Jennifer LeMesurier
@rhetorologist.bsky.social
Rhetoric. Dance. Food.
Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Colgate University.
she/her
Inscrutable Eating - https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215371.html
Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Colgate University.
she/her
Inscrutable Eating - https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215371.html
Oh look. A creepy guy is also creepy about Asian women. How surprising.
When @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered a Goodreads page tied to the email of a top Pentagon official featuring “Asian wife sharing” books and other pornographic works, he did what any reporter would do: ask the Pentagon questions.
The very next day, a threatening email from Jack Posobiec arrived.
The very next day, a threatening email from Jack Posobiec arrived.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Oh look. A creepy guy is also creepy about Asian women. How surprising.
Wow.
Every month I pick a theme of something to try to make each day to learn. Two months ago it was data visualization, using examples I admire, in order to tell stories about numbers that matter.
This is my minimalist homage to Poppy Field, to which it owes everything, and I’ll link it below.
This is my minimalist homage to Poppy Field, to which it owes everything, and I’ll link it below.
Forget Me Not - The Human Cost of War
Visualizing global conflict casualties (1900-2025). A homage to the poppy field.
Dr.eamer.dev
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Wow.
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and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
"You lie on a narrow table, slide into a tube that looks like something NASA abandoned in the ’80s, and for the next 30 to 60 minutes you listen to sounds that can only be described as a robot having a nervous breakdown"
LOL at Trump’s claims he got a “preventative MRI”, MRIs are not routine. MRIs are diagnostic instruments designed to tell you whether something in your body is about to change your life.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"You lie on a narrow table, slide into a tube that looks like something NASA abandoned in the ’80s, and for the next 30 to 60 minutes you listen to sounds that can only be described as a robot having a nervous breakdown"
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Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
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this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
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I really cannot say enough about the Prison Journalism Project. Training and publish and encourage incarcerated writers and journalists. So many of their stories have stuck with me long after I've read them. They are a lifeline to humanity for so many people.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I really cannot say enough about the Prison Journalism Project. Training and publish and encourage incarcerated writers and journalists. So many of their stories have stuck with me long after I've read them. They are a lifeline to humanity for so many people.
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If I had a nickel for every time fellow faculty thought I was another Asian lady prof who looked nothing like me...
Yikes. Very ticked off to learn of this incidence of blatant anti-Black racism that recently befell my former colleague, Phillip Martin, an award-winning Journalist @gbhnews.bsky.social and other major outlets. Glad that Phillip held the company Accountable. 🙌🏾 #FAFO www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Denial of service to Black journalist was a case of ‘mistaken identity,’ says Caffè Nero
Staff at a Caffè Nero in Cambridge denied retired journalist Phillip Martin service last week after mistaking him for another Black man.
www.boston.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If I had a nickel for every time fellow faculty thought I was another Asian lady prof who looked nothing like me...
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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For men who feel sad that they can't tell a female colleague that she looks sharp today, just because she looks sharp: men like Summers are reason. His opening gambit was to talk about her clothes and so a compliment is not just a compliment. Women aren't ruining the workplace. Men like Summers are.
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
For men who feel sad that they can't tell a female colleague that she looks sharp today, just because she looks sharp: men like Summers are reason. His opening gambit was to talk about her clothes and so a compliment is not just a compliment. Women aren't ruining the workplace. Men like Summers are.
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Love this feature on lunch ladies, an underappreciated bedrock of K-12 education.
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.
bittersoutherner.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Love this feature on lunch ladies, an underappreciated bedrock of K-12 education.
"Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name “peril” but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship"
GrossRacistGrossPredatoryRacistGross
GrossRacistGrossPredatoryRacistGross
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name “peril” but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship"
GrossRacistGrossPredatoryRacistGross
GrossRacistGrossPredatoryRacistGross
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“Ale" works in the carrot harvest in CA. She earns $3.05 for every box of carrots she packs. One box has 24 bunches of 7 carrots each. To earn $100 she has to pack 34 boxes or 816 bunches which represents over 5000 carrots picked in a day. #WeFeedYou
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Ale" works in the carrot harvest in CA. She earns $3.05 for every box of carrots she packs. One box has 24 bunches of 7 carrots each. To earn $100 she has to pack 34 boxes or 816 bunches which represents over 5000 carrots picked in a day. #WeFeedYou
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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I think all Democratic eight senators who caved to the GOP should have to read this to truly understand who they've hurt.
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I think all Democratic eight senators who caved to the GOP should have to read this to truly understand who they've hurt.
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Case in point: has the NYT ever done an interview with Black voters at the local breakfast spot after church lets out on a Sunday? I can think of hundreds of articles about rural Trump voters.
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Case in point: has the NYT ever done an interview with Black voters at the local breakfast spot after church lets out on a Sunday? I can think of hundreds of articles about rural Trump voters.
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Protected cycle tracks are not just for cyclists, they allow more freedom for those with mobility issues
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Protected cycle tracks are not just for cyclists, they allow more freedom for those with mobility issues
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Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.
Why we're using this spelling of Hawaiʻi
You may notice a change in how we spell Hawaiʻi and other Native Hawaiian words at The Seattle Times. Here's why.
www.seattletimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.
I don't know what word to use for this except evil
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I don't know what word to use for this except evil
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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#Adequate is ready for pre-order now at @upcolorado.bsky.social.
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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