Shilo Rae McGiff

Early baroque morning; everything portentous and vaguely elegant.

Mr. Pepper as environmental bellwether—

Well, hello, Tree Pollen. We meet again.

the jauntiest of tunes being spun by a baltimore oriel outside my window—

Happy #MothersDay! We extend our solidarity and fortitude to all the mothers, aunts, grandmothers, caregivers, and those who love them.

Support us as we continue to #FreeBlackMamas who are being held in cages because they can’t afford bail.

bit.ly/freeblackmamas2025

dramatic light at sunset on an open desert plain; a faint rainbow cuts through a dark cloud

a red and purple sunset rolls over a dark field; a split rail fence in the foreground

some evening redness in the west—

Red bud branches spread out against a blue sky w wispy clouds

white blossoms cluster on a slender boughs

Gosh, Ithaca. In May you are astonishing.

For today’s #ModWrite we are working on accessibility and presentation guidelines for #VWoolf2025: Woolf & Dissidence 💫

psychic wind attack : rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

canary as moral compass—

Fill the Earth and Subdue It: Christian Nationalism, Ethno‐Religious Threat, and Nationalist Pronatalism What fuels both enthusiasm for increasing “American” birth rates and fears about their decline? Citing the prevalence of fertility campaigns in authoritarian regimes characterized by ethno-nationalis....

Open Access is key to opposing fascism, example 4,381: A writer posted this article, which is a useful study of Christian Nationalism and pronatalism. If you don't have institutional access, you will have to pay Wiley, who own & control it.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Volume 31: Virginia Woolf Selected Papers

Exciting news for literary lovers! 📚 Virginia Woolf Selected Papers, Volume 31 is now available to read on ClemsonOPEN! Dive into fresh insights and scholarly takes on one of modernism’s most iconic writers. Available here: open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...

behold the magnolia—

We are so pleased to announce that The Selected Papers from the 31st International Conference on Virginia Woolf, “Woolf and Ethics,” ed. by conference organizer Amy Smith, is open access and now available via @cupress.bsky.social

open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...

#VirginiaWoolf #VWoolf2022

Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.

I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.

For this #ModWrite I’m picking up dropped research threads: what is my interest in Wordsworth’s “orbicular body” (letter to Alexander Dyce c.1833) and what does it have to do w reading antipastoral allegory in The Waves?

I mean…I think we know why our libraries are full of tears.

Fringe upon fringe
of blue crocuses,
crocuses, walled against blue of themselves,
blue of that upper earth,
blue of the depth upon depth of flowers,
lost—

baroque cello

do it for the musical phrase

Don’t worry! AI will read it for you.

cold takes only

Take one last look at this sacred heart / before it blows

Photo of “Hands Off” marchers.

Energetic, well attended “Hands Off” March in Ithaca, in spite of less than ideal weather.

gone huffing magnolia

Oh. Ffs.

mostly just my morning brain ;)

the unbearable snootiness of the midtown coffee shop disrupted by a pink heart raincoat—

fat pigeons and frozen pansies at Grand Central—

UPDATE: Hours after filing our amended petition, a federal judge ordered Rümeysa Öztürk can't be removed from the U.S. until further court order. The government must respond to the amended petition by Tuesday at 5pm.

This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.