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Gabriel Kunst

@gabrielkunst.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of French at Athabasca University working on autism, literature & the medical humanities • Auteur chez Poètes de brousse • Anxious singer-songwriter • Autiste (he/him•il/lui)

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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
*Organes phosphorescents* paraît dans deux mois. Ce livre a été écrit pendant les quatorze mois entre le diagnostic de Leila et son décès. Elle est partie le 7 mars. J’ai voulu garder le texte intact, en suspens, comme si la mort n’était pas avenue. poetesdebrousse.org/catalogue/or...
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Organes phosphorescents Gabriel Kunst - Éditions Poètes de brousse
Dans Organes phosphorescents, Gabriel Kunst explore l’expérience du cancer à partir d’une perspective précise : celle du partenaire qui soutient, observe
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“The report calls on administrators to take a more active role in overseeing the scholarly practices of departments […]. In practice, such scrutiny tends to coarsen into pressure for conformity or for narrowly construed criteria of relevance.” www.chronicle.com/article/who-...
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Opinion | Who Gets to Judge the Humanities?
The authors of a recent critical report aren’t qualified for the job.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Something we lost after Twitter collapsed: a shared space where writers, journals and readers could randomly discover each other and interact. Now everything feels fragmented.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#Poetry update 🎉 Issue 11.1 is now live! / Le numéro 11.1 est maintenant en ligne! With/avec Madeleine Stratford, Buffy Shutt, Sarah Gauthier, Cassund Olivier, Xavière Hardy, Alafia Nicole Sessions, Leonardo Carne Deluca, Liza Rose & Louka Duhaime-Choquette 🩵 revuepost.com/11-1/
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PØST
poésie contemporaine / contemporary poetry
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Yes. To all of this.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
To honour my late wife, who started the journal with me years ago, we’re reopening for submissions. // Pour honorer ma femme, codirectrice de la revue depuis le début et décédée le mois dernier, je repars la machine 💚 • 3 pages max • by May 31 // d’ici le 31 mai #poetry revuepost.com/appel-call/
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Appel de textes / Call for submissions
En mars 2026, Leila Alfaro, codirectrice de la revue, est décédée à l’âge de 32 ans. Ce projet n’aurait pas pu voir le jour sans elle. Pour lui rendre hommage, j’ai décidé de relancer la revue aprè…
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
My wife passed away on Saturday. I still can’t find the words for the emptiness she leaves behind, but I’m grateful she went peacefully, surrounded by love. She was an extraordinary mother and woman—the love of my life. Our children will always carry her love in their hearts 💞
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Excited to share a new op-ed @insidehighered.com on autism and academic hiring. I argue that sociability and hireability aren’t the same thing, and that universities can take concrete steps to make hiring fairer for autistic scholars. #Autism #HigherEd www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
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Autism, Equity and the Faculty Hiring Process (opinion)
Sociability is not the same as hireability. Colleges can take concrete steps to make the academic hiring process fairer for neurodivergent candidates.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Great essay @theatlantic.com! Too often, when we try to “meet students where they are,” I think we’re really meeting them where we assume they are. In my experience, when we trust students with demanding texts, they rise to the challenge 📚 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
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Anne Archet 🏴Ⓐ @annearchet.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Ça me désole, mais franchement, comment pourrais-je être surprise.
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Prestige isn’t neutral, but unlearning it can open higher ed to far more voices, paths, and possibilities. I wrote about why that matters. Link to my @universityaffairs.bsky.social piece on the topic 👇🏻 #academia #university #highered universityaffairs.ca/opinion/unpr...
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Unprestigious academia - University Affairs
How I unlearned academic elitism.
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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's Autism Acceptance Month. If you are not already accepted by an autistic person you have 27 days left.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Pour souligner le #moisdelautisme, je signe un article-essai-travail de recherche-témoignage sur la parentalité autistique, soit le fait d’élever des enfants (autistes ou non) en tant que personne autiste. Disponible gratuitement ici (p. 48-50): www.autisme.qc.ca/wp-content/u... #actuallyautistic
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My wife was admitted to the hospital on January 1st with advanced esophagogastric cancer. The prognosis is not encouraging, but we’re hoping for a miracle. She’s staying strong, positive, and resilient, and we’d appreciate your prayers and kind thoughts during these challenging times.
