@kaitlancollins.bsky.social I usually respect you, but the interview about antisemitism was so weak. You needed to push in the other direction too.

Mount Charleston on a hot Las Vegas day.

My feminist take on the show everyone's talking about. And the questions about technology, patriarchy, teenagers, education, misogyny, estrangement, and perception it raises..... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/its-not-them...

It's Not Them; It's Us: Thoughts on the Show Adolescence

The new Netflix mini-series Adolescence is not about teenagers so much as it's about how adults perceive and fail to perceive teenagers. They're presented in the first two episodes as an alien life fo...

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A Confederacy of Dunces ?

University of Nevada, Las Vegas is on this list. This is what happens when you are designated one of the top two most diverse universities in the country.

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · last yr.

Columbia was first, but it seems very likely they're going to effectively use the same playback to retract federal scientific funding. A new hit list from Trump's Dept of Ed. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

It’s Friday! Just hang in there!

Oh, let’s just all watch #SNL50! So much joy. We deserve it,

The courage to be yourself – Virginia Woolf, born on this day in 1882, on how to hear your soul

The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”

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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Spread the word! @natewolff.bsky.social and I have extended the deadline for submissions for our Arizona Quarterly special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century. New date is Jan. 2nd. azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-0

This certainly is an “opinion,” and not based in any fact, except for anecdotal evidence. You’d think the author was unaware that men have dominated the literary canon for centuries. Do we thank you for making your students read Handmaid’s Tale? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone

What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?

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My collaborator came all the way from Canada to Las Vegas to work. Boy did we have fun!