BRING IT BACK
09.03.2026 05:22
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BRING IT BACK
Chatting with Dr. Cody Miller in this new interview. @hcodymiller.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hdGx...
I love this diva!
"New Pokemon starter reveal day" is one of my favorite days! 😍
The people who want to remove trans books from schools and libraries also want to remove trans people *from public life*. It's never only about books. It's always about who they believe belong in our shared public, civic life.
Have you seen this piece from Alexander Avila? It's a left-wing video essay* so it's nine years long, but part three does a good job outlining the history of the Means siblings.
* As my husband lovingly said, "Of course the video went from MAHA to Foucault."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2lh...
For your weekend listen: PragerU makes bad history content.
Really bad--like Frederick Douglass explaining how the Founding Fathers were the REAL abolitionists.
And now it's on the approved list in 11 states.
Check out NPR's On Point for more from me and @edweek.org's Sarah Schwartz:
Here's a quick action you can take to support Right to Read legislation at the Federal level. Yes, we know, we know, but Congress changes and we can't get what we don't fight for
Jesse Jackson's 1984 Democratic National Convention speech is worth a revisit (where he made history as the first person to say "gay" and "lesbian" at a convention speech). His "America is a quilt" metaphor and vision of the Rainbow Coalition are still a call to action.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f...
Read Jamelle Bouie on Jesse Jackson's fight for a fairer, pluralistic democracy:
bsky.app/profile/jame...
Of course the US has never fully lived up to its aspirations as a full, true pluralistic democracy. Lots of people fought hard to inch us closer. It's our civic duty to keep that fight up and continue moving that work forward in whatever ways we can!
I've been thinking about Jesse Jackson's legacy today, esp around pluralistic coalitions. The US has obviously gotten a lot wrong *and* lots of people in this country got lots of things right. The right things are worth building on, I think!
(I miss you! Let me know when y'all are back to ROC! 💜)
Living in a country where people can simultaneously celebrate Lunar New Year, observe Ramadan and Lent, and party at Mardi Gras on the same day is cool, good, and worth fighting for. Pluralistic democracy is one of humanity’s greatest inventions!
Graphic celebrating Lunar New Year.
Happy Lunar New Year! Feb. 17, 2026, marks our entry into the Year of the Horse.
Ramadan Mubarak
My kingdom for a world where people who use phrases like "future-ready" and "innovation-driven" are not allowed anywhere near power.
"Bad Bunny did not frame queerness as an exception. He integrated it into the fabric of the performance. ... He is not asking permission to be different in terms of masculinity. He is demonstrating that it already is."
projecthumanities.asu.edu/blog/content...
The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
As I argue in the article, there’s no version of “the public humanities” *more public* than high school English!
Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who would by very disappointed in all of this BS but would never, ever stop fighting (or getting his photo taken)
Donate to help my union brothers rebuild, three months after they were detained at an immigration hearing.
The application window for NCTE's Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award closes in just over one month.
Apply to be part of the 2026-27 ECEOC cohort and get mentor support as you build an accomplished teaching career in literacy education. https://bit.ly/2Uv8mUl
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Bad Bunny for Vanity Fair in 2023:
“What I do, I do from my heart...I believe that every human being has the duty to have empathy for others, to help others, to respect them, to always try to contribute something to society, to bring a positive change.”
www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/0...
Finally, an episode on Ricky Martin!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
And this episode from Alana Casanova-Burgess:
www.wnyc.org/story/la-bre...
A fantastic episode with Alana Casanova-Burgess, who runs La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience, and music critic Julianne Escobedo Shepherd that digs into the history and politics of tonight's performance!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
