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Dr. Emily Woster

@emilywoster.bsky.social
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Asst. Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at the College of St. Scholastica. Scholar of L.M. Montgomery, women's autobio., and beyond. Curator of annemanuscript.ca and kindredspaces.ca/bookshelf. All opinions mine. (she/her)

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What if educational spaces worked to become one of the few places in life our students are not constantly surveilled under constant threat conditions?
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.
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Dr. Emily Woster @emilywoster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm convinced that those of us actually *doing the work* of higher ed. are too fucking busy to publish in the Chronicle anymore. One glance at what and who they publish now reveals nothing about the truth on the ground and everything about which clueless idiots have too much time on their hands.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
predictably excellent from hollingshead, every word "Against the forces of antiintellectual fascists+AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics+immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties+pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests." defector.com/humanists-ha...
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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fluffy Maud Lewis c. 1964
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I’m relieved that this violent paramilitary force will be removed from our streets, but I won’t believe it until they're actually gone. Minnesotans deserve justice and accountability, and I won’t stop until we get it.
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Living in Minnesota right now means getting your heart broken every day, multiple times a day. Some days it also means having your faith in humanity restored. Please keep watching Minnesota, if you live elsewhere. Things are still dire.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 31/01/2026
An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities. standwithminnesota.com/read
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Organizing Reading List — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
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Medic Kim @medickimw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
YOU TELL THEM ROSE NYLAND 😭😭😭💜💜💜
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Plate Stealer @platestealer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If you're from outside MN and feel weird about sending a "Hope you're okay!" text to someone here, don't. Haven't talked since high school? Ex-coworker from 6 years ago? Already sent one a week ago? Doesn't matter. Every time I get one it's a big relief that people are paying attention.
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Dr. Emily Woster @emilywoster.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Proud of my husband for speaking clearly and standing up.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 27/01/2026
If you're feeling emotionally numb from living in a state of constant crisis and unimaginable tragedy, same here. One day we will manage to cry about it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents.

“There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me.

If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
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Dr. Emily Woster @emilywoster.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In the words of @johnsthebest.bsky.social "I'll never been an American again, but I'll be a Minnesotan until I die."
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 26/01/2026
love note #1422 came from eli in burlington vermont
LOVE NOTES
by Eli Clare
We may not survive
the decade, much less century. Yet
when deluge descends
this time
and this time and this time,
surface erupting in silver tury,
we invite each other down to the murky bottom.
Fill our ears, throats, bellies with the stories we most need.
Swim among sunken trees and drowned rivers, join the loons, dive for our next meal, find love notes buried in the muck.
Thank you for every single note of love, connection, ferocity, and rebellion. eli, burlington vermont
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Mike Freiberg @repfreiberg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Secretary of State Steve Simon’s statement on the outrageous request from the US Attorney General www.sos.mn.gov/about-the-of...
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Frank Hudson @frankhudson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
And Minneapolis' Phillips neighborhood is named for Wendell Phillips, a fervent abolitionist. He was once asked why he couldn't turn down the heat in his rhetoric: why are do you always have to be so firery? Phillips' reply: "Yes, I'm on fire--becuase I have mountains of ice to melt!"
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Mountains of Ice
When you listen to the song you can hear below you might doubt me – but it is not a topical song written about recent events. It was written by Parlando alternative voice Dave Moore in 2014. Dave’s…
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I don't think I have ever been so proud to be a Minnesotan. Just start scrolling. This is what solidarity looks like. This is what democracy looks like. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
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List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.
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Voices of the MN Occupation - Racket
A real-time oral history of the ICE assault on Minnesota
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Dr. Emily Woster @emilywoster.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It's hard for me to put into words the fear and anger that we're all steeped in right now. But I'm deeply proud of Minnesotans standing and stepping up for one another. Help out if you can.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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sunyi @sunyidean.com · 04/12/2025
Love it 🙌
Things You Can Make ChatGPT Write for You
- Hayley DeRoche
Your last words
But before them
What to murmur to a lover in bed
What to say in the group chat when someone's
Sister mother brother is dead and
The apology you could never quite get right for a friend And hell why not make the robot compose your proposal
Your wedding toast, too
Your best friend's birthday roast
You could ask it to write a custom lullaby For the baby snuffling at your breast.
You can cradle to grave away
Every warm human word
You could ever have said
And when they chisel your gravestone
For your final rest
We can ask ChatGPT
Because it knew you best
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lmmipei.bsky.social @lmmipei.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
🎂💐 November 30th marks the 151st birthday of L. M. Montgomery! We’re pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for our 2026 Biennial Conference, “L. M. Montgomery and Change.” 📲 Learn more about who will be leading the conversations at our upcoming conference: lmmontgomery.ca/special-anno...
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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
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eLibrary Minnesota
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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Book of The North @bookofthenorth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
October was an incredible month for the Book of The North! Our team and community harvested nettles and flax, learned to make ink out of all sorts of things, wrote beautiful scripts in medieval styles, but most importantly, came together as a community.
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Jay Gabler @jaygabler.com · 16/10/2025
The economic impact of the arts in Minnesota is greater than the impact of agriculture and forestry combined, according to a new study.
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Northland arts leaders highlight economic, human impact
Nonprofit arts activity in the Arrowhead region generates nearly $50 million in annual expenditures, according to a new report.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/07/2025
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
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Dr. Emily Woster @emilywoster.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I'll be at the Swedish Institute for Children's books (Svenska barnboksinstitutet) in a few weeks to talk about L.M. Montgomery, young girls, reading, and young girls' reading. You can tune in on line! shorturl.at/Js7SK
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Reading with Young Maud, Anne, and Emily: Childhood Reading Practices in the Life and Works of L.M. Montgomery. After registering, you will receive a confir...
Anne Shirley, Emily Byrd Starr, and L.M. Montgomery were readers. The kind of voracious young readers for whom reading was an escape, a constant companion, and, sometimes, the source of (mostly humoro...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day
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MCavert 🍁 @mcavert.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ingleside bloomed with firelight and laughter, though the winds [came] in from the Atlantic singing of mournful things. "Why isn't the wind happy?" asked Walter one night. "Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since time began," answered Anne. ANNE OF INGLESIDE #booksky
wind blowing spray off the top of blue ocean waves.
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Dr. Emily Woster @emilywoster.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A poem made for today. Joy Harjo, "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth In Its Human Feet." poets.org/poem/calling...
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Kheir Fakhreldin @kheir.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“Computer” (poem) by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1983, @illinoisrbml.bsky.social.
Manuscript for “Computer” (poem) by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1983. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois.Typescript for “Computer” (poem) by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1983. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois.
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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Yup. A manufactured moral panic through and through. Stuart Hall had a lot to say about how moral panics over petty street crime in London made Thatcher's neoliberal policies possible. Now it's a moral panic over CRT, DEI, etc that's making plutocracy-in-the-name-of-free-speech palatable.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
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Dr. Emily Woster @emilywoster.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There are 9 million more important things happening in the world right now, but if you want 75 minutes of escape into books and reading, I was interviewed on the latest episode of the Kindred Spirits Book Club podcast. Available on all the podcast platforms!! kindredspiritsbookclub.podbean.com
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Kindred Spirits Book Club
Books Podcast · 4 Seasons · Updated Biweekly
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/01/2025
As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...
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Against Anticipatory Obedience
While administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free...
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