Today was the last day of my course Liberty, Equality, Fraternity?. I asked my students to reimagine my class and give it a new title, and these are the ideas they came up with. They then voted for their favorite: #6 won with #1 coming in as a close second

KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE. www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Overheard a student say during class today that "France has done so many horrible things to so many people." My job here is done.

Last class, students designed a poster about chlordecone poisoning in Guadeloupe and Martininque. The class voted for their favorite, and I let the winning group choose from a bag of Starburst today. Me: "Sorry, there are no more pinks" Student: *gasp* "Devil!" Student: "Sorry, I mean 'professor'"

Excellent article advocating for Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

We should stop referring to what ICE agents wear as “masks,” as it feeds into stigmatization and actual legislation to ban face-masks, including respirators. ICE agents technically do not wear masks; they wear neck gaiters. However we should refer to them as what they actually are: hoods

Editor Aiden Hunt announces Philly Chapbook Review's 2026 Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in this editor's note and provides links to, and a carousel of, the nominated poems. phillychapbookreview.org/december-25-...

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Obsessed with this melon sorbet that came in a cute container I got to keep

Committed two crimes today by eating this poor octopus bao and these goldfish dumplings

My mom and I, looking at a menu outside: My mom: “You need to order something” Me, pointing out that there are no English translations: “I cannot” My mom: “Oh no”

Last night’s dinner view over Peking Duck

Weeping because you can order $1-3 plates of sushi in Hong Kong that come to you on a little conveyor belt

Baked madeleines for the first time

After an unexpected hiccup, the newest crochet tapestry has finally been added to the office

Crochet is the only time I will willingly do math

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Anyone who says Humpback Rocks is an easy hike is a liar

Beyond excited about this adorable ceramic yarn bowl I that I thrifted for $3

Now available as an eBook!

Charlottesville sunrise

My students wrote some 🔥 final reflections, I am so relieved and excited that they took away what I was hoping they would from my class

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

Please note the CWs You stuck your slurs into my skin when you tried to silence me, afraid of my aberration. Read more of "Your Remains are My Religion" by @sarendipitous.bsky.social in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...

Check out my novelette! Fun fact: I started writing it because someone once told me that writing can't work as "a piece of art or entertainment as well as an awareness platform."

I had my students do trivia on nuclear testing in the Pacific, and one group chose the team name Mushroom Clouds 🤣

Honored to have been nominated for Best of the Net. Read my poem here: phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

Here is the Virginia Department of Health standing order that can used to get a pharmacy based covid vaccine for those 65+ or 18-64 with at least one underlying condition. Your pharmacy should have a copy as well. www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...

The pharmacist said my name was pretty and wrote it in calligraphy

Before every class, I play a song by a Francophone singer from the country/region we're studying. Yesterday, I chose Naïka's "Belle, Belle!" and a student said the song was fire and added it to his playlist

This morning, I found out there's a chestnut tree across the road from me and this is the tastiest accidental discovery

Last fall, @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social published my poem "A Doctoral Education." This fall, they featured me in .Writers.on.Writing., where I discuss my piece and my writing: www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/writersonwri...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

I had my students rewrite a Mbembe quote as a tweet, and I'm still laughing at what they wrote. Some examples:

My favorite part of handwritten reflection journals is seeing all the students' cute misspellings, AI could never

I was blessed with the best bus ride ever. Her owner said it’s highly unusual for her to take to strangers, but she just lay down under my seat and stayed there the whole time

Thrilled to have one of my favorite poems republished in All My Relations! Check out the issue and my poem "Your Remains are My Religion"

Like I needed another reason to avoid Home Depot and Lowes.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

I finally wrote an essay on my experience in my PhD program: panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...

Had the cutest interaction with a student who was so excited to discover that I’m also Chinese American

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Have discovered my favorite line from a book, The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Binh Tu Tran

Crocheted a scene from Howl’s Moving Castle! Pattern: wellsaidane.wixsite.com/crochet/patt...

“He’s easily bruising. He has bone pain. He looks pale .… He has also lost his appetite …. His mom is terrified that these are symptoms that his leukemia situation might be deteriorating.” A 6-year-old with cancer is languishing in a U.S. detention camp. Who will answer for this cruelty?

More than 100 UVA faculty (and counting) have signed an open letter condemning political interference in the university. The forced installation of a new president under these circumstances will cast a shadow on teaching and research. Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If DEI is such a problem, tell me why, when I met with one of my Asian advisees, they wanted to know what kind of Asian I am before we bonded over wanting to learn how to speak our mother tongues fluently.

if ken cuccinelli is appointed president of UVA all hell will break loose here