Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app
Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. ΔΣΘ ❤️. OES ⭐️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
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SFFTV 18.3 (a special issue on the Dark Fantastic guest-edited by S.R. Toliver and Autumn A. Griffin) is now live! This is a special one (including SFFTV's first venture into creative praxis).
TOC and articles for subscribers at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
TOC and articles for subscribers at liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3
When @danhf.bsky.social shared with me his idea for a special issue on The Dark Fantastic, I was surprised, honored & (truly) shy about it all.
My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬
My dear colleagues @srtoliver.bsky.social & @autumnadia.bsky.social have curated an incredible issue here. Grateful to SR, Autumn, Dan, Gerry & SFFTV! 🖤✨🎬
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Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in. n.pr/3NH3yso
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here
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Bill Watterson is still alive and by all accounts remains rad
January 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Bill Watterson is still alive and by all accounts remains rad
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A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎
www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
How a St. Louis cartoonist replaced 'Dilbert' in the Washington Post
"Heart of the City" replaced "Dilbert" in the Washington Post.
www.stlpr.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎
www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
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the democrats are right we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
the democrats are right we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun
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I'm sure the generation that preceded millennials wasn't annoying, but was actually very cool, an entire generation of latch-key lone wolves who had to raise themselves and didn't even have access to water from a tap inside the house.
January 13, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I'm sure the generation that preceded millennials wasn't annoying, but was actually very cool, an entire generation of latch-key lone wolves who had to raise themselves and didn't even have access to water from a tap inside the house.
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things im learning from this tweet:
- everyone on this site was a really annoying kid
- really annoying kids today love newspaper comics too
- there was apparently a generation that preceded millennials, but they've all died out and little is known about them
- everyone on this site was a really annoying kid
- really annoying kids today love newspaper comics too
- there was apparently a generation that preceded millennials, but they've all died out and little is known about them
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
things im learning from this tweet:
- everyone on this site was a really annoying kid
- really annoying kids today love newspaper comics too
- there was apparently a generation that preceded millennials, but they've all died out and little is known about them
- everyone on this site was a really annoying kid
- really annoying kids today love newspaper comics too
- there was apparently a generation that preceded millennials, but they've all died out and little is known about them
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It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
www.insidehighered.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Stop, drop and roll for this debut column.
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
www.insidehighered.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Stop, drop and roll for this debut column.
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Two Mallards taking off together at Horicon Marsh. They looked so happy!
#birdoftheday #birds #BirdsInFlight
#birdoftheday #birds #BirdsInFlight
January 12, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Two Mallards taking off together at Horicon Marsh. They looked so happy!
#birdoftheday #birds #BirdsInFlight
#birdoftheday #birds #BirdsInFlight
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this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...
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Another datapoint in the “young men haven’t turned conservative the media just thinks a 55 year old guy listening to Rogan is young for unclear reasons”
Gen X is at +5 support for ICE while millennials are at -25.
Is this at all related to the United States banning lead paint in houses in 1978?
Is this at all related to the United States banning lead paint in houses in 1978?
Some interesting stuff in the cross-tabs.
January 13, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Another datapoint in the “young men haven’t turned conservative the media just thinks a 55 year old guy listening to Rogan is young for unclear reasons”
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The way America relies on Black activists to protect them from their own decisions should be studied. Not by me though.
I'm learning some of y'all are taking your frustration out on Black people again
January 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM
The way America relies on Black activists to protect them from their own decisions should be studied. Not by me though.
I just never understood why some of my peers are so fcking mean. SMH! Maybe if everyone's parents had hugged them more? I don't get it!
January 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM
I just never understood why some of my peers are so fcking mean. SMH! Maybe if everyone's parents had hugged them more? I don't get it!
