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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

New poem, “footnote 1. the verb,” up at New Feathers. Thanks to the editors for including this poem! Read it here: www.newfeathersanthology.com/footnote-1-t...

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Preview of a new poem up at Variant Lit. Thanks to the editors for including my work in this issue! 🙏🏻 variantlit.com/how-to-be-th...

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Well, that’s quite nice! Thanks to the folks at Posit for the nom! Read the poem, “The Invisible Girlfriend Grows Restless,” here: positjournal.com/2024/05/21/m...

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you’re interested in exploring the relationship between those intergenerational traumas and poetry, I hope you’ll join me for this workshop, sponsored Consequence Forum. All levels; no experience necessary (but always welcome).

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Very excited to see my piece “Beyond Racial, Religious, and Political Binaries: Toward Antisemitism Literacy” in the new special issue of Journal of Literacy Research! Gratitude to the editorial team and congrats to fellow contributors. Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Beyond Racial, Religious, and Political Binaries: Toward Antisemitism Literacy - Mara Lee Grayson, 2024

Literacy studies scholarship and pedagogy have not attended comprehensively to Jewish cultural literacies or the discursive operations of anti-Jewish hate. As a...

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Did the writers on The Diplomat just shout out cooperative overlapping?!?!?!

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Netflix can’t keep its stream up for Serrano/Taylor, but can keep it together for an extended Mike Tyson ass shot.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Netflix, you are not so good at this. Sorry.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Truly honored and humbled to see my work included in this important research paper series. So much gratitude to Alvin Rosenfeld, Gunther Jikeli, and the rest of the team at ISCA/IU for inviting me to contribute. Read the paper here: isca.indiana.edu/publication-...

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The Racialization of American Jews and Antisemitism on College Campuses

Beinner Family Research Papers: Mara Lee Grayson

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

Three new(ish) poems & a reflection in the latest issue of Community Literacy Journal. Photo is a preview of one. Find the full reflection & poems here: digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

The best response is to ask why so many pundits are so dedicated to this destructive, illiberal mode of discourse disguised as intellectual commentary--and whether they're willing, in the name of truth, to learn about where it comes from. 10/10

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

“Antisemitism and the Presumption of Jewish Whiteness” 3rd Annual Joint OU/UT Webinar January 25 | 7PM Central Learn more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/scjs/events/...

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

I’ve been thinking a lot about how many people seem to see the world in very stark oppositional terms (black & white, right & wrong, good & bad) & always know, without a doubt, which side of a given (false) binary to be on. Like, doesn’t it get boring in your mind?

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

The earth is melting. A pandemic continues to ravage society and vaccine preventable diseases are making a comeback. Fascism and nationalism is on the rise. War crimes are being committed everywhere. We’re in a new gilded age. Swear as much as you fucking want. It’s, honestly, very appropriate.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/01/2024

Thank you TODAY for covering the current COVID surge. I really appreciate so many sharing the COVID wastewater charts! It shows that, contrary to the cynical narrative of "pandemic fatigue," many still care & want to know the data so they can protect their communities. www.today.com/health/news/...

TODAY:
The US is starting 2024 in its second-largest COVID surge ever, experts say
With the U.S. in the middle of a COVID surge, it's time to make sure you're vaccinated and return to masking, experts say.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 05/01/2024

Translation: Supreme Court to decide if ER doctors can let pregnant people die, in violation of federal law

CNN Breaking News push alert
12m ago
Supreme Court to decide if emergency room doctors can perform medically necessary abortions in states that prohibit them

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

Anti-Semitism is very appealing to zillionaire oligarchs, from Ford to Musk, because it allows them to go "a small group of rich elites is manipulating everything in politics, the media and finance, not me though, definitely not me"

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

The idiocy & absurdity of current sociopolitical discourse are astounding, as is the disinformation coming from every direction. I’m not sure if those of us in rhetoric & literacy studies have succeeded wildly or failed devastatingly.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

I would ask “what now?” but I, for one, don’t really care. Too much real shit to give a shit.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

If you can’t define the concepts in your resolution in the ways they are actually defined *and* have historically been defined by the communities from which they originated, you have no business writing that resolution.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

New article: “Assimilation/Appropriation: What Jewish Discourses in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Tell Us about the Limitations of Inclusion” in College Composition and Communication, 75:1, special issue on Cultural Rhetorics. 🙏🏻 to the editors for including my work!

