Ada Hubrig (they/them)

What does punk rock have to do with social justice and resistance? Quite a lot, actually. Punk has always been more than music—it’s been a challenge to power. Join us for our “Third Thursday” event on March 19th at 7:00pm Eastern on Zoom for a conversation with Dr. David Kauzlarich, about how the rebellious energy of punk culture can help us rethink resistance and social justice. If you’re curious about the intersection of music, activism, and challenging systems of power, come join the conversation. No mosh pit required.

📢 Join Justice Studies Association for a free Zoom event next Thursday at 7:00pm Eastern on "Punk Social Justice"

Direct Message me or visit www.justicestudies.org to request Zoom link (JSA website will be updated with current event soon!)

#AcademicSky #HigherEd

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

❤️❤️❤️ as you should be ❤️❤️❤️

It's absolutely surreal how no one is talking about the Iran war in daily life. No one is discussing it and they seem oblivious. This conflict is spiraling and deteriorating in a way that it will substantially disrupt daily life for most of the world for the first time in decades.

does anyone else feel really sad that so many people are going to die and there’s no glory to any of it and the names of the dead will not be remembered except a few soldiers and resistance fighters and political leaders and a select few everyday people?

The conversations at #4C26 will be good. The ones in our Fall issue might be better.
$10 off any one-year subscription to Composition Studies:

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Scan the QR, use code "4C26."

#CompositionStudies #RhetComp #WritingStudies

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Transgender People, “Gay Conversion,” and “Lesbian Extinction”: What the Data Show A couple days ago (on Christmas, actually), The Telegraph ran a piece with the provocative title: “Lesbians facing ‘extinction’ as…

since The Atlantic is apparently reviving the "a was a feminine gay child, but if I was a kid today they would have 'transed' me" trope, here's an essay I wrote back in 2020 explaining why this is not true & there is no evidence to support it: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...

The feminists are coming to #4C26. How do we teach in these times? 7-10 minute hands-on demonstrations of feminist praxis. Proposals due Friday, 21 November. Workshop at #4C26, Wednesday, 4 March.

Calling all feminist teachers! 📣

Do you have an impactful teaching praxis that you’d like to share with the CFSHRC at #4C26 in Cleveland? We want to hear from you!

Submit proposals for a 7-10-minute hands-on demonstration of feminist praxis from your classroom by 11/21
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Are you presenting at #4C26? We want to feature you! Drop us a comment or send us a DM with your presentation title, time/room, and a brief description. We'll share out feminist sessions leading up to the conference!

This #FeministFridays, we want to feature YOU! 🤩

Will you be at #4C26? If so, let us know & we'll help promote your panel. #TheFeministsAreComing, and we're building our conference schedules. 📝 🌈 💖

We can't wait to hear everyone's panels, roundtables, and talks ❤️

As you plan your #4C26 experiences, keep an eye out for a special CFSHRC conference bingo...coming soon!

Anyone gonna be at the Conference on College Composition & Communication #4c26 this week? ✨️❤️

Cover of the 2025 Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference

What's "Critical" about "Critical AI"? A Recommitment to Humanistic Inquiry in the Ostensible March to Hyper-Automation

The #cwcon25 Proceedings are here, and I'm grateful for the inclusion of my keynote, "What's 'Critical' about 'Critical AI'? A Recommitment to Humanistic Inquiry in the Ostensible March to Hyper-Automation."

Thank you to the editors and peer reviewers for making this Proceedings possible!

If you would like to know what @balloonleap.bsky.social and I think about the relationship between generative AI chatbots and the teaching of writing, we have an article for you to read! 1/

#writingstudies #genai+writing #teamrhetoric

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apparently today we get Jesse Singal in the New York Times with the "gender-affirming care is new & experimental" 🙃

I had someone on the apps tell me today they were sorry that I was disabled, and I had another guy ask me if "it worked" because he was "just curious". Dating (apps) while disabled is hard because you run up against the same ableism again and again, with no regard for your humanity at all.

That's such trash behavior. I am so sorry, Andrew. I hope you have some amazing interactions/encounters that drown these ableist ones out. ✨️❤️

Hugs, friend. Hugs. You are a beautiful soul ✨️❤️

Continental Divide by B.A. Van Sise - Rattle: Poetry Statistically, most of the babies born in this world are beetles. God, in fact, prefers them: one species of human, […]

Statistically, most of the babies born in this world
are beetles. God, in fact, prefers them …

—B.A. Van Sise

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

Most R1 English departments, my entire career: *very skeptical of English education*

@manshel.bsky.social: The high school English classroom is the most important literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars.

Me: 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

And a video of this lil fellas fancy footwork

A photo of a heron (id not completely certain)

Photo of a squirrel holding an acorn

Today's walk friends ✨️❤️

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

Ending this operation is not enough.

We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

The Politics of Bitcoin Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-...

And while I'm here: I love this snappy little book by Golumbia from 2016. You can read it in like 2 hours!

www.upress.umn.edu/978151790180...

This email between Epstein and JD Vance’s tech oligarch benefactor Peter Thiel where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves seems… not great

(They also met with the UN ambassador to Russia together)

Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.

75 New Transfeminine Releases from the Second Half of 2025 Every book published by a transfeminine author in Q3 and Q4 of 2025. Read a book you’ve never heard of!

It's been a slow start, but here's our first article of 2026!

Looking for your next read? In the second half of 2025, transfemme authors published more than 75 new titles spanning every genre and medium 📚🏳️‍⚧️

If there's a book that should be on here, please let me know and I'll add it to the list! 🩷

HOW TO WRITE BOOK GOOD just keep swimming, hit your head very hard a few times

Updated the blog, free writing advice
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