DrAnnD
@drannd.bsky.social
Educator, intellectual freedom advocate, scholar, reader, writer, and lyricist. I knit, garden, and cook for instant gratification. Professor in title. Michigan expat in Texas. Typos make it bespoke. (Skeets my own.)
Y’all. The least controversial thing about this middle headline is the transgender student. Have y’all seen Oklahoma? Like, all the way through?
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Y’all. The least controversial thing about this middle headline is the transgender student. Have y’all seen Oklahoma? Like, all the way through?
I’m not marching today, but I am causing some good trouble for folks who seek to ban books and don’t trust teachers and librarians.
I go old school with initial analysis, every time.
I go old school with initial analysis, every time.
January 19, 2026 at 4:27 PM
I’m not marching today, but I am causing some good trouble for folks who seek to ban books and don’t trust teachers and librarians.
I go old school with initial analysis, every time.
I go old school with initial analysis, every time.
The time of year where I challenge myself to make 2 meals a day that incorporate food I grew.
The cilantro loves South Texas winter. Dinner will have a salad as the greens are going bonkers.
The cilantro loves South Texas winter. Dinner will have a salad as the greens are going bonkers.
January 17, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The time of year where I challenge myself to make 2 meals a day that incorporate food I grew.
The cilantro loves South Texas winter. Dinner will have a salad as the greens are going bonkers.
The cilantro loves South Texas winter. Dinner will have a salad as the greens are going bonkers.
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social, sorry not everyone shares your enthusiasm for pigeons.
This poll was courtesy of Nowhere Bookshop, the coolest indie bookshop in my ‘hood. Who also hosted @bartography.bsky.social after the local district canceled his visit over 3 parent complains about Glitter.
This poll was courtesy of Nowhere Bookshop, the coolest indie bookshop in my ‘hood. Who also hosted @bartography.bsky.social after the local district canceled his visit over 3 parent complains about Glitter.
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 AM
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social, sorry not everyone shares your enthusiasm for pigeons.
This poll was courtesy of Nowhere Bookshop, the coolest indie bookshop in my ‘hood. Who also hosted @bartography.bsky.social after the local district canceled his visit over 3 parent complains about Glitter.
This poll was courtesy of Nowhere Bookshop, the coolest indie bookshop in my ‘hood. Who also hosted @bartography.bsky.social after the local district canceled his visit over 3 parent complains about Glitter.
There are always more of us than there are of them. You can’t see most of the crowd.
78209 showed up for @bartography.bsky.social at Nowhere Bookstore after the local school district cancelled his event. 3 families complained about one page on one book, not even the one he was going to talk about.
78209 showed up for @bartography.bsky.social at Nowhere Bookstore after the local school district cancelled his event. 3 families complained about one page on one book, not even the one he was going to talk about.
January 15, 2026 at 12:17 AM
There are always more of us than there are of them. You can’t see most of the crowd.
78209 showed up for @bartography.bsky.social at Nowhere Bookstore after the local school district cancelled his event. 3 families complained about one page on one book, not even the one he was going to talk about.
78209 showed up for @bartography.bsky.social at Nowhere Bookstore after the local school district cancelled his event. 3 families complained about one page on one book, not even the one he was going to talk about.
LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY?!?!
Can’t wait to learn from @ejmknox.bsky.social, especially as I’m organizing in my own community to push back on cancelling an author’s visit.
Bonus: my dog will love that I won’t move from the couch much tomorrow.
Can’t wait to learn from @ejmknox.bsky.social, especially as I’m organizing in my own community to push back on cancelling an author’s visit.
Bonus: my dog will love that I won’t move from the couch much tomorrow.
January 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY?!?!
Can’t wait to learn from @ejmknox.bsky.social, especially as I’m organizing in my own community to push back on cancelling an author’s visit.
Bonus: my dog will love that I won’t move from the couch much tomorrow.
Can’t wait to learn from @ejmknox.bsky.social, especially as I’m organizing in my own community to push back on cancelling an author’s visit.
Bonus: my dog will love that I won’t move from the couch much tomorrow.
A bit of bookshelf chaos to serve as a moment of pause.
Or to send you into an anxiety spiral because of the utter disregard for order.
Or to send you into an anxiety spiral because of the utter disregard for order.
