Eileen V. Wallis
@hstgrrl.bsky.social
Studies 19th-early 20th C. history of race, gender, ethnicity, and disability with a focus on California. Author of California and The Politics of Disability, 1850-1970 and other stuff, too.
As someone who has been on many a higher ed hiring committee (albeit at a state school), can confirm.
I have so much empathy and solidarity for those struggling with the painful and structurally unjust academic labor market, but this racial grievance shit is simply not the way.
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
As someone who has been on many a higher ed hiring committee (albeit at a state school), can confirm.
BOA: We apologize for our questionable behavior in the past and want to keep your business.
Me: Uh huh.
Also BOA: Has feminism failed women?
Me: Sorry, what?
Me: Uh huh.
Also BOA: Has feminism failed women?
Me: Sorry, what?
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BOA: We apologize for our questionable behavior in the past and want to keep your business.
Me: Uh huh.
Also BOA: Has feminism failed women?
Me: Sorry, what?
Me: Uh huh.
Also BOA: Has feminism failed women?
Me: Sorry, what?
A little too on the nose, frankly, but ok.
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A little too on the nose, frankly, but ok.
As a Gen Xer who obviously missed some kind of meeting, truly, no.
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
As a Gen Xer who obviously missed some kind of meeting, truly, no.
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Strong Floor Because Otherwise The Guillotines Are Going To Break Through Into The Basement
November 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Strong Floor Because Otherwise The Guillotines Are Going To Break Through Into The Basement
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Gavin is a fuccboi, not a sleazebag, important distinction.
it feels like a minor miracle that Newsom didn't show up in this somehow
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Gavin is a fuccboi, not a sleazebag, important distinction.
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"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
A beautiful thread to read if you need a lift this am. And if you're a screenwriter, a fantastic biopic idea for you!
It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
October 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A beautiful thread to read if you need a lift this am. And if you're a screenwriter, a fantastic biopic idea for you!
Re: AI in the classroom:
This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Re: AI in the classroom:
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I'm no doctor but I am 100% (1500%?) sure that MAGA is significantly more dangerous for women's health than Tylenol
September 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm no doctor but I am 100% (1500%?) sure that MAGA is significantly more dangerous for women's health than Tylenol
Other than texting me 8-10 times a day to try to fundraise off the end of democracy as we know it. Absolutely craven.
I’m so glad the Dem leadership is seizing this moment and providing the bulwark we need against fas…
Oh.
They’re doing what now?
Nothing?
All of them?
Oh.
They’re doing what now?
Nothing?
All of them?
September 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Other than texting me 8-10 times a day to try to fundraise off the end of democracy as we know it. Absolutely craven.
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Somehow I mastered the power to change students' entire worldview without mastering the power to get them to do a single one of the readings. Incredible(y selective power)
September 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Somehow I mastered the power to change students' entire worldview without mastering the power to get them to do a single one of the readings. Incredible(y selective power)
Finally got to visit a historic cemetery near where I grew up that I didn't know even existed until quite recently. A landslide in the '70s once sent a number of the, er, residents careening down into nearby houses. Man, I love local history!
September 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Finally got to visit a historic cemetery near where I grew up that I didn't know even existed until quite recently. A landslide in the '70s once sent a number of the, er, residents careening down into nearby houses. Man, I love local history!
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Dearest Martha,
The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.
Yours in glaze,
The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.
Yours in glaze,
August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Dearest Martha,
The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.
Yours in glaze,
The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.
Yours in glaze,
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Today's delight: Tom Morello's *Fuck ICE* playlist - music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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August 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Today's delight: Tom Morello's *Fuck ICE* playlist - music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Andor is so good
August 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Andor is so good
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If you are in the D.C. area, own a tuba, and you're not following DEA Agents around to the tune of Baby Elephant Walk, you are missing a golden opportunity to help turn things around.
August 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If you are in the D.C. area, own a tuba, and you're not following DEA Agents around to the tune of Baby Elephant Walk, you are missing a golden opportunity to help turn things around.
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Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
August 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
Wow, someone bought the extra shiny gold spray paint from Home Depot, now didn't they?
A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.
August 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Wow, someone bought the extra shiny gold spray paint from Home Depot, now didn't they?
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I will always and forever repost Pork Chop, the floofy white lap dog that *really* hates LAPD. 🥹🔥🐶
August 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I will always and forever repost Pork Chop, the floofy white lap dog that *really* hates LAPD. 🥹🔥🐶
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New, on HEAT DEATH! On the anniversary of Jordan Peele's masterpiece NOPE, @kellymerka.bsky.social drops an incisive analysis of the film's central threat, and what its depiction in the movie says about our relationship with other creatures on and offscreen. This one's a banger.
Alien Minds
Was Nope’s antagonist really a monster?
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July 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
New, on HEAT DEATH! On the anniversary of Jordan Peele's masterpiece NOPE, @kellymerka.bsky.social drops an incisive analysis of the film's central threat, and what its depiction in the movie says about our relationship with other creatures on and offscreen. This one's a banger.
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one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution
July 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution
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don’t threaten us with a good time tammy
July 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
don’t threaten us with a good time tammy