So, yeah, Rosalía's Lux is pretty amazing.

My students have NO IDEA how much an office visit can revive my love for teaching again. It's been a bleak term and this was the shot of sun I needed so, so badly.

End of the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

We are seeking a new editor-in-chief for ASAP/Journal—could it be you?? (Deadline will be extended!) We’re also seeking innovative reviews of scholarly & artistic works (all genres) for ASAP/Review. Check out our calls for Provocations & Uncanny Juxtapositions! asapjournal.com/call-for-pap...

Deeply moving to see this first family.

One of the big ones.

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

Happiness really is shocking sometimes.

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.

Teaching Araceli Girmay's poems tomorrow--"each of us looking out from the gorgeous unlikelihood of our lives at all, finding ourselves here, witnesses to each other’s tenderness, which, this moment, is fury". poets.org/poem/you-are...

McKenzie Wark on Vaginal Davis www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

"At a time when the federal government is targeting the communities of color and immigrant communities that CUNY serves, New Yorkers need a mayor who will be a champion for CUNY."  Vote  citylimits.org/opinion-why-...

Manhattan from campus this evening.

Poetry pair for today's class: Yesenia Montilla's "Maps" and Natalie Diaz's "They Don't Love You Like I Love You"

This is a rare story for the NYTimes, which generally ignores its own city. I expected a paragraph about how this would affect Hamptons visitors! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/n...

Shocked by the Halloween shenanigans.

So many Gladyses

Shocked by the Halloween shenanigans.

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)

The Literary Arts Fund is an unprecedented effort to dramatically increase support for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field for the next five years toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers: literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

Nobody told me that in the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights there’s a frame narrative in which Emily Brontë is played by SINEAD O’CONNOR.

If you haven't read this yet and study education, I would strongly recommend that you do. The treatment of students is appalling and I need to see these test scores (and information on the sample that took them) before I believe any of their claims. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

Beautiful, multilingual Queens

Abortion Wins and Losses: A Graphic Novel’s Deep Dive #GraphicMedicine thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...

I want more for these Black students. I cannot imagine being this alone.

Today’s arrival.

Student in office hrs today said, does it bother you to work on buildings that are so badly maintained? I replied, it makes me more upset that our classrooms are so awful & I want students to know that they deserve so much more.

was updating my CV and realized I'm on ten committees this year, and chairing four of them. I get why scheduling stuff has been so hard this term.

Carlos Lozada, "You Caught Me. I'm Speaking Spanish" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Today’s arrival.

Loafing 🥖

Oh my god

New to Jamaica Kincaid? @britt-kathryn.bsky.social recommends where to start reading.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!