Jen Howard

Much obliged!

This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.

This weekend, artists are speaking out across the country Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

Fall of Freedom starts today. Here’s NPR on the initiative www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...

In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards

In time for ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ mania, a major Korean art show lands in the U.S. A new Smithsonian exhibition draws from a vast Korean collection to the tell the story of the country’s visual culture. Curators are expecting a large (and young) crowd.

The National Museum of Korea has attracted over 5 million visitors this year, partly due to the film “KPop Demon Hunters.”

The museum is now lending works to the Smithsonian’s largest Korean art exhibition showcasing over 200 pieces.

If you do, please report back!

I really had no idea there was so much advice out there on how to organize a sock drawer. #decluttering #organizing

My first thought was "Is this for real or one of those academic hoaxes?"

Seriously, though, curious to hear some takes on this from folks like @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social.

When your relatives ask you what good that English degree is....

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Nice to see that the courage of the Washington Post editorial board has not yet been entirely denatured

I honestly didn't even know this was a mistake you could make. Impressive!

A person reaches for an item from a shelf of books.

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.

To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.

Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.

Banger of a 🧵on ideas and inspiration. 📚 #writing

“Quiet, Piggy” getting more pickup.

@cnn.com @peoplemag.bsky.social @dailymirrornews.bsky.social

That's great news.

The year is 2025.
All websites are down.
Only one website remains.

www.cpsc.gov/Recalls

Arts under threat at Mary Baldwin U: "The elimination of these Minors effectively strips MBU of Arts programming for undergraduate students." Link to petition below. #artseducation #humanities #highered

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.

I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

Happy pub day to @merriam-webster.com!

Print dictionaries: the original large language models
11/18/25

I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.

Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

The whale apparently got entangled in crab-pot lines that had been abandoned after the season ended. Again, #clearyourgear, people. There's no excuse for this kind of unnecessary suffering.

A sadly necessary reminder to #clearyourgear and lobby for better regulations/education. 🌎 #conservation

Truly.