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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them)

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Assoc. Prof. of English & Comm Books: The Computer’s Voice (U Minn, 2020) Robot Suicide (Lexington, 2023) Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024) Worker Bots (U Minn, in progress) LizWFaber.com

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Reminder: I do freelance editing! I can proofread, edit, and format anything from a CV to an entire thesis or dissertation in any discipline. I even do indexing. Pricing and details are on my website. Please share with your grad students and colleagues!

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1h

Much spookier today, thanks

The quad at Dean College, with a grey overcast sky

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 14h

Victorian Lit Prof / Creative Writing Prof / Lit Theory Prof

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

Associate Professor / Full Professor / Assistant Professor

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 14h

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 16h

Oh I love him!

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 16h

A cooking competition show where they declare a winner every week but nobody ever gets eliminated, they just have a nice experience, and then after 10 weeks everyone just goes home happy.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 16h

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 17h

Time for my least favorite game: will the CVS smell like pee or pot today?

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, my school was founded in 1885, so I assume we’ve got a boatload of ghosts. 👻

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 21h

Conversion therapy is stupid for the very basic reason that, even if being gay were a choice, it's still a completely good and normal choice to make.

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BooBiscuit 🎃👻 @harpomarxism.bsky.social · 21h

The terrors persist but the joys remain worth fighting for

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 21h

a girl in a red sweater says " i want it now "

ALT: a girl in a red sweater says " i want it now "

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 21h

*sad pumpkin noises*

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 21h

How am I supposed to be spooky in these conditions?????

The quad at Dean College, with lush green grass, slightly changing trees, and a perfectly blue sky

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

This is a comic about me and @momebie.bsky.social

The Card @thecard.bsky.social · 1d

Hug your anger (and your soup).

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking a lot about how to square abolitionist policies with a cultural desire to seek vengeance in the face of terrible oppression. Can we really abolish ICE and all state violence if we’re also calling for the imprisonment of ICE agents? Can we change if we keep all the same systems in place?

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

My yearly reading has SKYROCKETED since I started reading audiobooks. Like, I used to only manage 2 or 3 books outside of things I teach. Now I read over 100 consistently, and most are audiobooks.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

If whoever does these polls were to listen to librarians & admit that reading books on audio is reading, this number might change significantly.

(AND ALSO - remember @HistOpinion over on Twitter? I loved @HistOpinion.)

Screencap of a tweet from Historical Opinion @HistOpinion that shows a pie graph and a poll question from March 9, 1949:

"Do you happen to be reading any book or books at the present time?"

The Yes wedge is blue and shows 21%
The rest of the graph is No and shows 79%

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Also please remember that you can love someone while refusing to subject yourself to the harm they inflict on you. These are not incompatible actions.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Remember to love the people around you, deeply and unironically. That’s going to get us a lot further than spite.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

Pro Tip: catch up on peer review during contentious faculty meetings. You'll save yourself a lot of anger and help another scholar while you're at it.

Signed,
I Don't Wanna Talk about Gen Ed Anymore

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Bobby Parker @legionbobo.bsky.social · 1d

How many grammar police does it take to change a lightbulb?

To.

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Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

GET IT TOGETHER FALL. #whatprofessorswear

A white nombinary person wearing a lightweight grey skirt, a black tshirt, and sneakers

A screenshot of the weather: 78F in Franklin, MA

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

This one. They thought the article was really interesting, but they all agreed that people their age would never seek out things like that.
daily.jstor.org/take-me-out-...

Take Me Out to the Class Game: Social Stratification in the Stadium - JSTOR Daily

The private boxes for the privileged few in today’s baseball stadiums are nothing new.

daily.jstor.org

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: It's okay for cishet men not to want sex, or not to want it all the time, or to have marital problems because of misaligned sexual desires, regardless of what their wife look like.

Men are complex human beings, not boners on legs.

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