Danielle St Hilaire
@docsthilaire.bsky.social
Hockey fan, early modernist, neophyte metal head, sighthound enthusiast. Not necessarily in that order. She/her.
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Teaching is hard, and it's frustrating when students don't buy into our passion and values. But if we're not articulating those values in the design and implementation of our courses and not modeling those values in our work as educators, claiming that "literacy is liberation" is bullshit. 8/8
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Teaching is hard, and it's frustrating when students don't buy into our passion and values. But if we're not articulating those values in the design and implementation of our courses and not modeling those values in our work as educators, claiming that "literacy is liberation" is bullshit. 8/8
I was honored to be invited to give the annual Dotterer Lecture Series in Literature talk at Salisbury University yesterday. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old friends!
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I was honored to be invited to give the annual Dotterer Lecture Series in Literature talk at Salisbury University yesterday. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old friends!
At this point a person would be hard-pressed to identify this as the desk of a literary studies scholar.
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
At this point a person would be hard-pressed to identify this as the desk of a literary studies scholar.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
No creature on earth happier than a cat sleeping on a heating vent.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
No creature on earth happier than a cat sleeping on a heating vent.
Me miserable! which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell
4.73-75
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell
4.73-75
This particular passage from Paradise Lost is one of those things that has stuck with me and affects how I see the world constantly. It really feels like it rewired my brain, to use the cliché.
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Me miserable! which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell
4.73-75
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell
4.73-75
Sweater weather.
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sweater weather.
Exceptionally proud of this little guy for earning his Canine Good Citizen title today. The last 3 years have been a wild ride with Phoenix, but a lot of training (and a little Prozac) has made a huge difference.
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Exceptionally proud of this little guy for earning his Canine Good Citizen title today. The last 3 years have been a wild ride with Phoenix, but a lot of training (and a little Prozac) has made a huge difference.
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
I’ve been to my fair share of protests and rallies since 2020, and today’s was easily the most joyful I’ve attended. Folks were defiant but happy, everyone was looking out for everyone else, and we took genuine pleasure in being with each other. It’s a good feeling to build from.
October 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’ve been to my fair share of protests and rallies since 2020, and today’s was easily the most joyful I’ve attended. Folks were defiant but happy, everyone was looking out for everyone else, and we took genuine pleasure in being with each other. It’s a good feeling to build from.
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I am here for the region-specific insults. No Kings Pittsburgh.
October 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am here for the region-specific insults. No Kings Pittsburgh.
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A successful protest movement requires as broad a coalition as possible.
If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.
If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A successful protest movement requires as broad a coalition as possible.
If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.
If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.
No Kings Pittsburgh: come to say no to fascism, stay for the inflatable costume conga line!
October 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
No Kings Pittsburgh: come to say no to fascism, stay for the inflatable costume conga line!
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Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
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If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
I started learning to crochet in March and just finished my biggest project yet. I think I underestimated the satisfaction of wearing something I’ve made myself!
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I started learning to crochet in March and just finished my biggest project yet. I think I underestimated the satisfaction of wearing something I’ve made myself!
“Why would I lay on the floor when there’s a perfectly good chair here???” —my whippet, probably.
September 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Why would I lay on the floor when there’s a perfectly good chair here???” —my whippet, probably.
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If teaching (again, defined expansively) wasn't so vital, our temu-brand fascists wouldn't be so obsessed with destroying the places where its happening. Don't let them take our agency. And don't let our disciplinary orgs and prominent voices within them overlook and erase our voices and work.
August 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If teaching (again, defined expansively) wasn't so vital, our temu-brand fascists wouldn't be so obsessed with destroying the places where its happening. Don't let them take our agency. And don't let our disciplinary orgs and prominent voices within them overlook and erase our voices and work.
I don’t want AI grading tools. I want the time and resources to allow me to interact meaningfully, as a person, with each of my students about their work.
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I don’t want AI grading tools. I want the time and resources to allow me to interact meaningfully, as a person, with each of my students about their work.
Out for an afternoon paddle and saw a plane flying a banner over the lake. “YOU SUCK AT THIS, BOB! SELL THE *@%! TEAM!!” Check on your Pirates fan friends; they aren’t doing well.
July 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Out for an afternoon paddle and saw a plane flying a banner over the lake. “YOU SUCK AT THIS, BOB! SELL THE *@%! TEAM!!” Check on your Pirates fan friends; they aren’t doing well.
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Since Dewey and Vygotsky, any serious discussion of what meaningful learning looks like centers relationships and sociality. Learning needs community, needs *presence* from both teacher and learner. Content means little if those things aren't in place. Yet Khan thinks glorified chatbots are the way?
June 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Since Dewey and Vygotsky, any serious discussion of what meaningful learning looks like centers relationships and sociality. Learning needs community, needs *presence* from both teacher and learner. Content means little if those things aren't in place. Yet Khan thinks glorified chatbots are the way?
Oh to be a lazy dog on a big bed…
June 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Oh to be a lazy dog on a big bed…
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Just listened to this episode at the gym, and I would recommend it: there is a clear top-down coordinated effort to get us all to buy into a false narrative about what really happened during the Covid-19 pandemic which we need to be aware of/resist
Episode 41: "In Covid's Wake" Part 2
Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink?
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Republican counties may have three times higher COVID death rates than Democratic counties, but have you considered that they have lower rates of liberal groupthink?
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"In Covid's Wake" Part 2: Wron… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/19/2025 · 1h 10m
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June 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just listened to this episode at the gym, and I would recommend it: there is a clear top-down coordinated effort to get us all to buy into a false narrative about what really happened during the Covid-19 pandemic which we need to be aware of/resist
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"I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified"
June 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified"
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Here's our rapid response list of orgs to reach out to if you're trans and in need of aid right now (or if you're cis and want an org to support): www.them.us/story/scotus...
Not exhaustive, but Quispe, @sal.gay, and I hope you still find it useful
Not exhaustive, but Quispe, @sal.gay, and I hope you still find it useful
June 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Here's our rapid response list of orgs to reach out to if you're trans and in need of aid right now (or if you're cis and want an org to support): www.them.us/story/scotus...
Not exhaustive, but Quispe, @sal.gay, and I hope you still find it useful
Not exhaustive, but Quispe, @sal.gay, and I hope you still find it useful