Mara Lee Grayson

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New poem, “footnote 1. the verb,” up at New Feathers. Thanks to the editors for including this poem!

Read it here: www.newfeathersanthology.com/footnote-1-t...

Preview of a new poem up at Variant Lit.

Thanks to the editors for including my work in this issue! 🙏🏻

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Well, that’s quite nice! Thanks to the folks at Posit for the nom!

Read the poem, “The Invisible Girlfriend Grows Restless,” here: positjournal.com/2024/05/21/m...

If you’re interested in exploring the relationship between those intergenerational traumas and poetry, I hope you’ll join me for this workshop, sponsored Consequence Forum. All levels; no experience necessary (but always welcome).

Beyond Racial, Religious, and Political Binaries: Toward Antisemitism Literacy - Mara Lee Grayson, 2024 Literacy studies scholarship and pedagogy have not attended comprehensively to Jewish cultural literacies or the discursive operations of anti-Jewish hate. As a...

Very excited to see my piece “Beyond Racial, Religious, and Political Binaries: Toward Antisemitism Literacy” in the new special issue of Journal of Literacy Research! Gratitude to the editorial team and congrats to fellow contributors.

Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Did the writers on The Diplomat just shout out cooperative overlapping?!?!?!

Netflix can’t keep its stream up for Serrano/Taylor, but can keep it together for an extended Mike Tyson ass shot.

Netflix, you are not so good at this. Sorry.

The Racialization of American Jews and Antisemitism on College Campuses Beinner Family Research Papers: Mara Lee Grayson

Truly honored and humbled to see my work included in this important research paper series. So much gratitude to Alvin Rosenfeld, Gunther Jikeli, and the rest of the team at ISCA/IU for inviting me to contribute.

Read the paper here: isca.indiana.edu/publication-...

Three new(ish) poems & a reflection in the latest issue of Community Literacy Journal. Photo is a preview of one. Find the full reflection & poems here: digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The best response is to ask why so many pundits are so dedicated to this destructive, illiberal mode of discourse disguised as intellectual commentary--and whether they're willing, in the name of truth, to learn about where it comes from. 10/10

“Antisemitism and the Presumption of Jewish Whiteness”
3rd Annual Joint OU/UT Webinar
January 25 | 7PM Central

Learn more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/scjs/events/...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how many people seem to see the world in very stark oppositional terms (black & white, right & wrong, good & bad) & always know, without a doubt, which side of a given (false) binary to be on. Like, doesn’t it get boring in your mind?

The earth is melting. A pandemic continues to ravage society and vaccine preventable diseases are making a comeback. Fascism and nationalism is on the rise. War crimes are being committed everywhere. We’re in a new gilded age.

Swear as much as you fucking want. It’s, honestly, very appropriate.

TODAY: The US is starting 2024 in its second-largest COVID surge ever, experts say With the U.S. in the middle of a COVID surge, it's time to make sure you're vaccinated and return to masking, experts say.

Thank you TODAY for covering the current COVID surge. I really appreciate so many sharing the COVID wastewater charts! It shows that, contrary to the cynical narrative of "pandemic fatigue," many still care & want to know the data so they can protect their communities.

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CNN Breaking News push alert 12m ago Supreme Court to decide if emergency room doctors can perform medically necessary abortions in states that prohibit them

Translation: Supreme Court to decide if ER doctors can let pregnant people die, in violation of federal law

No problem

Anti-Semitism is very appealing to zillionaire oligarchs, from Ford to Musk, because it allows them to go "a small group of rich elites is manipulating everything in politics, the media and finance, not me though, definitely not me"

The idiocy & absurdity of current sociopolitical discourse are astounding, as is the disinformation coming from every direction. I’m not sure if those of us in rhetoric & literacy studies have succeeded wildly or failed devastatingly.

I would ask “what now?” but I, for one, don’t really care. Too much real shit to give a shit.

If you can’t define the concepts in your resolution in the ways they are actually defined *and* have historically been defined by the communities from which they originated, you have no business writing that resolution.

Sure; email?

First page of “Assimilation/Appropriation: What Jewish Discourses in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Tell Us about the Limitations of Inclusion” by Mara Lee Grayson in College Composition and Communication, 75:1, special issue on Cultural Rhetorics.

New article: “Assimilation/Appropriation: What Jewish Discourses in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Tell Us about the Limitations of Inclusion” in College Composition and Communication, 75:1, special issue on Cultural Rhetorics. 🙏🏻 to the editors for including my work!

I started working on a new book over the weekend, which means my kitchen cabinets have been perfectly reorganized.

The disinformation, misinformation, lies, & outright hate speech in that other place are astounding. I’m just shouting attempts at logic, complexity, & empathy into the ether at this point. Why am I still there?

Yuuuup. I published a book on the rhetorics of antisemitism six months ago & I just want to throw it at people at this point.

Grotesque.

"They describe that path as one that cannot be boiled down to a hashtag: one in which... Israelis and Palestinians would remain on the land they each call home."

Amazing, and not in a good way, how something obvious to everyone besides fringes on the ground, is such a revelation in the US

Hugs

NYT headline: Israel Seizes Gaza Hospital That Became Symbol of the War Itself

was it ~ a symbol of the war itself ~ NYT or was it actually maybe just a functioning hospital with a lot of sick and wounded people in it, hundreds of whom are now in a mass grave?