Michael J. Murphy, PhD🏳️🌈
@emmjaymurphee.bsky.social
•Prof., Gender & Sexuality Stds., U. Illinois Springfield uis.edu/wgs
•Founding member, UIS United Faculty uisufinfo.wordpress.com/
•LGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history, faculty unions.
•Founding member, UIS United Faculty uisufinfo.wordpress.com/
•LGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history, faculty unions.
Already cut off all donations to my graduate alma mater (WashU) for how they treated pro-Palestinian activists last year. This would rise to a whole different level…
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Already cut off all donations to my graduate alma mater (WashU) for how they treated pro-Palestinian activists last year. This would rise to a whole different level…
“Art majors are unemployable!”😶
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Art majors are unemployable!”😶
Meeting to merge the tenure and non-tenure track faculty unions at University of Illinois Springfield! ✊
October 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Meeting to merge the tenure and non-tenure track faculty unions at University of Illinois Springfield! ✊
Chicago street art ✊
October 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Chicago street art ✊
Cats have backbone (unlike most universities)!
October 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Cats have backbone (unlike most universities)!
Chat do women archbishops have names?
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Chat do women archbishops have names?
Can we stop and marvel at the genius of this WGA logo? The balance between squares and lines, creating an optical impression of a map of the U.S. Truly genius. This is why we (still) need the arts!
October 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Can we stop and marvel at the genius of this WGA logo? The balance between squares and lines, creating an optical impression of a map of the U.S. Truly genius. This is why we (still) need the arts!
Antifa raising the flag over Iwo Jima (Feb 23, 1945)
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Antifa raising the flag over Iwo Jima (Feb 23, 1945)
My faculty union colleagues at new library groundbreaking, U Illinois Springfield.
September 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My faculty union colleagues at new library groundbreaking, U Illinois Springfield.
Participated in powerful faculty union action today!
September 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Participated in powerful faculty union action today!
Antifascist = pro-education!
September 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Antifascist = pro-education!
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk!
September 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk!
Prepping for faculty union contract action on UIS campus tomorrow. ✊
September 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Prepping for faculty union contract action on UIS campus tomorrow. ✊
Your silence will not save you! #AcademicSky
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Your silence will not save you! #AcademicSky
Soz! Can’t have my free speech rights. Still using them! ✊
September 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Soz! Can’t have my free speech rights. Still using them! ✊
That’s ok, I wasn’t using my 1A civil rights anyway!
September 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
That’s ok, I wasn’t using my 1A civil rights anyway!
Here are the course descriptions for children's literature courses from Texas A&M's catalog and the English Dept website at the main campus. The uni obv limits character count in course descriptions making it impossible to detail every aspect of a course in advance...as is typically the case.
September 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Here are the course descriptions for children's literature courses from Texas A&M's catalog and the English Dept website at the main campus. The uni obv limits character count in course descriptions making it impossible to detail every aspect of a course in advance...as is typically the case.
If the sex binary is so “natural” and “inevitable” why does the US government need to enforce it through extortionate behavior? 🧐#BrownUniversity
July 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
If the sex binary is so “natural” and “inevitable” why does the US government need to enforce it through extortionate behavior? 🧐#BrownUniversity
