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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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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 8h
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 14h
The Graduate Center is proud to welcome the inaugural class in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES), our first new Ph.D. program in more than 25 years www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 10h
Happy birthday!
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At our Foucault conference last month @danlor.bsky.social and I screened a little-known Foucault documentary produced by a Swiss TV network in 1978, MICHEL FOUCAULT: STORICO DELLA VERITA ("Historian of Truth"). 1/ www.rsi.ch/archivi/Mich...
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Michel Foucault: storico della verità - RSI
Ritratti, 1. febbraio 1978
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The Latinx Project @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Join us for a conversation celebrating the recent publication of “Politics in Our Veins: The Rise of Dominican American Political Power in the United States.” RSVP: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/calendar/the-rise-of-dominican-american-political-power-in-the-united-states
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This op-ed really nails it. Universities going all in on generative AI are pulling us backwards on student mental health. Is that the university mission? Is that what a public good looks like? ncnewsline.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Commentary: Would your campus host credit card companies or Big Tobacco? Then why Big Tech? • NC Newsline
Like many other universities, NC State is introducing generative AI products into workspaces, classrooms, and learning management systems, but, to my knowledge, they are not informing students and par...
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Totally going to see the Elizabeth Homes documentary this weekend
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 07/10/2026
Here’s some @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social con news - I’m writing an exploration and analysis of my favorite comics ever, Chris Claremont’s epic run(s) on X-Men! Coming next May from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social and @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social! Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/us/uncanny-x...
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Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please join us on Mon 26 Oct @6.30pm ET for an exciting event featuring Prof Deborah Paredez speaking with Prof Arlene Dávila about Dávila's brilliant new book 'Visualizing Latinx: Creative Practices in Fashion, Film and Beyond' (forthcoming with DUP, Oct 13). Register: tinyurl.com/visualizingl...
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
yup ,exactly. we don't need another "which college majors pay best" chart, we need a society-wide excavacation of where the market is failing to meet society's needs
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Artists and journalists can’t stop atrocities, but they can help see that they’re not forgotten and that some of the perpetrators will be brought to justice. It’s not enough, but sometimes it’s all you can get." The Arts STL + Requiem for Gaza by Chris Hedges + Joe Sacco: ow.ly/i5hn50ZVFsc
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Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco | Requiem for Gaza (Fantagraphics)
160 pgs. B&W | $25.99  hardcover | W: Chris Hedges A: Joe Sacco The American experience of war is mostly of something that takes place elsewhere and doesn’t result in American civilian cas…
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘Maricarmen,’ Whose Eviction Enraged Spaniards, Dies at 87 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/w...
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‘Maricarmen,’ Whose Eviction Enraged Spaniards, Dies at 87
María del Carmen Abascal, aged and ailing, became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis when she was evicted two weeks ago, prompting mass protests and triggering national elections.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Excited to start this one.
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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Applications Are Open! 📢 The Pembroke Center at Brown University invites applications for 2027–28 Postdoctoral Research Associate positions. 📌 Term: July 1, 2027 – June 30, 2028 🎓 Eligibility: PhD within last 5 years (non-Brown) 🗓 Deadline: Nov 23, 2026 🔗 Scan the QR code in the graphic to apply
Graphic for 2027-28 postdoctoral research fellowships application
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People of All Ages Join French Student Protests, as Movement Broadens www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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People of All Ages Join French Student Protests, as Movement Broadens
Union members, parents, teachers and others took part in mass demonstrations around the country, backing student demands that the government invest more in schools.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Owl, Herald Square, NYC
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great essay on Torrey Peters and the fortunes of trans fiction in 2026
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In France teachers are out on the streets standing with their students, amplifying their protests & protecting them from police violence.
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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...
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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 04/10/2026
“Peter Hujar flourished artistically as the recorder of his own milieu of artists, writers, and especially performers: the reticent observer reveling in the performative exuberance of others.” —Alan Hollinghurst
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The Elusive Glamour of Peter and Paul | Alan Hollinghurst
A dual biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek is a tantalizing portrait of the artists and their epoch, just before the catastrophe of AIDS.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Making it count on 🌍Cover Reveal Friday🌍 with @professortkh.bsky.social! THE GLOBAL ERASURE OF BLACKNESS is a historical examination of the Black census undercount as a transnational civil rights issue. Watch this space in April 2027! 👀 Cover design: Carol Chu
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This October we have some great new art books coming out, including "Transplanetary Americas" by Robb Hernández and "Marfa Marfa" by Josh T. Franco. Check them out! buff.ly/bWWE29D
Cover of Transplanetary Americas: Art, Outer Space, and the Latinx Imagination by Robb Hernández. It features an image of Leo Villareal’s Star Ceiling, installed in a plaza with tall columns and benches. 2 people stroll below. The text is in a retro sci-fi font in bright lime-green and yellow.Cover of Marfa, Marfa: Rasquachismo and Minimalism in Far West Texas by Josh T Franco. The cover has a bright yellow background. "Marfa, Marfa" is written in very large, red text. The author's name is in a black font, top center. Beneath the title is an simple illustration of a desert landscape with a concrete wall, sparse plants, and a muted gray sky, bottom center. The subtitle appears within the drawing in small, black font.
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Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
spent much of today's "intro to poetry" class talking about the difference between "glittering" and "glimmering" and what it helps us understand about the poem. was kind of the high point of the week.
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 Moorebidity @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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