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khush¡

@kooshtopia.bsky.social

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rhetoric, accessibility, & kindness | she/her | 21 | any and all emoji usage is ironic |

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m just now getting caught up and I genuinely have no words.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 23/07/2026

I’m sorry, WHAT? That’s… bonkers? For those who don’t know: “Since 1949, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) has been the world’s largest professional organization for researching and teaching composition, from writing to new media.”

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The value of writing, justice-oriented scholarship, and pedagogy is already under attack. Dissolving CCCC only further delegitimizes the field during a time when students’ communication skills are at risk (mentioning that what we teach transfers over into work done across courses/careers)

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Framing it as potentially losing a “professional home” helped a non-academic friend understand me. Especially since there wasn’t much time or transparency given, they sympathized with us at least wanting the chance to preserve what already exists and explore alternatives

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The University Press of Colorado / Utah State University Press wholeheartedly supports #CCCC and our #writingstudies and #teamrhetoric scholars in their endeavor to maintain this important association for the field.

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

i am once again thinking about syllabi accessibility statements

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

it’s so embarassing living out a trope bc certain experiences are like the quintessence of an identity (e.g. the liminality of the multicultural/immigrant kid experience) like i feel like a someone’s college admissions essay rn

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

i will always resist any perceived constraint, especially when it comes to writing. (mla formatting is currently irritating me. why can’t i use text blocks for 2 line quotations. it looks so much cooler. and it’s easier to follow. did i mention it looks cooler.)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/12/2024

Reminder: High quality masks/respirators such as N95s protect against all airborne viruses including bird flu.

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

like this will never not hit

an excerpt from page 487 of a paper entitled “Autism & Rhetoric” by Paul Heilker & M. Remi Yergeau:

“we contend that human neurology itself, autistic or other, is likewise a profoundly rhetorical phenomenon. We contend that autism itself is a rhetoric, a way of being in the world through language, a rhetoric we may not have encounter or recognized frequently in the past nor value highly in academic contexts, but a rhetoric nonetheless. If autism is a rhetoric, then we are beholden to respond to i with cultural sensitivity, ethical care, and pedagogical complexity. And if autism
a rhetoric and autistics are minority rhetors, English faculty already possess all the tools and experience they will need to do exactly that.”

an excerpt from page 496 of a paper entitled “Autism & Rhetoric” by Paul Heilker & M. Remi Yergeau:

“Conceiving of autism as a rhetoric, as a way of being in the world through language, allows us to reconstrue what we have historically seen as language deficits as, instead, language differences. Students on the autism spectrum, like all students, have their own culturally and individually distinctive topoi, tropes, dialects, and so on, and their rhetorics thus constitute both cultural and individual representations of their selfhood. If we can come to see our autistic students through the lens of rhetoric more than through a stock and overdetermined lens of autism, we might come to better appreciate what they do have to offer instead of fixating on what they do not. Indeed, if we give them the opportunity, we might get a chance to learn how they see themselves.”

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

i messaged a friend i haven’t spoken to in a while! (i sent another unsuspecting person a pdf of Autism & Rhetoric by Yergeau and Heilker)

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khush¡ @kooshtopia.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

new platform new me (it feels like i’m 17 just figuring out how twitter works again)

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