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Michael J. Murphy

@emmjaymurphee.bsky.social
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•Prof., Gender & Sexuality Stds., U. Illinois Springfield •LGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history. #FreePalestine

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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 8h
This is why advice to "go to the cops" is misguided, though well intended. Reporting to the police often leads to endless reliving of a traumatic event and further re-traumatization for survivors. Respecting survivor agency is an important part of supporting survivors.
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 8h
It was not until I was in my 40s that I realized I had been sexual assaulted as a kindergartner. My memory is vague and I just hadn't considered what was done to me in light of my later understanding. And I teach about this stuff for a living...
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 8h
In light of her recent passing and recent events, I see it's time to re-up Gloria Steinem's classic work "Supremacy Crimes" which calls on us to start telling the truth about violence against women: it's almost always committed by straight white men in service to male supremacy.
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Supremacy Crimes Gloria Steinem
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 13h
Me (when asking the university administration to follow its own written policy):
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As someone who’s been teaching about men, masculinity, and rape (by men of women *and* men) for over 20 years, it’s surreal that everyone’s now “discovering” truths about rape on campus that we’ve known since the ‘70s. Can’t even imagine how feminists feel right now…😔
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres...
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
None of this is surprising. Not the fraternity’s behavior, not the victim’s statements, not Cornell University’s and its police response. It’s a textbook college coverup of a serious crime (that wasn’t treated as one).
abcnews.com
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over heard in our nonexistent faculty lounge: “This job really gets in the way of my work.”
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If #Cornell wanted to stop most rapes (by men of women *and men*) on its campus it would eliminate fraternity *houses* and disband all its men’s *team* sports. Frats and sports: these are the two college institutions that reproduce rape culture. #AcademicSky
cornellsun.com
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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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those of us on the inside, this is old news. And admins are using the lost tuition to justify axing the humanities and interdisciplinary programs like African American studies and Women and Gender studies. #AcademicSky
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens with screenings of the documentary on gay commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, I’m sharing this review I published in American Studies. #AcademicSky
academia.edu
Situating J. C. Leyendecker within the Conflicting Narratives of the Gay and Lesbian Past
"Coded: The Hidden Love of J. C. Leyendecker," directed by Ryan White (New York: Imagine Documentaries, 2021) is a short documentary film on the life and work of one of the most prolific ill...
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Looking forward to ignorant bigots learning how much of human gender and sexual variance is grounded in "science" and "biological reality"... They have no idea!
lgbtqnation.com
"Biological reality!": The Proclaimers rage against trans women when discussing new political album - LGBTQ Nation
The Scottish rock duo would walk 500 miles (and would walk 500 more) just to defend JK Rowling's transphobia.
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the many paradoxes of academia is that institutions don’t solve budget and enrollment problems by only talking about budget and enrollment… #AcademicSky
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dartmouth’s provost caught publishing AI-authored papers and op-eds by the student newspaper. His comment to the paper? Written by AI. Lol. #AcademicSky
thedartmouth.com
Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This (fake) distinction is so old, so wrong, and so tedious.
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one told me that being a professor would involve so much time socializing children into adulthood. Nothing in graduate school trained me for that. #AcademicSky
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The pro-Israel lobby and its billlionaire funders have silenced and censored uncounted numbers of artists, academics, authors, students, and activists. Macklemore refused to be silenced. Power sometimes flowers in unexpected places. ✊ #FreePalestine
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone who claims opposition to genocide or championing the rights of oppressed peoples is "antisemitism" needs to take a logic class. Helpful graphic:
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So glad my university paid to have shaq dj a quad party before a game against Middle Tennessee State University instead of paying faculty competitive salaries or fixing its collapsing infrastructure
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everyone knows AI-written academic papers are embarrassing now, including their "authors", which is why even the publishers - who stand to benefit most from AI-amplified publication volumes - are now offering "Affordable human expert editing for AI-drafted or AI-edited manuscripts" 🤯
Screenshot of T&F editing services, reading:

Editing for AI-Assisted Manuscripts
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Starting at $0.031/ word
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Like an x-ray of what it’s like at my current uni:
wonkhe.com
The loss of staff belonging in higher education
Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There are no words adequate to encompass the enormity and many facets of the events of 25 years ago today. And what happened after. But as a (nominal) art historian, I am attracted to this meditation on the meaning of a single photograph, which is enormously painful to view even from this distance.
esquire.com
The Falling Man
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Working at a GROSSLY mismanaged, financially stressed university means I dread opening work email every morning. What fresh hell will today bring?
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The passing of an era…
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Kat Eschner @keschner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fact-checking services cost $$$$, particularly specialized fact checkers. Prepping a book for that kind of scrutiny is also a huge undertaking. And it's absolutely not possible to fact check your own work to the standard of an independent checker. You're too close to it. Can't be done.
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E.B. Hutchins @ebhutchins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every time I say elite academia is a slaughterhouse, some people think I'm kidding, but I'm not. Being black and smart invites a level of violence from whites that nearly got me committed three years ago after a lifetime of violence for being black, female and smart.
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Informative thread:
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The ironic thing about “sex” testing in sports is that it inevitably reveals the sex binary to be a fiction not based in biological evidence.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In the context of the Trump regime’s assaults on academic freedom and free speech, this means official U.S. policy is that race science is one of the very few things it’s acceptable to do at a university, and must be promoted by the state, while most other pursuits should be crushed by the state.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My colleague wasn't willing to wait until a new kiln fit in the budget, so he built one from scratch with reclaimed materials. This is professoring.
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
No employee should be funding their employer’s business costs!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My gay heart 💔 Dolly presenting Whitney with the Grammy for “I will always love you”
Picture of dolly presenting whitney with a Grammy for I will always love you
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
But destruction of higher ed as it currently exists is the goal! Republicans don't want a highly educated citizenry with critical thinking skills and the ability to question, poke holes, and push back. They want cultists and sheep.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
On the subject of Dolly’s union/working class solidarity, her 9 to 5 LP included Woody Guthrie’s ´Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’, a protest song about the racist mistreatment & media coverage of exploited Mexican farm workers who died when the plane deporting them crashed in 1948.
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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Power Vibe · by NoMAGA @powervibe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A useful reminder that solidarity isn’t something you outgrow when you make it big. The union card still matters when the person holding it is Dolly Parton.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.
A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We now advocate for less violent means…
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
afm.org
AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton has died at age 80. Here she is with artist Keith Haring. She was always a friend to us when few others dared. We didn’t deserve her and she will be sorely missed!💔
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Summa y’all have yet to learn that the only power academics will ever have to push back against abusive administrators comes through unionization (and even that has limits). The niceties of the medieval academic guild are just that and admins abandon them at will. #AcademicSky
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Faculty would do well to join the AAUP and familiarize itself with its writing on academic freedom…
aaup.org
1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretive Comments
AAUP 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m not a violent person, don’t own a gun or even a baseball bat. But the longer I’m in academia, the more I understand why people ‘go postal’ at work. The petty abuses of power and targeted abuse of employees is astonishing… #AcademicSky
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A question for The Ages
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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AFT @aft.org · 20/08/2026
Where we spend money reflects what we stand for. For back-to-school, we’re encouraging people to put their dollars behind businesses that support union values—not ones working to undermine public ed, our democracy and union rights. Find local stores that support these values ▶️ ShopSmart.AFT.org.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A reminder: eugenics does not belong in academia — it belongs in the trash. It’s pretty basic.
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