Madeline Bedecarre

BA/MA/PhD in French, African Studies, Gender Studies, etc. cut. Are our professional associations speaking out about this?

The concern about the decline of the male novelist is the dumbest moral panic I’ve seen in a minute.

Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945 | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 4 Abstract The devastation of World War II left German libraries partly in ruins, collections and catalogs lost or destroyed, prompting a need to reconstruct and reimagine the library system. This artic...

“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”

easily 400 people protesting in Davidson, North Carolina this morning.

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... Dark Academia themed pomodoro timer. This has been a delightful addition to my summer writing days

College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.

humanities major hiring on the rise against the hallucination plagiarism arson machine www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

MONTREAL! I hope you'll join me for the launch of @benlibman.bsky.social's outstanding new book! DE STIIL BOOKSELLERS | Friday, May 16 at 6:00 pm!

Grief is so weird. I lost my dad almost a month ago. Some days are totally normal. And some days I'm in an absolute fog.

I've been giving a lot of annotation assignments lately. I was thinking about what I really wanted for my students this quarter, and it was honestly for them to *read*. Like, read things that will change how they think about the world. Writing is great, obviously, but you need to read first.

Disgusting

The fact that free/subsidized childcare is not part of the plan... or paid parental leave???

Shutting down Head Start might seem at odds with the administration's pronatalist aims. But they're actually closely aligned. Because moms who can't find/afford childcare often end up leaving the workforce. And once they're home full-time, it often seems reasonable to have more kids.

Conférence inaugurale du #CollectifBlackFranceNoire

Paris, 21-23 mai 2025

Parution (au Québec) le 1er septembre!

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The Romance Publisher Dreaming of an AI-Driven Dynasty Inkitt has influential backers and a vision for infinitely customizable on-demand content. What would be left for the human creators?

Meet the startup, backed by big Silicon Valley investors, Macmillan's owner, and former HarperCollins and Penguin execs, that wants authors to "just spitball a few bullet points" to get AI to write books — "and then suddenly each author is writing 1,000 books." 👀 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Let’s gooo

Anora was the final straw for me... I think i'm impervious to film as a genre. I just don't get it.

Genius! Love this idea and will copy. Thanks for being generous with your ideas

Was reminded that 13 years ago today I defended my masters thesis (that was legit bad) and drank this delightful beverage at approximately 11am.

the emails about employer sponsored webinars about how to get more sleep and how to have a better work life balance.... 🙃

My delulu tj's thinking is more like ok so i'll actually make meals out of the ingredients before they go bad 😅

Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake: “Glass jars of jellied meats that look like cat food, and which French people call a “terrine” and eat as if it were not cat food”. I love when the French get dragged in novels.

Tracing the Peacock Chair’s History From Manila to Nashville A complex web of stories encourages us to reimagine the political weight of an unassuming remnant of craft tradition, born of incarcerated labor in the Philippines.

The story of the peacock chair is one of colonial carceral labor, American Victorian leisure, and the Black Power movement.

let's fucking goooo! The amount I *need* this book for teaching...

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