Jenny Marie
@jennymafo.bsky.social
Asst Prof of 17C lit in WA, translator, swimmer, parent of two small children and one ancient pug, here for the reading recs.
Efraín Kristal (1959-2025) is gone. He asked us all to memorize poems as a precondition for studying Rubén Darío together. Por eso puedo pensar esta noche en la palabra que huye, y en la barca del sueño que en el espacio boga.
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Efraín Kristal (1959-2025) is gone. He asked us all to memorize poems as a precondition for studying Rubén Darío together. Por eso puedo pensar esta noche en la palabra que huye, y en la barca del sueño que en el espacio boga.
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‘Independent publishing is facing an existential crisis’: illustrated.
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
‘Independent publishing is facing an existential crisis’: illustrated.
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This entire thread. 👇🏽
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This entire thread. 👇🏽
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The budget shortfall at Sonoma State, an HSI, is 8 million, leading to layoffs of 25% of faculty and shuttering programs. The system is paying 17 million to OpenAI. We always say budgets are moral documents. This is why.
So I found the answer to HOW MUCH THE CSU IS PAYING for "AI tools" "at no cost to students or faculty" to be an "AI powered university." @cfaunited.bsky.social: help!
🚨$16.9 million
In the middle of a "budget crisis" where the CSU is doing layoffs pleading poverty!
edsource.org/2025/cal-sta...
🚨$16.9 million
In the middle of a "budget crisis" where the CSU is doing layoffs pleading poverty!
edsource.org/2025/cal-sta...
February 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The budget shortfall at Sonoma State, an HSI, is 8 million, leading to layoffs of 25% of faculty and shuttering programs. The system is paying 17 million to OpenAI. We always say budgets are moral documents. This is why.
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Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.
www.democracynow.org
September 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
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“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
@aft.org
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
@aft.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
@aft.org
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
@aft.org
At the breakfast diner, another blow to free speech as an adult woman seated next to me haltingly describes to a friend how much she enjoys using gen Al. "It's like, I don't have to think very much. I just, I tell it what I want to say and it says it for me."
September 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
At the breakfast diner, another blow to free speech as an adult woman seated next to me haltingly describes to a friend how much she enjoys using gen Al. "It's like, I don't have to think very much. I just, I tell it what I want to say and it says it for me."
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I wrote this short piece on mainstream efforts to hide the relationship of white conservatism to state & vigilante violence in the U.S. & why—esp in these moments—we have to push back against that impulse to whitewash & preserve the systems of violence we claim to oppose.
Why We Pretend
When the truth is unthinkable, we lie to ourselves and one another.
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I wrote this short piece on mainstream efforts to hide the relationship of white conservatism to state & vigilante violence in the U.S. & why—esp in these moments—we have to push back against that impulse to whitewash & preserve the systems of violence we claim to oppose.
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"The most important aspect of recognizing this history is not so those of us descended from settlers...feel shame, but rather “to recognize that these tactics, [a division into] savage vs. civilized, continues to inhabit our society."
This article asks for email, but not money. Worth the read.
This article asks for email, but not money. Worth the read.
“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”
Opinion | Concentration camps are not just part of our past, but our present and future
From David M. Perry: From Minnesota’s Fort Snelling to Japanese internment camps to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, these camps have become an American tradition.
www.startribune.com
August 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"The most important aspect of recognizing this history is not so those of us descended from settlers...feel shame, but rather “to recognize that these tactics, [a division into] savage vs. civilized, continues to inhabit our society."
This article asks for email, but not money. Worth the read.
This article asks for email, but not money. Worth the read.
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We republished Anas's final message to the world @therealnews.com. May he & the Gaza @aljazeera.com team rest in peace & in power. May we somehow someday prove we deserve forgiveness for letting this happen, because it is unforgivable. Unspeakable. Ttheir blood is on our hands.
tinyurl.com/sdd7zwup
tinyurl.com/sdd7zwup
'Do not forget Gaza... and do not forget me': Anas al-Sharif's final message to the world before Israel killed him
"Make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family"
tinyurl.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We republished Anas's final message to the world @therealnews.com. May he & the Gaza @aljazeera.com team rest in peace & in power. May we somehow someday prove we deserve forgiveness for letting this happen, because it is unforgivable. Unspeakable. Ttheir blood is on our hands.
tinyurl.com/sdd7zwup
tinyurl.com/sdd7zwup
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I have books on my shelf right now that are nearly 300 years old. There is absolutely no way that any digital media that exists today will be accessible in 300 years.
