Many faculty say excellent grammar alerts them to possible AI use. I never know what to do with that.

And if students don't upload it but create their own prompt from it, possibly in the cognitive verifier or flipped interaction patterns? Or what if they upload the rubric and not the prompt? This is not the gotcha people want.

The Dream Exit

My interview with Emily Van Duyne about her revolutionary book on Plath is up at Avidly! It encapsulates and solidifies so much about Plath that seemed true but lacked evidence until Emily worked through the massive amount of new archival materials. Thanks, Emily, for so much!

"Why not write an unapologetic book about my absolute devotion to this dead woman, this perceived disaster?" Nels Highberg 🍉 interviews Emily Van Duyne about her book, "Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation" avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2024/11/01/rec…

F*ggot approved

I spent yesterday putting packets of poems together for my women's lit course next semester, which I first taught in this department in 1994. The work continues.

Today I woke up to an email from a mom asking me to take down the beautiful HuffPost essay she wrote about her trans kid because she's now terrified about their safety It breaks my heart but I don't blame her This is our reality now And this is why we have to keep fighting

I think I need to include a list of states where teaching the course would be illegal in next semester's syllabi.

At least we got Jahana Hayes back for us! #AvonCT

queer joy, sure, sure, but also queer ennui, queer failure, queer spite, queer rage, queer awkwardness, queer sleepiness, queer hate, queer disobedience, queer use of massage oils, queer punctuation,

Sapphire Oh Sapphire. You remember all those old days. I just looked up our last email, this time last year, and her last words to me were: “hard times.” Jesus. susiebright.ink/p/dorothy-alli…

🚨🇮🇪🇵🇸 BREAKING: IRELAND appoints their first Palestinian Ambassador.

This demand for moral clarity/purity in fiction (or perhaps art more broadly) and a belief that anything that strays from that or requires a lot of grey is tacitly supporting Something Bad/Regressive Politics

i don't think all academics are driven by trauma. but academia attracts ppl who experienced school as a central space of validation, maybe the only place they were ever praised/"seen." also, academic accomplishments are wielded to counter parental neglect & societal debasement.

It takes a sex trafficker to catch a sex trafficker. That's why I'm supporting Matt Gaetz for Attorney General.