Submit to this exciting-looking special issue on Alice Dunbar-Nelson!

I need a break….

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.

This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.

Never doubt your power to change the system.

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug... Fascinating but unsurprising research and data about this, which directly parallels everything I have learned in my own research about how the world of literary awards also works: cyclical, self-reinforcing, often closed circuits of prestige, etc. Worth a read.

Reminder to self to read this by the end of the day

Have never heard a "keynote" quite like the stirring, extraordinary piece Kiese Laymon just delivered written specially for #CLAScholars 2026. Fortifying, life-giving, emotional. A gift.

In a different state from my 3.5 month old for the first time, and although it's only for an incredibly brief 30 hours away (and although it's to enjoy part of the CLA conference I always adore and had to miss last year), it feels so odd!

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consisted of 29 other officers, most of whom are white men. Mr. Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove the officers prompted some senior military officials to question whether they were being singled out because of their race or gender, officials said. Mr. Hegseth had been pressing Mr. Driscoll and General George for months to remove the officers from the promotion list. But Mr. Driscoll and General George refused, citing the officers’ long records of exemplary service.

Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

YES. Read it this past summer and it haunts me. Highly recommend.

Does anyone else ever feel like the last remaining person out there who adamantly refuses to use generative AI tools even in scenarios when they would lessen our huge workload/time required to do certain tasks (as overworked, underpaid faculty) out of principle?!?!

Currently dwelling with @jennifercnash.bsky.social's 2024 book How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory, which is so rich and so much and vital.

Currently dwelling with Jennifer C. Nash's 2024 book How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory, which is so rich and so much and vital.

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

I saw my husband at his desk with his head in his hands & I thought something was really wrong. I went over to ask him if he was OK & he said, “I’m fine. there’s just not enough time to read all the books I want to read.”

the same number of troops have died in this war that died in the evacuation of afghanistan fyi, weird how the media has decided that isn’t a point to drive home this time

How Black Studies departments are being dismantled at American colleges. A new report in the Chronicle of Higher Education shows how Black Studies departments around the country have been kneecapped by a multi-pronged conservative strategy to halt the study of race at A…

“A new report in the Chronicle of Higher Education shows how Black Studies departments around the country have been kneecapped by a multi-pronged conservative strategy to halt the study of race at American schools.”

Starting to read Jennifer C. Nash's How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory, and I am undone just by the opening pages.

Tweet by Alon Mizrahi contrasting expectations versus reality of a conflict’s cost, joking that what was expected to take days now requires $200 billion.

I want to scream.

Honeycrisp My boyfriend will eat / an entire apple in one sitting.

Forgot to post it, but yesterday's Poem-A-Day was fire: poets.org/poem/honeycr...

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies

It’s pretty clear that, until the midterm elections, the federal courts are the only guard rails left. Every so often it’s important to remember to honor the constitution.

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

YES excited for this!

The World Is Too Much With Us The world is too much with us. Late and soon / it’s morning, phone in hand,

Read this Poem-A-Day: poets.org/poem/world-t...

A yellow daffodil

“Beauty is a method” -Dr. Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Update: reading the end of Tayari Jones's Kin made me weep this afternoon. Unsurprisingly, it's QUITE the book & I highly recommend.

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58