Associate Professor @ U of Wisconsin-La Crosse (20/21c poetry, American Lit, English Ed). Excellent teammate, adequate cook, terrible multitasker.
La Crosse, WI
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Tom Jesse retweeted
[guy who was clearly not doing well before daylight savings]: yeah man this time change has got me fucked up idk
Tom Jesse retweeted
listen, if you don’t want the state to reprimand you for thoughtcrime, simply stop teaching CRT*
*anything that might make your local crank mad
“Youngkin also touted a tip line for parents to report to the state any school officials they find to be behaving objectionably — including teaching ‘divisive’ subjects” washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
Tom Jesse retweeted
THREAD: What the War Against CRT in Florida is really about:
(1) On Saturday I was to be the lead scholar for a NCHE seminar on "The Long Civil Rights Movement" (LCRM) for teachers in Osceola county. @historyed is THE leading organization for HIS teachers. Per their website:
Tom Jesse retweeted
"Don’t explain CRT to me—I don’t want to know. I only want to know what I think I already know, which is that whatever it is, it’s terrible and it’s ruining our kids’ lives."
mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am…
Tom Jesse retweeted
Universe: Everybody who had "Delta gets CDC to change Covid guidelines," step forward and claim your prize.
Me: [steps forward]
Universe: Delta *Airlines*
Me: What? What the fuck?
Universe: Oh, like you're surprised.
Me: [slinks away]
Tom Jesse retweeted
bell hooks was an extraordinary writer, thinker, and scholar who gave us new language with which to make sense of the world around us. Her work was imbued with a deep commitment to truth-telling, but also with a profound sense of care and love for community. She was a treasure.
Tom Jesse retweeted
This is the real Cancel Culture: the state banning books and outlawing what can be taught.
In Texas, a Battle Over What Can Be Taught, and What Books Can Be Read nytimes.com/2021/12/10/us/te…
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Florida’s Education Dept. is defending decision to scrub links to anti-bullying portal for LGBTQ+ youth from website news4jax.com/news/florida/20…
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My friend was supposed to stay at our apartment tonight. She is vaxxed and boosted, but as a precaution, she tested herself for COVID before leaving her house. She is positive (confirmed at a testing site). She tested BECAUSE she was coming here. THIS IS HOW YOU STOP THE SPREAD.
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This is bad for Purdue and it's bad for universities, MFA programs, English departments, and students everywhere
purdueexponent.org/campus/ar…
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Every so often you get numb to living in generally dystopian times, and then a new wave of the global pandemic hits, a school shooter kills his classmates with a gun his dad bought on Black Friday, and a theocratic court moves to throw out reproductive rights all on the same day
Tom Jesse retweeted
So vaccine mandates are an infringement of personal freedom, but abortion bans aren't?
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At @AtPost45, a fascinating look at a postcard Amiri Baraka appears to have sent Kenneth Koch (unless Ted Berrigan sent it as an April Fools gag — but @alice_notley doesn’t think so).
Read it here: bit.ly/3qZJkgl
Tom Jesse retweeted
The single most effective executive action President Biden could take to jumpstart our economy is to #CancelStudentDebt. It would lift a burden off tens of millions of borrowers, help people buy more homes and cars, and unleash more entrepreneurship.
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Hannah Arendt's final exam for a course she taught on Kant's Political Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1964:
Tom Jesse retweeted
calling a thing "performative" to say that it's bad, without then doing the work of explaining why that performativity is a bad thing, is an extremely common and lazy way to surf on reactionary currents, and we shouldn't do it
Tom Jesse retweeted
Was just thinking abt how things like my annual review have space to explain lower production/quality than projected in teaching, scholarship, & service, & seeing how we are in month whatever of the pandemic, maybe the ppl with normal production levels should do the explaining.
