These little anti-anxiety affirmations have been helping lately: - it's not 100% fine, but it's *mostly* fine - this feeling is temporary - that negative scenario is unlikely to happen - total control of this situation is unrealistic - even if you bottom out, folks will help - you need a snack
News: Beinecke Library hires six curators, launching a new era for Yale Library Special Collections library.yale.edu/news/beineck...
If you're upset by art not being damaged in protest against climate change, I can only imagine how furious you'll be at the actual damage to art caused by climate change.
The Rothko Chapel, which features murals by painter Mark Rothko, will close after sustaining damage during Hurricane Beryl.
Oooh—I have this book, but I haven't read it yet
I have a recurrent dream where @franciscondine.bsky.social & I are renovating a rambling manse in St. Louis that is half-haunted. Although the spirits are gruesome, the dream is more about exploring the period rooms and figuring out their aesthetic potential.
We seek presentations on any medium, genre, linguistic tradition, or period that argue for falling out of sync with all-too-human historical trends in order to live more generatively in communion with the more-than-human world.
Ecotheorists! Humanists! Literary scholars! Please send Anna Hill & me your abstracts by September 30 for "Futures Revolving: Ecohumanisms Out of Sync," our roundtable at the 2025 Northeast MLA. Submit here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...
It's definitely Jungalow, which is the work of designer Justina Blakeney (below), who also partners with Target to produce their Opalhouse line of interiors.
Seeing VAP or Instructor job ads pop up from institutions that cut tenured or tenure track lines shows exactly what is going on and how all of this is a slower-roll attack on the tenure system and higher ed at large.