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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

Latino Studies.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Thank you! Caught the typo in a follow-up.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

Was just writing to you. Will keep spreading the word here and on Instagram for sure. Thank you for writing this excellent piece -- and I'm so sorry. And angry! Solidarity, Lisa.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

please feel free to DM for talking points if you want to write to UT admin

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

"People are _losing_ their jobs for _doing_ their jobs." WHEW. @lisalmoore.bsky.social on the current attacks on Texas higher ed #SaveUT

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 2d

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

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.

www.statesman.com

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 2d

Lisa Moore: "like the medieval monks and nuns who buried precious manuscripts to hide them from the kings who burned their abbeys, we will preserve this knowledge and progress for another time in the future."

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 2d

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

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.

www.statesman.com

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

typo: that should, of course, be Latino studies

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

I have worked with so many UT Austin faculty and PhDs -- as authors, as peer reviewers, as board members. These kinds of cuts affect US ALL, whether directly or indirectly. UT admin is meeting Tuesday. Let them know what a scandal this would be.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

I recently said on here that alchemy gets a bad name & would that we all dreamt so big as to try to create magic from the shreds & scraps of our present--& I meant it. Occultist hive, rise up! The Alchemy of Research-Creation, forthcoming from
@sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

The Alchemy of Research-Creation
On Pataphysical Experimentation, Dark Infrastructures, and Antifascist Studio Practices
By Tyson E. Lewis
By Peter B. Hyland

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

In truth: so so many good things—and people! Full disclosure: I may have also said my book was a good thing to come out of Oxford (UP) too 😂

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

I also said "give me the oxford comma or give me death" so things are going well

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

just randomly told a colleague that the oxford comma was the only good thing to come out of oxford in case you were wondering what kind of energy I'm bringing today

a screenshot from Big Little Lies of Reese Witherspoon's daughter holding up a poster with two pictures called "opposites." On the left is a picture of a door on hinges. On the right is a picture of her mother -- the hilarious implication being that her mother is UNHINGED.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

So many times

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my gosh thank you! Yes, exactly!! Mariah says no more creativity / procreation analogies. I don’t make the rules! 🤷‍♀️😂

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah but it’s so common. How many people calls their books their “babies”? Mariah’s not having it and I love her for it

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

Interviewer to Marian Carey after she says she’s a little nervous abt her new album: “It’s kind of like having a baby”

Mariah: “Weellll unless you’ve actually had babies. And then it’s not like having a baby at all”

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www.billboard.com/music/pop/ma...

Mariah Carey’s Music Knowledge Goes Deep During ‘Track Star’ Episode, From ‘Crazy Train’ to ‘Keep Ya Head Up’

Mariah Carey showed off her deep and wide music knowledge during the new 'Track Star' episode, from Ozzy Osbourne to Janet Jackson and DeBarge.

www.billboard.com

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

Now seriously contemplating taking a day off to watch Golden Girls all day

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

My 5yo won’t touch them. I however am in heaven.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

actively regressing and eating spaghettios for lunch

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! All credit due to the editors and contributors, of course! By the way, congrats on YOUR forthcoming book, which also looks amazing, inside and out!

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 4d

Please sign if appropriate.

I included my fraternity affiliation and everything so they know they are losing the bros too

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

docs.google.com

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Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t wait for this book!

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface: Editors' Note on the Now
Introduction
Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud
Part 1: How We Think About Poems
1. A Conversation on Dinétics
Esther G. Belin and Jake Skeets
2. Post-Craft
Michael Leong
3. Unsettling Modernist Poetry
Erin Kappeler
4. Legacies of Empire in the Western Poetic Line:
The Problem of Caesura
Heather H. Yeung
5. Unpacking the Interpretive Toolbox: Historical
Poetics in Introductory Courses
Caroline Gelmi
6. "I hear it now"; or, Teaching Students to Read Poems in Novels
Annelise Chick and Gabrielle Stecher
7. Moving "Rooms" Across Borders: Putting Pressure on the Stanza
Reem Abbas and Heather H. Yeung

8. Under the Sonnet's Menace: Helping Students Navigate Race, Constraint, and Rage in the Post-Romantic Sonnet Anton Vander Zee
9. Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry's Diction
William Fogarty
10. Reading, Misreading, and Rereading "We Real Cool" Mike Chasar
Part 1 Cluster: Ideas on Teaching Lyric
11. Retheorizing Lyric via the Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Poetry
Chris Chan
12. Lyric Borders: Reading and Writing with Gloria
Anzaldúa's New Mestiza
Leah Huizar
13. Lorenzo Thomas's Griot Lyric: Reading Persona and Race in the Digital Age
Lukas Moe
14. Lyric After Lyricization: Learning and Unlearning the Lyric / in the Activist Classroom
Anastasia Nikolis
Part 2: What We Do With Poems
15. Poetry as Empathetic Praxis: Black Poetics and the Creative Writing Classroom
Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

16. Performing Desire: Collaborating with Sex Worker Poets in the Composition Classroom
Philippa Chun
17. Oral Poetries Are (Not) Lost to Us: Ethnopoetics in the Digital Age
Kenneth Sherwood
18. Against Mastery: Working Through the Desire for Order in Teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
Jess A. Goldberg
19. Future-Facing Archives: Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Intertextual Poetic Past
Sarah Nance
20. Cultivating a Culture of Enjoyment in the Poetry
Classroom
Rachel B. Griffis
21. Reframing Modernism: Creative Composition and the Analysis of Modernist Poetry at an HBCU
Candis Pizzetta
22. Whose Voice Matters? Reading Aloud Across Language and Ability Eileen Sperry
23. Reimagining the Poet's Procedure: Imitation as
Literary Analysis
Lizzy LeRud
24. From Stifling to Expansive: Reimagining Poetry
Teaching and Learning with The South African
Poetry Project
Sooriagandhi Naidoo, Toni Gennrich, and Eunice Phiri

25. Transgressive Teaching and Subverting
Censorship in the Dual-Credit Classroom
Ronnie K. Stephens
26. The Florence Poetry Collective: Death Row as a
Site of Poetic Production and Expressive
Sovereignty
Joe Lockard
Part 2 Cluster: Project-Based Learning
27. Engaging Poetry: The Review as Critique and
Conversation
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader
28. City, State, and Self: A Collaborative Book Project
James Innis McDougall
29. Experimental Indexes: Quantifying Poetic
Patterns and Project-Based Reading
Nick Sturm
30. Teaching Anti-Racist Research Practices Beyond Research Papers: Emma Lazarus, Esther Schor, and My First-Year Composition Students Mollie Barnes
31. Student Research, Digital Humanities, and Cross-Campus Collaboration: Building Mina Loy:
Navigating the Avant-Garde
Susan Rosenbaum, Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A.
Kinnahan
List of Contributors

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

docs.google.com

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