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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 22h

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social won an award tonight for her brilliant article about Benjamin Lundy in Early American Lit, but the real award was when she talked our septuagenarian & v cool tour guide into giving us a sneaky tour of the tunnels underneath the Oneida commune. He also let us into his apt.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chittenango Falls, obviously very ugly

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

learning about complex marriage & funding your commune through flatware at the Oneida Community Mansion House

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

had my first authentic ny state chicken riggies, and I totally get it.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Controversial but I think this is peak magnolia season

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If that portion of the Snapchat texts reading “Shop still open?” and another guy replying “yea” is legit, idk what to feel except deeply demoralized. A CBS News reporter has the story, though I don’t feel like linking.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I quite like her (and will add an artist credit once I figure it out)

Painting of a young woman looking annoyed, holding a lit Molotov cocktail. There’s a pink ribbon banner under her figure that says “be the light” lol

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 29/09/2026

Professoring is so weird, like I took a bunch of classes in linguistics and then I taught a bunch of courses in linguistics and then wrote a two-hundred page thesis in linguistics and now like a quarter of my job is just making decisions about university and departmental curriculum

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"there is no reward" is crucial -- you speaking up might make things socially uncomfortable. that is, in fact, the point.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

some Ana Mendieta, just because (Siluetas series, 1973)

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026

I hope people can see that this is the logical end point of the "measure the value of disciplines by ROI were R is conceived solely in terms of $" thinking that has, quite frankly, been enthusiastically embraced by both parties, to the detriment of students, faculty, and democracy itself.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I cannot overestimate how auspicious an omen it is for Philadelphia that LeBron has chosen this year to go fully bald for the first time.

lebron in a press conference in a sixers jersey, holding a microphone, FULLY BALD

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

between this story & the one about Maddie Kowalski and the “burnerverse” a few weeks ago, it’s clear that frats remain among this country’s most cherished rape infrastructure (one type of infrastructure the U.S. loves to maintain)

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

some Ana Mendieta, just because (Siluetas series, 1973)

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wifey flop era: “while romantic love, at its best, should make us love the outside world more, finding the love of her life seems to have made Swift more vindictive…about as much depth & artistic value as Swift pointing to her 700K rock and shouting, “that’s my husband!” as Kelce scores a touchdown”

pastemagazine.com

Taylor Swift’s four new songs are The Encore that no one asked for

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

clipping dahlias before the nor’easter

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Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our new issue drops today. It's a double issue focused on textiles.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our campus sustainability club made a free thrift! It’s so cool.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm late to the Dartmouth provost AI story. I'm very grateful to the student journalists who did the reporting and analysis. But I'm also wondering who has thoughts about the Pangram ed tech "AI detector"? Maybe @mattseybold.bsky.social ?

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thesis 4: “the tweet says that, whenever Christopher Nolan brags about not having a phone or an email account, all he’s doing is telling us that his wife raises their kids all by herself. Does this man have a ClassDojo account? Is he looped into the shared calendar?”

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one of my passions is making fun of Shoes Academics Wear, but I include myself as a target: I like that these look like something you’d find on a Bronze Age bog body

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

add in some cigarettes my friend bought w her fake ID and this is a significant chunk of my teenage years

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'd like to thank Kurt Vile for the lyric "zig zag my whip / down Lincoln Drive" which I now always sing on that road, in my shitty old Kia

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

back in the good old days, Emerson biographers used to acknowledge that it was extra-offensive when a young wife died a painful death if she was also hot.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

one of the funniest things on academic twitter was when accounts would refer to him as “Peven Stinker” and he’d get mad about it

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Everyone knows you shouldn't represent yourself in court; humanists defending the humanities is bad for the humanities and bad for the defense of the humanities and that is why they want us to do it (not to say we never should—but we should get real about why we're being asked).

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More wifework: “men don’t seem to realize how hard women work at keeping friendships alive. I liken it to stoking a fire at a campsite: we gather kindling, gauge the wind, blow on the embers. Some men just watch the flames diminish to a flicker…& rely on their wives for any shred of a social plan.”

thecut.com

‘My Husband Has No Friends’

For some wives, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes … managing their spouse’s social life?

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

block party later, the cheese is marinating

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 18/09/2026

Still seeing faculty talk about how they had Chat write a thing and then had students critique what was good or bad about it as if this is a pedagogical innovation for the ages

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey! Thje new issue of College Lit is excellent: "[This] model of infrastructural mediation...hardly represents an abandonment of materialism; rather it sharpens our understanding of materiality, of material history being patterned as much by abstractions as it is by works of concrete and steel."

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every new dahlia variety that blooms is my favorite one ever

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I hope no one here is shocked to learn that my GAs (in their early 20s) do not know what this place is. One of them half-heartedly said she might’ve heard of it, to spare me. I think this is good and right.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

my standard A to the “how else can it be done??” Q: my uni doesn’t require book for tenure. We also have a (too narrow) CBA pathway for some adjunct colleagues to convert to TT. But we’re a 4:4 public regional, so generally treated w polite distaste when people want to talk ‘real’ tenure reform

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Celeste-Marie Bernier presents the first standalone biography of Anna Murray Douglass, wife and co-revolutionary of Frederick Douglass, honoring her history-making role as a campaigner, liberator, and freedom-fighter. Read a sample for free now: buff.ly/4etAj6v

Cover of Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary by Celeste-Marie Bernier. The cover is a photograph of Anna Murray Douglass as a duotone in pink and red. There are three squares made of transparent gold triangle patterns overlayed. The title is written large in a bold white script across the cover. The subtitle is smaller below and aligned left. The authors name appears in the top left corner of the cover in white.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"virality follows a specific pattern: salacious gossip about a college girl’s sex life, or nude photos and videos of her, make their way to YikYak or Snapchat before being disseminated by burner accounts on social media platforms...with aggregation websites...amplifying the victim’s humiliation."

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

unforgivable humidity this month, but the zinnias are happy

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sunday morning is for browsing unhinged local oil paintings on marketplace

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Allow me to introduce myself in a new professional capacity: while the JHUP info isn't updated quite yet, I'm delighted to be taking over as Editor in Chief of College Literature here at WCUPA! Lit Studies people, please submit your brilliant work... www.press.jhu.edu/journals/col...

press.jhu.edu

College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I didn’t make this, I just like it & endorse.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hello, it’s week 3 of semester and I am drowning. No professorial optimism welcome here! Commiseration only.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if we see a face we will think it’s us!

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I love old snapshots so much. What a dish! She’s going on my wall.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

September Queen of the garden— almost 6ft with 12 blooms & buds. A statuesque & prolific queen!

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the next time someone asks me why I ‘only’ have one kid, I’m going to say that while I wanted a child, I’m also doing my part to keep the U.S. white birth rate low 💪

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either.

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today’s Italy update: we went in a church and there was a big inflatable bug

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