Kandi Tayebi

Heritage Online - Spring 2025

Check out the story on our McNair scholar Debra Balandran and her incredible research. She used her McNair project to start impressive research in health.

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These excellent scholars shared their work at the British Women Writers Conference. They discussed Dacre’s Libertine and corruption, Gothic stories and fear of vampires, Shelley’s Frankenstein and the erasure of feminine spaces, and Shelley’s The Last Man and the Cult of Domesticity. #BWWC2025

Journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social says the United States has a lot to learn from the Philippines' experience with authoritarian rule.

Nowruz Mubarak! May the New Year bring peace, prosperity, health, and happiness. May we take care of those most vulnerable and spread compassion and love.

Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other.

You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

Watching The Walking Dead again and realizing we are in some ways living in that world now!

Why are conservatives trying to destroy the humanities? Ursula LeGuin told us in her National Book Award speech: “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Trump’s proposal to strip birthright citizenship from those born in this nation is unconstitutional.

Book of Mormon program.

A man and woman at the theater.

Enjoying a last night out before classes start!

Sweet Dreams, Peter Yarrow!You will be missed. We really could use you now.
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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? We would rather talk about literally everything else.

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Happy Yalda!

If you haven’t, you should read Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox about Jack Sheppard. Great book!

Wuthering Heights: I survived Nelly Dean’s gaslighting, an alcoholic dropping me over the bannister and shooting at me, and death.

They are the luckiest team I have ever seen!

Texas is heading in that direction, culling classes that mention race, gender, or sexuality. They won’t be satisfied until education is dead for everyone except the elite.

Bible lessons in elementary school? Texas education board says yes - BBC News Schools will not be required to use the new curriculum, but will receive extra funding if they do.

Christian Nationalists are demolishing the separation between church and state in Texas and other states. The curriculum is not mandatory but comes with a financial incentive. Lawsuits should follow.
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Would love to be added. Thanks for this!

Our amazing Ronald E. McNair Scholars presented their research today. These students have worked hard with their fantastic faculty mentors to produce some exciting research. These students are ready to tackle graduate school and make a difference in our world!

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The Iranian people respond to Raisi’s death!

Nowruz Mobarak! Happy New Year. May the New Year bring us peace and happiness!

Sabrina Ionescu just shot the same score as the NBA men in the 3-point shooting contest. After not being allowed to play in so many gyms growing up, after being told to act like a girl, after hearing women can’t play, I loved watching this moment knowing what it means to the little girls watching!

The conservatives policing of who is a woman is horrendous, terrifying, and disgusting. When I was a child, my parents were called into school because officials were concerned I wasn’t feminine enough. Expect more stupidity as they try to make us all passive, pregnant, and stupid.

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Older woman in head scarf with a birthday cake and a 94 candle.

Happy 94th birthday, Mader Jun! Wish we could be there to celebrate with you. Tavalode shoma mobarak!

Why the Presidents Couldn’t Answer Yes or No They behaved like academics. That’s a good thing.

Here’s my contribution to the conversation about the farce we all witnessed in the December 5th congressional hearing. The presidents acted bravely, and we should applaud them. Thanks as ever to @GutkinLen, my heroic editor!

Nola decided to steal a catnip gift meant to be for a friend’s cat, Frankie. She broke into the bag, stole the catnip toy, and now is stoned and not feeling guilty at all! #Cats

Lines from The Princess Bride That Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “At a time like this, that’s all you can think to say?” “Nonsense. Yo...

For those of us grading, I thought this might help!

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And more.

Some more pictures from the evening!