Danielle St Hilaire

If teaching (again, defined expansively) wasn't so vital, our temu-brand fascists wouldn't be so obsessed with destroying the places where its happening. Don't let them take our agency. And don't let our disciplinary orgs and prominent voices within them overlook and erase our voices and work.

I can’t do much about the way the world feels like it’s coming down around our ears right now, but dammit I will at least be a human who cares for my students and shows that care in every class I teach.

I can’t imagine anything more dehumanizing than working my ass off for an assignment and knowing my prof didn’t even read it or think about it, or just read an AI summary. What motivation to try to learn can come from that arrangement?

Even leaving the ethics aside, if admin needs to be able to answer the question, what does this college provide to its students that they can’t just get from AI, integrated AI graders aren’t going to help!

I’ve added language to my syllabus this year, just after my academic integrity policy, that promises all feedback they receive in my class will be FROM ME, and actual human, who has actually read their work (not had it AI summarized) and thought about it.

I don’t want AI grading tools. I want the time and resources to allow me to interact meaningfully, as a person, with each of my students about their work.

Picture of a mostly cloudy sky with a plane silhouetted against it, flying a banner behind it

Plane banner against clouds that reads “YOU SUCK AT THIS, BOB! SELL THE @%*! TEAM!!”

Out for an afternoon paddle and saw a plane flying a banner over the lake. “YOU SUCK AT THIS, BOB! SELL THE *@%! TEAM!!” Check on your Pirates fan friends; they aren’t doing well.

Since Dewey and Vygotsky, any serious discussion of what meaningful learning looks like centers relationships and sociality. Learning needs community, needs *presence* from both teacher and learner. Content means little if those things aren't in place. Yet Khan thinks glorified chatbots are the way?

A fawn brindle whippet lies stretched out on a human bed atop blue-grey sheets and blanket, his back to the camera and his head propped up on a pillow.

Oh to be a lazy dog on a big bed…

Just listened to this episode at the gym, and I would recommend it: there is a clear top-down coordinated effort to get us all to buy into a false narrative about what really happened during the Covid-19 pandemic which we need to be aware of/resist

Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately BY JACKIE SABBAGH It is day infinity of everyone wanting me dead. People are having fun bringing lemon squares and automatic artillery to the anti-trans community meetings. Divorced legislators harangue about pedophile cults and surgeried infants and what ever happened to forever ago. I am more beautiful than you and I would like to be loved. I am getting concerned about the monomaniacs who make their entire lives about deadnaming and transvestigations: obviously it's working but aren't you exhausted, don't you remember when someone loved you without knowing what you were? I am eating shortbread on a patio table overlooking the enormous green ocean. Somewhere an octopus is being eaten by an octopus and not panicking. Black dress to the floor, red acrylic nails, silver teardrop earrings, waterproof mascara. I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified. I hear a noise behind me and I don't turn around.

"I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified"

Here's our rapid response list of orgs to reach out to if you're trans and in need of aid right now (or if you're cis and want an org to support): www.them.us/story/scotus...

Not exhaustive, but Quispe, @sal.gay, and I hope you still find it useful

To my mind, there is quite possibly no more important animal than the platypus because it so delightfully makes clear that our impulse towards categorization is necessarily flawed and contingent.

The Panthers aren’t the dynasty we want, and they’re definitely not the dynasty we need. But they’re probably the dynasty we deserve.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

My mom (not generally a politically active person beyond voting every 4 years) sending me pix from the No Kings rally in Auburn, ME, has me a little choked up.

Great turnout for the first of 3 rallies in Pittsburgh today!

And the feedback was a couple of words or MAYBE a sentence next to a grade.

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.

Congratulations all around!

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Happy pub day, @docsthilaire.bsky.social! 🤩 We couldn't ask for a better book to officially kick off the new-to-KSUP Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies series either!

Thank you so much—you are too kind! It is an honor to be part of the renewed series, and it was a pleasure working with you on this!

Thanks so much! It was a long road, but glad to finally get here! Next time we’re in the same city again, you will definitely get that drink! 😆

Thanks so much!!

Thank you!!

I should also say that I had an AMAZING experience working with @ksupress.bsky.social—just quality people across the board. If you work in MedRen and have a manuscript you’re looking to place, I highly recommend considering their Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies series!

Very happy that my second book, The Art of Pity: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Compassion is Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare is officially published today! It was such joy to think with and through these writers about the value of reading literature. Link below if you’d like to snag a copy!

The Art of Pity on a bookshelf, face out.

Happy pub day to @docsthilaire.bsky.social, whose book “The Art of Pity: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Compassion in Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare” is now available! www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2024/the-art...

This is what happens when you DON'T stack your review with quacks, activists, quack-activists, and apparently unqualified philosophers past their prime. This, incidentally, is why other review processes always do that: they knew that this is what any other process would find.