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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸

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Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic PhD in American Literature Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ | my views, not employer's | book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · Nov 16

It looks like copies of my book are sold out at the @uminnpress.bsky.social table at #2024ASA but you can order it at this link with the code MN92070 for 30% off!!

If you order it, let me know when you get your copy! ☺️

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A display copy of Jess A. Goldberg's book "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" sits in a bookstand on a table at the American Studies Association conference.

A flyer with a discount code for ordering a copy of "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" by Jess A. Goldberg.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

Again, a literal genocide is happening. This typing on screens about slogans is obscene and offensive in the face of the enormity of reality. Israel is a genocidal nation. Adding "and Israel" to the slogan is offensive to humanity itself. I am done. Free Palestine.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

A literal genocide is happening. I am done going back and forth with strangers on the Internet about the proper rhetoric to use to describe that. I have no empathy for my fellow Jews who are so fragile in their commitment to Justice demanded by our faith as to be scared off by that slogan.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

This is a great collection and I am so proud to have one little essay on teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's *Zong!* in it! Preorder now for the February publication!

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface: Editors' Note on the Now
Introduction
Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud
Part 1: How We Think About Poems
1. A Conversation on Dinétics
Esther G. Belin and Jake Skeets
2. Post-Craft
Michael Leong
3. Unsettling Modernist Poetry
Erin Kappeler
4. Legacies of Empire in the Western Poetic Line:
The Problem of Caesura
Heather H. Yeung
5. Unpacking the Interpretive Toolbox: Historical
Poetics in Introductory Courses
Caroline Gelmi
6. "I hear it now"; or, Teaching Students to Read Poems in Novels
Annelise Chick and Gabrielle Stecher
7. Moving "Rooms" Across Borders: Putting Pressure on the Stanza
Reem Abbas and Heather H. Yeung

8. Under the Sonnet's Menace: Helping Students Navigate Race, Constraint, and Rage in the Post-Romantic Sonnet Anton Vander Zee
9. Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry's Diction
William Fogarty
10. Reading, Misreading, and Rereading "We Real Cool" Mike Chasar
Part 1 Cluster: Ideas on Teaching Lyric
11. Retheorizing Lyric via the Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Poetry
Chris Chan
12. Lyric Borders: Reading and Writing with Gloria
Anzaldúa's New Mestiza
Leah Huizar
13. Lorenzo Thomas's Griot Lyric: Reading Persona and Race in the Digital Age
Lukas Moe
14. Lyric After Lyricization: Learning and Unlearning the Lyric / in the Activist Classroom
Anastasia Nikolis
Part 2: What We Do With Poems
15. Poetry as Empathetic Praxis: Black Poetics and the Creative Writing Classroom
Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

16. Performing Desire: Collaborating with Sex Worker Poets in the Composition Classroom
Philippa Chun
17. Oral Poetries Are (Not) Lost to Us: Ethnopoetics in the Digital Age
Kenneth Sherwood
18. Against Mastery: Working Through the Desire for Order in Teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
Jess A. Goldberg
19. Future-Facing Archives: Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Intertextual Poetic Past
Sarah Nance
20. Cultivating a Culture of Enjoyment in the Poetry
Classroom
Rachel B. Griffis
21. Reframing Modernism: Creative Composition and the Analysis of Modernist Poetry at an HBCU
Candis Pizzetta
22. Whose Voice Matters? Reading Aloud Across Language and Ability Eileen Sperry
23. Reimagining the Poet's Procedure: Imitation as
Literary Analysis
Lizzy LeRud
24. From Stifling to Expansive: Reimagining Poetry
Teaching and Learning with The South African
Poetry Project
Sooriagandhi Naidoo, Toni Gennrich, and Eunice Phiri

25. Transgressive Teaching and Subverting
Censorship in the Dual-Credit Classroom
Ronnie K. Stephens
26. The Florence Poetry Collective: Death Row as a
Site of Poetic Production and Expressive
Sovereignty
Joe Lockard
Part 2 Cluster: Project-Based Learning
27. Engaging Poetry: The Review as Critique and
Conversation
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader
28. City, State, and Self: A Collaborative Book Project
James Innis McDougall
29. Experimental Indexes: Quantifying Poetic
Patterns and Project-Based Reading
Nick Sturm
30. Teaching Anti-Racist Research Practices Beyond Research Papers: Emma Lazarus, Esther Schor, and My First-Year Composition Students Mollie Barnes
31. Student Research, Digital Humanities, and Cross-Campus Collaboration: Building Mina Loy:
Navigating the Avant-Garde
Susan Rosenbaum, Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A.
Kinnahan
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

There can be no peace so long as there is injustice. Israel is founded on the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba and exists as a Jewish supremacist ethnostate. Until those facts cease to be, the Intifada continues. Peace is not the call. Justice and freedom is the call. Freedom first, then peace.

Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

Just like how it would have been obscene to argue about whether Jewish people being exterminated in the Shoa should say "death to Nazis" or not, it is obscene to even open our mouths to utter a word of argument about the rhetoric of slogans when literal genocide is happening.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

Israel is literally commiting a genocide, and I refuse any discussion of hypotheticals as a way to argue about the rhetorical phrasing of calls to cease literal genocide.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 23h

As a Jewish person myself, I am done being told what is or isn't a threat to my people. I mean exactly what I said, as literally as I said it. Palestinian freedom is not a genocidal threat to Jewish people. The Israeli state is not synonymous with Jewish people.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

It's been two years and it's been 77 years. Palestine must be free. From the river to the sea. In our lifetimes.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 2d

Got some pictures from my local coffee shop book talk from one of the attendees. I enjoyed reading from "Abolition Time" and talking with folks about art & social justice. And it was really well attended for a small town in the northern New Mexico mountains!

@uminnpress.bsky.social

Jess stands at a microphone at the back of a coffee shop reading from their book "Abolition Time" as people seated at tables listen.

Jess is seen standing and gesturing in mid-sentence at a book talk on a small coffee shop. They are wearing a pink dress, black boots, and a keffiyeh.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 2d

I remember learning about "The Plan" in my very first year of college and how immediately it made so much sense to me as a white person who grew up on Long Island. White flight + austerity politics as whitelash against the Civil Rights Movement is and was real.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

also hello hello white people did this intentionally because they CHOSE to abandon cities for the suburbs and then intentionally defund government, public schools, parks, and library systems

and the Black middle class was sacrificed so white flight could happen more easily

Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Cities with high “crime rates” are resource deprived cities populated by marginalized communities. They’re often poor, have limited access to social safety nets, and are over-policed.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 3d

Israel is a structurally evil nation-state. Genocidal in its founding and maintenance. The torture of members of the Global Samud Flotilla is a fractional insight into how that country operates as a settler colony that kills, maims, terrorizes, and humiliates the Palestinians indigenous to the land.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 3d

Petition to purge the phrase "compassion fatigue" from the English language.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 3d

"Abolish ICE" has been the bedrock demand for two decades. It needs to be a mainstream position, now.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 6d

I've been teaching "anti-American" content that could be construed as "extremism on race/gender/migration" for my entire career and have gotten in trouble for it before. It's weird now that when I walk in the room as trans I'm embodying "extremism on gender." But I will never stop teaching what I do

The phrase "We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us" written in chalk on a green chalkboard.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 9d

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000.

Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article)

As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.

www.nytimes.com

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 9d

Feeling this every semester especially in my Composition classes, but this semester seems worse than most recent years...

Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 9d

My PhD alma mater is fucking embarrassing. Cornell upper administrators are a bunch of political cowards who have shown time and again that literally defending genocide is more of a core value to them than free speech. Embarrassing and disgusting.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17d

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 17d

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19

What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says

U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 21d

I hope every journalist, comedian, professor, podcast/talkshow host, and politician that did "both-sides" takes about "cancel culture" and "free speech" for the past decade loses sleep over how absolutely ridiculous they have been while we see that censorship has fully become foundational GOP policy

Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 22d

Love and unwavering militant solidarity to the people of Palestine.

From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.

Globalize the Intifada.

Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 22d

A colonized people being faced with genocide have the right to resist by any means necessary. I support that right for the people of Palestine without equivocation or qualification. There is no tactic that I condemn. Genocide must be stopped. The occupation must end.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 22d

The UN officially determines that Israel is committing genocide.

How many reports need to confirm what Palestinians have been saying for years?

Does international law protect anyone from Western imperialism?

I want to be something other than cynical today.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

UN inquiry says Israel’s war on Gaza is genocide, holds gov’t responsible

Using statements of Israeli officials and evidence on the ground, a UN report finds Israel is committing genocide.

www.aljazeera.com

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