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Our district just informed us they are prohibiting the teaching of full-length novels and nonfiction texts in all non-AP ELA classes, including Pre-AP English 1 and 2: We're to use only the excerpts in the SAVVAS textbook. They're going so far as to tell us to "DCR" our novel sets, meaning the books are loaded onto pallets and trucked to a distant warehouse, never to be used again. Once the wave of nausea passed, I began wondering what College Board would have to say about upperclassmen showing up in Lang or Lit, not having read a book since elementary school. Suddenly they're supposed to start reading long, complex texts? I don't teach Lit, but I'm looking for some help for a counter-argument. The strongest evidence would come from College Board's saying the students are expected to read novels and nonfiction on their way to AP.
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I'm not worried about how to market my books on social media, I'm worried about who's going to buy my books if everyone is illiterate
Damn not in Pacoima. I hope he pulls through.
Stephen and Sandra Glass Annual Humanities Lecture "Your 'Right to Die' v. Your 'Right to Live': Necropolitics and Liberal Governance" Steven W. Thrasher, PhD Tuesday, April 21, 4:15 - 5:30 Broad Performance Space In a single week in December 2025, the Democratic governors of New York and Illinois both signed bills into law which legalized medically assisted suicide. Upon noticing this, journalist and scholar Steven W. Thrasher began to study how many "right to die" bills had passed in Western countries since the Covid-19 pandemic. These laws were often passed despite the objections of disabled activists and with the support of liberal politicians-even as those same politicians were killing legislation which would create a right to housing or a right to universal medical care (ie, a "right to live"). Using Canada's 2016 "MAID" (Medical Assistance In Dying) law, recently passed bills in the United States and Europe, the daily occurence of suicide in U.S. jails, the films The Bridge (2006) and Life After (2015), the writings of Alice Wong, and Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics (2011) as analytics, Prof. Thrasher will challenge a liberal rights framework of independence with a disability rights framework of interdependence to theorize medically
East side of LA County: I’ll be debuting new research and thinking tomorrow at Pitzer College
Academic/art friends and comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 and would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, and reading groups. Drawn from my forthcoming book, *Breathing in Common*, the talk asks what it means to sustain life in common when air itself has become a site of governance, risk, exposure, and abandonment. Thinking with contemporary art, disability justice, abolitionist medicine, and COVID-era aerosol knowledge, I trace how breath functions as shared infrastructure under empire, and how queer and trans artists of color theorize collective survival through opacity, luminosity, care, and improvisation. I’d be especially glad to connect with those working in feminist studies, queer and trans studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, medical humanities, environmental humanities, art history, visual culture, and abolitionist thought. I’m open to virtual, hybrid, and in-person invitations. For in-person events, I’m happy to participate, provided thoughtful safety precautions are in place. If you’re organizing something for the coming academic year, please feel free to DM me or email me. I’d also appreciate shares to colleagues, programs, and organizers who might be interested.p
Selfie featuring author in a red shirt that says Museums Are Not Neutral in white lettering
Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!
Re-sharing @ronakkapadia.bsky.social post, which hits queer & trans* studies, medical humanities, disability justice & abolitionist thought, among others
cc @edrabinski.bsky.social @alexanderchee.bsky.social @noethematt.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social - pls reshare
The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.
Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)
Distributed physical copies matter.
A drawing of the artist walking around with a silly smile, while a carabiner holding keys, connected to her pants, is making loud CLINK CLANK CLONK sound. Above her is a thought bubble with a robot bearing the caption "Lesbotron 3000", also making loud CLINK CLANK CLONK sounds.
happy lesbian week
No
Celebrating trans kids getting the right to be treated like every other fucking kid.
Now it’s just got to be enforced. @mayor.nyc.gov I’m looking at you.
A plastic bin on a car seat with a paintbrush and two small paint rollers in it
Back on my bullshit #AmericanDream
“People did not have a consensual, popular agreement to work with these tech companies, and the police were collecting this data without our knowledge,” says one resident of Madison, Wisconsin, where county leaders signed a contract with Flock.
Sexism extending to bird song is wild.
& here on Patriots' Day, as on every other, let's better remember the American Revolution's most inspiring active & critical patriots, enslaved people like Massachusetts's own Elizabeth Freeman & Quock Walker who made the Revolution's ideals their own & helped abolish slavery in the state.
The January 6th domestic terrorists were inspired by & exemplified the most exclusionary & destructive form of American patriotism, mythic patriotism, which defines an American history & identity which excludes both countless Americans & anyone who critiques their white supremacist vision:
This is not happening because rich people are struggling to stay rich & get richer. The existing model was working for that. It was working when there was higher workplace organization & representation through unions. Capital is just never satisfied.
Terrible is where it all begins! #PhDSky
That's the spirit!
Huge congrats to @andrecarrington.bsky.social on the recent publication of the fantastic new book 'Audiofuturism' from Fordham UP. To pick up a discounted copy, use the discount code: RADIO25
fordhampress.com/audiofuturis...
you love to see it
Now that's a weekend
It's OK to write something terrible
The wild cultural overreaction in the wake of Kirk’s death looks increasingly bizarre the further we get away from it.
variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
The one where they give all the money to fund retirements for cartoonists
Then join us on Sunday 4/26 for the release of our new publication "Black Study: The Influence of David Walker's Appeal" at the Free Black Women's Library.
www.eventbrite.com/e/blackstudy...
Apparently you can only go live if you have a certain follower count?
Screenshot of the Instagram account audio.futurism including a 3 by 3 grid display of a book cover
Experimenting with Instagram. Follow me there at audio dot futurism.
