There is no balance required, you just trust people. Because disabled people are met routinely with mockery, suspicion, neglect, discrimination and outright hate, we do not feed the ableism machine with more suspicion. If a few people get away with ‘cheating the system’ that’s just how things are.

The piece also oozes with the implication that "real" disabilities--the kind the ADA is "supposed to be for"--are physical, visible ones, and everyone else is probably faking. It's just gross.

When this same writer was doing her "kids can't read anymore" piece, she contacted me for a quote, but when I said I'd need to know more about the angle of the piece before I'd commit, we "lost touch." She then quoted our then Dept chair Dan entirely out of context to fit the pre-set narrative. Hack

InFURiating that we all have to write/think/talk about vaccines this much, outside of celebrating new successes (HPV vax largely *eliminating* cervical cancer, my god), this shit was settled as one of the great scientific and public health triumphs EVER and now these dipshits are trying to ruin it

Leo is not sure how things got this far…

I am correspondent to command. The Art of Pity came out last May and explores what Early Modern English lit has to tell us about why reading literature is valuable then and now! www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2024/the-art...

Teaching is hard, and it's frustrating when students don't buy into our passion and values. But if we're not articulating those values in the design and implementation of our courses and not modeling those values in our work as educators, claiming that "literacy is liberation" is bullshit. 8/8

I was honored to be invited to give the annual Dotterer Lecture Series in Literature talk at Salisbury University yesterday. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old friends!

At this point a person would be hard-pressed to identify this as the desk of a literary studies scholar.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

No creature on earth happier than a cat sleeping on a heating vent.

Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell 4.73-75

Sweater weather.

Exceptionally proud of this little guy for earning his Canine Good Citizen title today. The last 3 years have been a wild ride with Phoenix, but a lot of training (and a little Prozac) has made a huge difference.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I’ve been to my fair share of protests and rallies since 2020, and today’s was easily the most joyful I’ve attended. Folks were defiant but happy, everyone was looking out for everyone else, and we took genuine pleasure in being with each other. It’s a good feeling to build from.

I am here for the region-specific insults. No Kings Pittsburgh.

A successful protest movement requires as broad a coalition as possible. If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.

No Kings Pittsburgh: come to say no to fascism, stay for the inflatable costume conga line!

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

I started learning to crochet in March and just finished my biggest project yet. I think I underestimated the satisfaction of wearing something I’ve made myself!

“Why would I lay on the floor when there’s a perfectly good chair here???” —my whippet, probably.

If teaching (again, defined expansively) wasn't so vital, our temu-brand fascists wouldn't be so obsessed with destroying the places where its happening. Don't let them take our agency. And don't let our disciplinary orgs and prominent voices within them overlook and erase our voices and work.

I don’t want AI grading tools. I want the time and resources to allow me to interact meaningfully, as a person, with each of my students about their work.

Out for an afternoon paddle and saw a plane flying a banner over the lake. “YOU SUCK AT THIS, BOB! SELL THE *@%! TEAM!!” Check on your Pirates fan friends; they aren’t doing well.

Since Dewey and Vygotsky, any serious discussion of what meaningful learning looks like centers relationships and sociality. Learning needs community, needs *presence* from both teacher and learner. Content means little if those things aren't in place. Yet Khan thinks glorified chatbots are the way?

Oh to be a lazy dog on a big bed…

Just listened to this episode at the gym, and I would recommend it: there is a clear top-down coordinated effort to get us all to buy into a false narrative about what really happened during the Covid-19 pandemic which we need to be aware of/resist

"I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified"

Here's our rapid response list of orgs to reach out to if you're trans and in need of aid right now (or if you're cis and want an org to support): www.them.us/story/scotus... Not exhaustive, but Quispe, @sal.gay, and I hope you still find it useful

To my mind, there is quite possibly no more important animal than the platypus because it so delightfully makes clear that our impulse towards categorization is necessarily flawed and contingent.

The Panthers aren’t the dynasty we want, and they’re definitely not the dynasty we need. But they’re probably the dynasty we deserve.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

My mom (not generally a politically active person beyond voting every 4 years) sending me pix from the No Kings rally in Auburn, ME, has me a little choked up.

Great turnout for the first of 3 rallies in Pittsburgh today!

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Happy pub day, @docsthilaire.bsky.social! 🤩 We couldn't ask for a better book to officially kick off the new-to-KSUP Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies series either!

Very happy that my second book, The Art of Pity: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Compassion is Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare is officially published today! It was such joy to think with and through these writers about the value of reading literature. Link below if you’d like to snag a copy!

Happy pub day to @docsthilaire.bsky.social, whose book “The Art of Pity: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Compassion in Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare” is now available! www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2024/the-art...

This is what happens when you DON'T stack your review with quacks, activists, quack-activists, and apparently unqualified philosophers past their prime. This, incidentally, is why other review processes always do that: they knew that this is what any other process would find.

“The work, though, is not to imagine that the hierarchy doesn't exist (it does), but to work together with students to dismantle it. That work starts by talking frankly about how these systems work and how the culture of grades impacts us.“

I just left a comment. If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.

It’s not the first time I’ve felt this way, but I wish the Western Conference Final were the Stanley Cup final. Also this Eastern Conference Final sucks.

Me: How was your morning? Spouse, grinning widely: I impressed an IT guy with the length of my password.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Steve Dangle deserves better.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage