1. This is terrible. 2. This is such a BS claim from a university: “We are committed to teaching students how to think, not what to think.” No! We do, in fact, commit to teaching you what to think. You sign up for a psych course, you have to learn psychology. You can ignore it later if you choose.

My students' essays for GWS 250 were AMAZING! A true joy to read!! What an incredible experience to end my career as a TA. So grateful to all of them and their wonderful work!

Winter bear 🐻

En cette veille du 6 décembre, on se souvient des 14 femmes tuées à Polytechnique en 1989. À l’ÉTS, le Fonds Barbara-Daigneault — en mémoire de notre auxiliaire d’enseignement — soutient des étudiantes en génie et l'initiative «Les filles et les sciences». www.etsmtl.ca/actualites/c...

What do you know about anti-gender movements? How do they communicate? Are they Catholic? This, and much more, in my newest publication: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

"I wonder why everyone comes out of college thinking we're evil scum? Surely it's the woke professors" - Republicans, in the process of destroying students' beloved programs and projects, presumably twirling a mustache

Thoughts on the post-47th world: [Or: sometimes in all the craziness, it's nice to just sit back and listen to reasonable people discuss reasonable things.] @hcrichardson.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...

We spent the last full week of GWS 250 exploring our campus museums (Spurlock Museum of World Cultures and Krannert Art Museum). We had excellent conversations with our guides focused on scales (and chronotopes!) of representation and thinking about ethical decolonial practices in the museum.

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

I dislike being woken up by an asthma attack (this cold front has me feeling so screwed up! 🥲) but also sort of appreciate being “rescued” from dream me’s dilemma of figuring out toll roads while driving a haunted mini van in the ocean 😟🤨😅

My chapter has stumbled into poli sci approaches to news media and I am scared. 😱

Ah, what a relief--the "You would have been better off as a real doctor" discourse has entered the family chat...as justification for the fat-shaming that preceded it.

Now available! NATIONS WITHOUT NATIONALISM reflects a passionate commitment to enlightenment and social justice. As ethnic strife persists in Europe and the United States, Kristeva’s humanistic message carries with it a special resonance and urgency. buff.ly/F6LGtrJ

Comment les médias l'échappent? Dans l'image ci-dessous "Appels à l'armée à désobéir aux ordres" : Inexact. Le message était de désobéir aux ordres ILLÉGAUX. Nulle part on ne mentionne qu'un appel à la peine de mort pour ses opposants et en fait pas mal plus fou que le message démocrates.

Quite an opening.

A president can’t even call for the execution of the elected officials trying to stop his assault on the law anymore, because of woke. Just kidding, he can and did call for their execution

Now available! Throughout PROUST AND THE SENSE OF TIME, Kristeva draws on Proust’s notebooks and manuscripts, pointing out significant variations in the different versions of his work. buff.ly/7PPdbOV

The entire post is beyond stupid, divorced from facts, and a parody of "the immigrant stole your cookie"-ism," but I want to call out "groceries cost too much" as one particular stupidity. Over 40% of farmworkers picking crops are undocumented! Deport them and prices go UP!

A sobering reflection Kai Cheng Thom today for #TransDayofRemembrance "We grieve. And we keep going. And maybe 15 years from now, or 50, or 500, we will live in a different world." xtramagazine.com/power/activi...

The baristas at your local café may be able to know your order on sight when you come in. Can you say the same about your pharmacists? Because I can ✨ Love my local support systems ☕️💊🙏😂 💁🏻‍♀️

Media seem obsessed with framing a story with someone “breaking their silence” It’s not an exiled whistleblower…it’s Sophie Trudeau mentioning her ex’s relationship with the woman who sings about being a plastic bag drifting through the wind.

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

Teaching a course with students from all years and so many disciplines: 1st and 2nd years: I am terrified of this paper—I’ve never written 5 pages before. 4th years: omg we are doing worksheets? I forgot how cute these are. All of them: NEVER write their names on their assignments, EVER. 🥹😂🥲

My book with @dukepress.bsky.social is now available for pre-order! Use coupon code E26JCMGZ to save 30%! www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...

In "Gay Print Culture," Juan Carlos Mezo González @jcmezo.bsky.social investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada through the 1970s-90s. #LGBTQStudies Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/LdyHSFV

Buying this “laws aren’t real” tee that conveniently articulates my support of abortion *and* psychoanalysis shoutyourabortion.com/product/laws...

🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com 📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians" Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... Repo: github.com/stefanocoret... Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great backgrounder from the Advocate on how a small group of more or less professional detransitioners and rare stories of regret are being weaponized by Reps to drive policy and drown out local voices. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

This is one of the most recent things Alice did. It was, as ever, a clear, trenchant, messy, and powerful exploration of not just her own experiences but also society's expectations around disability.

Women in ICE detention are being sterilized, and then deported if they speak out about it. This is 100% Nazi-style eugenics. www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9... 1/?

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

At the point where I almost didn’t check because it’s that believable…le sigh.

I feel like I am betraying my generation of millenials in saying this, but I think I prefer the Microsoft Copilot corner floatie to Clippy; I just feel less judged.

Wow, my personality in my notes app is much more well-spoken. And definitely more unapologetic. Will these notes ever see the light of public spaces of engagement? Let me get my student debt paid off then we can ~circle back~

Stop waiting for the 'right time' to transition - a lesson from King Arthur 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/stop-waiting-for-the-right-time-to-transition-a-lesson-from-king-arthur/

May I ask Americans to learn something from this moment of shame? STOP BEING RACIST TOWARD OTHER NATIONS The emperor has NO CLOTHES

Patriarchal white supremacy has never been about “protecting women and girls.” Rather it’s a social system that empowers privileged white men to do what they want to women’s bodies while simultaneously claiming migrants are sexual abusers of “their” women. This racist misogyny is painfully ordinary.

Today was a good day for Linguistic Anthropology at UIUC! Lots of excellent discussions and discovered that many folx are united in their displeasure for the infinite scroll (aka the driving force of my daily brainrot 😅)

I feel like people should know: People who repeat (literally) “I am trying to be an ally” are never, EVER an ally. * Talk Valentina…Ally! *.gif

“Quebec remains a truly exceptional place,” writes @francinepelletier.bsky.social “Politically and culturally, this quasi-country has a complexity that is unique within Canada.” Here, she explores how that uniqueness has both sustained and divided it: thewalrus.ca/the-generation-t...

#Newblogpost!!! Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity. folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...

The call for nominations for the Malcom Bowie Prize, for the best article published in 2024 by an ECR in the broader discipline of French Studies, is now open and will close on 27 February 2025. 🖇️📚 For more information see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/malco...

It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

Stop lying to people.

“How we’re going to survive is taking care of each other and being in community,” -Taylor Morgan, worker-owner at Red Emma’s @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/11/11/i...

"The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses free will lead criminals to rape and kill innocent passengers." LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Sometimes, I ponder at what I do as an instructor. Today, I consider how much perpetual chaos my students wake up to every day as well all are. The stress, the unknowns, the suffering, the politics—all of it. 1/2

Ridiculous. So maddening. Yes, complex. But there is NO doubt that antivaxx misinformation big part of problem. Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says www.reuters.com/business/hea...

So last time any of us need to hear anything about Kim Davis? Agreed? Way too much going on that require more urgent attention to have that keep popping back up.