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Leila Walker

@lwalker.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · Aug 31

New article! "Open Educational Resources for a More Just Romanticism." I couldn't include acknowledgments, but I'm so grateful to @zugenia.bsky.social, @reneemc.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, Andrew McKinney, and Duncan Faherty for helping make this happen. utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Open Educational Resources for a More Just Romanticism | Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Efforts to diversify the field of Romanticism, long overdue, have intensified recently, and many Romanticist organizations now sponsor programmes aimed at amplifying Black and Brown voices. Most of th...

utppublishing.com

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 11h

We are told what wizards all know: that after the gods died, wizards discovered that beings older than the gods had existed (the fey, demon, giants).

Some beings were not here before the gods, but sung into being -- the celestials. They went feral, like monsters, after the gods died.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing pedagogy. Kudos.

Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t often write about living artists, but when I do they have a tendency to win MacArthurs. Make of that what you will. Congratulations, Heather Christian, on a much-deserved win! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I did just skim through 10 months of @titachico.bsky.social's posts to find this gem.

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · Dec 1

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.

"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

"You use "long eighteenth century" a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another. I do see in your bibliography that there is a book that uses this. If you want to keep "long" here, please provide a brief explanation of what you mean.
After that, I see no need to keep reminding your readers of it..

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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · Apr 6

This is high art

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, that's it! Thank you!

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone remember who it was that received the most hilarious proofreading feedback ever: "You keep writing 'The Long 18th Century,' but all centuries are the same length"?

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my broken heart. These poor young queer people

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Fixed.

Screenshot of a New York Times webpage. The headline reads: “Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy Torture.” The words “Conversion Therapy” are shown with red strikethroughs. A smaller subheading below explains: “Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.” The page header includes links like “Birthright Citizenship,” “L.A. Immigration Stops,” “Unsigned Orders in Trump’s Favor,” and “Florida Immigration.”

Would you like me to also provide a shorter, accessibility-friendly version of the alt text (like what a screen reader would ideally read aloud), or keep this more detailed one?

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4d

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 5d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 5d

The sort of people the administration calls 'terrorists' :

"[the 84 year olds] were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground."

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 5d

Me, mid-rant: The thing is, I actually do love America! I love that it belongs to everyone! I love that whoever shows up are the right people!

R: Open space principles! And whenever it ends will be the right time. 💀

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6d

One reason the One Special Boy thinks he can just issue Executive Orders to do whatever he wants is because he keeps issuing Executive Orders & doing whatever he wants - in obvious violation of the law & Constitution - & no one who swore oaths to country & Constitution is doing anything about it.

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 6d

Read this whole thread. “Revolutionary” isn’t a metaphor when we’re talking social media.

Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 6d

I went to a one-day conference today sponsored by an edtech company and a question on the last panel was, what’s a buzzword we should get rid of? And one guy was like “Revolution. First the internet was revolutionary, then email, then social media, now AI. We should replace it with evolution”

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 7d

this great point about the social character of knowledge —how knowing real things relies on others signaling when you’re wrong—is another way of highlighting the political importance of social shame. It also clarifies the fundamental nihilism of the AI-industrial complex

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 8d

Memorizing this

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 7d

Last night I dreamed Barbara Bowen was teaching yoga.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

That last excerpt is from the Chicago Sun Times story about the raid. It makes my blood boil. bsky.app/profile/walt...

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 8d

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Gay Bitterskeets @gaybitterskeets.bsky.social · 9d

I experience vicarious gender euphoria when I see trans people experiencing it. I don't understand why that's not every cis person's experience.

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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 9d

This sounds amazing. Thank you for sharing!

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 10d

Final Boss of Both-Sides-ing

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 10d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 11d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 11d

A popular ballot with multiple different candidates …

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13d

No CNN I don't think she was a fugitive from Tupac's godmother actually

CNN, 2 hours ago: an old photo, not the most flattering of a beautiful woman, Assata Shakur, above a headline reading Assata Shakur, fugitive from FBI and Tupac's godmother, dies in Cuba

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