Holly Eva Allen

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

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BREAKING: Donald Trump signs illegal executive order aimed at eliminating the Department of Education.

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇

I completely forgot to post about this when it originally happened but my academic book review of Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing by Lee Edelman (2023) was published in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies at the end of 2024.
#highereducation #queertheory #highered

dear lord. this is a nightmare for researchers 😭

This is... actually a fairly reasonable takeaway from this year.

My article, “I Just Want to Talk Like Everybody Else: Wright Talk and Linguistic Analysis of Seminal Black Fiction”, was published in the Journal of Ethnic American Literature! I’m excited to read through the rest of the issue.
#academia #literature #americanliterature #linguistics #blackliterature

image of a two-story Godzilla shaped Christmas tree covered in white lights in a Japanese mall

remember the reason for the season

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Thomas Mann

It didn’t used to be that you went online to get mad. You went on the computer because that’s where Strong Bad lives

Converting all restrooms in your workplace, community spaces, etc. to gender-neutral restrooms right now is literally the bare minimum for defending trans people from a federal legal assault right now. This should have been done ages ago.

Now that I’ve had a Bluesky account for a few days I figure I’ll discuss who I am and attempt to find others! I’m a US academic in English & creative writer with a background in linguistics. I mostly post about #literature #academia #highered #lgbtq #americanstudies #womensstudies #disabilitystudies

Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people

Dean Phillips tweets "To all the progressives fleeing @X , how in the world will you understand how half our country feels if you only congregate with the like-minded? That’s what got us into this mess in the first place. So stick around. Engage in some debate. Make your case. Learn different perspectives."

It is so funny to me to see people saying this over there. How will you ever know how LoliCrusader1488 feels if you don't stay on the web site he likes?

HarperCollins is asking authors to sell their books to the A.I. woodchipper HarperCollins is asking authors to sell their books to the A.I. woodchipper

Shame on you, Harper Collins, Shame on you

Chasing a buck now at the expense of destroying your entire industry later

A very idiotic Shame on you
www.avclub.com/harpercollin...

Advice from a Literature teacher and resister: read your history, but don’t forget your literature.

Resistance is woven through the words of abolitionism and feminism and anti-fascism. Read the history and the literature.

starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.