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just another poet with a tabby cat | ersatz researcher, masterless ronin, island dweller, winter sparrow | we must hurry if we are going to dance | jsalowe.com

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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · 15/09/2026
#TWC is excited to announce the publication of #TWC49, a our annual general issue edited by Poe Johnson and Mel Stanfill. Dive in at this link: rb.gy/pmxvrf
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 18/09/2026
i've been anticipating this article from #TWC and it's finally here! PhD candidate Laurel Rogers unpacking what she terms, sapiently, "genre shock" in western/anglophone fans, whose initial encounters with danmei or dangai can lead to misrecognizing their features—this will be incredibly useful work
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Genre shock in transcultural fandom: English-language slash fans, danmei, and the morality policing of queer representation | Transformative Works and Cultures
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 17/09/2026
hey bébés—now taking signups for the online class i've been calling, in my head, "make story happen." it's especially for any new fanfic/fiction writers, or anyone who wants a gentle (re?)introduction to the patterns of creating/finishing stories. we'll write together, share work, make new friends!
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 16/09/2026
i know this is an odd bit to quote, probably, but it's always been one of my very favorite passages from the writing life, which is (self-evidently) foundational: "it was an interesting kettle. life is so interesting." it is! and hers was. thank you, annie dillard.
the secretaries said they would give me another chancethat is how things were when i got there.the pain kept me in the real worldwhy people want to be writers i will never know
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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Working on conference org stuff today so once again sharing the CFP for Fan Studies at PCA 2027. Deadline is October 31 this year. Come hang out and geek with me in Boston!! pcaaca.org/members/grou...
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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are planning to hold a hybrid (in-person and online) conference on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July 2027 in Lancaster, UK. We would love to hear from the fan studies community about what you want from the event so please complete the expression of interest questionnaire below.
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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Save the Date: Fan Studies at 35 After an 8 year hiatus the FSN conference is back! We’re thinking about the state of the field 35 years after the publication of Henry Jenkins’ Textual Poachers, Camille Bacon-Smith’s Enterprising Women, & Lisa the edited collection The Adoring Audience in 1992.
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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
CFP for Fan Studies at PCA 2027 in Boston is OUT! Submissions are OPEN! Deadline is OCTOBER 31!! Bring us your geekery and HMU if you have questions!!
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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
putting my journal editor hat on: one of y'all #fanstudies people please write me something for @journal.transformativeworks.org about the apparently universal fandom of Dolly Parton.
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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What better way to kick off the countdown to FSNNA 2026 Conference than by announcing our first special event?? 🗓️ Oct 22, 5pm ET, members of our very own organizing committee are hosting a #FanStudies Methods Roundtable! 🔗 Info & registration: website-8aff4977.tou.dpn.mybluehost.me/2026-confere...
Cream colored promotional graphic for a Methods Roundtable event at the FSNNA Annual Conference. At the top in teal text it lists the day and time as Oct 22, 2026 from 17:00-18:30 ET. The event title is "Methods Roundtable: Approaches, Ethics, and Inquiry in Fan Studies" and will include the following members of the FSNNA organizing committee: Gwen Nisbett (speaking on Quantitative Methods) Meredith Sinclair (Discourse Analysis), J Overholser (Ethics & Narrative Inquiry), and Yvonne Gonzales (Interviewing & Focus Groups).
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pnsnewmexico.bsky.social @pnsnewmexico.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New Mexico's Zozobra offers a cure in chaotic times.
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Santa Fe's Zozobra burns away personal worries, collective gloom
A spectacle of despair will be set ablaze for the 102nd year in downtown Santa Fe Sept. 4, as thousands watch a 50-foot-tall effigy known as
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Public News Service @publicnewsservice.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tonight, Santa Fe burns "Old Man Gloom" for the 102nd year. Thousands write their troubles on slips of paper called "glooms" and stuff them into the 50-foot Zozobra before it goes up in flames. This year's theme honors America's 250th and Dolly Parton. 🔥
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Santa Fe's Zozobra burns away personal worries, collective gloom
A spectacle of despair will be set ablaze for the 102nd year in downtown Santa Fe Sept. 4, as thousands watch a 50-foot-tall effigy known as
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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My new edited book is out today! And it's open access so you can all read it for free! I'm so excited to share what all these amazing authors have to say about work that crosses design research and fan studies. I'll be highlighting chapters over the next few days. www.emerald.com/books/edited...
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Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation
Fandom studies and design are both relatively young disciplines both of which are familiar with interdisciplinarity, and with co-production and participati
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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm so excited to be able to help host the next Fan Studies Network conference at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, as supported by our School of Arts! Looking forward to seeing all you #FanStudies folks next year... (do complete the survey to help planning!)
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 07/08/2026
also coming this fall: beginning fiction, also lyric poetry workshop (suitable if you're already been in one of my courses, but very beginner friendly)—dates/times TBA, tell a friend! zoë the tabby cat will be there
intro to fiction workshoplyric poetry workshop
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 11/08/2026
i think about this interview with the late bill knott possibly more than anyone should. i think about him quite often. www.memorious.org?id=140
quotation from the poet bill knott which is somewhat bleak shall we sayquotation from the poet bill knott which is somewhat bleak shall we sayquotation from the poet bill knott which is somewhat bleak shall we sayquotation from the poet bill knott which is somewhat bleak shall we say
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 07/08/2026
also coming this fall: beginning fiction, also lyric poetry workshop (suitable if you're already been in one of my courses, but very beginner friendly)—dates/times TBA, tell a friend! zoë the tabby cat will be there
intro to fiction workshoplyric poetry workshop
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 07/08/2026
preview of the double album, coming soon to a very small press near you (september 1)
covers for 2 books of poem-shaped objects
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 19/06/2026
every time someone says, "oh so academics just take the whole summer off?" another adjunct dies
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ron Padgett
4:50 and dark
already?   Everyone
wants to be
beautiful but
few are.   4:51
and darker.
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NB Aging Dad @bigtotoro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Toshiro Mifune leaving the set of Yojimbo, in costume, in a MG convertible, SWORD ON THE DASHBOARD.
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 05/05/2026
also sprach fritz
burger king advert saying when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. also sprach friedrich nietzsche
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 05/05/2026
shoutout to the film student who lost her entire MIND over moonlight. just went batshit on canvas, i could not love her more. picked up every single thing jenkins was throwing down, typed out a whole-ass taylor swift song about it, bolded and ANNOTATED its relevant lyrics. girl thank u for my life
mahershala ali as juan and Alex R. Hibbert as little in moonlight dir. barry jenkins
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Will Asbestos Make Make Cotton Candy Obsolete?
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Burger King logo altered to include English translation of Basho's famous haiku about Kyoto
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
There are instructors who will ask students for evidence of medical problems or family deaths, & there are instructors who would never do such a thing. Your response to the AI push probably correlates with which group you are in.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Nice work, @insidehighered.com This is a perfect headline & lede.
Cornell President Runs Into Protesters with Car
By Josh Moody
Cornell University president Michael Kolikoff
struck a student and recent graduate with his
car Thursday night in what he described as an incident of harassment and intimidation against him
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Rosamund Stanhope
Song


