PhDing in Lit, teacher, reader, unequivocal supporter of trans rights. sadly no longer an Englishwoman in Detroit. She/her
Detroit, MI
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At the enthusiastic encouragement of the author, @DavidVeevers1 (who may now be regretting it), I shall be live tweeting my reading experience of The Great Defianceā¦
Here we goā¦ (just take deep breaths, David, itās going to be fine lol)
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AHAHAHAHAHAAAA
You guys, a man just SENT ME A DM to announce he was unfollowing me because Iām ātoo opinionated for a femaleā and he initially followed because of my profile pic because he was āinterested in meā but I āput him offā and heās ādisappointed in meā
Iām dying omfg š
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Note theyāre saying āGazan monstersā
NOT Hamas. GAZANS.
This dehumanising rhetoric is an integral part of genocide. After all, they donāt want to wipe PEOPLE from the face of the earth - only monsters live there.
Israel's Public Diplomacy Minister:
"Erase all of Gaza from the face of the earth. That the Gazan monsters will fly to the southern fence & try to enter Egyptian territory or they will die & their death will be evil.
Gaza should be erased!"
Still questioning a genocidal intent?
Community note
Galit Distel Atbaryan resigned from the position of Public Diplomacy Minister on October 13th. She remains member of the Knesset for the Likud.
timesofisrael.com/public-diplomaā¦
The quote is a litteral translation of a part of a twitter post of hers, you can find here.
nitter.app/GalitDistel/st
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I am a millennial. And I AM THE PROFESSOR.
You teach the students in front of you. You adapt to their needs and you listen to them. If this is your attitude, get out of the damn classroom.
The lamest generation: I canāt teach millennials ā they refuse to take any responsibility for their learning, says an assistant professor
bit.ly/2JtxhhF
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āI donāt think you should call yourself a Dr, it looks like youāre boasting. Arrogance isnāt attractive, bet you canāt get dates.ā - Random Internet Guy
Well, shit. The entire reason Iām doing a PhD is to find a man, guess Iād better quit now. #ImmodestWomen
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My mum just suggested that, instead of taking Wilbur to the vet to get a tick removed. I should smother the tick with a huge glob of margarine or butter, and the tick would eventually unscrew itself because it canāt breathe.
@JortsTheCat my mother just told me to BUTTER MY CAT
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This happened to me too! Mine called the ambulance while I was in her office, called the ER to inform them I was coming in, and tore the ER a new one for telling me I was just dehydrated and to go home, despite having done an ECG which showed multiple indications of heart damage
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Lol at the people suggesting we faked our degrees and are posing as academics š
I dunno, lads, if I was going for a fake identity, Iād have chosen something like Batman
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Hi to the multiple folx pedantically pointing out that ACTUALLY Stipe wrote *I* feel fine! To save you time:
A) I know the lyrics!
B) see my reply to this point in the thread!
C) ā¦ this is clearly a sarcastic/flippant tweet and not a personal attack on Michael Stipe!
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friends had to deal with random strangers just walking up and touching their belly then excusing it/defending their actions in an affronted tone with shit like āI ONLY wanted to feel it kick!ā
Like THEY were being unreasonable for objecting to being touched without their consent
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Lol at the people who think academics are orchestrating a liberal conspiracy
Mate, some of us canāt even work out how the āreply allā function in email works
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Absolutely fantastic tip on avoiding mosquito bites!!!
Iām v. allergic to mosquitoes. My doctor said to use an oil based lotion or sunscreen - mosquitos canāt get their proboscis through the oil.
I use Vaseline body lotion under sunscreen and have zero bites. 10/10 recommend
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But what REALLY made me go āoh shiiiiitā was the AZ state senator saying HIS BELIEF THAT THE CONSTITUTION WAS DIVINELY INSPIRED IS THE FOUNDATION OF HIS FAITH.
Oh no.
Then Cheney said she agreed!
Guys, the right wing violence shit you want to stop is inspired by that belief
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Culturally difficult experience as a Brit in the US.
Itās really unsettling to see āWOOO! HAPPY ARMISTICE DAY/ VETERANS DAY, YāALL!!!ā everywhere.
Thatās jarring. Remembrance Day is a day of reflection of millions of lives lost through conflict, not a celebration of victory.
