Incredibly honored & excited to be a '26-'27 Schomburg Fellow! Can’t wait to work on my new project with such a brilliant community of scholars! www.nypl.org/about/fellow...
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Danica Savonick
@danicasavonick.bsky.social
Education, social justice, feminist worldmaking, literature, pedagogy, technology | English Prof, SUNY Cortland | OPEN ADMISSIONS (Duke UP, 2024)
A degree from many American universities now doubles as a promise to employers: this worker will absorb an 80-hour week and endure immense psychological pressure without complaint.
Universities Are Teaching the Virtue of Overwork
At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. As higher education increasingly conforms to corporate logic, its most durable product becomes a student with a proven capacity for overwork.
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“Everything that saved my life, access to abortion care, birth control, and a job that supports myself and my children are under threat… The voices of the women we have today are because Steinem and Second Wave feminists fought for those rights.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Gloria Steinem Taught Me to Be Angry. We Need to Stay Angry
Feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem gave us a forbidden knowledge, which helped liberate a generation of women — but the work isn't done.
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“Steinem will be remembered for her actions: co-founding Ms., advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment, mentoring younger feminists, and forming coalitions with feminists whose politics and interests might have differed from her own.” - Maggie Doherty newrepublic.com/article/2150...
Gloria Steinem’s Life Between Art and Activism
Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your art—or vice versa.
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I'm really excited about this one: I went through the archives of my literary hero June Jordan and pieced together the story of a revolutionary novel about land reform that she was working on for decades but never finished. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/june...
What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?
For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.
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From the brilliant tech critic Cory Doctorow who gave us “enshittification” comes “the reverse centaur”: the best perspective on the AI bubble I’ve seen. Urgent, necessary reading. Will be assigning to as many students as possible! pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... @doctorow.pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Yes! Default institutional policies on AI should be AI = academic dishonesty. Then individual instructors can alter that & opt in when appropriate.
Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 4w agoThe problem is that the vast majority of American universities are putting the full onus of AI policy onto individual instructors—sure, we can write “no AI” on a syllabus, but then we have to become the AI police (& judges), which hurts relationships with students & pulls us away from instruction
How big tech is pushing products on schools ostensibly to promote learning & creativity when really the motive is corporate profit. Great examples of educators resisting at the end! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...
How Big Tech Captured American Schools
Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.
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Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Reading & loving @danicasavonick.bsky.social’s OPEN ADMISSIONS: The Poetics & Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, & the Era of Free College.
Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat are you reading this weekend?
Immensely enjoyed day one of the #ACH2026 pre-conference workshops. What a treat to hear @danicasavonick.bsky.social and Chelcie Juliet Rowell talk pedagogy all day. I learned a lot, and I was deeply impressed by the way they structured things to offer a range of learning contexts.
First up: a trio of exciting pre-conference workshops from June 22-23 with only a handful of seats remaining! June 22 we'll be joined by @danicasavonick.bsky.social and Chelcie Juliet Rowell for "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design." Excited to see so much interest in this!
“The East Village is the charged, nostalgic backdrop for all of these contemporary queer stories because it was the origin point from which queer life jumped from the fringes into mainstream North American culture.”
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago"'Waiting on a Friend' is a horror story where all the monsters are real – but so are the heroes." Hugh Ryan reviews Natalie Adler’s "Waiting on a Friend": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/waiting-friend-natalie-adler-east-village-aids-crisis
"Not everything can be included in a memoir, even if the author wants it to be." Sarah McEachern on "Famesick" and Lena Dunham's memoirist flourishes: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lena-dunham-famesick-memoir-girls-celebrity-chronic-illness
Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.
The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started
Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.
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Nobody wants to join a boring movement. Socialists can’t change the world if we aren’t providing people with a good time.
The Left Needs to Have More Fun
Nobody wants to join a boring movement. Socialists can’t change the world if we aren’t providing people with a good time.
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How AI is ruining the messy/beautiful work of teaching & learning, and why so many of us are completely burned out www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”
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Chelcie J. Rowell & I are pouring our little hearts into our virtual workshop "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design." Emphasis on community, knowledge sharing & peer review. Leave w/ an assignment for a class or workshop of your own! ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops...
Pre-Conference Workshops
Low-cost virtual pre-conference workshops for ACH 2026, June 22-23, 2026. Topics include DH pedagogy, web archiving, and DH at teaching-focused institutions.
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"I believe writers...have a role to play in liberation work. By restoring specific narrative to abstract casualty data, we restore for readers the urgent somatic obliteration of individual loss." lithub.com/kaveh-akbar-...
Kaveh Akbar on Fiction’s Role Towards Revolutionary Action
The following speech was given at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony on November 10, 2025. * I want to thank my editor, Jordan Pavlin, il miglior fabro, for believing in me and this book from…
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In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
Ahhh this is such a brilliant, urgent, necessary guide to teaching towards institutional and social change! An absolute must-read (not to mention, it's gorgeously written). Bravo @walshbr.bsky.social !!!
Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 5mo agoNow that I've signed the contract, excited to share my first book "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" is forthcoming with @openbookpublish.bsky.social! Much more info about it on the publisher site here. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
"Killing student writing outside the classroom means an enormous reduction in the volume of time spent writing, and learning more generally: it is a loss of thousands of hours of reading, thinking, puzzling over problems, writing, revising."
Nick Seaver@nickseaver.website · 5mo ago“the hours must be recovered” is a pretty good assessment of the teaching situation substack.com/home/post/p-...
Excited to talk about Audre Lorde's work as a professor this Friday at Nevada State University!
So excited to be part of this collection! My chapter is about M. NourbeSe Philip’s beautiful, brilliant, and haunting poetry collection Zong!
Mitch R. Murray@mitchrmurray.bsky.social · 5mo agoTEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE CLASSROOM Officially under contract and coming in 2028! It's a monster volume: 33 teacher-scholars from around the world writing provocative, shortform essays in the service of pedagogy
#TalkAboutHumanities We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together. youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ...
Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities, Emily M. Bender
YouTube video by Simpson Center
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Emily Callaci’s Wages for Housework is a gorgeous history about imagining & fighting for a world beyond capitalism, where people are compensated for care work. “Less work in general; more time for living meaningful lives. Calling work what is work... to rediscover what is love.” I sobbed at the end.
and it occurs to me, if someone was willing to sponsor it, I would happily rework this into billboard format. Put it up in the midst of all these ridiculous ai product billboards! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
“I’m interested in trying to make a case for feminists to think structurally about these major institutions of work, family, and prison…it’s shocking how unschooled we are in thinking at the level of social structures." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Abolitionist Feminism - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Kathi Weeks.
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