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Colleen Kelly

@colleenkelly.bsky.social
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Former Victorianist/current HS teacher. ✍🏻 romance. Rep by Tara Gelsomino. Tell me all your Austen jokes. Free romance 👇 linktr.ee/colleenkellyauthor

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you care about the development of the American mind, you need to pay attention to K-12 curriculum in a way that takes it seriously. Lots of people, many of them unqualified, are doing this and having a big influence in blue and red states.
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Perimenopausal rage hitting at just the right time to listen to rage against the machine with my 14 year old son
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They didn’t have it before???! Dead to me
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
oh for a time machine to go back to, oh, 2012 or so and talk to every English department trying to endure by hawking ”writing skills” to business and criminal justice majors…
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A teacher who believes the psalms are necessary for an initial encounter with Whitman can introduce them. But there are other references and other contexts that are just as relevant and might be more compelling to other teachers or other students.
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I love this book so much! It is smart and funny and wise about art and people and parenting. Reading it is like having a conversation with Kathryn about stuff that really matters to her, and everyone should be lucky enough to get to do that (so buy the book!!!)
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
oh hey look! www.vulture.com/article/litt...
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Little House on the Stolen Prairie
A new adaptation of the Laura Ingalls Wilder series punctures the fantasy.
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I know all the people involved in this story and being friends with them is even more fun than it sounds
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Banger of a closing line to this student essay: “The 19th century was not for the weak”
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
every day do something/ that won’t compute wendell berry “manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front”
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Yep! And some of them value it more than ever. (And: we also need to acknowledge that 10-20 years ago it wasn't like there was this massive wave of voracious readers! There has been a shift, yes, but false nostalgia doesn't help.)
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
spent the last month profiling jimmy kimmel, and it's a weird time for that guy! trump and kimmel both want the same thing, which is for kimmel to not be doing this show anymore. how does he make that happen without it feeling like a concession? unclear www.vulture.com/article/jimm...
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Jimmy Kimmel Would Stop If He Could
Trump wants him out, late night is dying, and he’s tired. What does the end look like?
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
not a lot of guides out there about how to talk to your kids about French sex workers but we do our best
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Told a story in class this morning about using my opera glasses to bird watch because teacher brand consistency is important
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It is my toxic trait as a teacher that I find this terribly charming
Student writing that reads: I'm a senior,and l am not holding back in my analysis of this word and world I don't care if l am informal. Mark me Wrong.
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I do NOT understand how everyone involved with making the Heated Rivalry TV show, most of them brand new to romance, put their entire whole pussies into it and gave it everything they had, and the professional romance publisher is standing around with its thumb up its ass TO THIS DAY
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Okay, today’s student-led poetry selection was just trolling me
Text of “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thinking about how my high school students are all in on using LLMs to brainstorm and edit and make PowerPoints and (sometimes, some of them) even write their work for them but they also rib each other mercilessly when they catch someone using it and hate when they can tell that their teachers have
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
thoughts on outlander, the most popular un-influential important minor tv show www.vulture.com/article/outl...
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Outlander Was the Bridge Between TV Worlds
The series will end the way it began: caught between warring genres. The tension fed its greatest successes but also its most frustrating flaws.
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The most shocking thing to me about the heated rivalry phenomenon is that, almost 4 months into this, there are still so many people who say words on tv for a living and can’t pronounce “rivalry”
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
from the people who brought you "Destroying Public Education in Favor of Test-Based Accountability," we present "School 2: What We Previously Dismantled Was Actually Good It Turns Out"
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angelina mazza @angejmazza.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I profiled Cat Sebastian aka your favorite romance author’s favorite romance author for @nytimes.com ❤️‍🔥🎬
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How Isaac Asimov Inspired a Star Romance Writer’s Swoony New Novel
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
as we approach the Oscars I need to state right up top that every time someone says “this is Timmy’s year” this is the Timmy I picture
frowning turtle, the jellycat plush named Timmy
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I want to shake people and be like, teachers WANT to assign whole books. you don't need to make it a legislative mandate! just give us appropriate autonomy and an incentive/evaluation structure which won't punish use of complex, long readings and full works - most teachers will jump in w both feet.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/03/2026
Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 08/03/2026
Change your clocks tonight! Change them into doves. Release them into the cold March sky. A single feather drifts down, but your clocks are gone. Hold onto the feather, keep it safe. One day the clocks will return, if they love you.
