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Olivia Wood

@oliviawood.bsky.social
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She/her; rhet/comp; socialist; CUNY; 💙💜💗

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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My department is hiring for a new tenure track position for someone specializing in multilingual writing pedagogies! LMK if you have questions about our program/dept/college or living in NYC! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
6 of my full time colleagues have passed away (2) or retired (4) in the four years since I was hired (unless I'm forgetting someone) and not a single one has been replaced
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE's De-Chartering of CCCC
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/09/2026
The U.S. government is criminalizing a campus labor union at the University of Michigan for supporting Palestine. We are calling on fellow labor organizers to resist this dangerous act of repression mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-... #Palestine #Israel
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
started watching Mad Men and got inordinately excited at the Hunter College mention
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think it takes place too far from the main timeline for it to actually work but I want The Gilded Age to show us Marian supporting the Uprising of the 20,000 soooooo badddd
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 25/08/2026
Marist is hiring an Assistant Prof of English, Technical and Professional Writing. I'm chairing the committee, so please feel free to reach out with any questions! Submit by Oct 31 for highest consideration (deadline not on ad). careers.marist.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Careers at Marist - Marist University
Thank you for your interest in a career with Marist University!
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Similarly, Dungeon Crawler Carl asks “what if the hunger games was an rpg with some hitchhikers guide to the galaxy sprinkled in” and if that sounds fun to you you’ll probably like it and if it doesn’t then you probably won’t (I liked it)
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My review of the Odyssey (complimentary): The Odyssey asks the following questions: What if Matt Damon had PTSD and Robert Pattinson wanted to sleep with your mom What if Agamemmnon was Darth Vader What if Odysseus was Bronze Age J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I have no reason to think it won’t be fine, but in less than 3 weeks I’ll go to the first 10min of a meeting and then sent back to my office alone while ~15-19 of my colleagues vote on whether they think I should get to keep my job 😬
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
AFT Convention Update Email: we practiced union democracy! AFT Reality: leadership isn’t elected by the members; locals may choose to not bother funding convention travel for some or all of their delegates (who ARE elected by members), so which delegates are even there isn’t democratic either
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I adored and felt seen by Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: We’re suing Texas A&M University’s Board of Regents to challenge their censorship policy that restricts instruction on race, sexual orientation, and gender. Public universities can't ban ideas they don't like.
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Idk how many grad students follow me but for the purposes of “people should know how these timelines can work,” I just got a request for final author info for a yet-to-be-published book chapter that I submitted the proposal for in 2021
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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New @truthout.org article explains divisions in labor on AI, rank-and-file pushback. Some unions with good positions aren't mentioned but there's clearly tough competition for the bad. In this too-crowded hall of shame, AFT is a front-runner, IBEW close by: truthout.org/articles/the...
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The Labor Movement Is Divided Over How to Deal With AI
Some union leaders who are embracing AI are receiving pushback from rank-and-file workers.
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21
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Kendall Gerdes 📚🐦‍⬛ @kendalljoy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Thanks to @insidehighered.com for reporting about how @ncte.org has abruptly and unceremoniously dumped the CCCC: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association
The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wouldn’t you know, the acknowledgments of this book specifically mention the role of the CCCC 2010, 2013, and 2014 conferences in how this book came to be
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Well, I got the collection its in out from ILL at the beginning of the summer and haven't opened it yet, so I think now is a GREAT time to start reading John Trimbur's "Composition’s Left and the Struggle for Revolutionary Consciousness"
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Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Just throwing this out there: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NCTE: We look forward to continuing to involve the composition, rhetoric, and writing communities as we move forward. The Entire CCCC Membership: new Cs who dis
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Remember when this happened lol
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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 24/07/2026
if they cancel the 2027 conference after years of conferences telling us they can't cancel in response to hostile legislation because they can't get the deposit back I'm going to scream
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PlaySta-Sean 🎮 @seemtoggle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There it is. #CCCC #NCTE
Email from NCTE Executive Committee acknowledging messages received and the following:

