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Goblin Gower, PhD

@medievaliste.bsky.social

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lapsed professor research: music, political culture, and identity in medieval England and beyond academic editing and historical consulting ⤵️ glgower.com

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · Jul 2

Music and politics expert here. There is no music that is free from politics, because music is a human construct and whether or not we like to admit it, humans are all affected intimately by politics. Even music without words can express political ideas. You’re just noticing it for the first time.

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 1h

Agreed. Why take responsibility for your failures when you could just create a false narrative?

Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible, she’s a treasure 💖

Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 2h

free to voluntarily surrender your academic freedom and worker protections

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14h

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 2h

I love Miss Piggy very much, but please be advised that this is a Portland frog joke

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 2h

Please, her name is Kermeena

Kermit the Frog in drag as Kermeena. Kermina is wearing a red leotard, pearls, and a blonde curly wig

Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 2h

I heard that’s why they moved to Portland

Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 11h

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 11h

I never eat Doritos but tonight I ate some just for you

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 18h

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 14h

Obviously you weren’t running enough charities at the time!

Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry to the author but these are words only someone who has no meaningful lived experience of marginalization could write with a straight face.

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Jon Hegglund @jonhegglund.bsky.social · 14h

precarity is good, actually

Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 14h

“I was teaching as a nontenured professor all this time, usually at two or more universities simultaneously, and making a surprisingly good living at it.”

WHAT

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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 14h

“But there was a part of me that wondered whether moving to the margins of academia might also benefit me”

…what

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1d

This is a..weird article. I mean, good for this guy that he found a fulfilling career, etc. Not taking anything away from that.

But, it also seems odd for the AHA to be sort of glamming up a contingent career without tenure in this particular moment.

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