Cate Denial

Cate Denial

@cjdenial.bsky.social

Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; Dir: Bright Institute @ Knox College; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land

8,261 Followers 2,146 Following 3,498 Posts Joined May 2023
19 minutes ago

This is straight up evil

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16 hours ago
Image of the Minneapolis skyline from North Minneapolis with the title “North Minneapolis Mutual Aid”

North Minneapolis MA has 60k in unmet rent request needs - please donate if you can and share!

venmo.com/u/NorthMplsMA

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2 days ago

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

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2 days ago

Totally work!

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2 days ago
A Breath – Cate Denial

I wrote this blog entry one year after things began shutting down for Covid, focusing on the ways our bodies remember anniversaries. We're six years in, and amid everything happening in the world the resonance is still there. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

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2 days ago

Although now I've said that, I can see the endgame, and it's companies inflating prices rapidly to see how much we will pay to avoid their pitches, and we either get the item for "market" value and get a firehose of emails, or they charge $15 for the first one and then . . .

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2 days ago

I would, in fact, pay $2 extra for them to miss me with all of their ratings pitches.

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2 days ago

When my brother was a baby, she sold Avon. And the moment he was in school she worked outside the home.

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2 days ago

Grew up in the UK. For some years, before I went to primary school, my mum didn't work. But then we also didn't have an indoor toilet until I was two, or hot water inside the house.

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2 days ago

You bet!

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2 days ago
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The DEI Debacle BY NIMISHA BARTON Following the infamous “Dear Colleague” letter sent out by the Department of Education in February 2025, colleges and universities rushed to shutter diversity, equity, and inclusi…

Did everyone catch @nimishabarton.bsky.social's incredible essay on the DEI debacle in Academe Magazine? If not, here's your chance to catch up on an essay we badly need academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...

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3 days ago

Indeed, the 2-3 minutes is where I live. But no matter where a person lives, it's not an extra hour.

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3 days ago

It is costing me everything I have not to point out to everyone saying "more light" that it's about 2-3 minutes more than yesterday

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3 days ago

too soon

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4 days ago

Yikes!

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4 days ago

Oh goodness. Fingers crossed for you!

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4 days ago

Just got my utility bill for next month. I am on a budget plan, and it STILL went up 29%. Mercy.

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4 days ago

. . . you can see exactly where you would have been on the first path. You can still see the landmarks. But as you keep walking on the new path, the distance between you now and where you might have been grows larger. The grief, though powerful, is not as acute.

This helped me. I hope it's useful

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4 days ago

I hope this is helpful - someone once said to me that grief is a fork in the road, with the path you thought you were on stretching off toward the horizon in a straight line, and the path you're now on twisting off to who knows where. Grief is the gap between the paths. At first . . .

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4 days ago

A good copy editor is such a gift!

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5 days ago
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Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’ Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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5 days ago
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Eyes on AI Eyes on AI is a game that helps you understand how AI-powered surveillance impacts your life and community.

This is a fascinating tool! I just went through the exercise, and the personalized report at the end was really thought provoking. eyeson-ai.org

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5 days ago

It's especially surprising in my case because I grew up in a big city and nowhere near a farm.

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5 days ago

I learned to drive a tractor before I learned to drive a car.

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5 days ago

It's the most amazing fun!

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5 days ago

• The History of Birth Control and Reproduction in the United States.
• The History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States.
• The History of Marriage in the United States.

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5 days ago

• Seminar: Exploring Native and Indigenous History.
• Seminar: Museums, Monuments and Memory.
• Seminar: Reproductive Justice in the U.S. since 1973.
• Seminar: Women, Gender, and the American Revolution.
• Sleuthing, Sources, and Skills.

(more)

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5 days ago

Academic history colleagues, list all the courses you teach:

• History Pedagogy for Future Educators.
• Intro to Native and Indigenous History.
• The Historian's Workshop.
• Native and Indigenous History since 1871.
• Pirates in the Atlantic World.
• Power and Inequity in America to 1865.

more:

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5 days ago

This is pathological

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6 days ago

Totally. And yeah, the second book is always such a big lift!

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