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Margot Weiss

@margotweiss.bsky.social
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Writer, professor, queer anthropologist. Books: TECHNIQUES OF PLEASURE (Duke), QUEER THEN AND NOW (Feminist Press), and UNSETTLING QUEER ANTHROPOLOGY (Duke). margotweiss.com

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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The ADL isn’t even hiding it. Believe it when it shows us who it is. Read @mishmoshk.bsky.social and then tell news media to stop uncritically citing ADL data: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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The ADL is MAGA — And the Media Should Treat it That Way
Reporters covering the Anti-Defamation League’s national summit this week might find the organization’s politics confusing. First, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt will host a chummy conversation with MAGA pas...
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Juana María Rodríguez @radiorodriguez.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Read this award-winning GLQ essay by the brilliant Ava Kim and rethink ideas of development. Freely available until May17th. #queertheory #transstudies #XXY #intersex
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CT State Conference-AAUP @ct-aaup.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
want to get involved in state-level AAUP work? RUN FOR OFFICER of the CT State Conference AAUP! nominations & self-noms due March 14 more info: ctsc-aaup.org/2026-28-ct-s... @aftct.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social @uconnaaup.bsky.social @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social @yaleaaup.bsky.social
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2026-28 CT State Conference Elections
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS February, 2026 The 2026-2028 CSC–AAUP Nominating Committee—comprising Chair David Stoloff (CSC–AAUP Immediate Past President, Education Department, ESCU), Member Diana Rios (UC…
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Protect the Freedom to Learn in Connecticut! Here’s what you can do: 1️⃣ Email leadership today. Even if you’ve emailed before — please send this updated message. Click here to email: bit.ly/freedom-2-le... 2️⃣ Make two quick phone calls. Weekend voicemails count and are tracked.
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Protect the Freedom to Learn: Amend the Antisemitism Working Group
We have less than a week to stop harmful legislation that could silence classroom discussion about Palestine and Israel in Connecticut’s K–12 schools. Legislative leadership is attempting to rush thi...
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CT State Conference-AAUP @ct-aaup.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Care about Academic Freedom in Connecticut? Join us! We will hear from experts from Connecticut on what academic freedom is, why it is so important, and how we can take action in Connecticut. Register here: aftct-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @aaup.org @aftct.bsky.social
flyer for Academic Freedom meeting on WED, FEB 4, 2026
5PM via Zoom

Hear from experts on:
• What Academic Freedom is
• Why Academic Freedom is so important
• Academic Freedom bills in other states
• The Connecticut Academic Freedom Bill
• Action steps

For more information contact Teri Merisotis
at tmerisotis@aftct.org

Register here: https://aftct-org.zoom.us/meeting/
register/1OyuqRgFQYCYbrenlhFfXQ
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Love this! Here’s my latest, a Covid baby featuring some of my favorite queer thinkers. 40% off with AAA25 www.dukeupress.edu/unsettling-q...
dukeupress.edu
Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures
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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text:

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini
Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!
Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?
Open your gdrive (web OR app)
Settings > Manage Apps
Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)
Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Due Oct 15!
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
wrote a book about the B of E and the history of financial crises, so, obligatory: "Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI."
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
deadline is tomorrow!! please consider submitting a proposal on QUEER and CLASS!
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Deadline extended to Sept 15! And there are now possibilities for 100% virtual panels! SEE YOU THERE ALL
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/08/2025
Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:
newrepublic.com
The Blue-State Hospitals Carrying Out Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda
In states where gender-affirming care remains legal, some hospitals have nonetheless stopped providing it. What gives?
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If anyone is unsure of the mechanisms by which the Brown-Trump agreement facilitate government oversight of course evals, I’ve laid it out here in response to a skeptic.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
So disappointed in this move from Randi and AFT. This is not the orientation that labor needs to be adopting towards AI. Between this, and the AFL-CIO moving to invest in data center projects in places like Wisconsin, we are removing one of the most effective AI countergovernance institutions.
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Dorothy as Jinx in Die Another Day.
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
If you live in Connecticut show up for these Friday vigils — and sign the petition! actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...
FIRED IN GAZA MADE IN WEST HARTFORD poster with COLT M4 ASSAULT RIFLE in profile on light green background. 