Any updates on the "downsizing" of space for physical books in academic and public libraries?
theconversation.com/turning-a-pa...
theconversation.com/turning-a-pa...
Turning a page: downsizing the campus book collections
Keeping a printed book in a campus library comes with steep costs. How are campus libraries evolving?
theconversation.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I have books on my shelf right now that are nearly 300 years old. There is absolutely no way that any digital media that exists today will be accessible in 300 years.
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America in a nutshell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
America in a nutshell.
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you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
slate.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
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What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics"
Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not.
Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not.
Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
July 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics"
Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not.
Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not.
Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
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New today from Ana Flores: "I learned early as a Texan that our state doesn’t always fight for its people. Especially if you’re Latina. Especially if you’re undocumented. Especially if you’re young, brown, or poor."
Why I Still Believe Texas Can Be Better
"Texas taught me contradiction. It taught me how to love a place that doesn’t always love me back."
www.texasobserver.org
June 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New today from Ana Flores: "I learned early as a Texan that our state doesn’t always fight for its people. Especially if you’re Latina. Especially if you’re undocumented. Especially if you’re young, brown, or poor."
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what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
Wow. New CBS poll finds majority (55%) supports the *general goal* of deportations, but a bigger majority (56%) dislikes how Trump is carrying them out. And 63% want due process.
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
@thenation.com (close) reading and intellectual freedom defector.com/close-readin...
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
defector.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
@thenation.com (close) reading and intellectual freedom defector.com/close-readin...
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Have you read our newest post yet? @eksbainbridge.bsky.social delves into the politics of maps and how techno-fascism is making it worse:
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...
Maps Have Always Been A Colonial Tool of Expansion—Techno-Fascism Is Making It Worse
How are the colonial applications of cartography, mixed with growing techno-fascism, helping Donald Trump's expansionist agenda?
theflytrap.beehiiv.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Have you read our newest post yet? @eksbainbridge.bsky.social delves into the politics of maps and how techno-fascism is making it worse:
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...
theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/maps-have-...
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John Guillory's definition of close reading feels substantive.
Excerpt from a review/reflection, "The Invention of Close Reading" by Dan Sinykin. June 2025 issue @thenation.com
Excerpt from a review/reflection, "The Invention of Close Reading" by Dan Sinykin. June 2025 issue @thenation.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
John Guillory's definition of close reading feels substantive.
Excerpt from a review/reflection, "The Invention of Close Reading" by Dan Sinykin. June 2025 issue @thenation.com
Excerpt from a review/reflection, "The Invention of Close Reading" by Dan Sinykin. June 2025 issue @thenation.com
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🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.
one of the most insane normalized aspects of our political climate is politicians going after their own constituents in the name of anti-wokeness. what are we doing here
May 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.
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This is how I feel, too. I think a large part of how we got here is that test-based K-12 education is so deeply flawed. There is almost no reading or writing compared to when I was in school. Then, when students hit college they've never practiced those skills, so of course turn to LLM's.
This is just so incredibly sad to me.
It's not just that people think they are clever for hacking their way through school without work.
It's that they don't WANT to learn new things. They don't WANT to improve skills. They don't WANT EDUCATION. nymag.com/intelligence...
It's not just that people think they are clever for hacking their way through school without work.
It's that they don't WANT to learn new things. They don't WANT to improve skills. They don't WANT EDUCATION. nymag.com/intelligence...
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is how I feel, too. I think a large part of how we got here is that test-based K-12 education is so deeply flawed. There is almost no reading or writing compared to when I was in school. Then, when students hit college they've never practiced those skills, so of course turn to LLM's.
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Wow—grateful for this research on the how students’ wellbeing was damaged by the premature end of emergency remote instruction.
Faculty also experienced this as one of the pandemic’s many traumas.
Faculty also experienced this as one of the pandemic’s many traumas.
While we’re on the topic of COVID, trauma, and schools…
Researchers found a major source of pandemic-related trauma for college students was returning to in-person schooling before it was safe. It was an institutional betrayal.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Researchers found a major source of pandemic-related trauma for college students was returning to in-person schooling before it was safe. It was an institutional betrayal.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
COVID-19-related institutional betrayal associated with trauma symptoms among undergraduate students
Individuals are dependent on institutions (e.g., universities, governments, healthcare systems) to protect their safety and advocate for their needs. When institutions harm the individuals who depend ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
May 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Wow—grateful for this research on the how students’ wellbeing was damaged by the premature end of emergency remote instruction.
Faculty also experienced this as one of the pandemic’s many traumas.
Faculty also experienced this as one of the pandemic’s many traumas.