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UPDATE: I just asked my mum if sheād actually tried this (we had a huge muscular alpha male ginger tom when growing up).
She said āOh no, dear!! Ivor would have torn me to pieces!ā
Really? A cat would have objected to being buttered? Iām shocked.
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He did, but I sing along, and he knew people would, therefore he ENCOURAGED me to think I would be fine. I maintain my position
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UPDATE UPDATE:
Wilburās tick has been safely removed by the vet, antibiotic shot given as a precaution, and heās now sitting with his back to me. Just so I KNOW heās sulkingā¦
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My new strategy in job interviews will be to avoid awkward questions by yelling āhave YOU ever done that, professor???ā at the panel, ramble about my love of beer, and if all else fails, fake cry.
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I regularly read fantasy. I also read graphic novels. Iām a big fan of historical murder mysteries.
Iām doing a PhD in literature.
Literary snobbery and policing reading preferences is a perfect way to crush a love of reading and drive young readers away.
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Shout out to @divafancypants for giving me an avi that attracts mentalists
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Baby, Iām a nightmare dressed as a daydream: The impact of Taylor Swift lyrics on crusty male academics
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Itās LEGIT the only thing people remember about her except she single-handedly wrecked the economy in HOURS with a toxic budget. If I was her, Iād feel lucky people were focusing on the (epically hilarious) lettuce fiasco
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Editing a paper and noticed I have been calling Van Helsing Van Halen for the whole thing, and honestly I am here for that version of Dracula š§āāļø
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Obvs I am NOT going to butter my cat, or try any home remedy, I am taking Wilbur to the vet to get him checked and the tick removed.
Frankly, I reckon heād be more traumatized by the buttering. And I would have a house covered in butter.
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Itās so very very exhausting to have to keep saying this. And YES, grad students count as students you should not date if you are their professor.
IT IS NOT THE AGE OF THE STUDENT, IT IS THE STRUCTURAL POWER DYNAMICS
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Being a first gen PhD is lonely. Like, my mother and sister are proud, but have no clue what Iām doing. Especially as PhDās have different structures in England. Sometimes I feel like weāre talking different languages and itās very sad
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The state of my DMs right now š
āOMG a woman is having Opinions I donāt like, quick, better call her fat and ugly and assert no one would fuck her anyway!!!ā
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Type āAcademia is...ā and let your predictive text have at it - whatever happens will be as coherent as many current takes about what we do š¤·āāļø
FWIW, hereās mine:
Academia is not quite the same thing as I have a lot of love and kisses and cuddles for you
Seems legit š
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Once again for those who claim these vile attacks from people tattooed with swastikas and throwing nazi salutes arenāt committed by nazis and fascists:
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Iāve also had nothing but good experiences. I went into a full blown panic attack in Piccadilly Circle at rush hour and two members of staff appeared from nowhere and moved me somewhere quiet and stayed while I worked on getting it under control
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Apparently all you have to do is support women, trans folk, POC, advocate strongly for your students, oppose fascist shits, and post pictures of your cats. Who knew.
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Someone once asked me what book I was reading on the tube and I was so appalled I had to get off 3 stops early to escape the harassment
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Me: I donāt want to get hit on by my professors, thanks
Random guy crashing in like the Kool Aid man: I DOnāt LikE yOUr ToNE
Me: Professors who fuck the people they teach are unprofessional creeps.
Better now?
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I was asked what I thought of a ceramic thing on the desk. He literally said āwhat do you think of this?ā randomly mid interview. I said I thought it was an interesting interpretation of a penguin. He then got made because it was a beaver that his daughter had made.
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Speaking of Christian Nationalism - Iām concerned at the committee deliberately foregrounding peoplesā faith in relation to their civic responsibility. Like. Impending-sense-that-the-T Rex-is-behind-me concerned
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Went to pick up new antidepressants. Blanked, forgot what I was out for, ended up with lemon meringue pie.
Pie.
Itās good pie, though. And has no side effects.
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My invariable response when someone likes my dress is to overexcitedly exclaim ālook! It has POCKETS!ā
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Please stop conflating the founders with prophets, please stop treating the constitution like the Bible, please STOP with this shit about America being Godās intention, because that path ends in a battleground, please stop omg
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Iām all over here definitely NOT a shiny, happy person. To be fair, they are spot on that Everybody Hurts right now tho
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Iām a massive fan, read this interview, was being flippant, AND reader response theory states authorial intention is not of sole importance in literature - the interpretation of the reader/listener equally important in the creation of meaning
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But remember, we can't have a woman in the White House bc she'd be too emotional and irrational...