Announcing:
VIGILS AT COLT
Fridays in July, 4-6pm
545 New Park Ave. West Hartford
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It’s nothing but here are a few places you can send money linktr.ee/thesameerpro... gazasoupkitchen.com chuffed.org/project/1152... gazafunds.com
gazafunds.com
Gaza Funds Spotlight Campaign
Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
...got something to say about queer and class? please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~! Proposals due Sept 1! Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
Call for Proposals – Queer-Class Relations Conference
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
ICYMI, watch Angela Y. Davis in conversation at the CUNY Graduate Center as she receives the José Muñoz Award from CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies – video on YouTube! youtu.be/PYL39fLvW64 #lgbtqpride
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Angela Y. Davis: Conversation and José Muñoz Award Presentation
YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
hey hey it's a job! 📣 🙌 The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol. Please apply & share with your people!
wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Wesleyan University’s Department of American Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor specializing in Ethnic Studies beginning July 1, 2026. Ph.D. in American Stu...
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
im looking forward to this seminar on monday -- should be a smart, fun conversation about queerness, sex, desire, capitalism, class/caste, power ... hope you can join us!
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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Still can’t get over the NYT giving their Pride cover to the guy who said Stonewall was when the queer movement lost its way. If it were in a movie it would be heavy handed!
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 28/06/2025
THIS IS THE BEST ONE MAMDANI GET TO WORK
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
do you have rec for a fairly short (30-45 min) podcast that is queer/left and/or intellectually stimulating? so many are like 2 hours of loose chat and I need more focus to distract me from the horrors of exercise. things like Toshio Meronek's Sad Francisco or Che Gossett's Gender Jawn...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
yes -- agree -- these are GREAT interviews! Great to catch up, glean some insights for things you're teaching, listen to authors you might have missed. I always learn something new. I did one on Unsettling Queer Anthropology : newbooksnetwork.com/unsettling-q...
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Margot Weiss, "Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures" (Duke UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Read this if you are tired of white gay men and their hot takes on how trans people and other “radical queers” are to blame for Skrmetti. Thank you @melissagiragrant.com!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Anyway here's Lisa Duggan on Andrew Sullivan warning about the "emasculation" of the gay movement 24 years ago: "He only asks that gays be allowed to exist within this neoliberal landscape, so long as they support sentimental masculinist nationalism and challenge nothing."
This sexism, and positive regard for allthings "masculine, was sup- lemented by overt misogyny in Sullivan's New York Public Library lecture of June 7, 2001, "The Emasculation of Gay Politics." There he blamed "New Left. feminism for taking over gay organizations and in- stitutions, driving Say men into alienated exclusion. This kind of mas- culinist politics is of a piece with Sullivan's neoliberalism: He advocates a shrunken state, expanded commercial *freedoms" from democratic accountability, a civil society riven with exclusions, and a privatized, gendered, hierarchical family. He only asks that gays be allowed to ex- st within this neoliberal landscape, so long as they support sentimen- AN al masculinist nationalism and challenge nothing.'
Sulli-ro.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/06/2025
1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care. It was cited 7 times in the ruling. Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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After Getting The Ruling It Wanted, New York Times Publishes 6 Anti-Trans Articles
The paper has lost all claim to objectivity on transgender people.
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Do you love and teach the public-facing work of SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org? Do you love unionized workers? The SAPIENS staff are asking us to send a letter of support NOW, as they face a risk of imminent closure. Please support and share! #Anthropology #Anthrosky
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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
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CT State Conference-AAUP @ct-aaup.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Folks from the @ct-aaup.bsky.social at our conference last month, proudly displaying the new edition of the Redbook! @jefferslennox.bsky.social @margotweiss.bsky.social @isaackamola.bsky.social @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social
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CT State Conference-AAUP @ct-aaup.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Academic Freedom and Tenure: Muhlenberg College Read this crucial, just out @aaup.bsky.social report on the 2024 dismissal of Dr. Maura Finkelstein, tenured associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (chaired by Afshan Jafar, president of @ct-aaup.bsky.social)
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Academic Freedom and Tenure: Muhlenberg College (Pennsylvania)
This report concerns the actions taken against Dr. Maura Finkelstein by the administration of Muhlenberg College, namely her termination without cause following allegations of anti-Zionism and discrim...
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Today! See you there ✊✊✊
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The Office for Civil Rights has requested the names & nat'lities of students & faculty..involved in alleged Title VI violations. Today, the AAUP wrote to college & universities to clarify that they are under NO LEGAL COMPULSION to comply. Doing so enables deportations. www.aaup.org/news/institu...
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Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
On saving higher education: ““I think that labor needs to fill the vacuum of leadership we’re seeing in the sector,” said Todd Wolfson, national president of the AAUP. “I don’t see another way forward.”” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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As Universities Yield to Trump, Higher Ed Unions Fight Back
From lawsuits to protests, labor organizations representing faculty, grad students and other workers are resisting. Discussions about what to do next continue.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Catch our authors at events in April, including @mguariglia.bsky.social @margotweiss.bsky.social @susanstryker.bsky.social and @mckenziewark.bsky.social : buff.ly/SxHLDZ2
Covers of Police and the Empire City, Unsettling Queer Anthropology, When Monsters Speak, Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art, What Had Happened Was, A Sense of Arrival, Boys Abducted, and Learning to Lead, arranged in a 4x4 grid.
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
NYC friends, join me & Jafari Allen in conversation at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Friday, April 4! We'll discuss Unsettling Queer Anthropology (@dukepress.bsky.social) & a queer anthro grounded in decolonizing, Black feminist, queer of color work Hope to see you there! tinyurl.com/2msvmapk
poster for Unsettling Queer Anthropology

