Me: Cruise ships sound terrible. Like the worst part of a vacation—the crowded hotel—and nowhere to escape to Cruise people: But wait! You’re forgetting there are expeditions! Like to landfills!

Oh man it was only a matter of time. The long-suffering ElDeSt DaUgHtErS are demanding to celebrate Mothers Day irrespective of whether or not they have children

As a childless cat lady, I have zero interest in horning in on y’all’s Mothers Day. In exchange, can someone spread the word that clerks, etc., shouldn’t wish every woman-appearing human over 18 a Happy Mothers Day?

My problem with the novel of the moment isn’t that all the characters are smug, cynical, and soulless. It is that the very stance of the novel itself is all those things. It excavates nothing, on a account of a sneering allergy to conviction and a deep skepticism of the possibility of sincerity.

It’s time to dust off and apply the knowledge of “r-naught” you learned during COVID Season 1.

It’s because that’s where your gums are. Hope that helps

This book should be mandatory reading for every child in the US. socialjusticebooks.org/never-caught...

It's an honor to be part of the editorial board for this disability-centered series of poetry -- so happy to be helping publish new crip work. Thank you to @stevekuusisto.bsky.social for inviting me into this initiative. www.ninemile.org/propel

My book on Americans’ centuries-long struggle to remember, forget, and manipulate George Washington’s history with slavery comes out Tuesday. It makes clear that today’s controversies *about* our history are deeply shaped *by* our history in ways we rarely recognize. bookshop.org/p/books/thy-...

In a recent TED Talk, ASU English Professor Mitchell Jackson traced an arc from Bill Russell to Lebron James and beyond, exploring how 🏀 players use fashion on and off the court to challenge the limits placed upon them. Watch: https://ow.ly/EiCm50YyXIG #ASUHumanities

Listen. Only about 20% of mothers have three or more children so even if all of those mothers have only daughters (very unlikely), that’s not enough to account for how many people are moaning about being eldest daughters.

Did a book event today and afterward a guy in the audience came up and said, “My name is Timothy. We had a French class together in 1998. I made you a mix tape and you called me a snob.” I said, “What was on the mix tape?” He said, “Kurt Weill. You said you were really more into RATT.”

Nancy Mace looks like someone said “Hey Chat Show me Jo Polniaczek but make her MAGA”

More like Chalameh

Terrible #Pitt takes that the dullest person you know will be advancing at the water cooler, part 1: Suffering a crisis of confidence, Mohan will walk off the job, quit being a doctor, and sign up to be an ICE agent and then, finally, her family will quit trying to speak with her

Generative A.I. and prediction markets are soul-corroding and civilization-corroding and we’re all being hyper-exposed to both so that a few terrible people can get rich while everyone else gets poor and miserable

I figured it out: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives “look,” if you can call it that, is equal parts pajama party, hunting party, and Grand Old Party.

If you haven’t read Justice Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One, I highly recommend it.

As good a time as any to point out that her name was Carolyn Bessette, as distinguished from Bissett (as in Josie) and Bassett (as in Angela)

But can’t March 31 just become Dolores Huerta Day??

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

Happy Monday to everyone except the X-ray tech at @bannerhealth.bsky.social who asked if I had a touch of the rheumatoid arthritis and when I said yes, since I was 12, said “Oh your poor parents!”

"When a teacher resists jumping on the AI-in-education bandwagon, they are not being timid...By focusing not on their students’ ability to use generative AI but on their students’ ability to be generative & thus thrive in a world that can sustain them, they are absolutely thinking about the future."

Hematoma, but make it fashion (inspired by my recent black eye)

aaaaaaand i just thought of my answer for the icbreaker. for a meeting that happened on monday

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

Trump has shingles. And SHINGLES DOESN’T CARE

Say what you will but Ryan Murphy sure has his finger on some kind of pulse. Gen Z loves neutral clothing like nobody’s business, so of course they’re eating up his love letter to CBK. At least he is showing them how good hard pants, actual shoes, and well-fitting shirts with buttons can look.

Frida Kahlo is a famous disabled artist. Her art explores her disability. When she had the accident that disabled her, she painted from her bed in her casts. Many artists in history have been disabled. Many are now. You will not find them fighting to have AI take their creative process from them.

y’all can have your pixies and bixies and cunty little bobs. i’ll have the ursula k le guin

I have a lot of experience with illness. Plenty of surgery (more than a dozen with another slated for next month). But injury? Getting hurt out of the blue? I’ve never had a cast or non surgical stitches. That is, until I TRIPPED ON MY CAT YESTERDAY. My first black eye! My first unforeseen sutures!

Is “birthday blindness” a thing? I can love love love a person (and show it) but hell if I know when their birthday is. It feels very important to some people. I also don’t care about my own birthday. Is this residue from my upbringing (birthdays: everyone’s got em. no one deserves a fuss) or what.

I am far away in sunny Arizona but from here it kinda looks like some people don’t know what to do with a young, capable, affable mayor who not only fulfills the responsibilities of his office but…. kinda really enjoys it?

Elizabeth Warren: "This one is to me not even open or arguable. How would the US government keep money that the Supreme Court said it did not legally collect from American businesses, that it did not legally take away from American families that ultimately paid this?"

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Thinking back to when I went to this event at ASU. As a student, I got the tickets for free. My doctoral cohort went together. I thought, how wonderful to hear from such luminaries. What a privilege! Chomsky, Krauss, they are both Epstein dirtbags.

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

I love just being alive at the same time as Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu

The Game Accessibility Guidelines have been put together by game studios, specialists and academics. While they are not an official set of standards or documents, they are a collection of tips and techniques to help developers make games more inclusive. gameaccessibilityguidelines.com

Yesterday I saw some influencer sharing 10 fashion choices that undercut women’s leadership in the workplace and I don’t exactly disagree but Elizabeth Warren is calling out DJT on my TV right now in a crewneck knit and a cardigan/blazer (blardigan?) in an apologetic length and it turns out IDGAF

Coming in April and availabe now for preorder from Teachers College Press: Let’s Discuss: Practices for Equitable Student Participation in ELA Classrooms!! Couldn’t be prouder to be part of this.

hey @nytimes.com I fixed it for you

I saw a Next Door post (about “bad bunnies” halftime show) that started with “I’m not crazy with the crotch-grabbing” followed by “So shake your booty!” Ah, wait, I see the poster has deftly addressed the inconsistency: “dance a bit like no one’s watching,” advises Nancy G, taking liberties

You all have so tolerated the looks I served this week as part of Cookbook Lookbook week, so here’s your dessert. You’ve earned it.

You guys, cmon, he’s a boo-man, he-ing