Lydia E. Ferguson
@docfergus.bsky.social
Educator in AmLit & Culture working w/ archives, ephemera, and material & ICH preservation. Intersectional Feminism, CRT, Disability Rights—in other words, I’m a hoot at parties.
Controversial opinion: waiting for students to complete course evals is super boring.
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Controversial opinion: waiting for students to complete course evals is super boring.
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"Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South"
This is your friendly reminder that submissions for WGS South 2026 are due Dec. 1st! Check out our caucus cfps on our website! wgssouth.org/2026conference
#AcademicSky #edusky #gradstudents #highered #wgs
This is your friendly reminder that submissions for WGS South 2026 are due Dec. 1st! Check out our caucus cfps on our website! wgssouth.org/2026conference
#AcademicSky #edusky #gradstudents #highered #wgs
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South"
This is your friendly reminder that submissions for WGS South 2026 are due Dec. 1st! Check out our caucus cfps on our website! wgssouth.org/2026conference
#AcademicSky #edusky #gradstudents #highered #wgs
This is your friendly reminder that submissions for WGS South 2026 are due Dec. 1st! Check out our caucus cfps on our website! wgssouth.org/2026conference
#AcademicSky #edusky #gradstudents #highered #wgs
Listening to The Beatles well after midnight, unreasonably upset that I can’t remember what my first Trapper Keeper looked like. #nerd #materialculture #80sbaby
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Listening to The Beatles well after midnight, unreasonably upset that I can’t remember what my first Trapper Keeper looked like. #nerd #materialculture #80sbaby
And you may ask yourself, can I get by with only five strands of lights? And you may ask you select, is it worth running to the store? But you don’t, so you tell yourself—this is not my beautiful house, and this is not my beautiful tree—my God, how did I get here?
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And you may ask yourself, can I get by with only five strands of lights? And you may ask you select, is it worth running to the store? But you don’t, so you tell yourself—this is not my beautiful house, and this is not my beautiful tree—my God, how did I get here?
You know it’s getting close to the end of the semester when I start playing music videos while students work, bemoaning, “I should’ve been a dancer!”
#academicsky #edusky #teaching #break
#academicsky #edusky #teaching #break
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
You know it’s getting close to the end of the semester when I start playing music videos while students work, bemoaning, “I should’ve been a dancer!”
#academicsky #edusky #teaching #break
#academicsky #edusky #teaching #break
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Students, hark! This cfp is for you!
"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"
Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"
Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Students, hark! This cfp is for you!
"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"
Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"
Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
This student research paper on DVDs is really making me miss them. Streaming is an expensive pain in the ass. #materialculture #visualculture
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This student research paper on DVDs is really making me miss them. Streaming is an expensive pain in the ass. #materialculture #visualculture
My 5 yr-old will always love me, “even if I die or go to jail.” So I’ve got that going for me.
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My 5 yr-old will always love me, “even if I die or go to jail.” So I’ve got that going for me.
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Let's talk about books and the public trust.
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Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:
Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.
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Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:
Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Let's talk about books and the public trust.
📚🧵
Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:
Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.
📚🧵
Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:
Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.
“No revisions required” —hell yeah
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“No revisions required” —hell yeah
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The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
The world is a mess, so here’s a pit baby emerging from under the covers.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The world is a mess, so here’s a pit baby emerging from under the covers.
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CFP: The daily attacks on disabled lives we experience/witness are exhausting, yet we trudge on, collectively, dreaming and actively creating different futures for ourselves and for those we love.
Submissions Due Dec. 1st, 2025.
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#disability #accessibility #academicsky
Submissions Due Dec. 1st, 2025.
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#disability #accessibility #academicsky
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
CFP: The daily attacks on disabled lives we experience/witness are exhausting, yet we trudge on, collectively, dreaming and actively creating different futures for ourselves and for those we love.
Submissions Due Dec. 1st, 2025.
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#disability #accessibility #academicsky
Submissions Due Dec. 1st, 2025.
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#disability #accessibility #academicsky
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There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities"
If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!
Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference
#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!
Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference
#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities"
If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!
Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference
#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!
Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference
#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
This is so disheartening. I’ve been impressed by and appreciated the political writing at Teen Vogue for years.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is so disheartening. I’ve been impressed by and appreciated the political writing at Teen Vogue for years.
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"When I first heard Sam Cooke’s music, I had no idea that he had a legacy, that his voice had been tragically silenced in the prime of his life or that he once sang with one of my father’s favorite Gospel groups."
medium.com/p/441275a6f258
medium.com/p/441275a6f258
“Nearer to Thee”: The Still Evolving Legacy and Politics of Sam Cooke by Mark Anthony Neal
All I knew was that there was something that I heard in the man’s voice. This was me, in the mid-1970s watching TV in our South Bronx…
medium.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"When I first heard Sam Cooke’s music, I had no idea that he had a legacy, that his voice had been tragically silenced in the prime of his life or that he once sang with one of my father’s favorite Gospel groups."
medium.com/p/441275a6f258
medium.com/p/441275a6f258
Party idea for #parents on #budget: hit up the #thriftstores and buy a bunch of different Spidey costumes for cheap. Then throw a Spiderverse-themed party at a local park where you supply the costumes. Provide silly string as the party activity and let them go at it (commit to cleaning up after).
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Party idea for #parents on #budget: hit up the #thriftstores and buy a bunch of different Spidey costumes for cheap. Then throw a Spiderverse-themed party at a local park where you supply the costumes. Provide silly string as the party activity and let them go at it (commit to cleaning up after).
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Was back to campus 6 days after hip-replacement surgery and the one thing that was unbearable was wearing a bra.
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Was back to campus 6 days after hip-replacement surgery and the one thing that was unbearable was wearing a bra.
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Reposted by Lydia E. Ferguson
Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"