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I research, write, and teach about gender and race in early US culture. Lover of dogs and cats. Hater of piety in any ideological inflection.
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Boom.

#DodgersSuck #Giants #baseball archive.ph/2025.06.15-1...

#NoKings #NoKingsProtest

New Orleans: No Kings, only Queens

ICE is the same age as MySpace. It is younger than Zendaya and Billie Eilish, and 10 years younger than Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. It is a waste of taxpayer money and now has been infiltrated and is being used as a privatised militia by white supremacist terrorists.

Fuck these stooges.

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

ICE crossed a line in LA

Everything is terrible, but

Is fashion

I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu

Black authors including Toni Morrison (!%{!) are no longer permitted to be taught at West Point. In 2013, Morrison read passages from “Home,” about a Korean War veteran struggling with PTSD and his return to a segregated America. More than 1,500 cadets attended. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

Goddamit!

When we fight, you bet your ass we motherfucking win.

Do any of these arguments against expanding voting rights to contingent faculty make any sense?? #academicsky tulanehullabaloo.com/69830/news/c...

So lovely.

#academicsky

not going to say the timeline would have turned out way differently if elite universities had just told Elise Stefanik to fuck off a year ago, but it probably wouldn't have hurt

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...