January 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
A bit of bookshelf chaos to serve as a moment of pause.
Or to send you into an anxiety spiral because of the utter disregard for order.
Or to send you into an anxiety spiral because of the utter disregard for order.
Language, he writes, "was the most important vehicle through which that power fascinated and held the soul prisoner. The bullet was the means of the physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation."
As a scholar of language and literacy, I think about this unceasingly.
As a scholar of language and literacy, I think about this unceasingly.
January 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Language, he writes, "was the most important vehicle through which that power fascinated and held the soul prisoner. The bullet was the means of the physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation."
As a scholar of language and literacy, I think about this unceasingly.
As a scholar of language and literacy, I think about this unceasingly.
Reading Erasing History, by Jason Stanley, to prep for teaching future teachers.
“A fascist form of life… requires an education system that can validate the dominant group's elevated status as a justified consequence of history rather than the fabricated result of intentional choices.”
“A fascist form of life… requires an education system that can validate the dominant group's elevated status as a justified consequence of history rather than the fabricated result of intentional choices.”
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Reading Erasing History, by Jason Stanley, to prep for teaching future teachers.
“A fascist form of life… requires an education system that can validate the dominant group's elevated status as a justified consequence of history rather than the fabricated result of intentional choices.”
“A fascist form of life… requires an education system that can validate the dominant group's elevated status as a justified consequence of history rather than the fabricated result of intentional choices.”
A bit of reading for book club that is apropos for the moment.
“As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil...”
Things They Carried is a book I read with HS jr’s for 3 years and almost all of them read it.
“As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil...”
Things They Carried is a book I read with HS jr’s for 3 years and almost all of them read it.
January 6, 2026 at 12:06 AM
A bit of reading for book club that is apropos for the moment.
“As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil...”
Things They Carried is a book I read with HS jr’s for 3 years and almost all of them read it.
“As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil...”
Things They Carried is a book I read with HS jr’s for 3 years and almost all of them read it.
There are many things I can’t control.
Including the time of greens season when production exceeds the capacity to consume.
#gardening
#garden
#wintergarden
Including the time of greens season when production exceeds the capacity to consume.
#gardening
#garden
#wintergarden
January 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
There are many things I can’t control.
Including the time of greens season when production exceeds the capacity to consume.
#gardening
#garden
#wintergarden
Including the time of greens season when production exceeds the capacity to consume.
#gardening
#garden
#wintergarden
Finally starting @adibkhorram.bsky.social’s upcoming One Word, Six Letters!! Available March 2026.
“You’re too big to play with LEGO sets anymore, but you miss them anyway.”
“You’re too big to play with LEGO sets anymore, but you miss them anyway.”
December 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Finally starting @adibkhorram.bsky.social’s upcoming One Word, Six Letters!! Available March 2026.
“You’re too big to play with LEGO sets anymore, but you miss them anyway.”
“You’re too big to play with LEGO sets anymore, but you miss them anyway.”
Weekend #knitting. Entrelac with handspun alpaca. I’ve got two skeins, so planning for a large shawl.
I met the sweet creature, whose name is Nibbler because he nibbled everything—fingers, hems, zippers, hair. The yarn still has grass, but it’s soft as silk.
I met the sweet creature, whose name is Nibbler because he nibbled everything—fingers, hems, zippers, hair. The yarn still has grass, but it’s soft as silk.
December 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Weekend #knitting. Entrelac with handspun alpaca. I’ve got two skeins, so planning for a large shawl.
I met the sweet creature, whose name is Nibbler because he nibbled everything—fingers, hems, zippers, hair. The yarn still has grass, but it’s soft as silk.
I met the sweet creature, whose name is Nibbler because he nibbled everything—fingers, hems, zippers, hair. The yarn still has grass, but it’s soft as silk.
Censorship in K-12 schools is still very much a thing, even though the media isn't reporting on it.
Volume 2 takes up research on teachers' experiences.
It also includes interviews with recent @ncte.org Intellectual Freedom Award Winners including Laurie Halse Anderson & Nic Stone.
Drops Jan 27!
Volume 2 takes up research on teachers' experiences.
It also includes interviews with recent @ncte.org Intellectual Freedom Award Winners including Laurie Halse Anderson & Nic Stone.
