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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reminder! #rhet/comp #cccc
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do Nor'easters always make sunsets like this?
Bright sunset in Boston
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Teaching a course called Multimedia Authoring and having a blast playing with Twine.
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE's De-Chartering of CCCC
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Any recs for where to find case studies to use in the PW classroom? #pw #rhetcomp
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tried a LARP called [Citation Needed] in my 102. They didn't LARP but it did turn into a fun activity.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Okay did the map thing. I think this is correct, but there were a lot of road trips when I was a kid.
Map showing 7 states lived in and 56 states visited. Missing are AL, AR, MS and DE
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Comp folks: What are your favorite readings on remix?
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
CFP: Documenting a Moment of Change. #rhetcomp #writingstudies #wpalife #CCCC docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CFP: Documenting a Moment of Change
Documenting a Moment of Change We left CCCC 2026 anticipating CCCC 2027. It wasn’t until proposals were in and peer reviews being conducted on them that NCTE pulled out the rug from under us by annou...
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thinking of all my people back in Muncie, IN right now. www.yahoo.com/news/weather...
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See aerial views of flooding in Muncie after storms bring heavy rain
See aerial views of flooded streets and surging rivers Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026, after days of rain in Muncie, Indiana.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026
OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/07/2026
"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...
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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Call for Chapters: Femininities in Video Games Edited by Dr Stephanie Harkin (RMIT University) & Heather Blakey (University of Western Australia) Palgrave Macmillan femininityinvideogames.my.canva.site
femininityinvideogames.my.canva.site
Home
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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Higher ed watchers: this will have major ripple effects because writing/comp is such a key part of every college student's general ed curriculum. Heads up to K-12 teachers in @ncte.org too. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association
The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
c.org/p2K45cVsbC
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Sign the Petition
Halt Dissolution of CCCC and Call for Transparency from NCTE #SaveCCCC
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Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I’m still piecing the story together, but we should see it in the context of our society gutting its intellectual future: DOGE dismantling of vital research, the corporate university squeezing its faculty, right wing attacks on schools. CCCC was a point of resistance to that which must be protected.
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Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Cs was a place where precarious academic workers could dream of a better higher ed, as well as make it. Adjuncts and community college faculty were especially welcomed rather than just being stigmatized for where/how they taught. I loved hearing people’s 4Cs report backs!
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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Email and request refunds: customer-service@ncte.org #NCTE I can’t this weekend. But I’ll develop my email and do it first thing and then I’ll share folks who allow me to share their refund requests and we’ll divest.
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PlaySta-Sean 🎮 @seemtoggle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There it is. #CCCC #NCTE
Email from NCTE Executive Committee acknowledging messages received and the following:

For many years, the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) played a critical role in serving the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) & its mission. In recent years, however, CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability, declining participation, & governance challenges. As a result, earlier today the Executive Committee of NCTE made the difficult decision to de-charter its special topics conference CCCC. To clarify, today’s decision to de-charter does not mean that NCTE has altered its commitment to supporting teachers at the college and university level. This is exemplified by the fact that the NCTE College Section is thriving.  The process in making this decision spanned several years, with attempts to work collaboratively with CCCC’s executive committees across multiple iterations. While the organization appreciates the years of collaboration with CCCC, after deep evaluation and thoughtful consideration, the Executive Committee concluded this step was necessary to more effectively serve the college English and writing and composition community and NCTE membership as a whole.

Although this has been a very difficult decision, we are excited about the future. This change will allow us to provide better support to the college English and writing and composition community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be working hard to make this transition as smooth as possible. We thank CCCC, its leaders, and its members for its many years of contributions and look forward to continuing to involve the composition, rhetoric, and writing communities as we move forward. NCTE remains devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. As future planning takes place, NCTE will communicate updates.

