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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

are you afraid of the dark + child's play = fear of dolls into adulthood

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

rhetoricians: come play with us & flip your perspectives on embodiment, balance, pedagogy, & power 🤸🏻‍♀️

reading aristophanes upside down, balanced on feet

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hearing from our writing center tutors that students have started treating them and talking to them as if they *are* ai bots...so, humans are so used to talking to robots, they've forgotten how to talk to real people? so that's...cool and normal and easy to write policy about.

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is just to say that nyt opinion piece about writing is not worth your click or precious time

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

once again hopelessly distracted by the films of jean painlevé

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

someday I'll write a history of our writing center titled "from WC to WC"... because yes, one of our previous campus locations was in a renovated bathroom...but now we have brand new library offices & nearly all our furniture & we are so thrilled about it

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

had a nightmare where I couldn't escape from a labyrinthian bookstore where ed sheeran was performing (a silent dream because I've no clue what his music sounds like)

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

touring wedding venues in atlanta is fun because every guide has some story of a famous rapper who filmed a music video there

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

finally: good news this week! join us for an acrobatics & academics rsa workshop this summer!! (related throwback: here is @sharonyamsy.bsky.social helping me put birds on things at the denver rsa)

sharon is lying on the ground with legs up & balancing my hips on their feet in the "bird" acro pose

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

somehow made it through my 9 to 5 today (ran a full-day writing center orientation where at least one tutor prefaced a question with "sorry I know you're mourning dolly parton right now"...and aren't we all)

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

a scammer impersonated me & texted one of my employees asking them to buy gift cards 🫠 so if someone claiming to be me texts you, please lmk & don't buy any gift cards unless you actually want to get me a gift

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the review I wrote of Megan Poole's fabulous book while listening to my chickens is live at RSQ! read it here (& obv read the whole book): www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

looking forward to reading scholarship about the animal turn on onlyfans

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

if I write one good sentence for every time I want to throw my phone across the room while reading the daily news, my book would be done in a week (too bad I can't stop reading because I need to update my journalism syllabus)

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

thanks to teachers & writers magazine for giving my teaching essay a home 🪺 teachersandwritersmagazine.org/fly-away-home/

teachersandwritersmagazine.org

Fly Away Home - Teachers & Writers Magazine

Why we write, bird by bird.

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I was not trained to navigate apocalypse as a writing prof, but here we are (the culling of 4Cs; the nonsense firings of the harvard writing center director, florida prof who taught a "profane" short story, etc.; ai guys buying old books to destroy, questionable takes on homer)...how are we coping?!

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

don't be like me: don't keep peppermint oil next to your eye drops in tactilely identical droppers

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

happy 7th phd defense anniversary to me (june 14). still can't believe I missed the opportunity to defend my pigeon-filled diss on national pigeon day (june 13) instead of flag day (whatever nonsense that is)

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

portland was a true joy & marked 10 years since my first rsa!? met conference creatures & acrobats, heard terrific talks, toured a new circus arts space, visited waterfalls, smelled roses with rhetoricians, put birds on everything, as usual. thanks to folks who joined our chaos panel at the end 💐

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I must stop booking conference flights on election results days; they are too consistently cursed (but it's nice to be back in pdx...see y'all at rsa!)

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

can't believe we're losing hampshire college, beloved academic second home, heart of the five colleges ❤️‍🩹

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

here to share my proudest academic achievement this year: won #4c26 trivia night with team empty rhetorics (areas of expertise: higher ed lore & literary scandals)

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

lost our first hen last week & found this lovely thing in my inbox while waiting for necropsy results orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

orionmagazine.org

The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine

Or, death of a chicken

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

brb still reading every pigeon book in the library

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

building our second chicken coop in two months because chicken math is real

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

always thrilled to see more writing stringing together my longest-standing academic obsessions: pigeon rhetorics & entanglements with bird feet! even if it does mean I'll need to revise the stringfoot section of my pigeon chapter yet again...

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“if one bird can do it, that bird, you know, that bird’s going in.” coming out of hiding to share the best bird deep dive I’ve read in a minute: slate.com/culture/2025...

slate.com

It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong.

The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

reveling in the joys of new chicken parenthood, which largely involve googling "can chickens eat ____" & being reassured that chickens can & will eat nearly everything (including each other & probably also me, if given the chance)

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

attended one equine-centric talk at #4c25 but have not seen a single sparklepony?!

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

began reading the dissertations of grad school friends in an inspired moment of procrastination. acknowledgments sections are so pure (and/or full of cat puns) <3

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

what a kairotic moment to be teaching multimedia journalism for the first time in my life 🫠

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

academic job alert: our writing program is hiring at the intersection of digital & cultural rhetorics. I’m on the search committee & happy to answer questions

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

if you see me on here, please yell at me to go work on my book instead, thank you in advance

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medusa fang 🐍 @mtyrhetoric.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

oh no: I spent 99% of my time on twitter exclusively posting to my drafts folder. what is my survival strategy here in this strange sky land with no drafts feature?!

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