For those escaping TX because you can’t teach gender or race as you are trained to do … I understand this. But then what happens to the students who are here? I cannot leave, and I have to figure out the answer. Because our students at public universities deserve the same education found elsewhere.

Ah, yes. The reason why I got a PhD in medieval history: to chair the psychology program and mentor a cohort of graduate students in clinical psychology. (Regional academic life!)

I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, CuencaE@tamuv.edu. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.

Olga Nechaeva in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on the reception to 'Heated Rivalry' in Russia: "..when queer intimacy is routinely silenced, a story that gives equal voice to desire and sincerity can be quietly transformative.." lareviewofbooks.org/article/heat... #heatedrivalry

A Romance You Watch in Secret | Los Angeles Review of Books

The Russian-language reception of Crave’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ shows how tenderness, desire, and character complexity shape a phenomenon that transcends borders.

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There's a tendency online for people to black out the names and email addresses of people who send them notes like this but I'm all for making it public.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6mo ago

kind of amazing to think that there are people who wake up in the morning, get mad at a fox news post and then send this stuff

Yes. I met and had lunch with Rubenstein in 2022 at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he is a big donor and board member. He's very serious about history and the arts and storied American institutions.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 6mo ago

The person to watch is David Rubenstein, who has poured millions in philanthropy into the Kennedy Center, is not going to be pleased about this, and has money, ego, and patriotism long enough to sustain a long-ass legal battle. Particularly since his cash isn't crypto.

What’s to become of my medieval women class now that TAMU has eliminated the women’s studies program? I don’t know. The audit of my syllabus is not done but it’ll probably be flagged because it has J Bennett’s “lesbian-like” article. Students are aware that free speech is a thing of the past in TX.

This is correct. Also, I took 12 years and my heart was into it but …stuff happens. Also, lots of adjuncting

WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA@medievaliste.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have no opinions whatsoever on taking 10 years to finish a PhD other than shit happens. The only person I knew at UCLA who had been a PhD student for over a decade didn't seem like their heart was in the research but that affected me in no way whatsoever and was generally none of my business.

vance has to stay on the good sign of the teen nazis that are his primary constituency

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 6mo ago

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

Good piece by Adam Serwer. Love this part in particular. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A reminder that Liam Ramos, the son of legal residents in Minnesota, is still being held in a Texas prison. A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life. (📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)

"Good tsar, bad boyars" has been a recurring theme of Trumpism every year the dude's been office. It's wild.

Jason Linkins@dceiver.bsky.social · 6mo ago

kayfabe

As seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

when I talk about how this is truly the only show to have a romance novel structure, this is what I mean: every other romance adaptation turns the fundamentally, crucially narrow focus of a romance novel into a broader tv world. this show feels different because it does not.

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I wrote about a show about love. Maybe you've heard of it. Me, on HEATED RIVALRY, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2055...

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996. It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters. sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

until recently, i was a dumbass. but no longer.

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6mo ago

And, tonight, the network's flagship news program -- 60 Minutes -- ran a clip show of old celeb interviews to "celebrate the movies" rather than put together an episode focused on what's going on in Minnesota.

ICE delenda est

what do you mean 🧍🏽‍♀️

Heated Rivalry News@hrnews.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams on the cover of the Culture section of the Toronto Star. 🔗: www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

Now requires a disambiguation page

How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up

Something I needed to write to a prospective author: "Let me contact you next week. There might be a hiccup: TX is expected to freeze this weekend. My hope is that the electric grid holds up. It didn’t in 2021 and it was traumatic (no water, electricity, etc.). So fingers crossed I don’t die? haha."

Had to bring this over for "rinses his ass" 🤌

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

I had a dream that an article I submitted to the "Journal of Reassessing the Passion Narrative" got a good response from readers and that its publication was imminent. Paging Dr. Freud...?

This essay by @alexanderchee.bsky.social about Heated Rivalry is so great and I have a lot of thoughts about it I should not publish on Al Gore's internet: querent.substack.com/p/i-would-st...

I Would Start A War In Your Arms

A Heated Rivalry Notebook

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