Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Can confirm; it's pretty bleak here right now! 200
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Scenes from America, 2026: Comforting my sobbing 4 year old after she came home from Pre-K terrified of the new “game” she learned: Lockdown 000
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comCrisis in College Composition and Communication (opinion)The dissolution of the field’s premier organization couldn’t have come at a worse time. 000
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026My youngest kid started (public) Pre-K this morning, which means... ... WE'RE DONE PAYING FOR DAYCARE!!! 040
Reposted by Leigh GruwellDonnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21 24025
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Anyone successfully manage to cancel their @ncte.org membership yet? I keep emailing and get nothing. 100
Reposted by Leigh GruwellDustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026shorter NCTE message: we want to get rid of all the infrastructure that costs money and carries any political risk, BUT we will take your membership money. For what? Isn't it exciting that we don't know?!!! 2183
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Feels like a good time to share my most recent (open access!) publication: “many [participants] see state DEI bans as a warning shot of sorts, a preface to the larger project of dismantling higher education.” publicationsncte.org/content/jour...publicationsncte.org“While I Stay Mad, I Also Stay Ready”: Navigating DEI Bans in Writing Studies Classrooms | ncte.orgWelcome to the new NCTE Publications site, your gateway to NCTE journals, ebooks, and the Council Chronicle. 194
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026please check in on your local compositionist. what a week. 120
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It’s hard not to see NCTE’s decision to de-charter CCCC as particularly disastrous as attacks on academic freedom and shared governance escalate. Conservative politicians across the country have successfully exerted more and more control over curricula at universities across the country. 281
Reposted by Leigh GruwellDr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It's a cold and nasty little piece of PR speak. NCTE "acknowledges the communications it has received"—tell us how many emails, come on, tell us. "For many years"—77 years, you cowards. "In recent years, however, CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability"—show us the numbers, please. 17521
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Just throwing this out there: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o... 12611
Reposted by Leigh GruwellDan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 24/07/2026If there’s no 2027 CCCC I’d be happy to watch recordings of 5-7 presentations and write feedback for each one. Especially for grad students. I usually go to like 7ish sessions (maybe more?) so would be similar kind of deal #teamrhetoric 1204
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026@ncte.org I’ll be calling first thing Monday morning to cancel my membership. I’ll spend the weekend encouraging all my CCCC colleagues to do the same. 13610
Reposted by Leigh GruwellMegan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."docs.google.comCCCC EC Quick Response July 23Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ... 23835
Reposted by Leigh GruwellDustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 23/07/2026idk man, but it sure looks like the encroachment of big tech on executive boards for professional orgs may be the death knell for my discipline 05714
Reposted by Leigh GruwellUPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The 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. 05724
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026In a few minutes, Auburn's Board of Trustees will vote on a proposal to dissolve our Faculty Senate and revamp our Core Curriculum. Faculty weren't given any notice and have had zero input on these changes.chronicle.comAuburn U. Is Upending Faculty Governance and Curriculum Even Though It’s Not RequiredDespite an exemption in state law, Auburn University’s board will consider proposals Friday to eliminate the central faculty-governance body and grant trustees authority over course decisions. 001
Reposted by Leigh GruwellDustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 12/08/2025This is a very writing studies-centered skeet, but… the way that some in the field are tying themselves into knots to advocate for some “ethical uses” of GenAI really emphasizes the field’s shallow investment in anything like “justice” or “decolonization” or “abolition.” 57528
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Any Writing Studies folks thinking about CCCC 2026? I want to do a panel about teaching in the South amid... all this. 010
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025What's the longest a journal has sat on one of your submissions? (trying to decide if it's time to email the editors) 100
Reposted by Leigh GruwellMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025👀 Enduring Digital Damage Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival by Dustin Edwards www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...uapress.ua.eduEnduring Digital DamageExamines digitality’s connection to land, water, and landscapes, and its implication in conditions of environmental harm. 1177
Reposted by Leigh GruwellDustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Everyday there’s some new report that AI is further consolidating wealth and control, procuring energy development and steering energy policy, and using non-transparent and non-consensual training data. And university admins are like “make sure your students are ethical users of AI” 🤠 18522
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Give me your spiciest takes on The Rhetorical Tradition. I've assigned it for my grad class but want them to understand exactly why people hate it so much. 100
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I am happy to write letters of recommendation but can we PLEASE stop with these godawful submission portals that ask me to quantify someone's "personal ethics" and "motivation"?! 000
Reposted by Leigh GruwellRebecca Richards (she/her) @rhetorrichards.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Hey Rhet/Comp Grad Students (and the folks who support them. We're hosting two, virtual grad student open houses for the CFSHRC next week. Spread the word. It's super casual, but you have to register to get the link. Here's the info: cfshrc.org/youre-invite...cfshrc.orgYou’re Invited: Graduate Engagement Committee Feminist Coalition Open House (1/21 OR 1/22) – CFSHRC 023
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Writing Studies friends: where might I direct a MA student to find sample personal statements for PhD apps? 011
Reposted by Leigh GruwellAnxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 29/03/2024Good morning! The West Alabama Women’s Center provides much-needed health care services to low income and uninsured Alabamians. If they don’t raise $50K they will close their doors at the end of May. More info from clinic director Robin Marty in the 🧵and a donation link heregivebutter.comBuilding Advocacy and Action across State LinesBy West Alabama Women's Center 15274
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 23/02/2024What are your favorite resources for graduate student writing/research in Writing Studies? 000
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 27/10/2023well shit, this should've been the cover for my book. 120
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 29/09/2023why does every online academic submission portal suck so much butt 010
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 28/09/2023Just asked ChatGPT to summarize an article I wrote. It did a pretty great job. Writing my annual review just got that much easier! 030