Drops Jan 27!
December 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Censorship in K-12 schools is still very much a thing, even though the media isn't reporting on it.
Volume 2 takes up research on teachers' experiences.
It also includes interviews with recent @ncte.org Intellectual Freedom Award Winners including Laurie Halse Anderson & Nic Stone.
Drops Jan 27!
Volume 2 takes up research on teachers' experiences.
It also includes interviews with recent @ncte.org Intellectual Freedom Award Winners including Laurie Halse Anderson & Nic Stone.
Drops Jan 27!
Lost this time. But it’s fine as I’ll just take out the row and start the second color.
Simple double seed stitch, color block scarf for a gift in Berroco Vintage. #knitting
Simple double seed stitch, color block scarf for a gift in Berroco Vintage. #knitting
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Lost this time. But it’s fine as I’ll just take out the row and start the second color.
Simple double seed stitch, color block scarf for a gift in Berroco Vintage. #knitting
Simple double seed stitch, color block scarf for a gift in Berroco Vintage. #knitting
Leaf skeleton—pecan?—from the front yard. Even in South Texas, there’s evidence of fall.
December 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Leaf skeleton—pecan?—from the front yard. Even in South Texas, there’s evidence of fall.
A skein from Wool and Honey’s Sleeping Bear Yarn Club!
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A skein from Wool and Honey’s Sleeping Bear Yarn Club!
I have 1/2 a row and bind off left. It may be 10p, but I have to finish. It’s like just having one chapter left in the book. You just finish.
#knitting
#knitting
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I have 1/2 a row and bind off left. It may be 10p, but I have to finish. It’s like just having one chapter left in the book. You just finish.
#knitting
#knitting
How it's going in Texas public higher ed.
"Review of Sexual Orientation Content Required
Faculty are required to submit course content related to sexual orientation through the Course Content Review Process overseen by the board of regents."
"Review of Sexual Orientation Content Required
Faculty are required to submit course content related to sexual orientation through the Course Content Review Process overseen by the board of regents."
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
How it's going in Texas public higher ed.
"Review of Sexual Orientation Content Required
Faculty are required to submit course content related to sexual orientation through the Course Content Review Process overseen by the board of regents."
"Review of Sexual Orientation Content Required
Faculty are required to submit course content related to sexual orientation through the Course Content Review Process overseen by the board of regents."
Yahoo just prompted me to accept their new ToS.
I now share the entire contents of my inbox with "trusted third-party AI providers" to continue using my email address.
Doesn't this violate either HIPPA or FERPA given that I use email to communicate with my kids' teachers and medical providers?
I now share the entire contents of my inbox with "trusted third-party AI providers" to continue using my email address.
Doesn't this violate either HIPPA or FERPA given that I use email to communicate with my kids' teachers and medical providers?
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yahoo just prompted me to accept their new ToS.
I now share the entire contents of my inbox with "trusted third-party AI providers" to continue using my email address.
Doesn't this violate either HIPPA or FERPA given that I use email to communicate with my kids' teachers and medical providers?
I now share the entire contents of my inbox with "trusted third-party AI providers" to continue using my email address.
Doesn't this violate either HIPPA or FERPA given that I use email to communicate with my kids' teachers and medical providers?
This hits perfectly. Thank you, @theonion.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This hits perfectly. Thank you, @theonion.com
First greens harvest, left bundle, turned into an omelette. Arugula, right side, will end up on a caprese sandwich tomorrow.
The seed mix had a great germination rate and took about 3 weeks to get this size. Highly recommend Reene’s Garden, especially for new gardeners.
#gardening
#touchgrass
The seed mix had a great germination rate and took about 3 weeks to get this size. Highly recommend Reene’s Garden, especially for new gardeners.
#gardening
#touchgrass
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
First greens harvest, left bundle, turned into an omelette. Arugula, right side, will end up on a caprese sandwich tomorrow.
The seed mix had a great germination rate and took about 3 weeks to get this size. Highly recommend Reene’s Garden, especially for new gardeners.
#gardening
#touchgrass
The seed mix had a great germination rate and took about 3 weeks to get this size. Highly recommend Reene’s Garden, especially for new gardeners.
#gardening
#touchgrass