Jamie Lee

Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Exclusive | Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

A wide expanse of a beach beside the ocean with pools of water and a barnacle-encrusted tree stump in the foreground with a tree-covered hump in the distance surrounded by further tree stumps in the sand.

“Sudden change is easier to register than quiet, chronic change. But it is an illusion to imagine that a shaking earth is scarier than a slowly warming one.” — @ericajberry.bsky.social

Read “The Fault of Time” by Erica Berry. emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-fa...

Last day to submit your abstract!

Each day in March this year we'll be reposting an essay a day that lost in the first round. Get on the substack to get notified or see here of course: marchxness.com

Want to tell the public what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is asking for first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work. www.wethebuilders.org

Civil servants are leading the American resistance – with GameStop as a guide | Virginia Heffernan As Elon Musk tries to drive them out, federal workers are initiating a short squeeze on the broligarchy

TELL YOUR STORIES! Post on social media, write to local newspapers, talk on the radio. We are real people who do real good for the country we love. If you’ve been fired, don’t go quietly. If you haven’t, hold the line as long as you can.

#fedstrong #holdtheline

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My first concert in a big stadium in MPLS!

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In this week’s interview from the archive, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta invites us into an Indigenous understanding of time as inseparable from place and the ways Lore and knowledge are kept within lands and tribes over centuries. Listen to “Deep Time Diligence.” https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq

Deadline extended to 1 March 2025!

Wild Clocks – David Farrier Attentive to the loss of age-old ecological relationships as “wild clocks” fall out of synchronization with each other, David Farrier imagines an opportunity to renew the rhythms by which we live and ...

"...wild clocks don’t tick with the steady pulse of a Swiss watch, they swing. Assembled together, they form a vast polyrhythmic score, an impossibly complex arrangement of syncopated beats and pulses, tempo layered upon tempo. Time lives in the body... as a pulse in the blood."

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Consequences’ by Manuel Muñoz Broken into ten short stories, “The Consequences” takes place in California’s Central Valley in the 1980s. The frank stories depict Mexican and Mexican American laborers, their families, their enemies...

A great interview on the humanity of “illegals” by amazing author and good friend Manuel Muñoz: www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

(TL;DR - write a chapter for our edited volume! Abstracts due by 1 Feb 2025. Full draft due 1 Sept 2025.)

We are editing a volume, The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, under contract with Routledge.
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Rewind: The Roots of Public Media This series features scholars of media history looking back at both familiar and lesser-known chapters in public broadcasting’s evolution. “Rewind” is presented in partnership with the <a href="https:...

I curate a series for Current, the journal of public media. We're calling for new pieces. We pay. Your research reaches the entire sector.

Especially at this moment, when noncommercial voices are under attack, research on NPR, PBS, public, community, and educational media is especially prescient.

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Congratulations Steph! I can’t wait to celebrate in 2025! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Watching Women - University of Toronto Press

My book (utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....) launches Wednesday! Rather than stressing,* I'm making a big thread of work by people who show up in my acknowledgments--because I'm SO grateful to all of them, but mostly because they write weird, wonderful, genius books 💜

(*still definitely stressing)

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A reminder that our MFA application deadline is DEC 15. Come and join our awesome, small cohort for 3 years of fully funded work with lots of opportunities for interdisciplinary work in an amazing desert city. english.arizona.edu/mfa-creative...

A quick hello. Getting started here.