Where Writing Isn’t So Lonely Lowstate Writing Salon offers a space in Santa Barbara where writers can gather, write, and be heard.

A sweet local writing community that I colead was featured in our local newspaper! @sbindependent.bsky.social
Read here www.independent.com/2025/04/25/w...

I may quit my job. How am I supposed to live up to "every day is leg day" and work full time?

Here's where I'll be Saturday 1230. See y'all soon

It's so so early! 🥺💀

Heya #teamrhetoric #teamfemret who's heading to #4c25 #4c2025???? My bag is packed and my cat is sad!

Love seeing these in every small town and big city. I"m heading out to the Santa Barbara rally shortly. Stay safe my darlings.

A very pleasant surprise to find another rhetcomp scholar at #AWP25

I'm so glad I saw you!!! Let's do something cool together!

I had the absolute delight of speaking to Lisa's @meloncon.bsky.social grad students yesterday, who came prepared to dig into the possibilities for queer rhetorics, archives, and ways forward in this AI world. Its so cool to see how the Clemson RCID program has grown.

I have been giving myself writing retreats at this beach for 3 years. And I'm overjoyed that I can bring new folks to this inspiring place! Come write in Crete with me!

Meet the Disabled Vets, Cancer Researchers, and Nuclear Techs Fired by Elon Musk Musk's vulture-capitalist approach to dismantling the federal government may be opening the door to wrongful termination lawsuits.

this is exactly how to frame it, great work by Slate here

Send me your divorce narrative in which humans are granted a full range of human emotion.

How Do You Faithfully Tell the Story of a Divorce, Including Your Own? | The Walrus That there are two sides to every story is cliché. That there are two stories to every marriage is almost science

Virginia Wolfe said in order to become serious authors, women would need to kill the Angel in the house. The angel that cares for everyone's needs and feeling before her own. This essay makes me think we have a long long way to go.
thewalrus.ca/how-do-you-f...

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

Just like I aspire to be 💖

It's part mystical creature part "bottom shelf chardonnay on the patio"

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Sylvia

We are lucky in CA because we get them local. I actually just take them from my neighbor's tree.

But after the tariffs start, avocado toast is going to be crazy expensive

RIP avocado toast

Pink note book set on a grey cat who is sleeping on a human in blush pink joggers

Saturday writing is the coziest

I don't even really care about transferring my old data. So maybe it's time for a book list fresh start

I'm thinking of switching. I really don't like GR anyway. Let me know how you like SG

I really need to start digging into more exciting archives

“Part of the pleasure of writing, as well as the pain, is involved in pouring into that thing which is being created all of what he cannot understand, cannot say, cannot deal with or
cannot even admit in any other way.” - Ralph Ellison

That book is on my night stand begging to be read. Let me know how you like it

I'd never thought of that but now I'm getting *ideas*

I started to get acupuncture. And I don't really know if it does anything but 45 minutes to lay quietly doing nothing absolutely saves me

FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty - Conference on College Composition and Communication FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed publication concerning working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty in college ...

Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Forum on AI, Labor, & Contingency cccc.ncte.org/cccc/forum #rhetcomp

Viable submissions will explore current trends in GenAI usage in higher learning & consider the implications of GenAI’s use & policy trends for part-time & contingent faculty.

Due March 15.