FEATURING MARGOT WEISS IN CONVERSATION WITH JAFARI S. ALLEN

APRIL 4
4:15 PM
ROOM C415A

Unsettling Queer Anthropology is the first volume to critically access both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology.
Editor Margot Weiss along with contributor Jafari S.
Allen will discuss the book and what decolonial, abolitionist, Black feminist, transnational, postcolonial, Indigenous, and queer of color approaches offer to anthropology today.

Margot Weiss is Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan, where she coordinates Queer Studies.

Jafari Sinclaire Allen is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADS) at Columbia University.
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
THURSDAY! Join us for the next and final @clags.bsky.social QUEER GLOBALIZATIONS roundtable: Queer/Trans Migrations April 3 from 1-2:30 ET (virtual) B Camminga, @karmachavez.bsky.social, @rkdasgupta.bsky.social, & Sima Shakhsari in conversation w/Debanuj DasGupta Register: tinyurl.com/37cnucp8
poster for Queer Globalizations: Queer/Trans Migrations roundtable, with black and white images of B Camminga, Karma Chávez, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Sima Shakhsari, and Debanuj DasGupta

April 3, 2025
1-2:30pm ET
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Next Friday at the CUNY Grad Center— hope to see you there! @dukepress.bsky.social
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just a few more hours to shop our Flash Sale! It ends at 11:59 pm ET today, March 26. Save 50% with coupon FLASH50! If you're outside the US/Latin America/Caribbean, shop our partners @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social & @uoftpress.bsky.social . Don't delay any longer! buff.ly/4R8GeHe
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Toronto-area people - come talk with us about queer anthropology this Friday, March 28! I'll be in conversation with Naisargi Davé, Scott Morgensen, and Anne Spice so you know it'll be great! In-person only at the University of Toronto www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/events/unset... #QueerAnthro
event flyer with orange triangle against grey wall, reading: 

Unsettling Queer Anthropology (a book panel)
March 28 2-4pm
ANTHROPOLOGY BUILDING RM 246
University of Toronto

Margot Weiss
Scott L. Morgensen
Anne Spice

Join three contributors to this field-defining volume in a panel conversation facilitated by Naisargi N. Dave
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Who could have predicted?
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Everything is horrible so here are kittens.
Two adolescent cats sleeping on their backs, one large ginger, one smalller tortie.
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
1/2 #Anthropology #BehSci #BlackinSTEM #CogSci #devpsycsky ♀️ #IntersexInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #medsky #PsychSciSky #QueerInSTEM #Queer+Trans #science #TransInSTEM #TransRights #womeninstem Who out there who works on trans or lgbt children or youth have had their grants canceled?
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CT State Conference-AAUP @ct-aaup.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Registration extended to March 17 for our free regional @aaup.bsky.social conference — you won’t want to miss it!! With Hamilton Nolan, Jason Wozniak, Bethany Letiecq and more! ➡️ ctsc-aaup.org/sp-2025-meet...
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
this is going to be great ~ hope to see you there!
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