A transition team focused on supporting composition, rhetoric, & writing studies will be named imminently.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Official NCTE email arrived just after 5:00 pm saying that after years of attempts to work with CCCC, the NCTE Executive Committee decided to "de-charter its special topics conference CCCC." 💔
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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Thanks, RSA leaders, for saying it. I hope the powers that be at @ncte.org are listening to their peers more carefully than they seem to be listening to their members.
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A Letter of Solidarity from the RSA Executive Board
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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you haven't had a chance to write the NCTE EC members, it's not too late. They are meeting today, and the more they hear from us about how important CCCC is to us, the better! These emails are all publicly available. Be focused and respectful.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Does anyone know when the vote happens at NCTE? Is there still time to write them?
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CCCC Queer Caucus @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Below is the initial public statement on NCTE’s intention to dismantle our organization written by the CCCC EC, which includes one rep each from the “cultural identity caucuses,” including ours. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CCCC EC Quick Response July 23
Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Update: I have a meeting for next Friday. The subject line of the email is "Meeting about CCCC 2027 next Week." There were no details in the email. I'll share once I have the meeting with the NCTE presidential team.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Devastating news this morning for our field. This piece I wrote sums up what CCCC meant to me: wacclearinghouse.org/repository/e...
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We Are All Gray Now - WAC
By Jennifer Grouling Tags: Time Passing, Friendship, Food, Community, Mentorship, Caucus, Place We are all gray now, I realize. Some of the men I went to grad school with have shortcuts that hide it. ...
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Cheating is a symptom of an unmet need
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It feels good to publish a thing and not have to update digital measures, my review file, my other review file, my website and all!
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026
🔗 No-AI Search for Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-no-ai-search/ (2/3)
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DuckDuckGo No-AI Search – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download DuckDuckGo No-AI Search for Firefox. Search privately by default, without AI features.
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BSUAAUP @bsuaaup.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It seems that the lesson Mearns is hoping BSU faculty and staff will learn from this is that $225,000 plus legal fees is an acceptable price for improperly firing and violating the constitutional rights of an employee who becomes inconvenient.
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Mearns stands by decision to fire Ball State employee over Kirk remarks
A week after posting commentary on the Charlie Kirk murder, Swierc was fired from her job as Ball State's director of health promotion and advocacy.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/05/2026
Woman fired from Indiana university over Charlie Kirk post wins $225,000 settlement www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Woman fired from Indiana university over Charlie Kirk post wins $225,000 settlement
Lawsuit filed last year by the ACLU accused Ball State University of violating Suzanne Swierc’s free speech rights
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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
For the late crowd: YOU are invited to attend our free, 100% online conference Generation Analog 2026 "GREEN" on July 15-16. Keynotes from Alenda Chang (Playing Nature) and Matteo Menapace (Daybreak), as well as dozens of high-quality talks. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...
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Generation Analog 2026 "GREEN"
Generation Analog is an annual online tabletop games and education conference.
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Olivia Montoya | Metaparadox @metaparadox.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
So, I'm running an informal survey about LARP and neurodiversity, with a focus on autism and ADHD, because I'm super curious about the intersections as an AuDHD larper. Anyone can fill it out, and anyone can see the results: forms.gle/GHCQFuZbf9Fp...
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Informal Survey About LARP and Neurodiversity
This is a super informal survey about live-action roleplaying (LARP) and how it overlaps with neurodiversity, with a focus on ADHD and autism. This isn't formal research, and is just being run by an A...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
When people talk about self-censorship, they often focus on campus events or classroom discussions. But self-censorship of research is different and more impt. Big difference btw "I don't want to offend others" to "I don't want to speak truth to power" www.chronicle.com/article/near...
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Nearly One-Third of Faculty in Red States Say They’ve Censored Their Research
A new survey of 4,000 academics looked at the effects of state laws barring “divisive concepts” and federal grant cuts.
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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I don't usually sign emails best but I was, except I signed "beat." Truth.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Today I gave my students some sample papers that were older than them. So I think that means it's time to retire.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Saving this for if I ever get to teach my rhetorics of the university class. LOL. A Message from Your University President on the Recent Hippopotamus Attacks www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...
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A Message from Your University President on the Recent Hippopotamus Attacks
Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and AI Summarization Tools, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your patience as we explore innovative soluti...
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/02/2026
3. For trans adults, For adults, expanding bathroom bans are driving much of the change—Kansas has escalated due to establishing a bathroom bounty, while Indiana’s ID policy now places it among the harshest anti-trans states in the country. One state improves: Montana.
Adult Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map of the United States. Three states are marked "Do Not Travel" with dark crosshatched shading: Florida, Kansas, and Texas. Fifteen states are dark red for "Worst Laws Passed": Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Six states are orange for "High Risk Within 2 Years": Georgia, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Three states are salmon for "Moderate Risk Within 2 Years": Alaska, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Nine states plus DC are light blue for "Low Risk Within 2 Years": Arizona, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, and DC. Fifteen states are teal for "Safest States With Strong Protections": California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
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Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
BREAKING: Indiana wants to eliminate “low-earning” college degrees before the federal Earnings Test is even finalized. Degrees flagged right now include library science, teacher education transfer programs, music, dance, English, and mental & social health fields.
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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This #FeministFridays, we congratulate editors @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social & @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social and all the contributing authors on the publication of Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition with @upcolorado.bsky.social 👏 📙 upcolorado.com/utah-state-u...
Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Timothy Oleksiak and Joshua Barsczewski has been published with University of Colorado Press! The collection of 14 essays "reimagines what the concept of adequacy holds for the future of academic work."
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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
INORDINATELY excited about this book, forthcoming in March. Serious kudos to the brave grad students in this collection willing to tackle the realities of being a POC in academia (spoiler alert: it's hard)
Book cover for The Pipeline is Broken: Graduate Students of Color on Racism, Justice, and Joy in the Academy edited by Orly Clerge, Asia Ivey, Michelle Harris, and Sherrill Sellers
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ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A federal court ruled on Thursday that IU violated the First Amendment rights of pro-Palestine protesters it banned from campus in 2024 and found the expressive activity policy it passed that August unconstitutional.
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Court orders IU to remove reprimands from protesters' permanent records
The case was originally two separate lawsuits, one against no-trespass orders and another against IU’s expressive activity policy written in August 2024.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/01/2026
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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LGBTQ+ Legislation Alerts @legialerts.org · 05/01/2026
Indiana Republican State Rep Bruce Borders wants to check your chromosomes to be sure you're in the right public restroom - or else charge you with a misdemeanor in IN HB 1198 legiscan.com/IN/bill/HB11...
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Indiana HB1198 | 2026 | Regular Session
Summary (2026-01-05) Use of public restrooms. [First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code]
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
That my hair looked beautiful blowing in the wind. Cause I love the feel of it but always thought it just looked a mess. 😂
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Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 24/12/2025
What's a compliment you'll never forget?
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 23/12/2025
This latest threat to shut down hospital services and interfere with the private medical decisions of health care providers and families is a cruel, political attack on the LGBTQ+ community.
Text: Statement on federal threats against gender-affirming care

This latest threat to shut down hospital services and interfere with the private medical decisions of health care providers and families is a cruel, political attack on the LGBTQ+ community. 

Boston residents and families still have access to gender-affirming care, which remains legal, protected and available in Massachusetts.

The logos of the Office of Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
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