Catherine Evans
Queer Media Histories & Activist Cultures • PhD Candidate in Literary & Cultural Studies @CarnegieMellon • (she/her) • views my own, duh 💅
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- Reposted by Catherine EvansThis is terrific news. Let’s help Stevie have a softer landing.
- “Defending the university is not about defending the institution itself, but rather understanding the institution as a condition of possibility for other things to emerge.”
- I'm in the new look @publicbooks.bsky.social talking with @anniemcc.bsky.social, Vineeta Singh, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel about higher education, how we have studied and organized around it, and what possibility lies therein.
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- Reposted by Catherine EvansEpstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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- Reposted by Catherine EvansPeople keep wanting to shove "learning about A.I." into the curriculum when what we really need is learning about power and how it works.
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- Reposted by Catherine EvansI had a lot of fun writing this short piece for @lawcha.bsky.social about Severance! Read it here today: read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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- Reposted by Catherine Evans"universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students+faculty as data mines frenzy w/o consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether gen AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact" www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
- Even Momo is disturbed by the state of my graduate school budget Christmas tree 🫣
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- No one wants to watch their PhD program be eliminated. It’s nearly the same story when it’s “innovated” away. Me & @seeshespeak.bsky.social in the Chronicle. Read it below ⬇️ www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
- “When the primary objective driving innovation is brand uniformity, it becomes less about finding brave, new ways to create knowledge and more about maintaining existing power structures.“
- When I leave for campus, Momo sits on his bread toy like this and blocks the door. Let the semester end so he can live in peace and I can stop answering to these big eyes!
- Don’t mind me. Just thinking about @kippdawson.bsky.social seeing her shirts on display for the first time 🥹
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- Oh hey. I curated this show all about feminist tshirts at Chatham University. Please come through! Opening reception (Oct 15) will feature a talk by Dawson which will also be live-streamed. Register for the opening here: chatham.edu/events/detai... Design by the very talented Megan Urban
- Everytime I travel for work, this exact image of Zuko greeting me after a trip pops into my head and I suddenly feel immense guilt. Shout out to @rachaelvm454.bsky.social for giving him all the pets while I’m gone. 🫶
- “Scab Terminator” mutt circa 1980s picket line from @kippdawson.bsky.social’s Solidarity Scrapbooks.
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- 1967. “The Medium is the Message.” Carnegie Mellon’s Fence
- T’was the night before D*n*ld Tr*mps visit to Carnegie Mellon, and I’m here to remind you CMU students have always been anti-fascist. Some of my personal favorite CMU responses to fascism on campus through the eyes of student journalists. 1/7
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- Reposted by Catherine EvansFor folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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- It’s a @kippdawson.bsky.social t-shirt sorting day in the Evans household. Tune in for some highlights!
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- Reposted by Catherine EvansNEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
- Everything is bad. But sometimes I see something this absurd and look for the camera punking me despite sitting alone in my home.
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- Momo’s having a “That’s So Raven” moment and processing the full horrors of 2025 yet to come.
- Here’s to more supportive environments and drawing connections between folks with shared interests and struggles in 2025. And, as always, grateful to @kippdawson.bsky.social’s modeling of this 🫶
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- Reposted by Catherine EvansAn anecdote: this year at UMass, the College of Humanities & Fine Arts slashed our funding to attend domestic conferences to $300, & if we apply to the union for funds first. But if we want to collaborate with the College of Computer and Information Science, then we are eligible for a $20k grant.
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