Love that is bound has gone
with the late alchemy of stars at dawn
affirming as they die
what day’s accustomed clarities deny

Love that is lost remains
with the green advent of next season’s rains
that start the trees to flower
through their impetuous, unreported hour.
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 02/05/2026
new salinger novel discovered???
granny and zooey! groundbreaking
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 19/04/2026
Opium Fogs (1963), Rosemary Tonks's second novel, is, if nothing else, full of loathing odes to London that aspire to Bleak House's “Michaelmas term lately over” opening: "The Metropolis was clad in mildew, alive with glittering ooze and great fever clouds." neglectedbooks.com/?... 1/2
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in the post on the site — publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 07/04/2026
"it takes two or three generations to do what i tried to do in one." per the late poet bill knott, the failure is mine alone.
thomas hardy, jude the obscure
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 06/04/2026
me: darn it, i forgot the deadline and now it's too late to apply and yet again fail to receive an NEA individual artist grant the NEA: hey that's okay! not a problem! after decades of funding thousands of writers including most of your friends and teachers we just got rid of those, hope that helps
you are not authorized to access this page. you never were. freedom!!!!!!
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
April Fool‘s warrants reposting this arxiv.org/abs/2204.06826
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Exhaustive Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature
Rickrolling is an Internet cultural phenomenon born in the mid 2000s. Originally confined to Internet fora, it has spread to other channels and media. In this paper, we hypothesize that rickrolling ha...
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 25/03/2026
wow! i mean i didn't really expect them to use the cover i made on an etch-a-sketch while i was driving, but i'm so honored!!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania." -Dorothy Parker
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A person at level 1 or below proficiency, is unable to do this. They cannot parse out extraneous, distracting, irrelevant information. They cannot look at a website and identify which parts of the page they are looking at, are advertisements.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Level 2 proficiency is such as being able to look at a website and identify which parts are advertisements, if you want a concrete idea of what it means.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Think about all the libertarians you've encountered who will read a book and *entirely* miss the point of the book. Literally not perceiving that the book is describing a dystopia, or identify satire of real world events, or identify who is the villain. 54% of US adults read below 6th grade level.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Think about chuds constantly going "man I used to love this band but they turned woke by putting politics in their songs" and the band is literally Rage Against the Machine or Bruce Springsteen. 54% of US adults read below 6th grade level. 20%, below 5th grade level.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
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2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute
Literacy Statisitics
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Catherine 🌷 @catebridget.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
i included this in my syllabi this year
anti-AI “credo”

I have a religious exemption from using all generative “A.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an “it.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use “A.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. 

CS 12/9/2025
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/02/2026
"In recent months, Texas universities have inflicted some of the worst repression of academic freedom we’ve ever witnessed at American colleges, with gag orders, speaker bans and arbitrary firings of dissenting faculty."
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Censorship Is Bigger in Texas
Texas officials apparently think Texas students are stupid snowflakes who must be protected from hearing controversial ideas.
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 16/02/2026
not sure why i spent a half-hour making this except i can no longer assign writing as either pedagogy or assessment, and i don't know how to teach reading and thinking and watching films without it, so i'm watching the slow-motion trainwreck of a job i've had since 1998 and i'm kind of mad about it.
the perfect storm of how we broke higher ed in the exact kinds of ways that would leave undergrads vulnerable to billionaires who don't care about their minds and souls but just want to sell AI and LLMs no matter who gets trampled on the way. it's like climate catastrophe in that we probably couldn't have engineered all this more precisely if we'd tried.
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 16/02/2026
this is ghastly and unsurprising and everyone should read it
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Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom @transasianfan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
CfP: Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium happening next May @ NUS, Singapore. More announcements to come, but we're hoping this will kickstart conversations and collaborations for scholars in the region working on transcultural fandom #AcademicSky #FanStudies #TransculturalFandom #CfPs
Call for Papers: Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom SymposiumDescription of the CfPA list of potential topics for the symposiumDetails of the organising committee, 500 word abstract + 100 word short bio to be emailed by 1 Feb 2026 to transasianfan@gmail.com
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Aja Romano @bookshop.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The number of people acting shocked by this amazes me, frankly, since we've been predicting exactly this— and seeing AI slop taking over google searches — for years now. Also we MUST stop using "hallucination," which frames this is an unfortunate quirky fluke. It is the program's intended behavior.
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