Latiné folks. It’s just happening at a scale where many more people are exposed to it.

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades. In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

so about the relationship between the state and capital

Don't let the liberals squash this moment like they have every recent anti-carceral movement by turning "Abolish ICE" into "Defund ICE" into "ICE needs better training" resulting in rehabilitation PR and ultimately increased funding for "reforms." It's "Abolish ICE" loud and clear, no qualifiers.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

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.

Taught my first week of classes and just submitted my tenure dossier. I would now like to sleep for 12 hours.

It's not lost on me that an intended side effect of doing this is putting children of color behind in their educations.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

🌲 Evergreen reminder that some organizing conversations are best had in-person, and definitely not on social media, especially Facebook, and especially discussions of specific tactics 💕

So MLA just gives platforms to Zionists who wrote about how the pro-Palestine movement is anti-Semitic, huh? Cool, cool. Anyway, some of us are gonna talk about BDS stuff in a roundtable at 12. I'll probably just yell & sound irritable but I am sure my colleagues will have very smart things to say.

"The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope...is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious." -Walter Benjamin Remember this is typical IDF behavior in Palestine, and that white folks made desecrating the bodies of lynching victims a ritual

A local rapid response group I work with is desperately trying to raise $5K tonight to get immediate legal representation for a group member who is facing deportation. It is crucial that these funds be raised by tomorrow. These are organizers I trust. Venmo for donations: @geebees5818

What you're seeing in that video of ICE murdering a woman in broad daylight (I'm not sharing it) is a tactic that the police have been using against Black people and their comrades for over a century. Down to the "it was self-defense b/c she was trying to run us over" script.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

We’ve seen this in Chicago. Now we’re seeing it across the country. ICE is a lawless secret police force and must be abolished. This is fucking horrific.

This is horrifying and reprehensible AND shit like this happens extremely often to trans lawyers, witnesses, and parties

I'm feeling very powerless knowing that there is no anti-imperialist movement or even opposition party in the US with the teeth necessary to stop this. But still we organize and we fight. Because those of us in the Imperial Core have no right to despair or to fold our hands in resignation.

They really said "we're gonna bomb Venezuela for oil" and went ahead and did it. It's Bush-Cheney without the performance. Just straight up, bald-faced evil. Repeating til I'm blue in the face that the US is the Evil Empire we should all root against. Solidarity with the people of Venezuela.

Here's to a more robust politics of collective refusal in 2026 ✊

Since finishing grad school and taking my first contingent 4/4 teaching job, December has consistently been my biggest writing time. It's nearly impossible for me to find time to write during the semester, so it happens during "breaks," and Dec/Jan has become my most productive research season.

Reason number 437 that Newsome sucks, actually. The only thing going for him is that he's a straight white man running as a Democrat who can do a decent "Tough Guy" performance on social media. He is the definition of all style and no substance but his style is literally just white masculinity.

I sighed. "I really do have trouble not being able to figure out if what you've painted is about to be day or night." Ruth rolled toward me [...] "It's not going to be day or night, Jess. It's always going to be that moment of infinite possibility that connects them." -Stone Butch Blues, ch 24

When I was a grad student and struggled to articulate the distinction between feminist theory and queer theory, i thought it was a failure of mine. Now as Director of a Gender & Women's Studies program even more immersed in the field, I lean into that "struggle" as itself being the point.

Everything about this entire saga is and has been incredibly infuriating, and also very triggering. I was removed from a teaching position b/c right-wingers didn't like my social media posts back in 2020. The landscape is worse now. www.koco.com/article/sama...

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Hands Off Venezuela

While I appreciate outrage at Dems voting for a bill that codifies anti-trans proposals, I want to emphasize this is the NDAA, which passes every year b/c the US has a bipartisan commitment to military violence & imperialism. The trans liberation movement must be anti-imperialist we are to succeed.

How fucking DARE these mfers instrumentalize the shooting to justify ongoing genocide. This is why every event of antisemitic violence is so knotted for a lot of us. I want to mourn but I have no time to do so b/c I immediately have to fight the Zionist weaponozation of Jewish grief. It's maddening.

ICE is evil. ICE is organized kidnapping. Fuck ICE. Yeet this entire organization into the sun, never to be reformed or rebuilt again.