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OMG, I did not know this! Thanks for sharing. I will think of him when I pick up my needle. 🪡

What a thoughtful gesture! Good luck out there.

You all are so lucky!! I LOVE that film. I love everything Arnold has done, honestly, but especially RED ROAD.

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying i don 't know what that is ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying i don 't know what that is

I used to love that guy.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.

Yup. 🫤

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas:

NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
All of Massachusetts

I will add more as I get them done.
Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Hear me out — the monstrous feminine is no longer the icky adolescent girl bursting with noxious fluids, it’s the dried-up post-menopausal woman whose maternal drive has vanished.

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

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Oy, is this really where we are?

I am well aware of the problems of romanticizing the past, but sometimes I remember that when I was in school we didn't have active shooter drills.

Schrödinger's humanities: Simultaneously moribund and dying in a world in which students increasingly only want to major in STEM and business, and also so powerful that they can inculcate dangerous, subversive ideologies like gender theory and post-colonialism in impressionable young people.

The Trump admin made it official: they are coming after the University of California. What is at stake is not just research grant funding for UCLA, but the future of federal funding for the UC system, California’s political autonomy, and public higher education across the U.S.

@ucaft.bsky.social

Red, disembodied lips set against a back background, known to be the poster symbol of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. More than just a midnight movie, RHPS became a crucial gathering place for queers, punks, theater kids, and so many others looking for their place...and each other. Irreverent? Yes. Wild? Always. Nonetheless: Don't dream it, be it.

If you have not searched LibGen for your work, it is sobering and enraging. Virtually everything I’ve ever written is there, down to the tiniest, most obscure articles. On the upside: I guess the robots can now regurgitate a lot of feminist film history? 🤖 🫤

If your book is in this database of published material that was plagiarized without permission to shovel into the maw of AI (& it most likely is--I just checked & mine was there), add your information (title, publisher, ISBN number) to this attorney form to be part of a future class-action lawsuit.

Career Development Lab — Transgender Film Center

Fun update! Transgender Film Center has opened applications for our second-ever Career Development Lab.

We’re giving out $150K through this 12-week fellowship: $15K to 10 trans filmmakers.

Get your applications in by August 24th.

Spread the word—and apply if you’re eligible.

This will be great, folks! @pamhutch.bsky.social is always on her game. Tomorrow!