RIP to one of the great warriors, disability activist Alice Wong.

working with Alice, someone I admired for years before I got this job, was a privilege. here is her full contributor page to Teen Vogue, with her Disability Visibility column.

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

I think that's part of why I'm so shocked that someone can't see how political this is. You know real life people whose grants were canceled and that money is likely being repurposed to fund you.

One of your colleagues gets one of these politically motivated grants and calls it apolitical —- what are you supposed to do with that?

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To know me is to know how profoundly becoming a Ford fellow changed my life. Yesterday, I got to bask in the presence of someone who’s a big part of why. I can’t succinctly capture all that Dylan Rodriguez’s example means to me, but I was giddy to see him IRL after so many years! I just kept …

Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.

Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife. He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness

I knew Fall 2025 would be labor-intensive in terms of teaching, so it’s all easier said than done, but this is also a semester exciting conversations with folk I admire. A couple more on deck! ASA: American Studies Association AAR: American Academy of Religion

As opposed to, say, the dozens of studies with frightening shit like: "after controlling for a large set of student, teacher & school characteristics, even small daily amounts (here, 30 min) of use of digital devices in these classrooms are negatively related to scores on reading comprehension test"

It was an absolute honor and delight to participate in ABWH‘s MasterClass on joy and wellness! Sharing was the gift! So, I squealed upon receiving these additional gifts! And you know I’ll strutting around in these!

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Hi. I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold. I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)

Hey this is today. 😊

I woke up at 5AM to get back to Boston by train. I took a Lyft to the airport to retrieve my car in time for my string of meetings on campus. Before heading home, I had dinner with a Tufts Sociology colleague I met at the SIGNS editorial board meeting. He’s in the first months of the …

Because this is a brand-destroying action by Senate Dems.

Pluribus here to remind me that I really do not have what it takes for any kind of zombie apocalypse. Just end me now.

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

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I was always planning for a Monday return from SSAWW in Philly, so I appreciated knowing Sat AM that my flight was canceled. The one-way train ticket will get me back to Boston in time to get my car from the airport for my string of meetings. Meanwhile, good SSAWW energy = my traveling companion.

You’re trash @shaheen.senate.gov and this will be your legacy

But he did.

It's know your place aggression h/t to @profkori.bsky.social a Black elder in the room got real quiet as if to say this heffa!!!

I didn’t take many pictures, but I caught up with so many good people at SSAWW yesterday. There’s more to come today, but yesterday was full of celebration! I will name only a few examples. Fellow Ford fellow Kim Blockett earned honorable mention for her edition of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw’s memoirs, …

What a joy to return to SSAWW in Philadelphia! We gathered at this exact location in 2015, and this is the organization’s 25th anniversary! I’m seeing so many people who have been on this intellectual journey with me in countless ways! Just one example: the fabulous Dr. Jane Carr!!!

I own it. I’m promiscuous! Intellectually promiscuous. I take it as a huge compliment when people think I’m whatever kind of scholar they find valuable. Historian, sociologist, whatever. (They rarely have "English professor" in mind, so I love explaining why that’s exactly the training …

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

New profile pic.

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Time flies! It has been more than a decade since I’ve taught a single-author course.

No doubt about it!

Michelle Wu is one of the best public officials and political leaders in America.

American culture works to keep us from noticing white mediocrity, so when you see it, you’ll have insights to share. I love knowing I facilitated that process! Congrats on this publication, Dr. Hughes! And don’t sleep: such connections are crucial because #WhiteMediocrity Empowers #WhiteVillainy

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

I WAS HACKED ON TWITTER. THOUGH I PUT “ARCHIVE ONLY AS OF 10/30/25” AND THEN DEACTIVATED THE ACCOUNT, THEY ARE DMing WITH A REQUEST AND A LINK. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK! THINKING I WAS HELPING SOMEONE WITH A REQUEST = HOW THEY GOT ME!!!

Many congratulations to the amazing Dr. Sarah Lewis! It’s impossible to keep up with the remarkable contributions she makes. I won’t try to list all the reasons congratulations are in order rn. I’ll just mention her 2025 American Book Award for THE UNSEEN TRUTH! Rock on, doc! We love to see it! 😍

My face when Cuomo’s “legacy” is mentioned.

“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” -Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865) #everynightapoem #november

“The most important revelation I have gleaned from Watkins’s lackluster is this: His life and career reveal how he and other middling professionals advanced themselves despite their ‘white mediocrity,’ to employ Koritha Mitchell's phrase.” -Amy E. Hughes www.americantheatre.org/2025/10/28/t...

FOR REAL!

The Trump admin. has justified cuts on fiscal grounds: The federal budget deficit is massive; the Social Security retirement system could soon become insolvent. But the disability program is paid for, via payroll taxes, by its own trust fund, separate from the one for the retirement program.

FOR REAL!

what’s it like inside your head?

What he said: 💯 🎯

Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500. Insane

There’s a name for this. C O R R U P T I O N