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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

there are many good reasons to go see sinners but one underrated reason is that the music is really fire??? and my favorite queer Smithsonian folkways label ethnomusicologist PhD student JAKE BLOUNT consulted on the soundtrack

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Just really smart work connecting some of my beginning ideas to their own experiences working on grants and working with partners and dang I'm just so glad I had the gumption to share it with them

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Y'all i did a thing I've never done before in class and shared some in-progress grants research with my students and wow wow wow I was blown away by how smart their takes were

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Bailey Poletti @baileypoletti.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I can't get over "he's not coming back" being said on Good Friday.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Student journalists across many university campuses continue to be one of the groups who have handled this moment with the most clarity

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Editorial | Protect the Penn we were promised

The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board paves the way for Penn to move forward amid the ongoing attacks on higher education.

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Come see me talk about religious rhetoric with some brilliant researchers (inc. @kellysauskojus.bsky.social) at #4C25 today!

Info for the Roundtable "Toward a Rhetoric of the Religious Left in the United States" with me (Bethany Mannon, Nabila Hijazi, Joshua Cohen, and Anie Patterson Partin -- 12:15 in room 308!

Info for the Panel "The B-sides of Religious Rhetorics" with TJ Geiger, Jonathan Marine, Bethany Mannon, Kelly Sauskojus, Chris Battle, Joseph Jeyaraj -- 3:15 in rm 316

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

hello!! I would love to come to your talk! Can you share when / where it's happening, the app is killing me lol...

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

At least it is Friday, folks! I'd like to offer space for anyone here who has lost funding this week - be it IMLS, NEH, anything - to share in these replies what you were working on so folks can hear all the great things now at jeopardy. I will be reposting all of them.

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

We will keep fighting and standing up for science.

Protest sign with black text listing a subset of words that were flagged for further scrutiny by federal agencies (including “bias” “increase diversity” “disability” “racism” “trauma” “victim” and “women”). In large red letters over top, the words “These words kill fascists” is written, an homage to Woody Guthrie.

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

like, that is HOW I am a writer and have ideas that are worth writing about. trusting this process and also maybe starting to see how some of the little pieces and ideas I've been cooking on are starting to emerge into discrete articles / classes / conference talks / book ideas (!!??!)

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

and also just like personally encouraging to me where I'm like ?? do I even have ideas ??? but like I'm doing the work to read in my area, take notes and respond to them, scribble little paragraphs and outlines

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

very reminiscent of some conversations in our English Dept here at Clemson where writing and reading are technologies for having new ideas

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Grantwriting as Project Development for Academic Book Writers journals.shareok.org/writersccjou...

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View of Grant Writing as Project Development for Academic Book Writers

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"a writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them" -- poet William Stafford quoted in Julie-Françoise Tolliver's really helpful piece on

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Mutual aid builds trust. Trust builds relationships. Relationships build organizing. Organizing builds power. Power is how we ultimately win.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

These folks have never *ever* believed in freedom of speech, or freedom of any kind but the freedom to amass levels of wealth that are cataclysmic to organized society. Cancel your subscription and make a donation to kick-ass independent journalism of your choice.

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

@drbethany.bsky.social one of them is your book!!!! which I've been saving for myself as a special treat ever since I defended but now over spring break I finally get to give her the time she deserves

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

7. I love queer folk punk and I love @bandcamp.com for making it easier to find queer folk punk bands I've never heard of and this week it's The Incredible Bard of Baldwin County with their new track "Baptists (a hymn for shitheads)" bardofbaldwincounty.bandcamp.com/album/some-r...

