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But what really blew up Michelle’s employment at the mag, former staffers say, was her response to October 7, after she put an effective gag order on commissioning any pieces acknowledging the genocide in Gaza. “Michelle told us variously that she was facing pressure from the board not to say anything anti-Israel, and also that she had, in her words, ‘Jewish people in her life whose feelings would be hurt,’” says another former editor. “It was a workplace issue and treated as such. People were saying, ‘This is sort of unconscionable. Like, what are we doing?” “It’s important to note that in the last year of Boris’s tenure as editor-in-chief, we probably published forty things about the war in Ukraine,” that editor told me. “But Michelle told us we couldn’t even discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.”
At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.
nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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teaching franklin last week is how i learned how much english majors HATE tech bro grind core though. which is a lot.
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
Read the poem in it's entirety: poets.org/poem/renee-n...
The first great American 250th anniversary date of the year arrives this Friday: the publication of Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE, which occurred on January 9, 1776.
Many sources have the date as January 10, 1776. This is incorrect. But what accounts for the confusion???? Friends, follow me.
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
He now has to drop and secure his oar, turn round on his centre half way, seize his harpoon from the crotch, and with what little strength may remain, he essays to pitch it somehow into the whale.
the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.
Leviathan 26.3 is now online @projectmuse.bsky.social! "Melville's queer afterlives" special issue collects case studies that highlight the range of queer Melvilleana and in the process contribute to an understanding of the aesthetic shape assumed by queer creative impulses. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015
Are you an environmental humanist? Do you like hanging out with other smart environmental humanists? Would you like to do so for a week this summer in Maine? Then I highly recommend Colby's Summer Institute in the Environmental Humanities! (app due 2/6/26) cah.colby.edu/initiatives/...
The special issue I co-edited on "Melville's Queer Afterlives" is here and it's queer. This issue has EVERYTHING: gay pirates, dirty pictures, racist internet fanfic, Gilbert Gottfried, original poetry, and just so many French people.
Available at your library, but LMK if you're paywalled...
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
A report on universities slashing funds for the humanities suggests that there is no good fiscal reason to cut the humanities
What are your views on it?
If you are interested, the University of Tulsa released a statement responding to it. “Humanities are Alive & Well in University of Tulsa”
Check out the article,"How to Protect Your Right to Culture”!
This is co-written by Anna Kornbluh and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. Dr. Sánchez Prado gave the keynote lecture at the WFU Humanities Institute Annual Spring Symposium in the Spring of 2024.
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Good morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!
Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Leviathan Volume 27, Number 2, June 2025 Featuring contributions from Brian Yothers Johnathan A. Cook Caroline Hildebrandt Samuel John Gleason Bruce Fishbein Richard Littauer Yukiko Oshima Mark Niemeyer Mary K. Bercaw Edwards Pilar Martínez Benedí Dana Seitler HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Leviathan
Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2025
tinyurl.com/yb7hkeja
Contributions from:
Brian Yothers
Johnathan A. Cook
Caroline Hildebrandt
Samuel John Gleason
Bruce Fishbein
Richard Littauer
Yukiko Oshima
Mark Niemeyer
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
Pilar Martínez Benedí
Dana Seitler
“Forwarding names is a practice from the McCarthy era. This represents a breathtaking breach of trust, ethics, and justice.” www.chronicle.com/article/when...
I’m a proud UC Berkeley graduate and I am appalled and angered by this McCarthyism. Judith Butler—just to cite one example— is not an antisemite but a principled philosopher devoted to justice for all, not just particular populations.
From “The Times” forum on higher ed now in the current issue of The Dial, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social ‘s statement on the criminalization of student activism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social
Read/circulate/submit:
thedialjournal.org
I woke up a year ago 100% certain that I had to make a documentary about the Winston Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party. So I did.
We aim to release it early next year. This weekend I’m at Blackstar, looking for inspiration. If you’re in town, DM to meetup.
