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independent scholar/itinerant professor, medievalist, musicologist, historian. phd from UCLA. british american. dog person.
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and if you want to support an organization that actually provides for prison-impacted musicians in a positive way, here's one i've supported when I've had the money to: www.freerrecords.com/story

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

This website is free

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Who could have possibly foreseen that giving the guy with the white supremacist tattoos the benefit of the doubt was a bad idea

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

some loser mansplaining the history of music to literal experts in the field is not the content for which I log onto this website. men, please do better.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 9 hours ago • 23 comments

The crash is beginning in academia.

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

Hmm I wonder which type of scientist might be more likely to be involved in DEI efforts, surely this won't exacerbate already-existing disparities in science funding

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

If you see something like this you have a moral human obligation to tear it off the fucking wall, and I am being absolutely serious

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

"Let's figure out why men become Nazis" isn't a particularly rewarding game, in my opinion. Yes, everyone has reasons for what they do, but the answer to "why does a white man embrace a political system in which white men alone hold power" is fairly self-evident.

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

A course on women's history called "Queen Sh!t"

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

in my experience teaching at universities in 3 states Gen Z simply does not hate trans people the way the media wants you to think they do

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Good news for anyone on the medieval diet

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

“What matters now is not the skills you have but how you think.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

good! public research IS public health! don't let musk steal public wealth!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You can fuck, befriend, marry people of color and be racist. You can be lifelong friends with people of color and be racist. You can adopt, even give birth to, and raise children who are not-white and still be racist. Why are we still talking about this?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Timely text for tomorrow's seminar, since we're busy unmaking the public everything

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

professor seaver, tell us what you really think

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Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Begrudgingly being anointed king of a small settlement of immortal immigrants in coastal Norway, riding a Pegasus for no apparent reason, and wearing extremely sharp suits when you visit your invincible girlfriend on her spaceship makes you a king.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Here's what Project 2025 says about accreditation of colleges & universities. What are our plans for that moment when federal financial aid becomes contingent on a college anywhere in the US being accredited by the Florida or Texas Department of Education and not by SACS or another accreditor?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If I wanted to live in a monarchy I would at least choose one with universal healthcare

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I think it’s the racism, homophobia, and transphobia that men are socialized to accept as perfectly reasonable that people have a problem with—not jokes and beer and friendship.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment