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Posts by Kyla Wazana Tompkins

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been named a 2026 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, to be presented in May, honoring his defense of the Fed’s independence amid intense political pressure and personal attacks.👇

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How does anyone live there, for real.

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Go go Avi!

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God I wish

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But you’re not bad either @robdelaney.bsky.social

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By which I mean @hesterblum.bsky.social

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I mean can you even imagine spending a week talking about Moby Dick with an insanely intelligent comedian.

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Amongst my many commitments to self in this apocalypse is: I’m going to start watching and following baseball again.

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Oh only one of the world’s great comedians with the world’s leading Melville expert.

Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.

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Eight Days to File for the Anthropocene Settlement, see below. Fight the intellectual pirate class.

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A great year in the field.

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Amen, and let’s fight for universities.

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If also appreciate any demographic data we have access to on who is being penalized

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Do any of you have examples of institutional language put into place to protect pre-tenure scholars engaged in diversity or equity work at your universities in the sciences who have lost funding opportunities.

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Love us

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Go see Chanda speak! A once in a lifetime scholar and intellectual. @chanda.blacksky.app doing the JOCs proud.

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You can’t make it up

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Girl!!! Can’t wait to read.

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Hashtag #theleft

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Just so stupid

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Love love your work Chris!

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These mother—

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Same

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This looks amazing!

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When they come for Tim Hortons, you’ll know that war with Canada is imminent

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Let’s read each other’s books and call it day!

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Atrocity | Stanford University Press Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.

@brucerobbins.bsky.social at Columbia won the prize for his book Atrocity!

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Deviant Matter Winner, 2025 Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, given by the American Studies Association's Q/T Caucus and the Modern Language Association's GLQ CaucusHow devian...

I found out last night that Deviant Matter got honorable mention for monograph at the American Comparative Literature Association. The Rene Wellek was a dream of mine because Lauren Berlant won it in 2013 for Cruel Optimism and it is the scaffolding for DM. I miss her.

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We will never wash ourselves of these sins against the planet and its inhabitants

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