con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳
Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
- Thread.
- This is very sweet. Also I now want a caiman lizard.
- This article haunted me for months after I read it (multiple times). If you haven’t read it, do it now. It is an exquisite piece of journalism that tells the stories of Neil Gaiman’s survivors with great insight and compassion. (Archived link: archive.ph/IIY9r). This paragraph in particular:
- apropos of nothing in particular, @lilashapiro.bsky.social gave us a tremendous piece of journalism last year, and it's always a great time to revisit it and thank her for the work she did in bringing these stories to light.
- Wow, I missed this.
- An academic I really admire once replied to my invite to zoom the next day w/something2the effect of “I’m working on a new thing so tomorrow I’ll be staring at my computer and grunting a lot in exasperation but how about Friday” and I now imagine him scowling at his computer every time I’m stuck.
- Please sign.
- The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-ch… for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
- Interesting thread in the subsequent posts here.
- Words can’t describe how much I loved this novel — and how much I loved teaching it in my contemporary fiction class. It is an absolute masterpiece.
