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Lisa L. Moore

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New book: How Lesbians Saved Poetry. Professor at UT-Austin. Speaking for myself as a private citizen. lisalmoore.com sunypress.edu/Books/H/How-Lesbians-…

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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 7h
An absolute banger by my colleague. "What shocks me now in Texas is the top-down politicization of (anti-)DEIA and diversity, aiming at the heart of what we as professors really know how to teach..." What Texas’s Diversity Actually Looks Like higheredadvocate.substack.com/p/what-texas...
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What Texas’s Diversity Actually Looks Like
By Steven Seegel
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you happen to be in Texas or Atlanta, I would love to see you at one of my upcoming book events!
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can't tell you how dizzying and depressing it is to go from one of most vibrant WGSS Departments in the country, making hires and taking names, to being rapidly extinguished, all within the last year. Making the Public Sphere White Male Again is happening fast. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you happen to be in Texas or Atlanta, I would love to see you at one of my upcoming book events!
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ugh ugh ugh and ugh. Unnecessary, hateful, bitterly disappointing. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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TWIBS: Talarico Goes Full Moulton, Withdraws Support of Trans Community - Assigned Media
Taking another step towards loathsome centrism, James Talarico tells Fox News he doesn't actually support transgender Americans.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A superb short history of the mechanical reproduction/creation of artworks, starting with medieval scribes. This is worth a read, but in sum: artists gonna art. Link in comments so I can put a picture here.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For my Canadians: Memories of the Tragically Hip from Queen's in the 1980s, in the Queen's Journal. Cuteness overload. www.queensjournal.ca/remembering-...
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Remembering The Tragically Hip’s time as Queen’s students - The Queen's Journal
In the mid-1980s, The Queen’s Journal and The Tragically Hip worked one flight apart. Upstairs in Queen’s student union building, otherwise known as the JDUC, Journal staff stayed through the night, c...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
docs.google.com/document/u/0... Brilliant brief history of higher ed politics as they have played out in the last 5 years at UT Austin, by the geniuses of our local AAUP chapter
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Timeline Political Transformation of UT Austin.docx
The Political Transformation of UT Austin 2020 – 2026 2020–21 ● June 2020 — "Eyes of Texas" controversy erupts. ● August 2020 — Amid COVID restrictions, the UT System Board of Regents names Inter...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
docs.google.com/document/u/0... Brilliant brief history of higher ed politics as they have played out in the last 5 years at UT Austin, by the geniuses of our local AAUP chapter
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Timeline Political Transformation of UT Austin.docx
The Political Transformation of UT Austin 2020 – 2026 2020–21 ● June 2020 — "Eyes of Texas" controversy erupts. ● August 2020 — Amid COVID restrictions, the UT System Board of Regents names Inter...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm grateful to my colleagues at the HIGHER ED ADVOCATE for allowing me to share my testimony on how quickly censorship and self-censorship has taken over at UT Austin. It's a free fall, y'all. higheredadvocate.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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The Higher Ed Advocate | Substack
A collective of faculty, staff, students, and community members documenting attacks on higher education and advocating for every student’s freedom to learn. Click to read The Higher Ed Advocate, a Sub...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
To quote Kelsey McKinney: this essay fucks. And I'm speaking as a probable Primary Source Person. defector.com/humanists-ha...
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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You know what takes the sting out of removing “Dept. Chair, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies” from all my signatures? (My uni closed our department starting tomorrow.) Replacing it with “New Book Available for Pre-Order”! Turn my frown upside down by clicking on the link in comments.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
GOING TO THE PRINTER!!! Love my editor, she gets me
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I got lucky and got @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as my editor for my forthcoming crazy creative-critical hybrid volume, HOW LESBIANS SAVED POETRY. The SUNY Press fall catalog just dropped and mine is a Featured Book! Rebecca and I would both love it if you pre-ordered a copy. Link in comments.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I got lucky and got @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as my editor for my forthcoming crazy creative-critical hybrid volume, HOW LESBIANS SAVED POETRY. The SUNY Press fall catalog just dropped and mine is a Featured Book! Rebecca and I would both love it if you pre-ordered a copy. Link in comments.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
International Portrait Day gives me chance to share this delightfully odd picture, created by a talented friend who wanted to depict Madge and I as “lesbian icons.” This is an AI mashup of a photo of me and a 19thc portrait from the National Gallery in London! #InternationalPortraitDay
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
International Portrait Day gives me chance to share this delightfully odd picture, created by a talented friend who wanted to depict Madge and I as “lesbian icons.” This is an AI mashup of a photo of me and a 19thc portrait from the National Gallery in London! #InternationalPortraitDay
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Father's Day is not really a thing in our two-mom family, but liberation and social justice certainly are. Boots Riley talks about learning from his father to live a life that mixes art, organizing, and family in this essay, a great Sunday read. lareviewofbooks.org/article/boot...
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He’s Still Organizing | Los Angeles Review of Books
Boots Riley on his father’s political activism.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Father's Day is not really a thing in our two-mom family, but liberation and social justice certainly are. Boots Riley talks about learning from his father to live a life that mixes art, organizing, and family in this essay, a great Sunday read. lareviewofbooks.org/article/boot...
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He’s Still Organizing | Los Angeles Review of Books
Boots Riley on his father’s political activism.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Why write or read poems when the world's on fire? I'm delighted to share my review of Amelia Worsley's "Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century " this morning. read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...
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Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century | Genre | Duke University Press
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/highered... My brilliant colleague Lauren Gutterman on a creative student-led protest that reached back to attacks on UT during the McCarthy era. Yep, that’s where we are.
