IUPUI retired historian

Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.

Indianapolis has 9 townships. These local governing bodies help people pay for necessities.

Due to a pause on SNAP funds, Wayne Township signed an $80,000 deal to get food to its people: https://bit.ly/49P42pq

Panoramic View of the Northern Lights last night over the Chicago Skyline.

Last light for Tuesday. Sunset in Chicago this evening at St Mary of the Angels church.

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft."
-- Anne Lamott

#AcWri #GetYourManuscriptOut #AmWriting #WritingSky #AcademicSky

It’s not just wear a coat… it’s close that coat weather

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Are you a college student at an Indianapolis school? Do you need some help finding food?

Your school might have a food pantry you can use. Check out the schools that do and if you need to make an appointment: https://bit.ly/49bVSaz

𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡☀️

It remains to be seen what happens in the Senate, but I will not vote in the House for a government funding measure that doesn't protect healthcare. 

Without extending Affordable Care Act tax credits, millions will see health insurance costs double. Hardworking Americans just can't afford that.

Free speech group launches Bloomington billboard critical of IU The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has squared off against the university multiple times before, ranking IU near the bottom in the nation on First Amendment rights.

The first sight visitors may get on their way into Bloomington is a billboard accusing Indiana University of a coverup. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social

I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”

We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon

Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/v2EPTEcu

To help transfer and adult students navigate college, IU Indy has a new program this semester that pairs them with another transfer or adult student who can relate to their experience.

Hear what students currently in the program have to say about the impact it has had: https://bit.ly/43YdR0u

And removing faculty from classrooms (sometimes based on anonymous tip) and even firing them.

Don't forget removing alum reps on the Board of Trustees

Alumni For a Better IU Connecting alumni to save IU

My undergrad alma mater, Indiana University, has gone full Project 2025 - from eliminating liberal arts majors, to suppressing campus protest to shuttering the student paper. A group of alums are organizing thanks to @juliedicaro.bsky.social. Join us by filling the form.
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Promotional graphic for The City University of New York (CUNY) encouraging applications. The top section has a blue background with yellow text that reads: “November 10 to November 21 – Apply to CUNY for Free.” At the bottom left, the CUNY logo appears with the tagline “A Degree for Every Dream.” On the bottom right, a yellow button says “Apply Now” with the URL cuny.edu/apply.

CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.

When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is When I saw the headline “Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And if So, Can Conservative Feminism Fix It?” in The New York Times, my heart sank.

"There is no such thing as conservative feminism. … It borrows feminist words—’choice,’ ‘agency,’ ‘strength’—but drains them of their radical meaning, using them to defend inequality."

Do women not read "performatively" ?!

Mercury has gone into retrograde.

And it's snowing.

And the sun sets very soon.

Haha my dad used to do this when my friends would call me and asked "can I speak to Imani?" I am a pedant raised by pedants

I remember being shown Culloden in high school in the early 1970s. For some reason, I thought of it as a metaphor for VietNam. I dont know if that's how the teacher presented it or whether that was my point of reference for war. But it stuck with me--esp. the faces

Von Steuben

Maybe people concerned about the homophobic take on Van Steuben in this series. Or have concerns with Shelby Foote's takes as the through line for the Civil War series.

Maybe hate is the wrong word--but seriously disagree with his interpretative stance.

Blue background; gold text that reads Ruining work for men is my job.

You ask it like it's bad thing.

Gold text on blue background (similar to Z Momdani's pr): text reads: Ruining work for men is my job.

I, for one. am not sorry.

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Spelman exhibition fuels artifact-driven conversation on reparations “Repossessions” reimagines authentic antebellum relics like Confederate dollar bills and ledgers with names of enslaved people as art, while building a case for reparations.

'Repossessions,’ an exhibit reimagining antebellum relics—Confederate dollar bills and ledgers, with names of enslaved people as art, at Spelman, fuels artifact-driven conversation on reparations www.uatl.com/news/2025/11...