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Anise K. Strong

@anisekstrong.bsky.social

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Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · Aug 19

My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277

Assistant/Associate Professor - African American History - Tenure Track

Western Michigan University invites applications and nominations for the position of full-time tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor in the field of African American history to start August 20...

www.wmujobs.org

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 8h

To add to this, the US professoriate was overwhelmingly, relentlessly white and male before 1960, and it was overwhelmingly a well-paid white collar job.

1964 CRA prevents ed discrimination. It takes 5 years to complete a PhD. 1969 begins a trend towards adjuncts and lower pay.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 8h

"an occupation’s general prestige and perceived potency (but not its moral standing) declines when it becomes increasingly stereotyped as female" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Cultural Devaluation of Feminized Work: The Evolution of U.S. Occupational Prestige and Gender Typing in Linguistic Representations, 1900 to 2019 - Wenhao Jiang, 2025

Previous research on occupational devaluation typically evaluates the potential wage declines associated with a significant inflow of women into an occupation; ...

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 5h

What, me, steal shoes? You must have me confused with some other, far less adorable puppy.

A blue-eyed lab mix puppy is caught not quite red-pawed with my nice Mephisto sandal and my daughter's jacket.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 7h

A page's ripped out.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 7h

My kid used to play on those soccer fields, and one of the things I love about AYSO is how diverse a group of families it brings together.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 9h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 9h

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 7h

My first book has been quite successful by academic book standards. It has bought me one extremely nice meal (the ancient Roman menu at Next in Chicago) and about 10 very decent meals.

Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h

Just a reminder that most academics are not making oodles of money from their university press books. For some reason, people think I am making bank with my Illinois book. I am not rich by any means.

Some make money with trade press books, but that isn't all of us. Thank you.
Adieu!

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 8h

I’d rather live in peace than rest in peace

Proof that a federal ban on assault weapons work

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 9h

In retrospect, we should have listened more to our guts when our Chicago apartment landlord asked to be paid (by personal check) by his assistant driving up once a month and rolling down the tinted windows of his Cadillac and having us hand the check through the window. But it was such a good deal!

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 10h

We're in agreement here - but I do think the studio execs are unwilling to pay people what they are now more willing to ask for.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

JD Vance indicates to NBC that Trump isn't opposed to invoking the Insurrection Act.

A key line from Vance: "The problem here is not the Insurrection Act or whether we actually invoke it or not."

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 11h

Based on my knowledge I'm not sure it's so much being devalued as that really talented women & BIPOC were doing that brilliant work while being vastly underpaid in the 80s. They're now less willing to do 150% of the work for 60% of the salary, but still aren't being paid what they're worth.

Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 11h

I am so sorry. Take things one breath at a time, and I deeply hope you can have the time and space to grieve properly in a way that helps you.

Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 12h

I am reminded here of my old friend Michael's Geek Social Fallacies, now helping proactively guide my own college student not make some of the same mistakes we made in college and beyond: plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-so...

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 12h

Now this is an article I wish was more openly available: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Understanding the Reigns of T'Challa and Killmonger through Hannah Arendt

One of the issues for T'Challa is how to respond to the refugees from broken African states while maintaining the isolationist interests of Wakanda. By the end of the film, T'Challa embraces a more c....

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 12h

Half my feed is discussing Pope Leo quoting and analyzing Hannah Arendt while the other half is discussing Peter Thiel trying to find Revelation metaphors in One Piece. I'm gonna go with the Pope on this one - not because anime can't be complex and layered but because Thiel isn't.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 14h

I'd argue that a distinct problem is that people who were hired in those subfields long ago are still trying to perpetuate their discipline, even when there's no undergraduate student demand and little new scholarly interest. Meanwhile, actually new fields try to brand themselves as OldField 2.0.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 1d

Look, this is what Catholicism does so well. Yes girl, BRING OUT THE MONSTRANCE. MAKE THEM SAY IT IN FRONT OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. Martin Luther could *never*. He failed to predict the Trump Presidency and also is directly implecated. I am so serious.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to the happy couple! www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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