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Hannah Alpert-Abrams

@halperta.bsky.social

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Here for the humanities. Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative. east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands halperta.com

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · Aug 2

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.

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Taking Action in Higher Ed

Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 6h

Spread the word! #SaveUT!! UT Austin admin are working to eliminate vital departments and censor what profs can teach. If you haven’t yet written to UT Austin admin, please do do do. The more voices of protest and support the better. An attack on one is an attack on all!

UT AUSTIN WANTS TO EIMINATE ITS BLACK STUDIES, LA LENO STUDIES, & GENDER STUD
STUDIES
DEPARTMENTS
Tell them you non t stand for it!
President Jim Davis: president@utexas.edu
Provost William Inboden: provost@utexas.edu
Interim Liberal Arts Dean David Sosa:
david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
@UTAustin
@UTAustinCOLA
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 1d

today and every day lmao

Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 1d

UT Austin is where I earned my PhD. If this goes through, it would be such a loss for students in Texas and everywhere.

Click through for specific calls to action.

Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 1d

Got it, thank you! I'll look into it.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, as a policy I try not to post or re-post information if I can't provide a source. I am a concerned alum.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 1d

Do you happen to have any public-facing information confirming this / offering details? Thank you!

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 14d

The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.

Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.

For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic is split into an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper half shows a photo of a woman with pulled-back dark brown hair wearing a dark dress jacket and scarf. To her left, bold black text reads “I feel no hesitation saying that joining the SoFCB fully transformed my academic life and research.” Below the woman, smaller text in white reads, “Elizaveta Strakhov, Past President, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB)”. The lower portion of the graphic has a mostly white background with a couple of horizontal bars in gray and black. Text in white, black, red, and yellow reads, “Apply now! The SoFCB Junior Fellows Program. Application Deadline: Wednesday, 19 November 2025. Learn more & apply at tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025.”

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

Written by a fellow PASSHE public regional prof, love to see it: “These are small but significant reminders that the university is not doomed to permanent privatization.”

Universities Are Selling Themselves Off Piece by Piece

American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing ...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4d

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 5d

That was a tie!!!??? You have always been a fashion icon.

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Erica 👻 🌲 📕 @rickirobin.bsky.social · 5d

In response to that skeet asking if anything amazing has ever happened to you bc of social media: my friendship w @halperta.bsky.social is rooted irl, & has crossed continents & platforms w long gaps & reunions, exchanges of art & ideas. My answer is yes (&)

I love seeing this book in the world!

Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 5d

Looking to read immersive, deeply considered essays about land, labor, and the subtle politics of inhabitation in rural Alaska?

I am so excited to have received Ghosts of Distant Trees by my incredibly talented friend @rickirobin.bsky.social

Photo of the cover of Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson, depicting pine trees in a circle of red and gold.

The back cover of Ghosts of Distant Trees with a blurb and description of the book. “In Ghosts of Distant Trees, Watson traces the layered ecologies of Denali National Park, Alaska - its vast, shifting landscape, seasonal labor rhythms, and the subtle politics of inhabitation.”

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 5d

YES it's such a beautiful book 🗻

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 5d

@rickirobin.bsky.social has always been a brilliant writer and I cannot wait to see what she has written in her new book.

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Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson — Porphyry Press

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 5d

Erica and I met in Buenos Aires in 2006 (shown here with our friend Leopoldo) and reconnected just this spring in Flagstaff, AZ (shown here eating burritos). In the meantime we stayed in touch through long emails, livejournal posts, and substacks.

Three very young people (early 20s) smile at the camera while huddled under a tent. Erica has bangs, glasses, and dangly earrings. I have short curly hair and no grays. Leopoldo has a little mustache and a red shirt.

Erica and I take a selfie in a Mexican Restaurant in 2025. Erica still has bangs, transparent glasses, dangly earrings, and a Denali Forever pin. I have shorter hair, a lot more gray, and a Tennessee State Parks hoodie. We are both slightly sunburned. Behind us is an eerie painting of two blond girls with piercing blue eyes.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely unhinged fantasies about what learning in the age of AI means on my timeline today.

The most important thing they reveal is that many educators never took learning seriously.

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 7d

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 8d

- put down the damn AI.

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Sidra Collaborative @sidracollaborative.bsky.social · 8d

Introducing Sidra Collaborative co-founder Hadassah St. Hubert! Hadassah is dedicated to helping cultural heritage funders and workers scope ideas and programs, while identifying resources to support thriving creatives. She can help build emergency response funding programs.

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