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k-6 had paddling but not in the youngest grades. Mostly it was the abrupt jump to jr high. different school. Way more kids from other neighborhoods. “Coaches” cozied up to cheerleaders (wtf), beat boys who sassed in gym class. worst thing: adults knew and didn’t save us (one saved me, cleverly)
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 AM
k-6 had paddling but not in the youngest grades. Mostly it was the abrupt jump to jr high. different school. Way more kids from other neighborhoods. “Coaches” cozied up to cheerleaders (wtf), beat boys who sassed in gym class. worst thing: adults knew and didn’t save us (one saved me, cleverly)
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Elementary school in South Carolina: the school gave every child a permission slip to have the parents sign.
The permission was to beat the child's ass at school if they acted up. My parents signed it. I was six years old and turned into Perry Mason while arguing with my parents about signing.
The permission was to beat the child's ass at school if they acted up. My parents signed it. I was six years old and turned into Perry Mason while arguing with my parents about signing.
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Elementary school in South Carolina: the school gave every child a permission slip to have the parents sign.
The permission was to beat the child's ass at school if they acted up. My parents signed it. I was six years old and turned into Perry Mason while arguing with my parents about signing.
The permission was to beat the child's ass at school if they acted up. My parents signed it. I was six years old and turned into Perry Mason while arguing with my parents about signing.
Ooh. Don't get me started. Because they used to be Xennials!
The current VP is an "Elder Millennial." So is Miller! Don't get me started...
The current VP is an "Elder Millennial." So is Miller! Don't get me started...
I feel the same way about elder millennials 😑
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Ooh. Don't get me started. Because they used to be Xennials!
The current VP is an "Elder Millennial." So is Miller! Don't get me started...
The current VP is an "Elder Millennial." So is Miller! Don't get me started...
Yes, I distinctly remember my kindergarten teacher saying that she was "going to get the paddle" when kids were acting up...
Yeah i was on the receiving side. My public school had teachers who beat kids. I see SOME OF my peers grown up now reposting memes about getting beaten as kids and “we turned out fine”. They did not turn out fine. School was violence until i found myself. some of us escaped and understand it now.
January 13, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Yes, I distinctly remember my kindergarten teacher saying that she was "going to get the paddle" when kids were acting up...
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I think so many of people’s lack of media literacy and unwillingness to consider moral complexities that aren’t strict black/white dichotomies comes from parents not teaching kids how to read as God intended: with books kids are far too young to read kept within in easy reach of an 8 year old.
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I think so many of people’s lack of media literacy and unwillingness to consider moral complexities that aren’t strict black/white dichotomies comes from parents not teaching kids how to read as God intended: with books kids are far too young to read kept within in easy reach of an 8 year old.
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Your kid’s not going to imprint on Harry Potter like a baby duckling if their first exposure to REAL books is Stephen King’s Eye of the Dragon.
January 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Your kid’s not going to imprint on Harry Potter like a baby duckling if their first exposure to REAL books is Stephen King’s Eye of the Dragon.
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I mean, say what you will about Gen X but do you really think it was a coincidence that young girls all discovered Flowers in the Attic and Clan of the Cave Bear at the same time?
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I mean, say what you will about Gen X but do you really think it was a coincidence that young girls all discovered Flowers in the Attic and Clan of the Cave Bear at the same time?
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See, y’gotta treat this shit like the parents in The Fantastiks. A shelf of Forbidden Tomes that just happens to be at eye level for a child and somehow nobody seems to notice how one title goes missing and the books keep getting shuffled out of order…
January 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
See, y’gotta treat this shit like the parents in The Fantastiks. A shelf of Forbidden Tomes that just happens to be at eye level for a child and somehow nobody seems to notice how one title goes missing and the books keep getting shuffled out of order…
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The best summary I have seen thus far of how Gen X grew into MAGA:
“For every one Veronica, there were three Heathers.”
“For every one Veronica, there were three Heathers.”
January 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
The best summary I have seen thus far of how Gen X grew into MAGA:
“For every one Veronica, there were three Heathers.”
“For every one Veronica, there were three Heathers.”
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*nodding*. What they think is their grunge era disaffected aura is really just selfish resentment.
January 13, 2026 at 1:47 AM
*nodding*. What they think is their grunge era disaffected aura is really just selfish resentment.