Educator in AmLit & Culture working w/ archives, ephemera, and material & ICH preservation. Intersectional Feminism, CRT, Disability Rights—in other words, I’m a hoot at parties.
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My mom told me in fifth grade that I could have anyone spend the night on the weekend as long as I did not call her at work to ask. Now, I get Dojo messages throughout the entire workday informing me of stuff like the availability of cotton candy for my kids if I love them enough to pay for it.
“Little girl”? 🤬
Happy #LaborDay! Hope you have a few minutes to enjoy this jaw-dropping cover. #Prince #Musiclovers #takefive #smokebreak
I’m excited to read your book, both because I grew up watching these movies every single year, but also because I collect and sell vintage Christmas ornaments and decorations. Lately, I’ve been really interested in the Cold War decorations and their focus on the space race.
Was explaining to my students last week that I grew up familiar w/ minstrelsy without knowing what it was bc White Christmas and Holiday Inn are my mom’s favorite Xmas films.
My decision may or may not be based on an episode of The Chipmunks:
Joel & Brinkley, absolutely. Although Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett was huge news where I came from bc they got married in Marion, IN (a cesspool near my hometown).
Ah, Petty Crocker: the lesser known aunt of Wendy Whiner.
Too many games left unplayed.
Also…
Me, quoting #Shakespeare to my 7 year-old while she’s standing in her bunkbed, giving her important literary history—you know the drill. I leave and then pop my head back into the room, adding, “ #TaylorSwift has a song all about it…but the ending is wrong.”
One of my favorite pieces on this topic 💜
2. Every few months, I publish a national risk assessment for transgender youth and adults when it comes to legal threats. In this latest assessment, many states that were previously "safe" for transgender youth have lost that status, and one for adults has as well.
Yeah, once your family members start calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization and dead-naming their own child/grandchild, it becomes a thing for your own personal sanity and safety to cut them off.
I told them it only gets harder as you get older to make friends, so their anxieties are completely understandable. Plus, like our faculty, our students are spread out in all types of rural areas of Georgia and commute, so they miss the opportunities on campus when a lot of fun stuff is going on.
In English, we’re definitely seeing the effects of a generation that’s grown up using Grammarly.
It’s really sad to hear them talk. I do a lot of events on campus, so I put together a GroupMe to get them involved if they wanna volunteer on things like Banned Books, Pride, Black History Month…
It’s a common assertion that college students should be adept at adulting, but this generation was cut off from making in-person connections at a vital time. Dozens of students told me on day 1 that the thing they thought would help them the most was help making friends. #academicsky #teachers #edu
The first house hippo?
Very interested to learn more!
If you had to choose only one food that you could eat forever, what would you choose?
Just don’t put locks on the doors. Learn from Mr. Clark’s mistakes.
The Greatest Showman, The Princess and the Frog, and Lady and the Tramp—I pointed out the role enslavement played in each of the storylines (or, in the Barnum movie, how it was left out of the narrative).
Fantastic! I love gifting books to students (been collecting graphic novels for Banned Books Week over the past year). I also have a jar of all the candy and tiny toys my kids don’t need that I take to school as lame prizes for good insights.
Thoughts and prayers for my students, for whom I ruined three of their favorite childhood films today. #AcademicSky #edusky #popculture #crt
Being from Indiana, the majority of such stories I know of (and there are many) involved teachers and students 🤮
That might give their gravy actual flavor.
Big ole yikes thinking about what this would look like at (name any southern land grant uni here)
Because dive bars are sacred spaces. I get it.
Apparently learning about the Civil Rights movement is "inappropriate." www.upworthy.com/parents-comp...
Here’s an excellent Storycorp told by McNair’s brother:
Just purchased sticky hooks for the classroom lecterns so I can hang my cane and post-it notes that look like ramen, so all in all, a productive Saturday. #edusku #disabilitysky #backtoschool
I would settle for erasers that actually clean regular boards, and profs who clean their lecture notes off before leaving the room.
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Bahahaha!!
Right? It would fit the heist trope that there’s always another conman/ conwoman waiting in the wings.
The House of Birth
The Old Man and the Seat
Tom Lawyer
Ouch, man.
As a grad student I used to say that someday I’d make enough to shop at Target for basic needs instead of penny pinching. Now that I actually could, they’re not getting a cent.
I mean, I myself wouldn’t do that, but as her character? Absolutely.
I get that, but there were theories about what the agent’s arrival at the end signifies, how a sequel would play out, etc. If I were her, frustrated that my job jerks me around & the wronged party are happy with their payout/dropping the case, I’d make friends with the thieves & steal it from them.
A very fun heist film and great casting. Was reading theories on the ending online, but didn’t see my theory about what happens after the final scene.
In my naïveté, I thought a couple years ago that schools might do this to history graduates coming out of Florida bc of their curriculum cuts, bans, and reliance on Prager’s bs—my god was I wrong.
