Rusty Bee

Apparently there is a whole subset of puns out there I don’t get because when I read, I don’t read the words aloud in my head.

Amy Sherald Cancels Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship of Trans Artwork The artist said the National Portrait Gallery was considering removing the painting after Trump issued anti-trans mandates for federally funded museums.

The painter Amy Sherald canceled her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery after learning that her portrait of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed to keep in line with Trump’s anti-trans mandates for federally funded museums.

This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.

French Marxist theorists of (visual) culture and society keep showing up in podcasts I’m listening to and in my running notes. Makes me want to work on my French to read them in the original without translation.

Spring 2025 grades. Are. In. 🎉

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

writing is THINKING. Learning to write well means learning to think well.

Classes. Are. Done.

Turning off my alarms for my classes at the end of the semester is so satisfying.

Sometimes I think: what if I became an interior designer?

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the

An open letter from eighteen constitutional scholars on the need to defend the First Amendment from the federal government’s recent threats to universities buff.ly/NXQk5ML

Today is not my day.

Tfw your students propose research projects on the bands/albums you listened to in HS.

Idk if I should feel proud. Or old. 😅

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

Starting to read Graeber’s Debt at the same time in the middle of a re-read of The Dispossessed is proving interesting so far…

I have a backlog of political and literary publications from a subscription spree I went on ca 20/21, and it’s kind of weird to be reading this Trump commentary in a new Trump era

Nowhere near enough media coverage about the interconnection between the destruction of content moderation, the proliferation of LLM "generative AI" bullshit engines, the death of consensus reality/knowledge making, misinformation and disinformation, & the aims of Western authoritarians and fascists

Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK Submissions for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions close 28 February 2025.

If anyone hasn't seen this, here is our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts.

"We will focus on scholarship that synthesises a concern for neurodivergent liberation with other critical traditions and liberation movements globally."

medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

Cartoon people stand below the headline: How to Resist an Oligarchy

www.reddit.com/r/PunkMemes/...

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis

Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.

"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis

Hello, here’s a useful resource for archiving things from the internet you want to save before they go away.
If we all archive a bit, it makes a big difference.

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Statement from AAUP president Todd Wolfson:
This week, the Trump admin hit the NIH w/ a debilitating freeze to hiring, travel, meetings, & communication. The freeze includes reviewing & approving critical biomedical research on a number of public health concerns... www.aaup.org/news/stateme...
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Guardian vs. NYT. You know who's going to call things by their true names and who's not even gonna give you syrup with that waffle.

Guardian: "Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes....

You should be using an RSS reader The one thing you can choose to do that will make your internet life better and make the internet better for everyone else, too.

As I’m trying to spend more time reading and less time on The Apps so to speak, thinking it might finally be time to set up an RSS feed

You should be using an RSS reader doctorow.medium.com/you-should-b...

These posts are supposed to be, in part, an exercise in revealing process…so am I just hiding from that? Conversely, am I sitting in process so much/so long that I’m avoiding creating an actual product? (5/5)

Do I want to be perceived? Is this something I want to write publicly about? How will I know when I’ve gone from shitty process writing to finished product? What size is/should this project be? Am I an imposter/fraud because I teach college writing but have hardly anything published? (4/5)

I have also started a document trying to centralize all my disparate ideas scattered across my non/academic interests. I have some very concrete ideas, but I think I’ve also been having a lot of internal hang-ups about writing. (3/5)

And even if I consider that not “real” writing, I have begun drafting a co-authored essay with a friend on labor in neurodivergent assessment. So that’s something more “real.” (2/5)

So I’ve never actually posted for Thursdays. In part because I don’t feel like I have been doing any writing? But also that’s a lie. I’ve been writing these damn threads! (1/5)

What have I been creating? (Writing) (? - 1/15) [2025]