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SOME REGRETS COYOTE,,,, by The Official Bard of Baldwin County

9 track album

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

6. So many people have been talking about Parable of the Sower in connection with the LA wildfires (my childhood home) and so I FINALLY read it and whewwwwww please someone call me so we can talk about it for two hours, I am still processing it

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

5. Using the magic powers of "hell yes I need to write a glowing book review of one of my besties' books" to have TWO free books sent to me this semester, I feel like such a scammer but I'm probably just hiding from my grading and more intimidating writing projects

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

4. every Monday I make a big pot of beans and that's really nice (this is a dried bean stand account fyi)

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

3. One of my students is personally reminding me of how much I love a well placed semicolon and I'm so proud and I think?? this is the semester where I want to talk about wording and prose as much as research and content finally

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

2. as part of my "binge read a book of poetry every Sunday" I also read Nikki Giovanni's My House. I've read a lot of her poetry before because she also spent a lot of time writing about Knoxville but this is by FAR the greatest thing I've read by her, really truthful about love / work / anger

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

never know what to write about #onhere so I've been keeping a list of good stuff from this past week a la some of my favorite email newsletters, maybe I'll do it regularly?? 1. I just finished reading Care Work which is so FABULOUS like obviously it's brilliant but more importantly written so well

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/02/2025

Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Me rolling up to my writing group like what's up bitches I've had 2 naps before 1pm today what have you done with your Saturday

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Check out @kellysauskojus.bsky.social's review of Brooks Lamb's "Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place," published in 2024 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist #land #rural www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

and like, idk, apparently Teacher Action Research is its own offshoot that mostly just shares a name with Action Research, but like they *were* connected at some point and now it's just been so extracted and diluted, bleh

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

and has I think in a lot of teaching circles now been flattened to just mean like, doing research out of your teaching experiences, for the purpose of improving your teaching? which like, I see how that is *actionable* research but like, we have really lost something brave and good here besties

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

this whole thread somewhat sparked by a teaching conference talk I just went to which took up the idea of action research, which was originally formulated to radically reimagine university research into working with the community to do research to address THEIR priorities/needs

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

and part of our responsibility to actually read original texts and folks in context is to call out as reviewers and conference panelists and stuff when people have flattened (whitewashed, I'm tempted to say) the contributions of really radical scholars

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

all this to say; theory is great, I love working with theory and talking about it with students, and also it's reallllllll easy to find a compelling piece of radical theory and extract it from its radical context and make it way more boring and palatable and we should not do that thing

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

and so as this student and I kind of talked through this theory in a more complicated way, we ended up at some really interesting spots imagining how they could DO THE WORK while in school, partnering with unexpected radical folks in the community

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

she means like THE WORK, like when you hug another organizer and tell them that they're OUT THERE DOING THE WORK, like really doing radical good shit for the community

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

like she does NOT mean the work just in terms of "the personal/creative/intellectual work I happen to like, independent of making money from it"

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

and also I think it's really important to pay attention to, when we're transporting theory around to different contexts, to not kind of defang or lazy-ify it; a huge part of Kynard's formulation of "the work" is like, look, as a Black feminist scholar, I have responsibilities to my Black students

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

and like this student and me had a really productive conversation about distinguishing between "the hustle" (which they hate, understandably) and "the job" (that they don't know if they'll enjoy) and "the work" (that they're like, oh yeah, I mean I actually love doing the shit that's good)

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

and like, this is absolutely theory, and theory that excels at the thing that theory is best at: helping us organize experience in ways that help us see and act more clearly

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

link to the extremely fire article before I go any further: digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

digitalcommons.fiu.edu

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

like, I just had a super useful chat with an undergrad student struggling with big career thoughts using Carmen Kynard's call to distinguish between the work, the job, and the hustle

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

as someone who teaches lots of first year writing and professional writing I don't always get to work with tons of theory, but sometimes I swear a really useful bit of theory is the most helpful thing in the world if you're confused or overwhelmed by how complex the world is

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Kelly Sauskojus @kellysauskojus.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

thinking about all this because I'm trying to think about revamping my first-year writing course around hope and community change (and also like, in a red state and trying not to say POLITICS or ACTIVISM too early and lose folks who are otherwise down for this work)

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