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William Orchard

@billeo.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 1h
125th Street from this afternoon’s train.
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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This book is about the administration of harassment complaints on campuses, our ideas about campus safety/security, sexual vulnerability and the institution. It's out of print so, with the publisher's permission, I am sharing a PDF. drive.google.com/file/d/1S5vE...
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Doyle Campus Sex Campus Security.pdf
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Chehalis tribe of Washington State just south of Olympia have retaken possession of land along the I-5 corridor. This is how they repurposed the billboard facing the freeway.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 23h
When I taught at Colby College years ago, the trustees abolished fraternities, which dominated campus social life & were notorious for sexual assault &rowdiness all around. “Donations will decline,” cried the fierce opponents.Their threats never materialized. Before long it didn’t seem that frats 1/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 16h
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our client, the brilliant novelist Maaza Mengiste, has been named a MacArthur fellow! She joins our three other fellows: Reginald Dwayne Betts, Natalie Diaz, and Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor. We are so proud of all of them!! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
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Maaza Mengiste
Revealing the human costs of political violence through a compelling blend of history, memory, and imagination.
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 29/09/2026
"t became a Chicago house anthem classic – and it was cooked up in just 30 minutes by four postal workers after a tough shift on the letter-sorting machine." ‘Nobody believed I sang it’ — how Move Your Body blew dancefloors away:
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‘Nobody believed I sang it’: how Move Your Body blew dancefloors away
It became a Chicago house anthem classic – and it was cooked up in just 30 minutes by four postal workers after a tough shift on the letter-sorting machine
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘Showgirls’: The Gratuitous, Surreal Bomb That Was Maybe Brilliant www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/m...
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‘Showgirls’: The Gratuitous, Surreal Bomb That Was Maybe Brilliant
The reception to Paul Verhoeven’s lurid 1995 melodrama starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon was humiliating, but it’s since become a thought-provoking camp favorite.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Louise Erdrich Receives 2026 Gish Prize, Honoring a Career That Changed American Literature
Louise Erdrich has spent more than four decades reshaping how American literature represents Indigenous lives and stories. Now, the acclaimed Anishinaabe writer is being honored with one of the countr...
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
new favorite baker just dropped (I am finally watching the new ep of Bake Off)
screenshots from the latest season of British Bake Off of a chef named Mo, he's a tan skinned young man. He's got dark hair falling over his forehead and a beard. He's saying, "I come with a lot of baggage, but it's, like, the good baggage." Mo continued, "Like Louis Vuitton baggage."
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I read in the Inquirer today that UPenn’s endowment *increased* by $6 billion last year. The FY27 executive budget for CUNY is $6.4 billion.
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Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
(!!! I have noticed this too!)
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One interesting thing about having students do more in-class writing is notable uptick the number of drawings on the papers. This week I got cats, cakes, a werewolf, and a grasshopper.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of my academic life seems to be me saying to myself, “I’m not doing this right,” until it’s done.
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José A. de la Garza Valenzuela @jdelagv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’re so excited to curate this!! Please send @drgetitboi.bsky.social, Tommy Conners, and myself your boldest proposals! Deadline: December 1st #LatinxStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #QueerLatinxStudies #TransLatinxStudies
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of my academic life seems to be me saying to myself, “I’m not doing this right,” until it’s done.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.” gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
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A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.
The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Teaching Gwendolyn Brooks today
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

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The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Laura Rennert @ljrennert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Check out this great interview with @rominagarber.bsky.social about the re-release of her WOLVES OF NO WORLD duology! thenerddaily.com/romina-garbe...
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Q&A: Romina Garber, Author of 'Wolves of No World' | The Nerd Daily
We chat with author Romina Garber about Wolves of No World, which is a 2-in-1 duology paperback of Lobizona and Cazadora that weaves together Argentine folklore and what it means to belong.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 18/09/2026
Just the facts - @xaimeh.bsky.social can do no wrong.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Late summer garden time
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
UT-Austin cuts ethnic, gender studies majors from new student applications Future students can no longer major in Women’s, Sexualities & Gender studies; Mexican American & Latina/o studies; African & African Diaspora studies as of fall 2027. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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New UT students can't apply to ethnic, gender studies majors
New UT applicants can’t select Mexican American, African American and women’s studies majors - although the provost hasn’t publicly cancelled the programs.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The Slow Disappearance of Black Studies on College Campuses
Northwestern is the latest university to restructure its program as the Trump administration continues to target DEI in higher education.
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Alta Journal @altajournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cherríe Moraga’s memoir, Native Country of the Heart, is a powerful portrait of the relationship between a Mexican American mother and her daughter. buff.ly/psqLHpz
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Remembering a Colossus
Cherríe Moraga’s memoir, Native Country of the Heart, is a powerful portrait of the relationship between a Mexican American mother and her daughter.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 16/09/2026
Jordan Crane interviewing Los Bros? Sign me up. www.tcj.com/jordan-crane... @comicsjournal.bsky.social @fantagraphics.bsky.social @cmautner.bsky.social
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Jordan Crane in conversation with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez: 'We're a family of storytellers' - The Comics Journal
The following conversation took place on April 19 at the Ray Stark Family Theater at USC during The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. JORDAN CRANE: Good afternoon, everybody. Hello. This afternoon,...
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hammer, Sickle and Sombrero — Tina Modotti, 1927
Black and black and white photograph of a crossed hammer and sickle on the large round Brim of a sombrero
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Morning garden scenes
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Books to look forward to: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477335253/
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New arrival! A powerful, beautiful, and important memoir by @nickabadzis.bsky.social & Angela Watson. It’s honest and deeply humane every page as they wrestle with racism they’ve experienced and the harm the fiction of race has caused humanity. Moving & necessary read.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Does the calendar get more and more filled with meetings and then you retire?
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh hey Queens College!
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"With THE DISSIDENTS Derf Backderf establishes himself, more than ever, as a major voice in contemporary comics." Gulp. Today's the day btw. THE DISSIDENTS is now officially on sale!
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Preview Les Dissidents Récit complet
En 1916, alors que les États-Unis se déchirent entre grèves ouvrières et tensions raciales, le journal contestataire The Masses, porté par un groupe de dessinateurs pacifistes, dénonce la position pro...
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just know Bob is designing rhinestone outfits for Dolly in heaven. Rest in peace king. One of one. www.out.com/bob-mackie-d...
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Bob Mackie, famous gay fashion and costume designer, dies at 87
Legendary designer Bob Mackie, who dressed everyone from Cher to Elton John, has died.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Finishing a first book in literary studies? Don't miss the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. Applications due Nov 15. (You can submit with or without a contract, though in either event there is a brief publisher's application to join your author submission). www.acla.org/prize-awards...
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Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award | American Comparative Literature Association
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Morning cat shenanigans
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So good to see all the posts from Celine Dion’s return to the concert stage in Paris.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 12/09/2026
Her heart will go on, and so will the show. Céline Dion made her emotional return to the stage for her first full concert in over six years.
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Céline Dion Couldn’t Get Through Her Comeback Show Without Crying
Her heart will go on, and so will the show. Céline Dion made her emotional return to the stage for her first full concert in over six years.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the definitions of the "surveillance state" that I operate under is when a government turns *all* methods of data and information collection---no matter what purpose it was supposed to serve, into surveillance intended for punishment.
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