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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 21/01/2025
Apparently it needs saying, again, as autism is used as an excuse for bullshit, again, but: AUTISM DOES NOT MAKE YOU LESS AWARE OF YOUR ACTIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. IT MAKES YOU HYPER-AWARE AND ANXIOUS ABOUT THEM.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/01/2025
I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is a hero 💙
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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Vaccines don’t cause autism. But also, autism is not something that needs to be prevented. It’s just a different way to be & the only “problem” is that some neurotypical people are uncomfortable interacting with autistic people who are arbitrarily forced to adhere to the way we do things.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Edmontonians: Live in one of the northernmost cities in the world. Edmontonians on the first snow day of the year: Forget how to drive, like it’s the storm of the century and they were not expecting any of this. In Winter. Even though it happens. Every. Year.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 20/20
Christophe Tarkos — Anachronisme
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 19/20
Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe — Julia Miele Rodas, foreword by Melanie Yergeau
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
You know what we haven’t had in a while? A good ol’ dancing mania. That’s the kind of cultural reset we all need. Let 2025 be the year we bring them back.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 18/20
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari — Capitalisme et schizophrénie 2: Mille plateaux
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McGill University @handle.invalid · 06/12/2024
On the 35th anniversary of the École Polytechnique tragedy, the McGill community gathered to pay tribute to the fourteen young women who lost their lives. mcgill.ca/x/wzh
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Honouring the women killed at École Polytechnique ‘is not enough’  - McGill Reporter
At McGill’s memorial ceremony for the École Polytechnique shooting, survivor Dominique Bérubé, now VP (Research and Innovation), speaks publicly about that day for the first time
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
“I would’ve never guessed this person had a disability, they look/act so normal” is not the compliment you think it is, folks.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 17/20
Réjean Ducharme — L’avalée des avalés
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Parce que, parallèlement au Jacques Roubaud artsy et au Jacques Roubaud intello, il y avait aussi le Jacques Roubaud sassy, une citation que je trouve délicieuse et hilarante:
La conception du langage qui est à l’œuvre dans Finnegans Wake est purement lexicale. Le livre est un gros puncake. Mais «en-dessous», qu’est-ce qu’on trouve? La bonne vieille phrase anglaise, la plus classique, la plus scolaire, parfumée de rhétorique.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 16/20
How it is by Samuel Beckett
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Les Québécois·es aiment vendre l’image d’une province ouverte et progressiste. Or il suffit de déménager dans une province dite conservatrice pour comprendre qu’il n’y a à peu près rien qui distingue le Québec actuel du reste du Canada: mêmes tendances rétrogrades, même rejet des valeurs de gauche.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I’m just a simple man on his way to work, asking you, fellow left-turner coming the other way—why no blinker? Mine’s on, right there in your face, and I’m sitting here waiting, thinking you’re going straight, only to watch you turn left too. Why?
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 15/20
Diaries of a Terrorist — Christopher Soto
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Tired, flu-ridden me asked ChatGPT to check my class’s oral presentation schedule last week. It completely missed that one student wasn’t on the list and another was there twice. So... I guess our jobs are safe for now! #AIFail #AcademicSky #Scholar
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
J’adore entendre différents accents, j’ai étudié la sociolinguistique, je suis passionné de dialectes et autres variations de langue. Mais je suis désolé, dire Pâââscal(e) au lieu de Pascal(e) c’est non 🥴
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 14/20
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Social science & humanities people: who’s the one thinker that you just don’t get? For me it’s Jacques Rancière (confusing and boooooring)… #AcademicSky
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 13/20
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau — Regards et jeux dans l’espace
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 12/20
Félix Guattari — Les trois écologies
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 11/20
Kurt Vonnegut — Slaughterhouse-Five
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Ce soir, je serai au Salon du livre de Montréal de 16h à 17h. Venez me voir au kiosque de Poètes de brousse 💛
En dédicaces: Gabriel Kunst
Salon du livre de Montréal
Palais des congrès
Vendredi 29 novembre de 16h à 17h
Samedi 30 novembre de 18h à 19h
Kiosque 205
(Couverture du livre Garçon désamorcé)
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 10/20
Ida — Gertrude Stein
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 9/20
Jean-Marie Gleize — Les chiens noirs de la prose
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My colleague and I wrote about how harmful Danielle Smith’s new anti-trans policies would be for ALL youth. Don’t think this is only an attack on trans youth—it makes all children more vulnerable.
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Danielle Smith’s new policies make all Albertan youth unsafe
The harms posed to trans youth are more than enough reason to abandon three proposed Alberta bills. However, trans youth are not the only victims of these reckless policies.
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 8/20
The Queer Art of Failure — Judith/Jack Halberstam
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Anyone else finds it exciting when interlibrary loans come from a faraway place? This book, which is essential to my research, travelled across international borders to get to me, how special is that! #Books #AcademicSky
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 7/20
EIMI — e.e. cummings
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🇺🇸 imperial system 🌍 metric system 🇨🇦 metric for long distances, outside temperature, speeds, gas prices, most liquids; imperial for body/pool/oven temperature, measuring short objects, a person’s height and weight (except for medical purposes), most cooking and baking 🙃
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Gabriel Kunst @gabrielkunst.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 6/20
Nathalie Quintane — Formage
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