Chicago. Today.

I’m making a rare academic appearance at #asecs2025 in mere minutes on panel 146. Hope to see some of my lovely ASECS friends 💕

TIL W.T.Stead died on the Titanic

It takes an exile from Putin’s Russia, writing about the theories of an exile from Orban’s Hungary, to cut through the noise about Trump’s America, from which we have nowhere left to run. Gift link to M. Gessen in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Frankenstein is the story of a STEM dad whose son majors in the humanities

Anyone need a guest speaker this semester? One or two more honoraria could send this independent scholar to #asecs2024 I’ll tap dance too

The NLRB is right on: college athletes are employees and deserve to unionize and collectively bargain. LFG!

"A debate has arisen." 110% example of how the passive voice can take tenuous agency and make it an environmental condition, something like bad weather. Needs less support but reads as more pervasive than "Some have started to ask..." (I count roughly 1 person actually debating this in the article.)

+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao

Anyone have leads on sources of conference funding for NTT and independent scholars?

Anyone know of financial experts who work with people with punishing amounts of student loan debt? I need help navigating this shit maze

YES PROMOTING LIBERTARIANISM IS PRECISELY THE POINT OF JONATHAN SWIFT’S SATIRE EXCELLENT INTERPRETATION A+ ELMO

Workers at Prisoners Legal Services of NY, who unionized last year & do vital work for people incarcerated throughout New York, have voted unanimously to authorize a strike starting September 18 if no agreement is reached on a contract by then. Donate to their strike fund here: givebutter.com/gop2eZ

Come work with me at Davidson College! A rare opportunity in the GLAM field to manage and organize programming around a historic site, the Beaver Dam Plantation. Help us and the community reckon with our past. employment.davidson.edu/en-us/job/49...

Are they ‘love languages’ or ‘styles of trauma response’?