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Crookshanks remained peacefully sleeping until I started talking for my online class.
There is now a course video of me wrestling a huge cat while lecturing to prevent him walking on the keyboard.
I have this ācomplete professionalā thing NAILED, yāall
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Fuckās sake, men.
STOP MAKING MOMENTOUS ACHIEVEMENTS OF WOMEN ALL ABOUT YOU
Do NOT propose at her graduation (ANY of them), at her birthday, at an awards ceremony where she is being honored, or in the middle of a god-damned marathon.
Jesus wept. Not everything is about you.
SHE SAID YES: A woman who was running in Sundayās New York City Marathon was at mile 16 when her longtime boyfriend hopped over the barrier and dropped to one knee. She ended the day with a medal around her neck and a ring on her finger. cbsn.ws/2D6P5Qt
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I was misdiagnosed with BPD. Some of that treatment (for example, DBT) suggested challenging irrational thoughts. Only it backfired because trauma informed thinking is not always irrational - therefore I ended up gaslighting MYSELF into believing my trauma wasnāt real
Autistic meltdowns, burnout, and shutdowns are mistaken for BPD because oscillations to survive in an unsafe environment are confused with an unstable self.
Ditto CPTSD. Ditto ADHD.
Something is very wrong, but not with personality.
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Listen to my mother??
She told me to make sure sex was good with the guy before committing.
To ALWAYS ensure I used condoms.
That you need to leave a marriage if youāre unhappy.
That marriage is an archaic institution and we didnāt need a partner to be happy or successful
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Precisely. Like, you think I even knew you were following me in the first place? I obsessively count followers on twitter and mourn every block or unfollow like the loss of a loved one? I wonder just what Iām doing wrong to drive men away?
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My mum was told by her bank manager that she needed her husbandās permission to open a bank account. In 1972.
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A student wrote on my evals that the most important thing they learned from me was, whenever there are calls for ācivil discourseā look at who is demanding civility, who they are demanding it FROM, and what discourse are they trying to subvert or avoid by making those demands
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What if - hear me out - what if opinion columns were written by people who had well-informed opinions, and who werenāt complete dicks.
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wtf are they SERIOUSLY fighting about laptops in class for the billionth time, thank god we don't have genuinely concerning shit like nazis on campuses or a sustained attack on intellectuals and academics to worry about in the US
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I got one that said I covered too many female authors, and spoke too much about feminism.
The course was literally titled FEMINIST LITERATURES
I mean
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Dear people who keep saying āwe targeted civilians in WW2, nobody complained about it then!ā as an excuse for Israeli actions,
PEOPLE DID COMPLAIN, THAT IS LITERALLY A MAJOR REASON WHY THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS HAPPENED IN 1949, FFS
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Ugh jeez... š next time any bloke dares to suggest women are more easily upset than men, I shall remind him of the time I got sent abuse for 72 hours and counting for mildly suggesting on twitter that I didnāt undertake a graduate degree to please men š¤¦āāļø
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Iām never using @HiltonHotels again after this disgraceful way these employees of theirs intimidated, then placed at risk, a woman on her own in the middle of the night.
Security guards, my arse.
Women travelling alone? Donāt book with the Harassment Hilton chain.
Ladies if you ever miss your train & cannot get back home donāt try to check into ā¦@HiltonHotelsā© I was told there was a room but after I had no photo ID this happened. Always be prepared to tell men (even strangers) where you have been & why you are out at 1am.
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Professors in teaching positions - our job is to facilitate the learning of our students. All of them.
It is not our job to belittle and mock students who are trying to learn. Nor is it our job to grandstand in seminars, act like divas, or expect students to pander to our egos.
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They donāt have special needs, they arenāt hard to teach, it doesnāt require anything more than an effective teacher does anyway. You listen to what your students struggle with AND HELP THEM TO UNDERSTAND IT, which is the basic definition of teaching
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Iām currently crying into my pillow and eating all the ice cream, this is the hardest break up of my life
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I have realised that any man who requires me to be less than I am is not a man I wish to have a relationship with
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Current self care plan:
No social media to avoid distress over Brexit/Trump
Cozy socks
Midsomer Murders
Pride and Prejudice marathon
Hot Chocolate
Cake
Face mask
Manicure
Tea
Fuzzy blanket
Georgette Heyer novels
Snuggles with cats
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Calling people who drew your attention to documented historical evidence as āhysterical leftistsā is an ominous assertion, Senator.
