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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am so proud to announce the launch of this volume, Walking Together on Parallel Paths. Each chapter is written by a team that includes Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, and explores how we can co-create ethical practices in higher education. ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/walkingtoget...

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Freecycle or a local Buy Nothing or Community Gifting group.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also, I would love to sit down and talk about this with you -- I'm collaborating on a paper right now about the notion of "excellence" and I Have Thoughts.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't think she characterizes it as "decolonizing", but a lot of KerryAnn O'Meara's work has looked at (in)equity in academic merit & reward assessments.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just could not bring myself to care about the core questions of the field

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

yah this is a big part of the reason for my mid-career pivot to gender studies

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Speaking as a prof, I love it when even long-ago former students accost me with, “Dr Anderson? I’m [name] and I took [class] with you!”

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I love how they sing “CA ro LI na WREN” !

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am on holiday in a province not my own. Out for a walk, I noticed houses with lawn art based on the provincial flag. I wondered whether it was fascism or just small-town quaintness. Then I noticed the sculptures of black boys with fishing rods.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In my 50s I’m relishing being mid at a lot of things instead of excellent at one. I’m a mid singer, a mid weightlifter, a mid embroiderer, a mid baker, *and* a mid birdwatcher!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s no less impressive to me but probably societally it’s not as recognizably praiseworthy, which is a different metric, obvs

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This reminds me, as I head out to move twins into first-year dorms, to turn off their location-sharing. My 18yos might well be indifferent, but it’s symbolically important for me to make that break.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m not teaching Intro Linguistics this year but if I were, I would assign this review to my students to read:

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yeah I’d say Gen Z is functioning like a proper name in the same way as WBEZ

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’m a Canadian with ‘zed’ in almost every context but it’s ‘zee’ in Gen Z and the Chicago public radio station WBEZ.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Like, is Lettuce Love selling weed or salad? I genuinely don’t know.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Around here the leaf-related names are so common that I can’t tell the difference between weed stores and salad bowl restaurants.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My experience has been that every single request for a "chat" has come from a man who wants to tell me why I am wrong and he is right. So I offer a third suggestion: rather than a decade of resentment, rather than clearing the air, consider Letting It Go.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yeah it’s been over two years of training to get to this point. Next goal: deadlift my body weight!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I would just like to report that I am an overweight 53-year-old woman and this morning I squatted the literal weight of my body. 🏋️ #SabbaticalGoals

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

On reflection I realize I have unintentionally assembled extensive collections of enamel pins and sassy t-shirts. Oh, and coloured pens.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Working on a conference proposal in a discipline that's new to me and not confident if wordplay in presentation titles is the done thing. I fear not, but am not sure I'm capable of writing a straightforward title?!?

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Have you got a Buy Nothing / Community Gifting / Freecycle group nearby? I get rid of a lot of stuff that way.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

last weekend I helped the 18yos clean out their bedrooms. both had Canadian Tire money stashed in more than one location.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

the quickness with which i deleted that email!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So glad this conversation is happening! I’m working on a related project these days.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On the one hand, I'm on research leave so I'm not experiencing my Annual August Panic. On the other hand, my twins start uni in two different cities in about 3 weeks, so the difference in ambient household panic level is negligible. August solidarity to all students and teachers!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Petition to bring back names that end in obstruents

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’ve been brainstorming other pleasing ones. Peridot is kind of alluring. And Labradorite does have a ring to it!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

According to my caller ID, Tommy Douglas phoned me last week, but he did not leave a voicemail. Perhaps not coincidentally, I still can't get the NDP to take me off their mailing list.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This book made me feel weird and that is maybe the highest praise I can give a book.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

They remind you to be cautious about alcohol consumption when you've donated blood but I am here to report that drinking one's usual amount of coffee the next day is also a mistake. #jittery

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I also find the construct of *paag* to be a hopeful one, because, as the authors say, "it offers a promising target for social intervention". The hope that my work might eventually make a positive difference in the world helps me keep doing it.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That disorientation can give rise to prejudice, but is not itself necessarily prejudice. This framing makes it easier for me to be generous with people who do harm out of cluelessness or clumsiness, while still refusing generosity to those motivated by hate.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I find it difficult to be generous towards people who do harm to the trans people I love. I'm often dismissive and impatient. The authors here characterize *paag* as distinct from both prejudice and ignorance. Rather, it is a disorientation resulting from collapse of previously stable social norms.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

But the new theoretical construct of *pervasive ambiguity about gender* appeals to me intuitively, and strikes me as a generous and hopeful framing of the present moment of Gender Trouble.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This paper is so useful for my work, and it is exciting to me for a couple reasons. First, a disclaimer: I am almost entirely ignorant about psychometrics/sociometrics, so I am offering zero commentary on the quantitative argument at the core of the paper. 1/n

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Not strictly a first-time 🩸 donor but first time this millennium.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was literally reading your Political Communication paper yesterday and wondering about this one!!!

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ooh that is some high quality French bitchery! I can hear the air quotes around “””jogging”””.

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Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I was promoted to full prof 21 years after starting my faculty career. I have found that consciously identifying as a Late Bloomer helps with some of the feelings of being behind.

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