Anne McKnight
@annekmck.bsky.social
bibliophile, minimalist, literary historian of proto-subcultures (science, ero-guro, first-person selves). UCR prof, J->E translator. Opinions belong to me or someone I ventriloquize. Coming in 2025 ~Long Take: Kurosawa Akira as World Cinéphile (Minnesota)
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Blue Boy Trial revisits a 1964 landmark case, focusing on the trans women whose testimonies shaped Japan’s approach to gender and identity for decades.
We dive into one of the year's best, and most important films.
We dive into one of the year's best, and most important films.
The importance of the superb “Blue Boy Trial” | scrmbl
In 1964, a doctor was arrested for breaking the Eugenics Law. Not i...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Blue Boy Trial revisits a 1964 landmark case, focusing on the trans women whose testimonies shaped Japan’s approach to gender and identity for decades.
We dive into one of the year's best, and most important films.
We dive into one of the year's best, and most important films.
Oof, what a conflict of interest when an 86-year-old interim president also turns out to be heavily invested in a for-profit degree mill, "a ... school flagged by Senate investigators in 2012." Paging _Lower Ed_, by Tressie McMillan Cottom.
"A bill that would obligate detailed disclosures of trustee or donor co-investments with funds from nonprofit endowments could easily attract bipartisan support, as would a law obligating mission compliance, i.e., education, not entertainment stadiums."
- Jacqueline Stevens, President AAUP NU
- Jacqueline Stevens, President AAUP NU
Opinion | How to solve a problem like Henry Bienen
Prof. Jacqueline Stevens traces President Henry Bienen's associations with the for-profit Rasmussen University.
dailynorthwestern.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Oof, what a conflict of interest when an 86-year-old interim president also turns out to be heavily invested in a for-profit degree mill, "a ... school flagged by Senate investigators in 2012." Paging _Lower Ed_, by Tressie McMillan Cottom.
People in English departments, when was the last time you had coffee with a person from French, or Arabic. Or Chinese? Or even Classics...
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
People in English departments, when was the last time you had coffee with a person from French, or Arabic. Or Chinese? Or even Classics...
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Cal State University currently lacks the counseling resources to support existing mental health concerns among its students—so it is particularly unwise for the university to contract with a corporation whose product is allegedly associated with serious mental health harms.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cal State University currently lacks the counseling resources to support existing mental health concerns among its students—so it is particularly unwise for the university to contract with a corporation whose product is allegedly associated with serious mental health harms.
It looks like Title 6 is gone. This is a key part of the Attack on Higher Ed. For those who don't know, the FLAS grants sponsored many people to study so-called difficult, so-called foreign languages--Chinese, Japanese, Arabic (+ more). Also, National Resource Centers that managed events & funding.
UPDATE: Foreign language, international studies funding cut for Title VI grants
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November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It looks like Title 6 is gone. This is a key part of the Attack on Higher Ed. For those who don't know, the FLAS grants sponsored many people to study so-called difficult, so-called foreign languages--Chinese, Japanese, Arabic (+ more). Also, National Resource Centers that managed events & funding.
Still an absolute legend. Nothing like All the Things lined up in a single space...
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Still an absolute legend. Nothing like All the Things lined up in a single space...
Barf. For sure, it is hard to believe no one among the colleagues knew of this creepitude. Many married people have arrangements, so that's not a functional limit, but yeesh, get some game and go on line like a normal person. Oh, ...
How. Does. This. Story. Keep. Getting. Worse.
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
Also ANYONE can report this to the Harvard Title IX office
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Barf. For sure, it is hard to believe no one among the colleagues knew of this creepitude. Many married people have arrangements, so that's not a functional limit, but yeesh, get some game and go on line like a normal person. Oh, ...
AAUP wins the preliminary injunction in the Trump administration ongoing aggression against UCLA (and by relation, the entire UC, higher ed, public education, etc). Time to join your local faculty association!
Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system.
PI granted.
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PI granted.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
AAUP wins the preliminary injunction in the Trump administration ongoing aggression against UCLA (and by relation, the entire UC, higher ed, public education, etc). Time to join your local faculty association!
An English professor married Larry Summers? Good God. Building character "in the schools," with financial help from Epstein. "The schools" being presumably public, less white and getting their schooling on line.
ah come on
New is so excited she is earning the *name recognition* to "be an effective spokesperson for the foundation on building
literacy and *character* in the schools"...
...while expressing "profound gratitude" to Jeffrey Epstein for his "rooting for her" and "thinking of her."
literacy and *character* in the schools"...
...while expressing "profound gratitude" to Jeffrey Epstein for his "rooting for her" and "thinking of her."
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
An English professor married Larry Summers? Good God. Building character "in the schools," with financial help from Epstein. "The schools" being presumably public, less white and getting their schooling on line.
Lene Lovich sings "I Think We're Alone Now" in...Japanese...it's pretty good! www.radiorethink.com/tuner/share/...
