Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.

As an Americanist, it always strikes me how many people are unaware of the violence and animosity between Christian groups that necessitated separation of church and state. I think we're about to get a good reminder of that!

📣NEW CFP📣 for Vol. 4, Issue 2 of Shirley Jackson Studies! Our theme for this issue is "Bodies and Embodiment." Abstracts due May 31st.

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me choosing UNC for undergrad 100%

"This year we’re kicking underwire to the curb. / This year we’re breaking up with cup spillage. "--"The Algorithm Sells Me a New Bra" by @emilyabanks.bsky.social, Winter Online Exclusive

Featured art: "Embrace" by Rachel Hall.

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Riddle By Emily Banks It was everything I didn’t haveand all I wanted.  If I could have itI knew I would have allI didn’t have and everythingI wanted.  It was a key to the cityof dreams, a hacke…

"I can make anyone / tell me everything /
I want to hear / for a night."--"Riddle" by @emilyabanks.bsky.social

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We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Watching Stranger Things like WHO TF IS MADELINE

✨ New CFP ✨ We're planning for two panels at the American Literature Association's annual conference in Chicago, May 20-23. Submit abstracts for "Jackson in an Age of Anxiety" and "Jackson and Animality" by January 15th.

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DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit by February 1st.

The Algorithm Sells Me a New Bra By Emily Banks Hate bras? This is the bra for you.I can’t gatekeep. I hadn’t worn a bra in yearsbut this changed me. Are you a memberof the Itty Bitty Titty Club (IBTC)?Well it’s here finally, a br…

Two new poems in @newohioreview.bsky.social!

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The absolute joy I feel when I start reading a student's paper and encounter the normal grammatical errors.

Also, all you profs who were grading strictly on grammar and style, I hope you're happy! I'm at a point where I basically cry tears of joy when I see a paragraph full of comma splices, misplaced modifers, and Edgar "Allen" Poe.

I am sorry that I ever complained about grading before AI. Please can we just have that back I'll be so much more grateful

Blame can be shared ya know... I was just responding to a specific person who was very proud of not voting in 2024

Stronger margins wouldn't have hurt

No

ummm the person I was responding to was & that was my whole point

lol I have a job but have fun y'all

I'm not saying it was primarily the fault of leftists in either case, and I am also a leftist, but gloating about not voting for Kamala given everything happening as a result is an insane position of privilege

Clever

Cool

Dick Cheney would never have been in power if more leftists had sucked it up and voted for an establishment Democrat....

🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th!

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Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire

Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, game 2 of the Yankees v. Red Sox Wild Card series on Yom Kippur is antisemitism, all deadlines this week are antisemitism.

That first sin after tashlich feels like an impulse purchase when you've just paid your credit card bill, I'll face that next cycle

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

Interested in joining an SSAG roundtable on Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village this March? Email ebanks@franklincollege.edu with a few sentences on what you'd like to talk about by next Monday, 9/22! ~5 minute presentations followed by discussion.

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its 2026. the only legal jobs are ICE agent, AI server farm maintenance, and beef tallow renderer