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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈

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•Prof., Gender & Sexuality Stds., U. Illinois Springfield uis.edu/wgs •Founding member, UIS United Faculty uisufinfo.wordpress.com/ •LGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history, faculty unions.

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 23d

This is a professional account where I skeet in my capacity as a University of Illinois professor and in my areas of subject matter expertise or interest. The university does not pay me enough to be its spokesperson.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2h

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too.
#NoKings
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No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 1d

Meeting to merge the tenure and non-tenure track faculty unions at University of Illinois Springfield! ✊

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 2d

Woot!🎉

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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 2d

I am so happy to announce that my first peer-reviewed research paper is finally out! It is open access, so please have a read and let me know your thoughts!

Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies.

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#AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia

Roberta Perkins: Sex Work, Feminism, and the Dawn of Transgender Activism in 1980s Australia

In the 1980s, Australia witnessed the rise of its first transgender advocacy organisations. The most radical and pathbreaking of these was the Sydney-based Australian Transsexual Association (ATA)....

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 3d

No one who calls themselves an academic should ever fold to a "loyalty oath," no matter what vague risks to funding they might face. It goes against everything higher education and academic freedom stands for.

Please, #AcademicSky, and any other educator, worker, student, alum, etc., sign on.

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University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 2d

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
“Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems”
🧪 #academicSky
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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 2d

4 hours in the car today to participate in UIS United Faculty activism! #UnionYes #GotUnion #Academicsky

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday our university administration admitted it did not understand a financial calculator it used to decide which academic programs to recommend for elimination. How do these people keep their jobs?

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 3d

If your uni enrollment is down, dig past the surface to the details. IF you lost int'l students due to visa problems, prob has nothing to do with your uni or programs. If you've lost traditional first-years, something else is likely the cause...

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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 5d

Research from the Williams Institute also finds that LGB people who have undergone conversion therapy are nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide as those who haven’t.

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 3d

Pay artists for their work!

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 5d

Growth of UIS admin occurs by subdividing admin units, then hiring new highly paid admins/assistants in those units. Or, adding new deputy/asst. admins to existing units. Practice has added MILLIONS in admin pay even as enrollment drops to 2009 levels. #AcademicSky

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 5d

Where average faculty pay is in the $60K range, we're seeing administrative *raises* of $30K, $50K, $60K. Any time an admin takes on an interim role in addition to regular work, they're paid a stipend of tens of thousands of dollars. #AcademicSky

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 5d

Some UIS administrative units have *doubled* in size over the last decade, while their pay has risen at multiples (2X, 3X) of the inflation rate. (Faculty pay has *declined* in relation to inflation.) Typically, the further an admin/admin unit is from students, the faster the growth. #AcademicSky

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 5d

Public universities are a SERVICE and should no more be expected to generate "income" than any other public service (military, post office, parks, etc.) Taxpayers support public education because we understand an educated citizenry is necessary to a well-functioning democracy.

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 5d

University of Illinois Springfield is proposing to eliminate degrees in Theater, Philosophy, and Women and Gender Studies at the same time the size and pay of university administrators has ballooned during declining enrollments. #AcademicSky

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 5d

Found a local union printshop to do some work for Union! Is this what girlbossing feels like? ✊ #UnionYes #AcademicSky

a woman holds up a piece of paper that says ' a ' on it

ALT: a woman holds up a piece of paper that says ' a ' on it

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago street art ✊

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 8d

Cats have backbone (unlike most universities)!

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 8d

Tempted to teach a course titled Critical Race Theory. Just to tweak the cons. Lol!

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 8d

Reading up on toxic workplaces and the toll they take on worker morale, turnover, hiring, etc. Apropos of nothing....

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 9d

Chat do women archbishops have names?

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 9d

You wouldn't think I'd have to remind WGS faculty that ideological purity tests are inappropriate in academic meetings, lest we confirm the worst accusations of conservative critics, but nooooo..... Pro-tip: there's lots of different kinds of feminism. You don't get to tell me how to be one!

Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 9d

So fun attempting to defend the relevance and need for gender/sexuality studies programs in higher ed when there are multiple accused rapists and adjudicated sexual assailants at the highest levels of U.S. government....

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 10d

Lorna Simpson’s art history treasure trove at The Met, Indian-American artist Sangram Majumdar’s exploration of his dual heritage, a group exhibition that spans generations of Black women’s ceramics, and more art shows to check out this week in New York City.

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

From sapphic art related to the sea to generations of Black women ceramicists, some of our favorite shows touch on identity and community.

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