Kelly Watson
@kellylwatson.bsky.social
Kelly is short for Skeleton.
Any X account claiming to be me is fake
Aspiring Crone. She/her.
www.kellylwatson.com
Historian. Women’s & Gender Studies Director. Histories of gender, sex, colonialism, indigeneity. Author: https://tinyurl.com/ymurcu2u
Any X account claiming to be me is fake
Aspiring Crone. She/her.
www.kellylwatson.com
Historian. Women’s & Gender Studies Director. Histories of gender, sex, colonialism, indigeneity. Author: https://tinyurl.com/ymurcu2u
Mere moments after we arrived in NW Ohio:
Partner: ‘Dad, why is blood dripping down your leg’
FIL looks down in shock: ‘oh. That’s just cranberry sauce’
Partner: ‘Dad, why is blood dripping down your leg’
FIL looks down in shock: ‘oh. That’s just cranberry sauce’
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Mere moments after we arrived in NW Ohio:
Partner: ‘Dad, why is blood dripping down your leg’
FIL looks down in shock: ‘oh. That’s just cranberry sauce’
Partner: ‘Dad, why is blood dripping down your leg’
FIL looks down in shock: ‘oh. That’s just cranberry sauce’
So people are just slathering their faces with snail slime these days?
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So people are just slathering their faces with snail slime these days?
I don't understand how Foucault's work is still taught so uncritically. Have we considered not valorizing pedophiles?
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
French philosopher Michel Foucault ‘abused boys in Tunisia’
The philosopher Michel Foucault, a beacon of today’s “woke” ideology, has become the latest prominent French figure to face a retrospective reckoning for sexua
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I don't understand how Foucault's work is still taught so uncritically. Have we considered not valorizing pedophiles?
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Sunday afternoons are hard
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Sunday afternoons are hard
Bought a new tv to replace our tv with a messed up screen. Set up the new TV. Screen is messed up. Package it back up and return to Best Buy. Exchange for yet another tv. Get it home and realize that it won’t fit properly on our mantle and will need to be mounted. JFC
an old television with a purple screen and a clock on it
ALT: an old television with a purple screen and a clock on it
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Bought a new tv to replace our tv with a messed up screen. Set up the new TV. Screen is messed up. Package it back up and return to Best Buy. Exchange for yet another tv. Get it home and realize that it won’t fit properly on our mantle and will need to be mounted. JFC
My journal article has been awaiting reviewer selection since July. Should I just give up and send it elsewhere?
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My journal article has been awaiting reviewer selection since July. Should I just give up and send it elsewhere?
I’ve had a terrible headache for the last 24 hours and I just noticed that I have been pressing on a spot by my eyebrow so hard to help relieve the pressure that I have a small bruise there.
All of my future plans hinge on getting a robot body
All of my future plans hinge on getting a robot body
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I’ve had a terrible headache for the last 24 hours and I just noticed that I have been pressing on a spot by my eyebrow so hard to help relieve the pressure that I have a small bruise there.
All of my future plans hinge on getting a robot body
All of my future plans hinge on getting a robot body
I’m channeling all of my stress into redoing the department bulletin board
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m channeling all of my stress into redoing the department bulletin board
Realizing that there is nothing stopping me from turning our basement into the Black Lodge
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Realizing that there is nothing stopping me from turning our basement into the Black Lodge
Help! Does this passage imply that the women had a choice?
"Courte to direct some course for the dispose of two Indian maydes . . . itt is now ordered that they shalbe furnished and sent to the Summer Illands whether they were willing to goe with one servante apeec towards their . . . marriage"
"Courte to direct some course for the dispose of two Indian maydes . . . itt is now ordered that they shalbe furnished and sent to the Summer Illands whether they were willing to goe with one servante apeec towards their . . . marriage"
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Help! Does this passage imply that the women had a choice?
"Courte to direct some course for the dispose of two Indian maydes . . . itt is now ordered that they shalbe furnished and sent to the Summer Illands whether they were willing to goe with one servante apeec towards their . . . marriage"
"Courte to direct some course for the dispose of two Indian maydes . . . itt is now ordered that they shalbe furnished and sent to the Summer Illands whether they were willing to goe with one servante apeec towards their . . . marriage"
Just now realizing that I've been spelling dilemma wrong my whole life. I very confidently thought it was spelled "dilemna"
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Just now realizing that I've been spelling dilemma wrong my whole life. I very confidently thought it was spelled "dilemna"
Way too excited about my new phone case
November 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Way too excited about my new phone case
Just chatted with a former student who is defending her undergrad thesis in Mexico and wanted some advice about handling anti-feminists. Her project (a hundred page undergrad thesis!) is amazing and I’m so proud of her. Sometimes the kids are all right!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Just chatted with a former student who is defending her undergrad thesis in Mexico and wanted some advice about handling anti-feminists. Her project (a hundred page undergrad thesis!) is amazing and I’m so proud of her. Sometimes the kids are all right!!
Larry Summers has always been a piece of shit.
DO REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
DO REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Larry Summers has always been a piece of shit.
DO REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
DO REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
Sorry that I was a few minutes late to our meeting, there was a pug outside my house and I had to pet her.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sorry that I was a few minutes late to our meeting, there was a pug outside my house and I had to pet her.
I teach a history of sexuality class and one of my favorite things is when students write sentences like this:
Since [insert decade] sex has become very popular.
Since [insert decade] sex has become very popular.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I teach a history of sexuality class and one of my favorite things is when students write sentences like this:
Since [insert decade] sex has become very popular.
Since [insert decade] sex has become very popular.
New goth cat tree*
*not its permanent location
*not its permanent location
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New goth cat tree*
*not its permanent location
*not its permanent location
Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You’re Fucked
YouTube video by The Onion
youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Reposted by Kelly Watson
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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There will be horizontal window blinds in hell
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
There will be horizontal window blinds in hell
I’m not usually one for school spirit, but damn it if Pudge the cat doesn’t make me a little proud of my alma mater
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I’m not usually one for school spirit, but damn it if Pudge the cat doesn’t make me a little proud of my alma mater
My campus building had a Halloween open house yesterday. You missed out! It was great
October 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My campus building had a Halloween open house yesterday. You missed out! It was great