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An ideological purge coming from the feds will give excellent cover to employers looking to bust existing unions and crush nascent campaigns.

United Campus Workers United Campus Workers is building a powerful voice for higher education employees across the South. We are united in a wall-to-wall union:  the staff, faculty, graduate and undergraduate workers that ...

If you're an academic, the very least you can do right now is join a union.

Episode 74: The Trustees (with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd) Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 05/06/2025 · 50m

For the new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I spoke with the brilliant @llassabe.bsky.social about the trustees and their impact on US higher education podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Sam's essay on Berger and pedagogy is perfect, perfect, perfect—I couldn't stop thinking about it as I taught Berger and Mulvey last week!

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Seeing Without Guarantees What seemed to be intimidating the students was not the idea that I wanted something specific from them and they didn’t know what it was or how to give it to me, but rather, precisely, that I didn’…

I wrote about John Berger and feeling scared in the classroom for the Mid Theory Collective

mid-theory.com/2025/02/05/s...

Hi I wrote this! It came out online April 22, 2024 and then in print in the summer issue of Parapraxis

Accidentally got horny on main for this

Mixtape #3: A Sense of Scent For Mixtape #3, we asked some friends, writers, and readers: What do you look for in a fragrance? Do you have signature scent notes? What makes a fragrance “good”? Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro, PhD candid…

just in time for holiday gift-buying, check out our newest MTC Mixtape on fragrance, featuring the following collection of geniuses:
Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro
Annie Berke
Samuel Catlin
Faith S. Harden
Arah Ko
Sheila Liming
Rachel Tay
Bekah Waalkes
Korey Williams
and me 😉
mid-theory.com/2024/12/13/m...

A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Del…

Last week, I resigned from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members working to mobilize the org to take a stand against the scholasticide and genocide in Palestine.

Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...

How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

The phenomenon of “cancel culture” has never really been submitted to rigorous analysis: We all already know about it, or at least we think we do, and we’re sick of hearing about it even though we cannot stop talking about it.

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You are just one crucial step (reading) away from getting the point here

“You know what I’m talking about” doing an extraordinary amount of work here

not “we’re all on campus now”…

Incredibly smart and efficient. I keep making jokes about awkward Tgiving convos but, fml, I feel like I am actually going to end up quoting this at my uncle just to feel something.

How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

For the New Republic, I reviewed Adrian Daub’s immensely clarifying and grounding new book, THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC: HOW AN AMERICAN OBSESSION WENT GLOBAL, a book which gets impressive analytical traction on a protean and contradictory mediatic phenomenon:

newrepublic.com/article/1883...

Meme of a black bear mournfully ruing the fact that he actually likes wokeness

Episode 20: Suspicion Pod45 · Episode

in case you missed it earlier today: a new episode of the @atpost45.bsky.social Pod45 podcast, featuring me, @lintax.bsky.social, @stalpaz.bsky.social, and @eleanoir.bsky.social discussing the cluster on "Suspicion" that Eleanor edited! open.spotify.com/episode/2fjP...

lord make me offline - but not yet

78: Reactionary Fantasies: On “Cancel Culture” and Moral Panic feat. Adrian Daub - Ordinary Unhappiness Abby and Patrick welcome academic, writer, and In Bed With the Right podcast co-host Adrian Daub to discuss his new book, The Cancel Culture Panic: How An American Obsession Went Global. Daub’s book i...

in the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social we talked with the brilliant @adriandaub.bsky.social, author of the new book, The Cancel Culture Panic, about what's really at stake in talk of "cancellation" both in the US and abroad - as a trope, as a fantasy, as a symptom, and more!

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