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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you, Kate Manne: "ban the fucking frats. . . . they are a hotbed of misogyny and have no valid role in the modern university." What about the donors? Other universities have done it. "A]ctuality implies possibility and it is time to start trying here." katemanne.substack.com/p/an-emergen...
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An Emergency Dispatch
On Cornell’s handling of a horrific case of alleged rape on campus
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...
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Data Driven
A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.chronicle.com/article/dani...
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Danielle Allen Is Wrong About Trump
Dealmaking under duress is always undemocratic.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😅😂🤣 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing: A Policy of Sorts. I've posted versions before, but I update this each term following conversations with students. Here's my Fall '26 edition. In no way definitive! Learning as I go.
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This is a course for those interested in writing not as means to an end but as an end in itself. Recently... I read a story in New York magazine titled, “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College,” by James D. Walsh....
I didn’t think AI would be a temptation for creative writing students. “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College” persuaded me that for many students of all sorts it’s not a temptation but a condition. You sleep in a bed, you wear clothes, you don’t scream at teachers. Just the way it is. Maybe AI is becoming that, too, part of “just the way it is.” Maybe it is that already. 
	My mind raced through ideas about how to “beat” AI. The article dismantled them. Then I thought, “That’s not my job.” I’m a writer and a teacher. I’m not a cop. If you want to work with me on writing, we can do that. If you want to cheat, you have the ability to do that, too, and the truth is, I probably can’t stop you.... Per Dartmouth’s policy: “Students may not use GenAI tools for submitted coursework unless expressly permitted.” I do not permit it....
I’m interested in working with students for whom writing feels, somehow, good. Even if sometimes it’s painful. Who seek that feeling anyway. A feeling of being, of alertness. Of purpose; of intention. Of practice.
This is a course for those who are interested in using writing to experience some variation of this feeling. Sometimes it comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes in the making of a lyrical juxtaposition. There are so many more emotional, intellectual, and spiritual possibilities that arise from the act of shaping language... There is no paycheck, or even a finished book held in hand for the first time, that has ever brought me as much complicated pleasure as the arrangement of words. Maybe you’re like this, too. Or maybe you want to be. If so, I designed this course with someone like you in mind.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This has been quite a week for brave student journalists holding their university administrators to account. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This entire thread is essential reading from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and @sorayachemaly.bsky.social.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a trying week for Dartmouth faculty, some excellent news: My brilliant friend and colleague, Kimberly Brown, was awarded the 2026 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize by the American Studies Association for Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning! library.brown.edu/create/libne...
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First Two Titles in Brown University Digital Publications–MIT Press Book Series Garner Prestigious Prizes : Brown University Library Brown University Library NewsFirst Two Titles in Brown University D...
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Philosophy Bits @philosophybits.com · 12/09/2026
“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.” — Simone de Beauvoir, in “Beauvoir and feminism: interview and reflections” by Susan J. Brison
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Lapsyrevoltee @lapsyrevoltee.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
1/24 S. Brison - Et nos coeurs, malgré tout, survivent Entre témoignage et essai philosophique, le livre analyse ce que fait le viol, aux victimes et à leur entourage, à l'individu et à la société, il met l’accent sur la réappropriation de la parole et la difficulté à raconter
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing subtle or complicated about what's happening
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just now discovered that the 2024 French translation of Aftermath was reviewed in Libération two years ago. Thank you, @bsky.app www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
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Comment revivre après un viol ?
La philosophe américaine Susan Brison a pris sa propre agression comme sujet d’étude pour analyser les effets de la violence sexuelle sur son corps et son identité.
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Princeton Audio @princetonaudio.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"A courageous work on how society treats trauma victims and how trauma victims can reclaim the recovery process and their lives."—Booklist Aftermath, read by author Susan Brison, is a powerful personal narrative of recovery and a philosophical exploration of trauma. Listen today: hubs.ly/Q04jrzWt0
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy invites submissions for a special issue celebrating @jennysaul.bsky.social’s book Dogwhistles and Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood (Oxford University Press 2024) - scroll down a bit to see the CFP:
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APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy - The American Philosophical Association
“Aftermath’s Aftermath: Brison’s Methodological, Pedagogical, and Disciplinary Contributions,” Ann Cahill
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Audre Lorde often used to say: "The rumor that you can’t fight city hall is circulated by city hall. It is a position that only serves the status quo." (Here quoted from her 1984 seminar in Berlin on "The Poet as Outsider")
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
See also this article by Judith Hartog in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, for which I was interviewed. dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/rev...
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The Revolution is Here
Dartmouth braces for dramatic change as artificial intelligence takes center stage in the classroom.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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Opinion | They Could Afford to Stand Up to Trump. Why Didn’t They? (Gift Article)
The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not sure why, but this has me thinking of that line in Mose Allison's "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy"—"Everybody's cryin' justice / Just as soon as we win this war." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
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Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown (Gift Article)
In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The power of oblivion that stupid and stressful times unleash works out brilliantly for academic administrators who had on very recent memory called riot police to campus for no reason whatsoever, receiving faculty censure for it. Now they can get awards admissions.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/08...
