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.

Grading while stuffing rage and fear about mass shootings into a compartmentalized box at the back of my brain

Anniversary photo at work 🥰

Today is the 1-yr anniversary of my book's publication date! *Abolition Time* was released by @uminnpress.bsky.social on Dec 10, 2024 ✨ If you'd like to write a review of the book and want to know how to acquire a copy, feel free to reach out! I may be able to point you to a journal! Also: (1/3)

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

Fresh haircut. My partner said "it's giving Alison Bechdel character I'd expect to see in profile in a Dykes to Watch Out For panel," which made my day

I love how the media just decided to memory-hole the vast, administrator & state-directed, violent suppression of student, faculty, and staff speech about genocide because it simply does not fit with the ingrained narrative of higher education as a woke indoctrination factory.

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Rural New Mexico is beautiful

“While Shelby County has recorded the dirtiest air in Tennessee for many years — half the state’s admissions for childhood asthma come from there — local residents say the arrival of Colossus has made things worse.”

Toasting towards the end of imperialism and all forms of colonialism, from Turtle Island to Palestine.

This year's American Studies Association conference was a joy! My first ASA was 2015, and ten years later I was a respondent on an "Author Meets Critics" session on my first book! I am so deeply thankful for my colleagues' thoughtful engagement, and energized by the ASA conference as a whole!

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The American Studies Association Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico was fantastic. I participated in an ”Author Meets Critics” session for @jessagoldberg.bsky.social book “Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice.“ What a gift to be in conversation with such brilliant scholars.

And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute

If you're at the American Studies Association conference, this is at 9:45 this morning!

Start of a 17-hour travel day to Puerto Rico -- see you soon, ASA! (Hollar if you're there!) #2025ASA #ASA2025

The police and ICE are on the same side, guys. Organize and call your neighbors, not agents of the state.

A student said I look "gothic" today. I was going for anarcho-socialist ❤️🖤😂

SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends! Thurs Nov 20th 9:45 to 11:15 AM Convention Center Ballroom A Salon A

The world has lost a tremendous light in Alice Wong. May she rest peacefully and may her memory be a blessing 💙

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I'm at the "feeling burnt out" part of the semester, which I feel like pretty regularly happens right around weeks 12-14 (we have 16wk sems here). But my online American Lit survey students did a WONDERFUL job discussing the first eight chapters of *Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl* yesterday.

@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.

🔔 NEW: “The Texas State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TXST) has issued a formal appeal urging the Texas State University System Board Regents to abide by its own rules and reverse the summary dismissal of tenured history professor Dr. Thomas Alter.”

This, to me, is the most remarkable news of the night

My NY heart is sad I can't be voting for Mamdani today but I did vote in my local elections here in northern New Mexico!

I better not read a single damn word of hagiography from anyone who fancies themself as "pro-democracy" or "anti-fascist" for Dick Cheney this week. General reminder that you have no obligation to "not speak ill of the dead" when the dead were monstrously murderous in life!

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I have not reached at least six hours of sleep once in the last ten days and I'm stressed as hell but I'm feeling prettier and more trans every day so there's that

Any policy position short of "Abolish ICE" is a non-starter at this point.

Sorry native-borns, now that ANYONE can have their actual birth certificate cancelled by a cellphone photo taken on a busy street... Do you still think this is about the immigrants who are murderers and rapists?

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Good morning, #asap16 @asapartsnow.bsky.social

Heading to Houston for #ASAP16 ✈️ I'm not staying for the whole weekend so let me know if you are there! (Is ASAP on Bluesky?)

lol Matty Y's latest is on how any big coalition will have bigots in the big tent and buddy, we know. When I say letting bigots into the big tent will shrink it, it's shorthand for courting bigots by treating their bigoted positions as valuables.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.