“Grammar of Resistance”: Carnival as Political Counter-Narration in Grenada — INSURRECT! “While characters like Jab-Jab are used as marketing devices, carnival in Grenada illustrates how Black cultural performance can function as a response to colonial and post-colonial oppression. Althou...

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I'm co-teaching a gendered monsters class this term with Jakeya Caruthers, and for our "Witches" unit we had a pretty epic pairing of Richard Godbeer's edition of the Salem witch trial transcripts, Robert Egger's 2016 The VVitch, Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, and Kasi Lemmon's 1997 Eve's Bayou 🧹🧹🧹🧹

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We will be discussing @lpolcha.bsky.social’s boffo article “Voyeur in the Torrid Zone” in Maroon Communities this morning 🤓

a mass of green anemones mostly closed and red sea stars

there's still so much fecundity and enduring beauty in the nonhuman world. let's preserve and treasure it.

Looking forward to ASECS in Philly next week, where I will be talking about the beloved Philadelphia abolitionist Benjamin Lay, his use of botanical dye to splatter fake blood on enslavers, and abolition ecologies 🩸🩸🩸🩸

Donate to Support NYU Contract Faculty on Strike!, organized by John Simeonidis Jr Please donate to support NYU Contract Faculty on strike! After a year a… John Simeonidis Jr needs your support for Support NYU Contract Faculty on Strike!

Contract faculty at NYU are currently on strike for a fair first contract after 16 months of management's bad-faith stonewalling in negotiations. Please consider contributing to their strike fund if you can.

Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History - National Archives Foundation In November 2019, the National Archives Foundation launched a new research fund to honor Cokie Roberts, who shed light on […]

The Cokie Roberts Fellowship jump-started my research for my next book. It supports women's history archival research, the kind of scholarship we really need right now. They are accepting applications for the next cycle by April 15.
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My Brief Career as a Spring Break Bomber Florida, Fertilizer, and Fires Everywhere

New post up on sugar cane burning in Florida and the fertilizer to bomb pipeline. It's a little scary. Ok, very scary.

An important thing to know about these civics/ western civ centers. They have faculty lines and are hiring historians - regularly without any input from or even knowledge of their history departments.

The rise of online vibrant events in early Covid offered a lot of hope for disabled/chronically ill people who have access issues attending IRL events (including going into a flare later). Anti-Zoom reactive sentiment pushed a lot of people into being more isolated again.

Digital Collections Curator - ITHAKA ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome barriers t...

Job opening here at ITHAKA's JSTOR: Digital Collections Curator, Reveal Digital, focusing on important cultural, social, and political histories, especially those that have been dispersed, under-described, or difficult to access at scale. Full job description: www.ithaka.org/job/46724530...

I'm wrapping up a very teaching-heavy winter quarter, and I have to say that the most successful thing I did this term in the classroom was requiring students to submit weekly handwritten notes on our readings and class discussion (with an accommodations option for students who can't write by hand)

Talking Points on CU-ChatGPT Talking Points on CU-ChatGPT On December 15, 2025 the CU System signed a one year contract with Open AI for $2.1 million, with plans to launch a system-wide ChatGPT Edu access for faculty, staff, and ...

slightly updated list of concerns CU system-wide students, faculty, and staff have with the CU-Chat GPT that's slated to roll out this summer. please share, please support in any way you can. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

404 Media is doing some of the most important journalism in the country right now bsky.app/profile/404m...

this is a crucial part of the NEH doge story that the NYT leaves out

🧵 up and down if you want to understand what happened to the civil servants at the National Endowment for the Humanities who worked every day to uphold the Constitution (hint: it's the same thing that happened to your grants). #NEH

I knew it would be bad & went in expecting to hate watch it, but somehow it was even worse than my expectations

There are more important things to post about right now, but: if anyone has a real version of that device from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that erases bad memories, I could use it to erase the horrific new Wuthering Heights film adaptation from my brain. It’s like Temu released a movie

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

In this model, faculty are disposable, decisions are made from above with no input from educators, and students‘ learning conditions cost $$$ but are easily discarded

Drexel sent out an email last week to all NTT faculty announcing an expedited review of NTT contracts, which proposes to cut all contracts down to 1 year or 3 years max for senior lecturers. This is a unilateral topdown scrapping of policy faculty fought to implement & that was only approved in 2023

One vision of the university sees no faculty at all, just revolving door of the seamless provision of managed services and tuition fees. Another, shares this vision by having all faculty permanently on strike.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

The quotidian surreal dystopia of living under authoritarianism, this story sounds like a nightmare from a work of fiction

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

I realize this isn’t portable to all subjects or pedagogical situations, but a species of assignment that’s remarkably robust against AI is "reflect critically on this activity we did/object we examined in person"

You could iterate with an LLM, but it would require work nearly equal to just writing