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@graceshaffer.bsky.social
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|| phd student and discursive footnote enthusiast || lived experience and memory culture of queer people under german and italian fascisms @ university of southern california

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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 4h
don't like one in every eight americans live in los angeles county?
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 7h
i have beef with an institution i never attended a state i don't even live in currently over how they do their students such disservices regarding ability to adjust to/succeed in college
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 8h
can i apply for overtime for this?
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 8h
genuinely curious as to how high schoolers are being taught to write essays currently because i am seeing commonalities in issues/deficiencies across states and institutions
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 8h
not only have i been teaching my own undergrads how to write thesis statements and how to incorporate evidence and slants is into an essay but i am also teaching my best friends sibling
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 8h
nothing says monday quite like having to run defense agaisnt my cat while i try to finish reading and note taking
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 12h
she is sulking bc i won't let her live in my ribs right now
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
next up!
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
you know it's a good read when the final flags look like this and you had to pull out some arts and crafts to get all your notes on one page
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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This week for NC our author explores the rise of “Keeper” an illustrates how this app’s AI algorithms perpetuate eugenic love. nursingclio.org/2026/10/01/t...
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The “Keeper” of Modern US Eugenics: How AI Matchmaking Perpetuates Eugenic Love
In 2022, tech entrepreneurs Jake Kozloski and Cody Zervas launched a new dating website. Unlike Bumble or Hinge, this site is powered by artificial intelligence and promises its users “love at fir…
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
just paused reading about Hirschfeld's queer eugenics and this is like the first thing i see... i'm so 🫩🫠
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i have peaked nothing i will ever do will top this for me
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
update: was able to ask her son and the verdict is that she and stan hated foucault and felt he was the death of art and ruining college campuses
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's now 97 and my phone says there is a high of 102.... thank god this event is inside let's hope i get in the standby line and can get into the keynote
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.
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William @meche-hokie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Scenes from 5th century Rome
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 03/10/2026
"oh well she had comorbidities" yeah we're supposed to protect vulnerable people
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's 92 degrees at 10am and i'm voluntarily going to a hotter part of town to see an anne rice celebration that is dedication
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I put on the Ferrari shirt to reverse something and we scored instantly, but then we also got scored upon… I'm starting to think I'm the problem
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
oh my god it's quali day in malaysia and it felt like a threat to see ferrari post about it
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Carolina hurricanes are testing me in the same way that Ferrari does… 
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
today's book and annotation flag color matching brought to you by la metro transit
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy LGBTQ+ History month from all of us at the LGBTQ+ History Association!
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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I know lots of libs have had a field day making “closeted gay” jokes about Hegseth, and not only are they homophobic, they’re also wrong. It’s simpler than that, as Jazz points out. Hegseth is obsessed with penises because he honestly believes his is the only thing special about him, and thus men.
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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*thoughtfully* at least two
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
student in my office hours: so how many books do you read over your whole phd?
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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026
End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
they are in sync
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
happy "flip a cybertruck off wednesday" to all those who celebrate!
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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Brady knew how to read, he would be so mad.
"Brady Tkachuk"
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hopecore for today
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and gender is so deeply a factor the other ta has received practically Zero emails about the same assignment
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i swear to god if students put in the same effort they do emailing me about trivial aspects of a non-graded thesis check in as they did writing the actual paper they would get a better result and i'd be way less annoyed
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am lucky to have not been sexually assaulted or raped by a colleague but cis men in academia behave like cis men in power everywhere & the Cornell case makes me so angry we’re not doing shit about the rape culture at universities still. It’s not just frat parties. It’s the institutions, too.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
capped the night off with a good one!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lookin' at ur department website, noticin' that 80% are men over 60, knowin' that you just denied tenure to four young non-white scholars. Meanwhile, you're *all* burning out your mid-career women.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sleeping on the clock yet again
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Only rich people are allowed to do social work, art, study religion, educate others, and create music is the uptick.
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Richard E Frankel @refrankel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nazi Germany? Stalin’s Russia? Pussycats compared to Canada!!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
happy monday! finally got to open up all the books that arrived while i was at the GSA!
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i can never chose just one, so i'll choose three: the new fascist body by dagmar herzog, i will not abandon you by samuel huneke, or people without history are dust by anna hájková
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
man in front of me has already put his seat back.... we are still at the gate and boarded hasn't closed
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
shoutout the southwest gate agent giving a little improvised song as she started the boarding process the whimsy doesn't go unnoticed
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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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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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this post brought to you by the saltiest and somehow blandest friend green tomato blt
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grace! @graceshaffer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
constantly suprised by the attempts at "southern" foods outside the south but i still order it everytime because i never learn
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