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Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at Penn State. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
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They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

This is insulting beyond measure to people who devote their lives and livelihoods to our nation. What a complete disgrace

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Jesus

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

when you roll over for the fascists in charge to keep your federal funding

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I'm simply never going to forgive a single one of these institutions for their abject cowardice and I hope they all shutter at this point, I don't even care if that's the intention of these EOs If you can't defend the basic mission, just close

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Winter light

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The only reason to pointedly humiliate a group of people in this way is to make their lives more painful and difficult and, accordingly, to make them feel both vulnerable and disdained. It is the sort of cruelty we should expect from this administration, and it is fucking unacceptable.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Today in my kid's trans journey, new pansy tattoos. I'm whelmed daily by my pride in and love for this beautiful kid who keeps blazing out puckish joy, especially in the face of those who would limit or erase them.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It's the part that comes after what Rupar quotes here that is most vicious--direct threats to a woman standing up to him, and none of the other governors say or do a fucking thing

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I showed this page to my undergrads on Tuesday and asked them who and what can be objects of study according to the NEH. “Straight white men,” they all said as one. (And the media and most Dems still can’t call a racist Nazi a racist Nazi.)

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is a terrific piece on Black Arctic history:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the forecastle!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"A fondness for regal themes"!!!! this is so much more craven

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Strong recommendation for walking the length of a frozen mountain lake as a way to get away from refreshing the news for a couple hours

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

NYTimes: "Trump hints at a new approach to gridlock"

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I've lost count of how many academic elders have handwaved "we've been through this before" without acknowledging the violence done in going through it, and the protest, speech acts, and activism that made that previous moment minimally survivable.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Alaska erasure on top of quisling presidency

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I am making this song my email bounce back message

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Help my book is across the room

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This is fucking incredible.

submitted 4 days ago • 135 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 5 days ago • 836 comments

Give me all your Arctic textile art

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Even though we didn’t get the clarity of the exquisite title choices that we had in season one, it remains incredible that the White Lotus has so many characters reading all the time

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

You’ve been murdered, who do you want on your case?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment