Allison Janney is headed back to the White House! She will appear as a guest star in the upcoming season of The Diplomat as Vice President Grace Penn.

Our final session for our #SeminarSeries is coming up soon: have you registered yet? 📝

We'll be listening to Susanne Abou Ghaida/سوزان أبو غيدا (our VP!) and Dr. 💀 present on 9 November! 📚

#YASA members can register for the event here, which is free!

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My book on #Oxnard and #MicheleSerros is forthcoming, y'all.

Check this collection out! 🤩🤩🤩

Honored to be a contributor to ALT KID LIT from Univ Press of MS, which features so many incomparable scholars of youth culture.
upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Alt-Ki…

My tenure track cohort had an econ prof (who also has a humanities PhD like me) & they started making about 8k more than I did. I developed 13 new classes in 2 years. This prof has only taught multiple sections of ONE class.

It's time to remind the world again that Pablo Neruda was a self-confessed rapist. When he was Chile's consul in Sri Lanka, he raped the Dalit woman who collected his excrement every day. He published a detailed account in his memoirs. Read it here.
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Little Women (1868)

Turns out ChatGPT can’t write literature but it CAN easily replace businesspeople. I’m sure university leaders will adjust funding priorities accordingly

I want to see more of us in academia✨

If you are prepping for the academic job market, I hope you find these resources helpful.

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Latinx scholars, submit to the Chiricú special issue on Latinx Futurity in Young Adult and Children's Literature edited by Renee Hudson. The deadline is 11/15. Share the CFP below.

#LatinxBookBingo is back for another round! Hosted by Sofia Sofia (Bookish Wanderess), Paola (@/guerrerawr on IG) and Cande cande. From September 15 to October 15, the goal is to read books by Latinx authors during Latinx Heritage Month!

Don't do this, fellow professors. Jfc

Academic kindness costs us nothing but there is such a scarcity of it in academia. As the new academic year begins, I pray there will be less toxic fetishization of competition, hyper-productivity, mad rushing, but more compassion, care ethics, conviviality. 💚 #AcademicChatter

Reminder that Tenochtitlan had multiple libraries on various subjects. All totally destroyed. There’s no surviving Mexica texts. None. Only colonial era reconstructions of Mexica culture & history.

can’t today; all booked up

I dunno, maybe also #CancelStudentDebt ? That seems like a good idea.

This will only be effective if EVERYONE refrains from tweeting (X-ing?) on August 1st a/k/a #TweetlessTuesday . Let's show the owner the POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Honestly, would it kill you to keep your thoughts to yourself for 1 damn day? Read a book! 👀 #August1stTweetOutDay

Academia or industry?

This is a TERRIBLE idea. click2houston.com/news/local/202…

Houston independent school district is showing us exactly what education has become: a system that punishes children for being and behaving like children.