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Lene Lovich sings "I Think We're Alone Now" in...Japanese...it's pretty good! www.radiorethink.com/tuner/share/...
premodern Japanese lit job in Hawai'i!
Assistant Professor (Japanese Pre-Modern Literature)
Title: Assistant Professor (Japanese Pre-Modern Literature)Hiring Unit: East Asian Languages and Literatures/College of Arts, Languages & LettersLocation: ManoaDate Posted: September 24, 2025Closing D...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
premodern Japanese lit job in Hawai'i!
can't wait for all the bio-hacker dudes to start learning Spanish or Chinese (or any non-English language other than their own self-expression for that matter)!!!
A multilingual guide to slowing aging - Nature Aging
People who speak two or more languages may experience a later onset of dementia symptoms, yet whether multilingualism promotes healthy aging in a generalizable or even actionable manner remains unclea...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
can't wait for all the bio-hacker dudes to start learning Spanish or Chinese (or any non-English language other than their own self-expression for that matter)!!!
I just Chatted up my own book again, and despite the lawsuit, it was still giving info you could only know from crunching the entire contents.
I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I just Chatted up my own book again, and despite the lawsuit, it was still giving info you could only know from crunching the entire contents.
I've been waiting for a good English-teacher-in-Japan novel, and looky here at the National Book Award list! love the Edward Hopper meets vending machine look. Grace Ting's review, below~
‘Palaver’: A queer story set in Tokyo searches for a home for the heart
A finalist for this year’s National Book Award for Fiction in the U.S., Bryan Washington’s “Palaver” is a gentle exploration of leaving and arriving.
www.japantimes.co.jp
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I've been waiting for a good English-teacher-in-Japan novel, and looky here at the National Book Award list! love the Edward Hopper meets vending machine look. Grace Ting's review, below~
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
interesting mash-up...
Chloé Zhao & Nicolas Gonda Launch Kodansha Studios To Create Live-Action Adaptations From Manga Library
Two-time Oscar winner Chloé Zhao and Nicolas Gonda have just opened the doors to Kodansha Studios, a new global studio dedicated to creating premium, live-action movies and television series based on ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
interesting mash-up...
Repeat nester in the manzanita tree!!
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Repeat nester in the manzanita tree!!
I ran a search for someone we wanted to hire. Who got snapped up by Harvard, then by another great program. These are top top sought- after people who could go anywhere and chose the UC system. Gahhhhh~~~make it make sense!!!
UC Provost Katherine Newman has announced plans to defund this program, a preemptive capitulation with the feds that has not been ordered and should not occur. Newman has done this with zero consultation with campus-level leadership and none with any faculty — mentors or former fellows included.
November 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I ran a search for someone we wanted to hire. Who got snapped up by Harvard, then by another great program. These are top top sought- after people who could go anywhere and chose the UC system. Gahhhhh~~~make it make sense!!!
Mundane / under the radar Halloween costumes best in show, one of my fave holiday traditions.
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Mundane / under the radar Halloween costumes best in show, one of my fave holiday traditions.
a good one-stop-shop article [op-ed] in the LAT today, on why it is ludicrous that the proposed "contract" with UCLA has zero to do with antisemitism, and a lot to do with control, punishment as an ideal, & a lot more (inc. stamping out a love of learning, queer and educational joy and achievement).
‘In the Trump administration’s war on American universities, fighting antisemitism, while worthy, is just a pretext. Don’t be fooled.’
Via @rabcarian.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Via @rabcarian.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Column: Proposed settlement between feds and UCLA is a master class in extortion
Trump's administration accused the university of antisemitism and wants to dismantle anything related to DEI.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
a good one-stop-shop article [op-ed] in the LAT today, on why it is ludicrous that the proposed "contract" with UCLA has zero to do with antisemitism, and a lot to do with control, punishment as an ideal, & a lot more (inc. stamping out a love of learning, queer and educational joy and achievement).
next up on Zillow gone wild...
Apart from anything else, the "Lincoln bathroom" wasn't Lincoln's bathroom. It was Lincoln's office and cabinet room.
It wasn't renovated in the 1940s, it was installed in the 1940s.
It wasn't renovated in the 1940s, it was installed in the 1940s.
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
next up on Zillow gone wild...
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You know what we donate to the local food pantries? We donate MONEY. Because they can turn that money into what those they serve need the most. I do not know what those folks need better than the food pantry does. So I give them my dollars and they turn them into something useful.
Sweet Jesus, do not donate seeds to your food bank in October. Honestly, don’t donate seeds to your food bank unless you are specifically asked to, and even then I would think REALLY HARD about whether that’s regionally appropriate.
When I needed food donations, I was in student housing.
When I needed food donations, I was in student housing.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
You know what we donate to the local food pantries? We donate MONEY. Because they can turn that money into what those they serve need the most. I do not know what those folks need better than the food pantry does. So I give them my dollars and they turn them into something useful.