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Leila Walker

@lwalker.bsky.social

Assistant Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.

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My cat has figured out that I will keep giving him piles of treats with a pill hidden inside until he eats the pill. Lord have mercy.

04.02.2026 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And what is the answer?

03.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Palimbiosis How does one begin to talk about the end? Contemporary artistic and literary responses to climate change frequently invoke Romantic traditions, in part because many theorists attribute our current cri...

Counterpoint: It was hot in 1825 academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/636/

02.02.2026 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

**stares in Frankenstein**

02.02.2026 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Schumer:
"I have many jobs as leader.. and one is to fight for aid to Israel β€” all the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it.
Β«We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that."

Schumer: "I have many jobs as leader.. and one is to fight for aid to Israel β€” all the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it. Β«We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that."

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

01.02.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6431    πŸ” 1080    πŸ’¬ 248    πŸ“Œ 368

You can ask your doctor to test your immunity. I found out my Rubella immunity had lapsed, but not mumps or measles.

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In-studio poem reading by Stephanie Pacheco
YouTube video by PIX11 News In-studio poem reading by Stephanie Pacheco

I know everyone is fangirling Amanda Gorman, but I would like to introduce you to a more recent National Youth Poet Laureate and current CUNY student m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mzp...

01.02.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I shared this thread with my art historian spouse, and she declared this thread an art historian’s dream.

31.01.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Guillotining has become the moderate position, actually.

28.01.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I protested Clinton in high school. If you recall, he also bombed Iraq.

31.01.2026 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ME TOO.

31.01.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m so sorry you had this experience and so glad you had support.

31.01.2026 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate everyone who’s on strike today. I will also say, if you have small, local businesses in your area that are open, especially if they are owned by or employ immigrants, support them.

31.01.2026 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything I do to this paper makes it worse.

30.01.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The problem with having three different scholarly editions of Frankenstein is that I never know which one I'm citing. Pretty sure there are page refs to all three in this draft. Pretty sure I could not locate all three if my citational practice depended on it.

30.01.2026 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CUNY is 100% the NYC shibboleth.

30.01.2026 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a friend who had to block Cuomo on Instagram because she kept waking up to discover that she'd spent a drunken evening cyberbullying him on Threads. Man I love her. We should all be cyberbullying these assholes.

30.01.2026 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ds are demanding DHS stop "deporting US citizens," but deporting *US citizens* is not legal to begin with! So they're offering money to criminals if they...what, stop criming, I guess? It's basically 'hey stop robbing this bank and we'll give you a million bucks'. I swear I am going insane

30.01.2026 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 324    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 4

Biden’s legacy is a mountain of corpses paid for by US taxpayers

30.01.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Often as I put my son down, after his shower in clean PJ’s & warm bed Im struck with a pang of guilt over the babies that don’t have this, and my mind tonight drifts to the babies in prisons in Palestine & Texas. I wonder if the people guarding their cells have kids of their own.

30.01.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

To be fair, a lot of us died.

30.01.2026 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This thread is so fabulous. Scientific vs. common names is apparently still a loaded subject!

@aksagal.bsky.social This made me think of you :)

28.01.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

There's this great play, "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart," where the main character spends eternity in the Devil's library and makes an important scholarly discovery and looks up and says, "But none of it matters!" And I think about that more than I would like.

28.01.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Pame!: Modern Greek for Beginners Pame!: Modern Greek for Beginners

I am so proud of my colleagues, Ionna Glava and Fevronia Soumakis, for creating the first OER textbook for Modern Greek!
pressbooks.cuny.edu/moderngreek1/

28.01.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I know that face! It's so hard when they look at you like you're the ultimate betrayer of all kittenkind. Best wishes for a speedy recovery ❀️

27.01.2026 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can remember when W announced the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.

I can remember a world before DHS, and I want to see a world after DHS.

27.01.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

This is an insult to snails.

27.01.2026 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No. You don't compromise with fascists. Abolish ICE.

27.01.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

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