Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D.
@jlphistory.bsky.social
Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
May I ask what a blue ribbon committee is in this context? I'm not American and my assumption is about awarding cows prizes for being fat and happy.
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
May I ask what a blue ribbon committee is in this context? I'm not American and my assumption is about awarding cows prizes for being fat and happy.
Change in plan.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Change in plan.
I have no training in pedagogy. One big problem in university is the idea that we're subject matter experts so we know how to teach. I've done a lot of reading and been to a few classes but I'm mostly running on vibes.
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I have no training in pedagogy. One big problem in university is the idea that we're subject matter experts so we know how to teach. I've done a lot of reading and been to a few classes but I'm mostly running on vibes.
Diane Duane has talked about how it's better for the original creators if you buy DVDs because of residuals.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Diane Duane has talked about how it's better for the original creators if you buy DVDs because of residuals.
Oh, that sounds amazing!
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Oh, that sounds amazing!
I have never gotten the chance to teach the same class twice (the joys of contract faculty work) but I imagine it would be really helpful to the process of developing and improving!
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have never gotten the chance to teach the same class twice (the joys of contract faculty work) but I imagine it would be really helpful to the process of developing and improving!
I study dead people so I only know about the past. I'm really focused on the 1910s in this lecture.
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I study dead people so I only know about the past. I'm really focused on the 1910s in this lecture.
That was the argument that Sifton was making when he talked about the shaggy-coated stout farmers wives.
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
That was the argument that Sifton was making when he talked about the shaggy-coated stout farmers wives.
It's been years since I wrote a poorly-received paper about the murder of George Green (it's fine, I have a PhD now so obviously getting a bad grade didn't affect my life that much) but I think about how people weren't sure if his murder was justified or not because, you know, crippled, all the time
GREEN, GEORGE EVERITT – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
GREEN, GEORGE EVERITT, agricultural labourer; b. 8 Feb. 1880 in Tottenham (London), England, eldest son of Charles Green, tailor, and Amelia Green, laundress; d. 9 Nov. 1895 i...
www.biographi.ca
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
It's been years since I wrote a poorly-received paper about the murder of George Green (it's fine, I have a PhD now so obviously getting a bad grade didn't affect my life that much) but I think about how people weren't sure if his murder was justified or not because, you know, crippled, all the time
PS: This lecture is also going to talk about the Home Children and I'm about to get super emotional about murdering disabled children who disappoint you for not being great at farm labour.
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
PS: This lecture is also going to talk about the Home Children and I'm about to get super emotional about murdering disabled children who disappoint you for not being great at farm labour.
I'm afraid I'm doing it wrong! Like if I tell everyone the process they're all going to realise that I shouldn't be allowed to teach anymore.
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I'm afraid I'm doing it wrong! Like if I tell everyone the process they're all going to realise that I shouldn't be allowed to teach anymore.
I should be following more UFOligists.
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I should be following more UFOligists.
Now I have to sort out tomorrow. That was sorting out yesterday.
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Now I have to sort out tomorrow. That was sorting out yesterday.
update: I have managed to upload the lecture & post the discussion forums & also posted to my students that I've been in the midst of a health crisis without trauma dumping on them about how bad it is right now.
Doing all the work was easy; posting made me cry because I'm so mucked up right now.
Doing all the work was easy; posting made me cry because I'm so mucked up right now.
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
update: I have managed to upload the lecture & post the discussion forums & also posted to my students that I've been in the midst of a health crisis without trauma dumping on them about how bad it is right now.
Doing all the work was easy; posting made me cry because I'm so mucked up right now.
Doing all the work was easy; posting made me cry because I'm so mucked up right now.
We live in a world where people always tell us we need to reach out if we're in crisis. The only thing that makes that true is if people talk about it and that's the reason I talk about it so much, but at the same time I feel like I'm really bringing down the mood of every place I'm in.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We live in a world where people always tell us we need to reach out if we're in crisis. The only thing that makes that true is if people talk about it and that's the reason I talk about it so much, but at the same time I feel like I'm really bringing down the mood of every place I'm in.
The point is that I could use some people reminding me that I'm being Very Brave right now for talking to my boss about this and also if you know what Vitamin I can get an IV drip in that will magically make me the person who bakes bread on Sundays and reads three books a week, that would be great.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The point is that I could use some people reminding me that I'm being Very Brave right now for talking to my boss about this and also if you know what Vitamin I can get an IV drip in that will magically make me the person who bakes bread on Sundays and reads three books a week, that would be great.
Like it's boring. It's not that I want an illness that would make for interesting stories because those things are hellish to live through but it was partly so frustrating on the phone with the crisis line because they're like "and what's triggered this?" and I'm like "being alive in November."
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Like it's boring. It's not that I want an illness that would make for interesting stories because those things are hellish to live through but it was partly so frustrating on the phone with the crisis line because they're like "and what's triggered this?" and I'm like "being alive in November."
But instead I just have an extremely dull mental illness that kills people every year & when people ask what's wrong it's [shrug emoji] because what's wrong is that I woke up the last few mornings with my literal first though about how I'm going to end my life for hours until I had to walk the dogs.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
But instead I just have an extremely dull mental illness that kills people every year & when people ask what's wrong it's [shrug emoji] because what's wrong is that I woke up the last few mornings with my literal first though about how I'm going to end my life for hours until I had to walk the dogs.
It's not that I don't know that I have a Serious Illness (tm) that kills people every year, it's that I want there to be an IV drip that takes three hours twice a month and then I'm cured and can be my "Real Self" who is filled with energy and always on top of everything and bakes bread on Sundays.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It's not that I don't know that I have a Serious Illness (tm) that kills people every year, it's that I want there to be an IV drip that takes three hours twice a month and then I'm cured and can be my "Real Self" who is filled with energy and always on top of everything and bakes bread on Sundays.
There's this post that goes around about wanting to find out that there's Something Wrong - they call it "The Vitamin" - that you're missing. That you collapse in the street and everyone is like "how did you live so long without the vitamin?" and then you get the vitamin and you're so much better.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
There's this post that goes around about wanting to find out that there's Something Wrong - they call it "The Vitamin" - that you're missing. That you collapse in the street and everyone is like "how did you live so long without the vitamin?" and then you get the vitamin and you're so much better.