First page of “Assimilation/Appropriation: What Jewish Discourses in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Tell Us about the Limitations of Inclusion” by Mara Lee Grayson in College Composition and Communication, 75:1, special issue on Cultural Rhetorics.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I started working on a new book over the weekend, which means my kitchen cabinets have been perfectly reorganized.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

The disinformation, misinformation, lies, & outright hate speech in that other place are astounding. I’m just shouting attempts at logic, complexity, & empathy into the ether at this point. Why am I still there?

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Yuuuup. I published a book on the rhetorics of antisemitism six months ago & I just want to throw it at people at this point.

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

"They describe that path as one that cannot be boiled down to a hashtag: one in which... Israelis and Palestinians would remain on the land they each call home." Amazing, and not in a good way, how something obvious to everyone besides fringes on the ground, is such a revelation in the US

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Israeli and Palestinian Activists Ask Americans to Take Side of Peace

Sally Abed, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and Alon-Lee Green, a Jewish Israeli, found polarization in America over the war in Gaza. They also found longing for a new approach.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

was it ~ a symbol of the war itself ~ NYT or was it actually maybe just a functioning hospital with a lot of sick and wounded people in it, hundreds of whom are now in a mass grave?

NYT headline: Israel Seizes Gaza Hospital That Became Symbol of the War Itself

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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Amazing. After a big day of pushing the anti-semitic Great Replacement fantasy, Elon has decided to... double down and embrace the far right 'white pride' crowd. A very normal and healthy thing for the guy with the world's largest media platform.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

"Some people spend their lives in search of truth or an answer. I hope to spend my life in the full embrace of not knowing. Poetry, I think, is a way of turning toward indeterminacy." -- Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I’m delighted to have this little poem in @havehashad.com today, c/o guest editor Evan Nicholls! 🥜🧈🔪 as Eileen Myles once wrote, “you should / buy it in a jar as / always in the / largest supermarket / you know.”

November 9, 2023
PROSE POEM
Tom Snarsky

Another day in the ruinous world, eating
peanut butter off a knife.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Faculty version: I still send my mother every article I publish, after which she calls me with questions to discuss.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Stale old programs don’t want life. Don’t threaten change. Giving too much of yourself sounds promising, though. (I’m being sarcastic. …I think.)

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I’m sorry. It’s awful, but, sadly, sometimes a relief to know others have seen similar. So many of the educators I’ve spoken to feel isolated in their experiences.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Yup. And because it is not commonly known, it is not commonly accepted as disciplinary knowledge, so there’s often little recourse, or, at best, an uphill battle, for students/faculty who want the absence/erasure of Jewish experiences addressed.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Awwwwww thank you! Same re: my institution.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I didn’t mean to come off critical - it was quite the eye-opener for me during my own research to realize just how much work actually existed that I had never heard about.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

but/& there IS research on this. It’s understudied, for sure, but I think the bigger problem is that, when it is, no one reads it. 😣

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

My head could explode from the sheer stupidity on top of the antisemitism & Islamophobia all over social media & from every political corner of the US right now. As usual, most of it is coming from “well-meaning” “good” people who know nothing but really really wanna be “allies.”

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Hey, white/Christian/US academics: Perhaps Jews who study Jewish stuff know more about the origins of concepts like Zionism & anti-Zionism than you do. Maybe hear us out instead of relying on G00gle & M*sk’s disinfo site to define our terms. Maybe be open to learning. 🙄

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I've seen data on gendered retention patterns before, but the thing that sticks out to me here is how they found that women were more likely than men to feel "pushed" out of their position, and men were more likely than women to feel "pulled" toward a better opportunity.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

With a few more failed votes & ousted speakers, the house might be looking like an English department.

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I smoked my first cigarette on stage in my high school theatre class. In 2000. My teacher unplugged the smoke alarm. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I may have to send this to my mom to read for me 😭

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Mara Lee Grayson @maraleegrayson.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

My spouse has learned his few Yiddish phrases solely from hearing me say them to the cats. Immersion!

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