Lisa L. Moore
@lisalmoore.bsky.social
Reading, writing, meditating. Lammy-awarded critic. Modestly published poet. Hill Professor of English and Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UT-Austin. Speaking for myself as a private citizen. https://lisalmoore.com/
I got lucky and got @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as my editor for my forthcoming crazy creative-critical hybrid volume, HOW LESBIANS SAVED POETRY. The SUNY Press fall catalog just dropped and mine is a Featured Book! Rebecca and I would both love it if you pre-ordered a copy. Link in comments.
I got lucky and got @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as my editor for my forthcoming crazy creative-critical hybrid volume, HOW LESBIANS SAVED POETRY. The SUNY Press fall catalog just dropped and mine is a Featured Book! Rebecca and I would both love it if you pre-ordered a copy. Link in comments.
International Portrait Day gives me chance to share this delightfully odd picture, created by a talented friend who wanted to depict Madge and I as “lesbian icons.” This is an AI mashup of a photo of me and a 19thc portrait from the National Gallery in London! #InternationalPortraitDay
International Portrait Day gives me chance to share this delightfully odd picture, created by a talented friend who wanted to depict Madge and I as “lesbian icons.” This is an AI mashup of a photo of me and a 19thc portrait from the National Gallery in London! #InternationalPortraitDay
Father's Day is not really a thing in our two-mom family, but liberation and social justice certainly are. Boots Riley talks about learning from his father to live a life that mixes art, organizing, and family in this essay, a great Sunday read. lareviewofbooks.org/article/boot...
He’s Still Organizing | Los Angeles Review of Books
Boots Riley on his father’s political activism.
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Father's Day is not really a thing in our two-mom family, but liberation and social justice certainly are. Boots Riley talks about learning from his father to live a life that mixes art, organizing, and family in this essay, a great Sunday read. lareviewofbooks.org/article/boot...
He’s Still Organizing | Los Angeles Review of Books
Boots Riley on his father’s political activism.
lareviewofbooks.org
Why write or read poems when the world's on fire? I'm delighted to share my review of Amelia Worsley's "Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century " this morning. read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...
Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century | Genre | Duke University Press
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open.substack.com/pub/highered... My brilliant colleague Lauren Gutterman on a creative student-led protest that reached back to attacks on UT during the McCarthy era. Yep, that’s where we are.
Mourning the End of UT
Lauren Gutterman, Vice President AAUP at UT Chapter
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Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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MY NEW BOOK OUT NOVEMBER 1ST! I'm so excited. You're all in there.
Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3mo agoI don't know if you all know this but lesbians saved poetry--& poetry may have just saved lesbians. So suggests the ever witty, winking @lisalmoore.bsky.social in a new collection of essays, interviews, poems, & more coming in Nov from @sunypress.bsky.social: sunypress.edu/Books/H/How-...
This is what we're seeing in higher education: “Our very presence in power is treated as preferential treatment,” she says. “This narrative of reverse discrimination has been central to the attack from the start.” Link in comments.
‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race
She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar exp...
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This was what I needed to understand this morning. Why attack Iran? Timothy Snyder gives two reasons: undermining democracy at home, and enriching the Trump family further. Disgusting. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Why Attack Iran?
Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption
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This was what I needed to understand this morning. Why attack Iran? Timothy Snyder gives two reasons: undermining democracy at home, and enriching the Trump family further. Disgusting. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Why Attack Iran?
Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption
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Dumbing down higher education as higher education policy. www.wonkette.com?utm_source=n...
Wonkette | Rebecca Schoenkopf | Substack
Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH! Click to read Wonkette, by Rebecca Schoenkopf, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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The first draft of the history of the demise of US higher education is now being written by journalists like the tenacious Lily Kepner. Read all her stories for the receipts on what's happening at UT Austin. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT’s Women's and Gender Studies won a department. Then politics closed in
UT faculty say women's and gender studies is a long-established discipline that’s being gutted and defined without their input or voice.
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Now that Faculty Council has been dissolved and our administrators from the Dean level up have been replaced by political appointees, a free press is the only place UT Austin faculty have to speak up. www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head...
UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle
On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...
austinchronicle.com
Now that Faculty Council has been dissolved and our administrators from the Dean level up have been replaced by political appointees, a free press is the only place UT Austin faculty have to speak up. www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head...
UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle
On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...
austinchronicle.com
Please read. The sidelining of scholars from our distinguished Department of Mexican-American and Latinx Studies, alongside the rise of billionaire-funded new programs in “civic leadership,” in a state that is 40% Latino, is a shameless assertion of white supremacy. latinopia.com/latino-liter...
GUEST BLOG ALFONSO AYALA III ELIMINATION OF MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND LATINA/O STUDIES
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Please read. The sidelining of scholars from our distinguished Department of Mexican-American and Latinx Studies, alongside the rise of billionaire-funded new programs in “civic leadership,” in a state that is 40% Latino, is a shameless assertion of white supremacy. latinopia.com/latino-liter...
GUEST BLOG ALFONSO AYALA III ELIMINATION OF MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND LATINA/O STUDIES
latinopia.com
A well-reported story on the bigger picture behind the closure of gender and ethnic studies programs in Texas and elsewhere--including, as of today, at UT Austin. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Reputational fears at Texas A&M amid latest programme cut
Critics see the scrapping of the 40-year-old Women’s and Gender Studies programme at Texas A&M University as the latest example of academic inde...
universityworldnews.com
A well-reported story on the bigger picture behind the closure of gender and ethnic studies programs in Texas and elsewhere--including, as of today, at UT Austin. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Reputational fears at Texas A&M amid latest programme cut
Critics see the scrapping of the 40-year-old Women’s and Gender Studies programme at Texas A&M University as the latest example of academic inde...
universityworldnews.com
From guest columnist + UT faculty member Steve Wechsler: “I do not see evidence of intolerance to diverse views at UT. What I see is a range of departments seeking truth from different angles, creating a university that is greater than the sum of its parts.” ❤️ www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
UT’s diversity of thought is real — and well worth defending | Opinion
Diverse areas of study bring diverse perspectives — the hallmark of a great university. Political meddling is threatening that at the University of Texas, Steve Wechsler writes.
statesman.com
I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Marxist Feminism in Flight | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxist Feminism in Flight - Volume 140 Issue 3
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I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Marxist Feminism in Flight | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxist Feminism in Flight - Volume 140 Issue 3
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www.statesman.com/opinion/colu... It feels like I'm writing mainly for posterity, but please do share if helpful.
After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion
What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.
statesman.com
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...
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