Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her)

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August 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in August 2025.

Ms Magazine's @karlajstrand.com with August book recommendations! msmagazine.com/2025/08/01/b...

8 cents a word, $50 a poem, opening to submissions of speculative fiction/poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors on January 1st. If that sounds like your jam, now is the time to sign up for the Kickstarter pre-launch! Every signup helps get eyes on the project, even if you aren’t able to donate. 🪐 🗡️ 🌈

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

Didn't I just read that funding for Chronicling America was cut & it was going away?

Wut

One of the first things I discuss with students is that language changes, no one in my classes is allowed to be a language cop, and no one should have to change their language in order to be heard.

An image of the front page of the article with a weird distorted phot of some flowers.

I have a new article out in the Chartered College of Teaching journal Impact, called ‘Embedding AI in education: A critique’. Here I make five main points, which I will helpfully plop in this thread for those without access or time to read it.

I fucking wish people would get this

These things are insidious and dangerous because they make shit up that looks and feels kinda right because it’s just replicating what it was trained on and their way of 「 correcting 」 it is to waste inordinate amounts of energy retraining again and again

Splashing in refreshing New Waves • Oregon ArtsWatch New Wave Opera’s summer party in Westmoreland featured a variety of songs, from children-themed to cat-themed to previews of upcoming NWO “bioperas” about Alice Tierney and Marie Curie.

Herstory from New Wave Opera! www.orartswatch.org/splashing-in...

An English phrase for doing something pointless / redundant is “to carry coals to Newcastle.” A Greek equivalent (also used in many other languages) is κομίζω γλαύκα εις Αθήνας. It means “to carry owls to Athens.”

In English, if something is suspicious or amiss you could say either “I smell a rat” or “something’s rotten in the state of Denmark.” In Denmark, however, you could say der er ugler i mosen. It means “there are owls in the bog.”

Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one…

A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”

Male Leopard Seals Sing Underwater Nursery Rhymes For Up to 13 Hours a Day Learn about the curious singing habits of leopard seals, whose songs bear a striking resemblance to human nursery rhymes.

The cure for the (totally invented) human “male loneliness epidemic”? www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...

Ouch! Quick healing to you. If you’re in the U.K., Boots makes an antiseptic cream that is 100 times better than Neosporin.

Current US advice is also 10 years

If you’re assigning any of my work or any of the areas I work on in your classes this year, I will happily zoom in for free to have a discussion and answers questions for your students!

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If I wasn’t recovering from a migraine I’d do a writing sprint with you. Alas.

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Strength to you, and sympathy and hopes for a better day tomorrow. (I’m just about at the end of a long and awful migraine myself.)

I could totally write a show about this guy.

Truth.

I’ll never understand this behavior.

Such a good feeling!

yeah i think more people need to get back to worshipping the old gods of blue sky; the glorious Gods of the Block and Mute Buttons.

Dont argue, just block or mute.

So appealing that this must be an early entry for #MosaicMonday!

I’d happily have that as a window, my floor, my ceiling, on a wall…

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my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand