Maggie Fritz-Morkin
@emeffem.bsky.social
Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars
Hands off our neighbors. #FuckICE
Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 7d agoPrisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
theonion.com
Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard.
Fund the Humanities just because. Fund the Humanities for more vicarious intellectual intercourse on Main. Whichever.
I don't usually work on Naples our southern Italy in general but lately I have been looking into the reign of Robert the Wise a bit. This has meant my first real experience of reading early 20th century scholarship and then realizing most of the primary sources it used were destroyed by the Nazis.
In my historical methods training, I was always taught “we start with a historical question.” I would never use “I’m testing a hypothesis” in my work. I might have a working theory or a working hypothesis, but I’m certainly never *testing* it. That’s ripe for cherry-picked, law office history.
Kind of wild that tennis is the one pro sport that's had a policy allowing trans women to compete for 50 years. In that span, 1 trans athlete has competed (50 years ago), and 0 since. Instead of just changing the policy to ban trans women, they decided to go the extra step of mandating DNA tests?
Report: WTA to mandate genetic gender test
The Women's Tennis Association has changed its eligibility policy and will require athletes to submit to a one-time genetic gender test to establish eligibility, the organization revealed early this ...
reuters.com
Every medievalist knows there are some people who IMPROVE a book by writing in the margins, tell me you would not love to find the copy with Tressie’s annotations
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w agoI was reading in public — always risky — and writing notes in the margin, as I do. Some guy intervened to tell me that he could never write in a book. Seemed like a personal problem that has nothing to do with me? Anyway, once again daydreaming of walking into the ocean.
Must watch.
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago“If we’re not careful we will end up with what the great writer Toni Morrison called ‘statist history.’ And it will creat what she called ‘sanctioned ignorance.’” A righteous defense of the craft and the profession of history. Watch it. youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
Today is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. And in 2026, Black women are STILL only making 65 cents on the dollar. Pay Black women. Period.
Encino Man is a love letter to big-hearted masculinity and hilarious and a perfect movie to watch with a 13yo
You know the speech, 'you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can & will...'? ya, the Supreme Court is giving less and less of a fuck about it but some state courts and constitutions are ensuring that your 5th Amendment right still means something ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
State Court Judges Can Protect the Rights the Supreme Court Won’t
At the federal level, Miranda rights are weaker than they've been in decades. But state courts have a role to play, too.
ballsandstrikes.org
Them: “which one’s Messi?” Me (blows out smoke) “they all are.”
Contractually obligated to like & repost
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w agoMy man looks like a proud graduate of Duke University
Good thing I brought my “Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell” Tshirt from @theonion.com with me on vacation
Ayo Edebiri yn a "Do not talk to me about AI I will kill myself" shirte, July 10
"He belongs to us. He belongs to the Constitution." At a Friday press conference, Rep. Al Green and Dem lawmakers outlined strict demands following the fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston's East End. Their top demand: all evidence from the operation must be preserved immediately.
OH SHIT DUDES THE VATICAN HAS WEIGHED IN AND THEY ARE BIG MAD 🔥🔥🔥
Excommunication decreed for Lefebvrite episcopal ordinations - Vatican News
A document signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, defines the episcopal ordinations ...
vaticannews.va
For my hobbit-shaped sisters: the answer is tulip pants www.everlane.com/products/wom...
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last mo.I've been answering style questions in exchange for donations to a cat rescue organization. Normally, I answer these questions as a reply. But this one requires a lot of photos, so I thought I would do a thread. (Also, please no more donations for now! I'm still busy answering questions). 🧵
I was just moping about this to a civilian and my recommendation is, don’t bother
Sam Brody@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · last mo.happy July 1 to all the academics whose main reaction to the day is “oh no the summer is almost over already”
Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last mo.This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’. The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)
