Kyla Wazana Tompkins
@kwazana.bsky.social
I write about food sex and race. Professor, c19 US and gender studies department chair. Moroccan Arab Jew. Radical diasporist. Winner of the James Beard, Lora Romero, Best Book in Food Studies and Choice Awards. “Can Run Meetings”
The weather outside is frightful
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The weather outside is frightful
Also when will Dershowitz shut the actual fuck up
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Also when will Dershowitz shut the actual fuck up
i care about that more than -- a classicist named savage! you cannot make this stuff up.
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i care about that more than -- a classicist named savage! you cannot make this stuff up.
the work that did not make it into print, or wasn't allowed time to grow and develop, or never got the feedback and peer-review it needed to hone itself. the university and students have suffered and also we have lost so so so many ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
the work that did not make it into print, or wasn't allowed time to grow and develop, or never got the feedback and peer-review it needed to hone itself. the university and students have suffered and also we have lost so so so many ideas.
what we also lost when everyone who should have received a job - i don't care their demographic - did not get one, was their ideas. white men who can always find other jobs, you know whatever. but the IDEAS we have lost because academia collapsed into adjunctification....
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
what we also lost when everyone who should have received a job - i don't care their demographic - did not get one, was their ideas. white men who can always find other jobs, you know whatever. but the IDEAS we have lost because academia collapsed into adjunctification....
truth. the gloves are just off.
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
truth. the gloves are just off.
the reconstruction of the failure of reconstruction?
December 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the reconstruction of the failure of reconstruction?
What in the future (if we have one) will we call this moment? The failure of reconstruction is already taken.
December 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What in the future (if we have one) will we call this moment? The failure of reconstruction is already taken.
Immediate tee shirt
December 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Immediate tee shirt
oh wait the magazine is called Compact and not oracle? Who cares.
December 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
oh wait the magazine is called Compact and not oracle? Who cares.
Don't read it, seriously, it's sooooo dumb. Dos he work for the Chronicle? I mean yet.
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Don't read it, seriously, it's sooooo dumb. Dos he work for the Chronicle? I mean yet.
"James, on the other hand, applied to just a couple of tenure-track jobs in classics before he gave up. “Most people didn’t even try,” he told me....
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"James, on the other hand, applied to just a couple of tenure-track jobs in classics before he gave up. “Most people didn’t even try,” he told me....
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And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.
I was always working on a plan B, always always always. But I knew enough to not talk about it with some advisors. I was just not there to be poor, no matter what. I’m still working on plan b! How do I only have one job, said the daughter of an immigrant mother…..
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I was always working on a plan B, always always always. But I knew enough to not talk about it with some advisors. I was just not there to be poor, no matter what. I’m still working on plan b! How do I only have one job, said the daughter of an immigrant mother…..
Maybe it’s because I love to read screenplays and I love movies so much. I imagine Mel Brooks won't be far behind. It's unbearable.
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Maybe it’s because I love to read screenplays and I love movies so much. I imagine Mel Brooks won't be far behind. It's unbearable.
I loved Rob Reiner and his father Carl Reiner and their capacious imaginations and their yiddishe sensibilities and their will to make comedy and joy and absurdity livable. I don't know why I feel more gutted by this than any other loss this year.
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I loved Rob Reiner and his father Carl Reiner and their capacious imaginations and their yiddishe sensibilities and their will to make comedy and joy and absurdity livable. I don't know why I feel more gutted by this than any other loss this year.
It is that art makes everything better, and when the artist is also someone who made the world better with even more actions beyond just their art, the loss is compounded by a million.
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It is that art makes everything better, and when the artist is also someone who made the world better with even more actions beyond just their art, the loss is compounded by a million.
I am gutted. I loved him so so much.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I am gutted. I loved him so so much.
Congratulations!! Every time your work is celebrated it is a moment of truth.
December 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Congratulations!! Every time your work is celebrated it is a moment of truth.
cats show us how to live ♥️
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
cats show us how to live ♥️