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Dr. Misty Krueger

@mistykrueger.bsky.social

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Scholar of long C18 women writers & characters & *JANE AUSTEN*). Editor of Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843. Writing a monograph on Austen & monsters. Wrote a memoir about having breast cancer. Living with metastatic breast cancer/stage 4 cancer.

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Aug 22

Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Mar 26

Gonna be a trenta kind of day.

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Mar 26

Last year I got swabbed so hard I thought they hit my brain. Then I had to get swabbed later that day again.

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · Mar 26

“To do nothing, to put our heads down and go back to work as if everything is normal, is to capitulate, it is to accept that our universities are forever going to be the playthings of right-wing politicians and the rich”

Faculty, students, and community members walk out in support of detained Georgetown fellow

Over 120 Georgetown community members participated in a walkout Tuesday, protesting the DHS detainment of Georgetown fellow Badar Khan Suri.

georgetownvoice.com

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · Mar 26

Focusing on the life of Marton, an 18th-century enslaved woman in Louisiana who produced beer made from scavenged rice, Jessica Blake examines ways enslaved women adapted to scarcity and increased their autonomy

Read free in Journal of Women's History
tinyurl.com/p7wa7zev

Beer, “Waste,” and One Enslaved Woman’s Currency in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Jessica Blake
Journal of Women's History
Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2024
Read free thru 31 March

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · Mar 26

Have just uploaded my access copies of my talk for #ASECS2025 ‘Disability and Environment’ panel 2-3pm EST this Friday. I am looking forward to hearing the other papers.

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Mar 26

My slides are uploaded.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Mar 24

This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief.

Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.

What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 24

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

theatln.tc

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Mar 24

OMG. Zoom now sends you an AI generated summary of your meeting. It's pretty accurate except for one thing. It referred to me as "she" everywhere! #notmypronoun #they/them

Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Mar 9

The ASECS Women’s Caucus is looking for a new co-chair to serve a two-year term beginning July 2025. If you want to self-nominate or nominate someone, please message me.

Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 16

I think @cignahealthcare.bsky.social automatically rejects every request my doctors make. Why can’t I get an arm monitor so my doctors can keep track of the secondary diabetes I now have thanks to metastatic breast cancer treatment? We need the data to make life altering decisions about my care.

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thanks to all of you who shared my posts. Cigna decided not to reject my doctor’s third request for a PET scan.

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 10

Works for me.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Georgian era is the era of the pun not the Victorian #Radio4

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 7

Love you.

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 6

Feel free to share my posts about Cigna and Accredo because they only respond to public shaming.

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 6

Cigna forcing me to use Accredo pharmacy has lead to me being in a situation where I can’t get my chemo. And Accredo has been gaslighting me for weeks. Today I thought about quitting my treatment and just letting the cancer kill me. Because I can’t keep begging for care.

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 6

Fuck

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Feb 6

Greg Abbott is taking a break from his obsession with killing pregnant women, children and migrants and trying to kill his state’s university system instead.

www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/t...

Gov. Greg Abbott said in his state of the state speech on Sunday the Legislature should make post-secondary education more affordable, accessible — and accountable.

“College professors have increasingly pushed woke agendas,” Abbott said. “They have too much influence over who is hired to educate our kids. We need legislation that prohibits professors from having any say over employment decisions.”

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 6

Cigna is denying me a PET scan bc. they state it is not medically necessary based on their clinical guidelines. I have stage 4 metastatic breast cancer spreading throughout my bones and liver. My insurance company says I don't need the only scan that can show what's going on!

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 4

I could do that.

Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have metastatic breast cancer.

Official website of World Cancer Day by UICC | 4 February

An international awareness day led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise worldwide attention and inspire action for a cancer-free future.

www.worldcancerday.org

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Feb 3

Unpopular opinion: Lainey Wilson should have won. Not Beyoncé. And yes I have listened to both albums.

Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Jan 31

What famous film haven’t you seen that everyone would think had seen? Tonight I’m watching Sister Act. How was it that I never watched it? 🤷‍♂️

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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Jan 29

Woke up with this song playing in my head. I wonder why.

Backwater by Meat Puppets on Apple Music

Song · 1994 · Duration 3:40

music.apple.com

Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · Jan 27

I’ve been away from home for a month and coming back is weird because I still have my Christmas lights up. I just received lots of Christmas cards. I’m watching the Doctor Who xmas episode. It’s like time travel for me!

Also: love Ncuti Gatwa.