Wendy Allison Lee
@wendyallisonlee.bsky.social
Not the novelist or the other Wendy A. Lee.
Opinions my own (because, of course, they are?).
Opinions my own (because, of course, they are?).
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Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”
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Princeton is hiring some early-career fellows/visiting scholars in African American Studies
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Princeton University - Postdoctoral Research Associate in African American Studies | H-Net
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November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Princeton is hiring some early-career fellows/visiting scholars in African American Studies
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Emma Thompson is all of us.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Emma Thompson is all of us.
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It's official: MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND has a cover! I love how the yellow feels like a run over hazard sign, and the mixtape is perhaps my personal 90s icon. As for those sexy statues? You'll have to read it to find out...
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's official: MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND has a cover! I love how the yellow feels like a run over hazard sign, and the mixtape is perhaps my personal 90s icon. As for those sexy statues? You'll have to read it to find out...
Attn: @dem8z.bsky.social, you are part of today's Out of the Archives post!
Out of the Archives: a 1992 letter from Judith Butler in the papers of Hortense J. Spillers. Butler is giving the Pembroke Center Publics Lecture Wednesday, November 5. Tickets have sold out, but the lecture will be recorded and available on our YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....
October 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Attn: @dem8z.bsky.social, you are part of today's Out of the Archives post!
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Brown must reject Trump’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence” – Stand Strong Brown
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October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
brown alums sign and share standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...
Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!
"This defiance, of course, had its costs—material, social, + psychic. My father lost his income + his pension; my parents lost friends who shunned them for fear of being implicated in their politics. And then there was the betrayal by those once considered comrades who went over to the other side."
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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September 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!
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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
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Sometimes y’all really do test me.
What’s that about? I mean as writers, we just write. No need to gossip.
September 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Sometimes y’all really do test me.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.
September 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.
Happy Birthday to The Women! The film was released September 1, 1939.
September 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Happy Birthday to The Women! The film was released September 1, 1939.
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John Wood Jr. giving us an always useful reminder that advocates for bipartisanship, depolarization, etc. are almost always just opposed to you having any ideas which they don't agree with.
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
John Wood Jr. giving us an always useful reminder that advocates for bipartisanship, depolarization, etc. are almost always just opposed to you having any ideas which they don't agree with.
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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counterpoint
criticism is the art of animating crap.
criticism is the art of animating crap.
I sometimes read these very well-educated critics writing their hearts out on crap, and I'm depressed because they're wasting so much first-rate intellect on such low-grade material. (2001)
August 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
counterpoint
criticism is the art of animating crap.
criticism is the art of animating crap.
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The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
July 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
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One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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July 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
Thank you @dem8z.bsky.social
Professor @dem8z.bsky.social speaking on the steps of the Rotunda yesterday in protest of the authoritarian takeover of higher education.
June 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thank you @dem8z.bsky.social
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I felt I needed to learn more about AI (even though the subject bores me profoundly), and this was a great place to start. Recommend highly!
A few quick thoughts… 1/
A few quick thoughts… 1/
June 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I felt I needed to learn more about AI (even though the subject bores me profoundly), and this was a great place to start. Recommend highly!
A few quick thoughts… 1/
A few quick thoughts… 1/
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OMG it is not useful. I say that because it does not work, from my perspective as a teacher & scholar. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…
The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
June 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
OMG it is not useful. I say that because it does not work, from my perspective as a teacher & scholar. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
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Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
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I never thought there'd be a worse freshman-year assignment than me being required to read a Thomas Friedman book for an international relations class but this is it
French Culinary School Announces Every Student Will Use Microwave to Make Every Dish
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Ohio State announces every student will use AI in class
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Starting this fall, every Ohio State student will be asked to use artificial intelligence. “Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent …
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June 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I never thought there'd be a worse freshman-year assignment than me being required to read a Thomas Friedman book for an international relations class but this is it
I love the cover art as homage to Clueless and am totally looking forward to reading this book.
June 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I love the cover art as homage to Clueless and am totally looking forward to reading this book.
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Tangential I guess but the beginningof my next book is about why we need science and poetry to help us understand metaphors or else we are politically fucked and this guy is proving my point 😭
Hurricane season started June 1st. New FEMA Chief David Richardson didn’t know hurricane season is annual. He is months behind on a plan, gutted key programs, and brought in unqualified DHS staff. Now he’s explaining disaster response with fruit metaphors.
June 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Tangential I guess but the beginningof my next book is about why we need science and poetry to help us understand metaphors or else we are politically fucked and this guy is proving my point 😭