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.
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.
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...
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.
What is the point of doing this? Are they fearful books won't be published after the end of this year? Is it simply to create an endlessly renewable piece of clickbait IP?
If someone would like to buy me this Travertine Lollipop Table Lamp by Paul MayĂŠn for Habitat as a belated birthday gift, that'd be swell!
Men who will sexually harass women will also vote to allow our abusers to have guns. Donât start with ânot all menâ or even ânot all harassersâ Instead, understand that people are allowed to speak to patterns, and listen. Weâre not out to insult you - we are trying to *warn* you. Believe women