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kathleenkelley.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 artist, academic, and mom. Artistic Director of Proteo Media + Performance, Chair of Montclair State University's Department of Theatre and Dance. I love imagining new futures for our bodies, our art, our tech, our education, and our communities.
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Social diversification & cultural liberalization are ongoing; political backlash is a sign of the change, not its end. And it is hard to fight social change with policy, especially when generational.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

MAGA presidents would rather shut down the government they campaigned so hard to run than go to therapy.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

submitted 33 days ago • 903 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 37 days ago • 610 comments

2024 was rough all around, but really good for reading for me. I finally figured out how to fit reading into my routines again post-baby, and I read books that I really loved. Highlights include the Nursery, Demon Copperhead, Debt, All Fours, Pachinko, and the Fraud.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Not thrilled to be on a plane taking students to study abroad in Panama the same day that Trump promises to use military force to take the Panama Canal.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

submitted 52 days ago • 590 comments

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

submitted 76 days ago • 1064 comments

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

submitted 77 days ago • 982 comments

I continue to point folks to the Academic Job Market Support Network site @halperta.bsky.social organizes all the time, so worth resharing here again: hcommons.org/groups/acade... A trove of DHy CVs, cover letters, job talks, other professional materials generously shared by DHers as examples:

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Have any pregnant people figured out how to reliably convince themselves to cook a vegetable? I can eat them if made for me, I can look at them and think "wow that would be yummy", but then I just let them rot away in the fridge.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

So many get finished on the phone in the dark after realizing that they were due at midnight!

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Somebody asked me how my grading is going and I said "I have a concept of grading.."

submitted 79 days ago • 38 comments