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President Beilock to Receive Outstanding Leadership Award
The Class of 1964/2014 James Wright '64a Outstanding Leadership Award is given annually.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Dartmouth Exception | Jacob Weisberg
Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 04/09/2026
when they say marketplace of ideas they don't mean all the ideas are in competition. they mean if you have enough money you should be able to buy out your competitors
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
no amnesty
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Love the quote from Alison Gopnik: “We don’t know if toasters are conscious or not,” Dr. Gopnik said. “But no one is asking about that in the pages of The New York Times.”
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
More on Talia Bettcher's move to the University of Waterloo! uwaterloo.ca/news/arts/ma...
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Making the world a safer and kinder place for trans people | Waterloo News | University of Waterloo
Dr. Talia Bettcher joins Waterloo as the Eddie Goldenberg Chair in Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Trans Community Resilience
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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APA Endorses ACLS Statement on the National Call to Action Issued by the US Secretary of Education - American Philosophical Association
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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After 3 weeks, Customs and Border Protection declines to explain why Taha Tariq ’28 was denied reentry to U.S.
Tariq, a British citizen, has been in Canada for three weeks.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Congratulations to Talia Bettcher on being named the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair in Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Trans Community Resilience at the University of Waterloo's Philosophy Department! I'm absolutely thrilled! 🎉🇨🇦💕🥰 uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...
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Waterloo welcomes inaugural Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs | Waterloo News | University of Waterloo
Global research leaders choose Waterloo to advance transformative research that supports Canada’s strategic priorities and future prosperity
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content (Gift Article)
Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...
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Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The times may really be a-changin'! www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
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‘Fascism is here now’: the US athletes pushing back on Trump’s America
World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thank you, Bruce Springsteen, for the song we need right now! www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis'
On Wednesday Bruce Springsteen released 'Streets of Minneapolis,' a protest song condemning the violence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/01/2026
Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor and its youngest in more than a century, was inaugurated in a public celebration outside City Hall on Thursday. See highlights: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... Read his inauguration speech: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...
Sen. Bernie Sanders reads from a piece of paper while Zohran Mamdani raises his right hand to be sworn in during an inauguration ceremony. His left hand is resting on a Quran held by Rama Duwaji. A banner above them reads “Inauguration 2026. Photo by Vincent Alban for The New York Times.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/06/2025
More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
A bridge is packed with people, with scattered pride flags in the crowd. A headline reads: "Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Government Ban." Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
U.S. Supreme Court acted fast in blocking the deportation of a group of Venezuelans. "[A]sking for a response 'as soon as possible' . . . was not tortoise talk." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/u...
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An Urgent Supreme Court Order Protecting Migrants Was Built for Speed (Gift Article)
In an overnight ruling blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, the justices ignored some of their protocols.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/04/2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. nyti.ms/3YzXwwg
Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is pictured in a handout photo from his office meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia on Thursday in El Salvador. Headline reads: "Maryland Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Man in El Salvador." Photo credit: The Office of Chris Van Hollen.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o... "On Tuesday [Harvard] announced that...it would adopt a definition of antisemitism [under which] a professor who accuses Israel of genocidal action in Gaza—as Omer Bartov has—might be subject to disciplinary action." #philsky
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Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia
The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. These are just the words I needed yesterday
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
I haven't felt excited about July 4th since reading Fredrick Douglass's speech, and now, given some states' legally enforced amnesia about our past, celebrating July 4th as the beginning of "our" freedom increasingly feels like flying the Confederate flag "because of our southern heritage." #philsky
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
Many people are more deserving of this honor, but I look forward to serving as the next Vice President/President-Elect of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. #philsky www.apaonline.org/news/news.as...
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Results of Recent APA Elections - American Philosophical Association
Over the last few months, members of the APA elected new divisional officers, a new member-at-large of the APA board of officers, and two new members of the Graduate Student Council (GSC). We are pleased to announce the results of those elections.
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Get new edition of AFTERMATH—and all PUP books—for 50% off till May 31! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Aftermath
A powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of trauma
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
CFP for an exciting conference that Trica Keaton @trica.bsky.social is co-organizing, entitled Global Black French Studies across Time and Space: The Formation and Future of the Field, October 17-20, 2024,  Boston College: sites.dartmouth.edu/blackfrenchs...
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Black French Studies Conference
Version française de l’appel à communications ci-dessous
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
It's pub day for my good friend and writing buddy Jenny Saul's must-read book, Dogwhistles and Figleaves. Congratulations, Jenny! @jennysaul.bsky.social #philsky
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
It's pub day for my dear friend Margot's brilliant tenth novel, The Road from Belhaven, and she's reading at the Harvard Bookstore at 7pm tonight!
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