“her attorney, said in a letter to school officials that they don’t even have a clear “theory of discrimination”.” Concerted effort to scare anything regarding Palestine from the classroom. Makes it harder to see genocide if you can’t mention the afflicted group. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...

I hope that people are aware that one of the primary political objectives of this ascending right-wing effort to remake higher education through things like the Vanderbilt Report, the Chicago Principles, and the AEI Future of the American University project is to crush the academic labor movement.

In a sane world, this would mean the loss of accreditation for Auburn, because real universities don't have their curricula decided by politicians.

Really grateful to have told this story if only because it might make other people feel less alone in this complex type of kid grief.

Pride in Japan ⛩️🌈⛩️

These people need to be shunned and banished from universities. Professor used AI to write an op-ed about *academic integrity* (it has since been retracted by the original publisher)

📚New cluster!! Ed. Robert LeBlanc "The Specter of High School English" initiates a conversation across institutional boundaries that discusses literacy, censorship, technology, writing instruction, and so much more! Check it out: post45.org/sections/con...

thoroughly enjoyed @jcmezo.bsky.social’s Gay Print Culture.

Rush nightclub, Manhattan. 17 y.o, a red-lit room packed with sweaty queers, it was glorious.

The last 2 years have been full of ceasefires where the bombing has just continued unabated

many of the faculty that have been fired were critics of the administration - a chilling and shameful episode we should be following, especially those of us in higher ed

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

in Japan!

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

goooo Kandice, so very exciting!

Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway is so very good!

grades submitted, semester over, may my gay summer commence!

GRAD STUDENTS! Submit your works in progress to ASAP/17’s workshop! Apply using the link in bio!

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

EVENT TOMORROW | 6.30pm ET | ONLINE Reminder that tomorrow Monday May 18 we will be hosting a conversation between Ken Wissoker (Duke University Press) & Kandice Chuh (The Graduate Center, CUNY) titled "Writing and Publishing Now: Strategies for Turbulent Times." Register here: bit.ly/3ORvTxg

citation is when 10 African authors are thrown into a footnote, their works not framed or engaged while in the same work, Foucault gets 4 pages of intense engagement and, yes, this is very common

engagement over citation

universities that do not fully fund conferences—and I’m including decent meals and snacks and even drinks and dessert (see my priorities)—should not require them

Look at what beautiful book arrived in the mail today! In Theory, Darling Searching for José Esteban Muñoz and the Queer Imagination By Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social

grateful to have @sjcerv.bsky.social’s blurb on the paperback edition of In Theory, Darling!

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

Sarah Blackwood wrote a terrific piece a while back disproving the myth that more majors = more tenure lines / resources www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

It’s not about declining humanities majors or declining humanities enrollments (which are respectively overblown and not a thing). It’s about structural disinvestment.

A new edition of Edward Said's "Representations of the Intellectual" is out. Free link: archive.ph/2026.01.21-0... In his lectures, Said examines the motivations for thinkers, commentators and teachers… the ways in which they serve knowingly and unknowingly certain national or corporate interests.

I hope you’ve all seen this job listing for a Humanities Leadership postdoc at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center: deadline June 13 ✨ apply.interfolio.com/185526?fbcli...

"There’s no question that we have built a system that creates brilliant art... But it simply has not been able to support the lives of the people who make that art for decades now—and the resources that could provide that support are not expanding but instead are beginning to dwindle."

paperback edition of In Theory, Darling in stock at @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social!

Huge congrats and thanks to @nycplan.org and everyone who yelled at Mamdani about this!

Today marks four years since an Israeli soldier shot and killed US citizen and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while she was wearing her press vest and covering the news. The IDF has continued to target journalists with impunity. No one has been held accountable for Shireen's killing.

Almost one week until our upcoming conversation with Kandice Chuh and Ken Wissoker on the centennial of Duke University Press. Looking forward! Register at: bit.ly/3ORvTxg

some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat

student contempt for AI—love to see it!

“The price of outsourcing the university’s work to AI will be paid not only in diminished critical thinking in the university but also in a diminishment of civic life itself.”

instead of getting too into my feelings on this day I’ve decided to instead channel my energy into writing the next chapter of my book.

thoroughly enjoyed As If! by Chase Gregory. an entire study on the style of queer literary criticism—more of this please.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

the anti-intellectualism is coming from inside the house folks, and always has been —a fully bipartisan war on universities taking place for decades, a consensus position against learning, and we're living inside the results

Just hours before the 2026 #MetGala, hundreds gathered in the Meatpacking District to watch people walk down a different red carpet in custom couture. The "Ball Without Billionaires" - a runway show co-hosted by fashion stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and 'Abbott Elementary' actress Lisa Ann Walter

idk man 300 data centers feels like a lot of data centers does the plagiarism machine really need all this

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/