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Mourning the End of UT
Lauren Gutterman, Vice President AAUP at UT Chapter
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
MY NEW BOOK OUT NOVEMBER 1ST! I'm so excited. You're all in there.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is what we're seeing in higher education: “Our very presence in power is treated as preferential treatment,” she says. “This narrative of reverse discrimination has been central to the attack from the start.” Link in comments.
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‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race
She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar exp...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This was what I needed to understand this morning. Why attack Iran? Timothy Snyder gives two reasons: undermining democracy at home, and enriching the Trump family further. Disgusting. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Why Attack Iran?
Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This was what I needed to understand this morning. Why attack Iran? Timothy Snyder gives two reasons: undermining democracy at home, and enriching the Trump family further. Disgusting. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Why Attack Iran?
Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Dumbing down higher education as higher education policy. www.wonkette.com?utm_source=n...
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Wonkette | Rebecca Schoenkopf | Substack
Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH! Click to read Wonkette, by Rebecca Schoenkopf, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The first draft of the history of the demise of US higher education is now being written by journalists like the tenacious Lily Kepner. Read all her stories for the receipts on what's happening at UT Austin. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT’s Women's and Gender Studies won a department. Then politics closed in
UT faculty say women's and gender studies is a long-established discipline that’s being gutted and defined without their input or voice.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Now that Faculty Council has been dissolved and our administrators from the Dean level up have been replaced by political appointees, a free press is the only place UT Austin faculty have to speak up. www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head...
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UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle
On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Now that Faculty Council has been dissolved and our administrators from the Dean level up have been replaced by political appointees, a free press is the only place UT Austin faculty have to speak up. www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head...
austinchronicle.com
UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle
On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Please read. The sidelining of scholars from our distinguished Department of Mexican-American and Latinx Studies, alongside the rise of billionaire-funded new programs in “civic leadership,” in a state that is 40% Latino, is a shameless assertion of white supremacy. latinopia.com/latino-liter...
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GUEST BLOG ALFONSO AYALA III ELIMINATION OF MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND LATINA/O STUDIES
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Please read. The sidelining of scholars from our distinguished Department of Mexican-American and Latinx Studies, alongside the rise of billionaire-funded new programs in “civic leadership,” in a state that is 40% Latino, is a shameless assertion of white supremacy. latinopia.com/latino-liter...
latinopia.com
GUEST BLOG ALFONSO AYALA III ELIMINATION OF MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND LATINA/O STUDIES
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A well-reported story on the bigger picture behind the closure of gender and ethnic studies programs in Texas and elsewhere--including, as of today, at UT Austin. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
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Reputational fears at Texas A&M amid latest programme cut
Critics see the scrapping of the 40-year-old Women’s and Gender Studies programme at Texas A&M University as the latest example of academic inde...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A well-reported story on the bigger picture behind the closure of gender and ethnic studies programs in Texas and elsewhere--including, as of today, at UT Austin. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
universityworldnews.com
Reputational fears at Texas A&M amid latest programme cut
Critics see the scrapping of the 40-year-old Women’s and Gender Studies programme at Texas A&M University as the latest example of academic inde...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Mark Carney's full speech at the World Economic Forum
YouTube video by National Post
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
From guest columnist + UT faculty member Steve Wechsler: “I do not see evidence of intolerance to diverse views at UT. What I see is a range of departments seeking truth from different angles, creating a university that is greater than the sum of its parts.” ❤️ www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
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UT’s diversity of thought is real — and well worth defending | Opinion
Diverse areas of study bring diverse perspectives — the hallmark of a great university. Political meddling is threatening that at the University of Texas, Steve Wechsler writes.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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When “Rigor” Becomes a Weapon: The Ideological Attack on the 'Studies' Fields at the University of Texas at Austin, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Marxist Feminism in Flight | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxist Feminism in Flight - Volume 140 Issue 3
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Marxist Feminism in Flight | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxist Feminism in Flight - Volume 140 Issue 3
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu... It feels like I'm writing mainly for posterity, but please do share if helpful.
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After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion
What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
@apaulagetics.bsky.social For any of my U.S. friends idealizing Canada: My home province of Alberta is well-versed in the Project 2025 playbook. Alberta shame, Alberta pride. bsky.app/profile/apau...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I'm joining Quakers Fast for Gaza. Not that my refraining from eating, in the midst of plenty, will feed a single starving person. But perhaps it will put pressure on the US and international community to stop facilitating genocide. Join me? www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548AF...
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Parents Solidarity Fast for Gaza
Thank you for joining our campaign to bring attention to the genocidal starvation of Palestinians in Gaza by US-backed Israel. We demand: An immediate arms embargo on Israel  Immediate, unrestricted f...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"When asked to betray your integrity: hold fast to your ideals, gum up the works, disobey when able. Question everything, say nothing. Keep meticulous records. Leverage your advantages and harbor those who have none. Get in the way. Tell the story. Archive the truth." Link in comments.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Undocumented students in Texas are facing a new law stripping them of their in-state tuition rate, even though they are Texas residents. (At UT Austin, the difference is from $11K to $$48K.) Student status also unlocks jobs and rent money. Please help if you can. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
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Keeping the Texas DREAM
The CrisisOn June 4, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the State of Texas to block the Texas Dream Act, a 24-year-old in-state college tuition law. Just hours after the DOJ filed the lawsuit ...
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It's very Vichy over here. I don't know how to do a good job of this job I love anymore, except by trying to mitigate the worst harms--which in itself is something of a moral injury. www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
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Right-Wing Crackdowns Drive Academics Away From UT and the U.S.
Staff morale, federal funds, and state confidence dry up
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Believe it or not...an encouraging article from Bill McKibben. Apparently solar and wind power are increasing geometrically and are now cheaper than fossil fuels, and on track to be more widely used, very quickly. This cheered me up. YMMV. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Audain Museum, Whistler, BC. O how I love a mountain town.
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