I buy old periodicals at estate sales to let students use and would’ve snatched this one up in a heartbeat for my women in STEM. 1928 is def early to feature a woman scientist.
you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do
The interior design equivalent of Kim K wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress #fubar
I teach humanities to mostly STEM students and cannot wait to hear their thoughts on this throughout the semester. Humanities ppl are used to taking it in the teeth, but many in their fields aren’t.
I’d never heard of it until the post just before yours on my timeline, so I guess I’m way outta the loop and have homework to do.
The word “heathen” in Samson Occom’s autobiography always prompts a good discussion.
No AI! Jesus wept.
JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!
Growing up in Indiana, this is what they told us the south looked like. Goddamn, I love Atlanta.
Meet the new neighbor, Jonathan Opossum. We’re having a staring contest. #nature #jonathanopossum #babyanimals #timelinecleanse
While it was inches away from killing him and he was in a wheelchair for a few months, some people are dumb enough that they will survive anything. He went on to tons more dumb shit, and still haunts Muncie to this day.
Aha! I knew he was in on the parenting, I just couldn’t remember how. Chalk this up to the list of shows I watched with my parents as a kid where I understood maybe 20%.
I once lectured so hard I knocked a stone out of my ring. Always meant to put it on my cv.
For real. Did they ever get gates up? I worked at the Ford dealership there and saw many train collisions. Once I was bartending at the Mark III when a coworker from Domo called to tell me a train pushed an suv behind the restaurant. When they looked, it was my bf. Only in Muncie is that expected.
Related only slightly: I couldn’t sleep last night bc I started thinking about Eldin from the show Murphy Brown. Was she his only client? How did he afford to live in DC?
Watch out for the train when you leave the mall...Norfolk Southern dgaf
Says anyone whose ever lived in Muncie.
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
You know you need better #worklifebalance when you accuse your kids of #timetheft for taking too long to play Go Fish.
Looks like Putin’s thinking something similar.
Dude, if I would’ve taken that pie out at 9 seconds he would’ve had my ass.
I wore the tank from one of my teenage pizza jobs today for the first time in over 20 years. My boss legit told me once to leave a pizza in for another 11 1/2 seconds before pulling it out 😆.
The goal: Artist & Writer’s retreat in rural Portugal
After years of periodically looking online, I purchased a first edition 1899 copy of The Conjure Woman, by Charles Chesnutt (one of my favorite #19century authors). Bonus purchase was this 1973 illustrated adaptation. #booksky #academicsky #americanliterature #Amlit #AAlit
I lived in Muncie Indiana for years and had way more to fear there than Atlanta.
He also orders that I eat it in the dark, real pathetic-like.
Given I was already using a cane. I’ve been better. Eating the dinner of champions though—leftover Chef Boyardee paired with cheap red wine.
Welp—I fell through the tiny shed deck. It hurt.
I second 🤮
The “we should get a tattoo” demon got me last night.
“Are you getting shot? Would you like your baby to be your first line of defense?”
Twat’s that? I cunt heareth thee.
EXTREMELY excited to report that I have just purchased a gift subscription to the Onion for my local books-to-prisoners program (they also accept periodicals). Support good journalism, give incarcerated people a chance to laugh. Win-win! cc: @theonion.com
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
Maggie’s a lover, not a fighter. #rescuedog #adopt #pitbabies #dogsofbluesky
Hahaha, pretty much. This year it was someone trying to help me—who accidentally deleted tons of files from multiple course shells that I had to replace.
Some people know fall is coming by what #Starbucks is serving. For me, it’s when I accidentally delete important files on a large scale. #AcademicSky #edusky #highered #teaching #digitalhellscape
My sister and I stole one from Olive Garden in 1999–I imagine they still have them. Plus, endless salad and breadsticks!
Years ago I sold several California Raisins paperbacks and was delighted when I saw the shipping address was for someone working at the Smithsonian.
Holy shit—that took me way too long to read what it’s supposed to say.
I drink a couple pots a day, including at night. Your body adjusts over time 😄
Oh man, yeah.
Badass—congratulations!!
Come to mama! Gift to myself because the price was unbelievably good. #booksky #19c #AmLit #AALit
No. After the fiery death of his mother, Smokey was rescued by a park ranger and acclimated to humans.
Oh shit—they sent me a really reasonable counter offer.
When you randomly check if there are first editions you can afford by your favorite #19c author and end up submitting an offer 😬 #AmLit #AALit #CharlesChesnutt #AcademicSky
Friend one: “Is there even any point to applying to a Fulbright?” Friend two: “Well, they’re accepting applicatio…wait a minute. Says they’re “prioritizing American Studies in light of the country’s 250th anniversary.” Friend one: “I …don’t think they know what ‘American Studies’ means.”
Outdoor pigs killed my uncle
Got big plans this weekend #kpopdemonhunters
But when working women do that we’re made to feel like bad mothers.
Oh no 😥
PragerU is absolute trash.