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It’s time to get REALLY SERIOUS about paperwork flow in my classroom. That’ll show ‘em (‘em is me)
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I believe the romance genre deserves the respect of robust, knowledgeable critical engagement, and you'll see me RTing amazing romance critics who do that! ....AND, I do not want my work to be used to bolster any "yeah! romance sucks!" arguments. romance doesn't suck. it's great.
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
anyone in education who supports this needs to leave right now and not look back
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I wrote the most romantic scene of my entire romance career today: a man clearing everyone out of a woman’s room so she can sleep off a hangover undisturbed
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This question brought to you by the slow-rolling mental breakdown John and Michaela’s lack of Scottish accents have induced in me (okay so if the Scottish aristocracy is culturally and by education English, as their accents suggest, then… )
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
spent an afternoon with bridgerton's yerin ha www.vulture.com/article/brid...
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Bridgerton Needed Her
Yerin Ha brought the hit Regency romance series the perspective it’s been missing.
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Drop whatever you’re doing and read the opener to this right now and then CRY that you can’t write this good (And then go back to making Hamlet Act III slides)
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christopher, post-rock dog dad @chrisabides.com · 21/02/2026
the primary reason technology has broadly not helped education in the last 20 years is because the motivation behind putting technology in the classroom wasn't spurred by or thought of by teachers, but instead by people trying to profit off of schools buying shit
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I just taught “the second coming” to my least interested freshman and was feeling bad that i didn’t do enough scaffolding with poetry annotation last week to get them ready but then I told myself I’ll treat it as a formative benchmark rather than a summative and now I dont feel bad anymore
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Another evil pairing
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Diabolical match up. I hate you
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/02/2026
[Enter Valentine.]
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It’s Valentine’s Day. I don’t care who you are or where you’re from, you should be reading a romance today. And The Somerset Sins has 5 extremely messy siblings all finding their love stories in the same volume, so it should be this one! books2read.com/u/4jVOel
Tropes map for The Duke’s Somerset Sins featuring a book cover and tropes like “5 love stories in 1” and “girls in breeches” and “rake to wife guy”
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Alexandra Almond @alexandraalmond.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is a terrific article about respecting the romance genre, particularly relevant at the moment given all those stupid valentine's day articles highlighting "best of" lists that are mostly not romances.
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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 11/02/2026
Sarah made this helpful flowchart for people thinking about writing romance think pieces for Valentine's Day. It's not too late to turn back!
Flowchart helping someone decide where or not they should write a romance think piece.
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The first two weeks of February are the cruelest month for romance people
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Five interconnected romance novellas coming out Friday. Duke daddy demands his kids find spouses by the Valentine’s Day Ball… or else. We’ve got “good boy” and sapphic pining and freaks turned on by rage-baiting each other about canals. Something for everyone!
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Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Duke's Somerset Sins by Anne Knight, Colleen Kelly, Kay K. Denner
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Five interconnected romance novellas coming out Friday. Duke daddy demands his kids find spouses by the Valentine’s Day Ball… or else. We’ve got “good boy” and sapphic pining and freaks turned on by rage-baiting each other about canals. Something for everyone!
books2read.com
Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Duke's Somerset Sins by Anne Knight, Colleen Kelly, Kay K. Denner
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It’s the 100th day of school this week, so you know what that means! (I’m counting out office supplies in quantities of 100 for my child to put inside an empty water bottle)
Box of colorful paperclips on a desk
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Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
As I prepare to move into my fourth temporary classroom in 18 months (classroom #5, we’ll be together soon!) I am giving thanks for my rampant, unmedicated adhd. It may take me 3 weeks to grade a single piece of homework but I also can freak a last minute lesson plan with no warning or supplies
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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The assumption that romance is not worth protecting from scammers is also wildly insulting considering how romance practically props up the book industry with its sales numbers.
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