Insisting on accuracy is not a question of political correctness.
Your deliberate attempt to skew public discourse is disturbing.
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Yeah, weird. Itās not like thereās immunocompromised people, or people with children they canāt vaccinate, or people like my sister with severe asthma who might die if they catch a āmildā case. Weird how nobody actually gives a shit about the safety of anyone but themselves
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A student ACTUALLY thought I was earning about $50000. As a GTA. After Iād finished howling with laughter and explained where the money was ACTUALLY going, she was SO OUTRAGED.
āBUT... BUT YOU GUYS ACTUALLY TEACH US, HOW IS THAT FAIR???ā
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What, you mean there are men who arenāt threatened by womenās intelligence and achievements??? Surely not!!! Are they even āreal menā tho. I bet they donāt even watch real men things like football and stuff
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I can only answer 3 and am reading the authors I missed. Iām not up to speed despite working on colonialism and postcolonialism for 10 years. AMAZED at all these āexpertsā suddenly appearing in national media. Who could just ask an actual expert.
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Stop asking why women are so angry.
The question should be why the fuck arenāt YOU angry?
If you arenāt scared, if you think this doesnāt matter, if you think this is defending some warped Christian agenda,
You DONāT support women, you DONāT care about equality, fuck off.
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CW: anorexia , body dysmorphia
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New meds made me bloat - combined with restricted exercise, I canāt get into some of my jeans
Demon anorexia is SCREAMING at me that I am fat and must stop eating but I did a V Hard Thing, gave jeans to charity. Pls clap.
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Yup. Itās scary to think thereās still men out there who expect women to tailor their lives around pleasing or being attractive to men. Hello, we have autonomous existences outside of our relationships?
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We ALL get students who simply donāt bother. However, there are no more in this generation than previous ones. We know from pedagogical research that using a variety of teaching strategies reaches more students. Thatās our job in the classroom. When we do this, more students pass
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OUR JOB IS TO TEACH THEM TO WRITE, NOT BITCH THAT THEY CANāT
Meet students where they are, AND LIFT THEM UP
Stop sneering at them because they havenāt hit an arbitrary line you have in your head.
Help them get to where they need to be to get to where they want to go.
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My father sighed and tutted when my mum was in labor with my sister, and said āoh come on, youāre not trying hard enoughā.
She screamed at him to fuck off, and the nurse asked him to leave.
Iām surprised she didnāt punch him.
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They basically claim every student is terrible and none of them get the material. Well, if ALL of them donāt understand, thereās a good chance the teacher isnāt doing a stellar job
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All these men crying about how sexual assault is a modern thing and it never USED to happen blah blah blah have CLEARLY never read anything from the Early Modern Period. Or the Restoration. Or the 18th Century. Or the 19th Century. OR LISTENED TO ANY WOMAN EVER.
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Pros of wearing a sweater dress: super cute, winter chic
Cons of wearing a sweater dress: getting way too hot in public and not being able to shed layers because it is frowned upon to sit in a meeting in your bra and a pair of tights
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Just made a man very angry because I mentioned W. H. Audenās male partner when discussing his love poetry. He got MORE angry when it was pointed out to him that his reaction was homophobic.
How did he not know Auden was queer, and wtf dude?
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Guys. A man just āexplainedā colonialism to me (I work on it?). And how America wasnāt postcolonial because it was never a colony BECAUSE IT WASNāT LIKE INDIA WHERE THEY DOMINATED AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
Talking about thanksgiving is always a hoot.
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I got that I was anti American and should be āsent back to where I came fromā (Iām English, it wasnāt a race thing) because I didnāt understand the privilege of getting to teach in America š„“
Also, Americans had fought AGAINST *my* empire, which proved they were anti-imperialist
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If you can attest to the support and integrity @McKellogs demonstrates everyday to us and to her students, please speak up. Academia needs her, even if it doesn't deserve her nitter.app/christineliuart/statusā¦
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