For many years, the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) played a critical role in serving the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) & its mission. In recent years, however, CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability, declining participation, & governance challenges. As a result, earlier today the Executive Committee of NCTE made the difficult decision to de-charter its special topics conference CCCC. To clarify, today’s decision to de-charter does not mean that NCTE has altered its commitment to supporting teachers at the college and university level. This is exemplified by the fact that the NCTE College Section is thriving.  The process in making this decision spanned several years, with attempts to work collaboratively with CCCC’s executive committees across multiple iterations. While the organization appreciates the years of collaboration with CCCC, after deep evaluation and thoughtful consideration, the Executive Committee concluded this step was necessary to more effectively serve the college English and writing and composition community and NCTE membership as a whole.

Although this has been a very difficult decision, we are excited about the future. This change will allow us to provide better support to the college English and writing and composition community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be working hard to make this transition as smooth as possible. We thank CCCC, its leaders, and its members for its many years of contributions and look forward to continuing to involve the composition, rhetoric, and writing communities as we move forward. NCTE remains devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. As future planning takes place, NCTE will communicate updates.

A transition team focused on supporting composition, rhetoric, & writing studies will be named imminently.
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Cool for you, NCTE! CCCC members are NOT excited!!
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It’s a small thing but I did really appreciate this email today from one of my other professional orgs
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
literally yesterday morning (or maybe the night before?) I was happily telling one of the 2nd-year comp teachers i co-proposed a CCCC panel with (it would be her first time at the conference!) that we'd probably hear back next month & then i had to tell her NEVERMIND maybe NOBODY is going we'll SEE
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Well I was walking to a cafe in the pleasantly cool weather to read a magazine and now I’m just scrolling for CCCC info my god
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My favorite scholarly conference just got unceremoniously deleted by our parent organization, almost certainly over threats from the feds. Fuck. This is... C's has been my home for my whole career. I'm speechless. 😭
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hometown team in the finals for hockey and currenttown team in NBA finals and I’m not a sports-watcher but I’m as pleased as a non-sportswatcher can be
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Can’t believe the pope dropped his AI encyclical alongside a popes + technology hype video the very day I get back from talking about digital rhetoric with my colleagues all weekend
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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Teaching students to avoid "bothering" their teachers stops learning in its tracks, undercuts essential social development, and trains kids not to seek help (from people) when they need it. Its sole function is to enable higher student-teacher ratios. @aft.org promoting this is sick and sickening.
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you’re a jetlagged early bird at RSA, and wanna co-work with me while I finish up my presentation before the A session panels, hit me up lol
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
CUNY has reinstated three of the fired four, but there’s still one more who needs her job back! @mayor.nyc.gov please intervene with @cunychancellor.bsky.social to get our colleague back at work, since he’s apparently unwilling to do it on his own . May the #FiredFourth be with CUNY
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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Academic freedom and free speech is under attack everywhere. But it has been especially bleak watching this happen at a public university, in a blue state, in an even bluer city. My colleague, @oliviawood.bsky.social points out the oppression, the hypocrisy, and what is required to fight it. 1/
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Two Years After The CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment - Left Voice
Reflections from a faculty member on the anniversary of the City University of New York Gaza Solidarity Encampment about where we’ve come from, the current state of repression and political struggle o...
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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
One of the best parts of editing #Adequate has been seeing how writers take up the concept and talk about them in different contexts, for different audiences. Thanks to @oliviawood.bsky.social for organizing an event at CUNY Graduate Center with 3 New York-area contributors.
Olivia Wood, Amy Wan, and Crystal Broch Colombini on a panel, the university press website with information about Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition in the background.
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I’m very bad at using public transit outside of nyc bc I get upset like “it’s different!!! Why is it different here!!!” but I am a superpedestrian armed only with Google Maps and an “I’m walking here” attitude
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My phone is recommending “I’m Fucking Up What Matters” by Tegan and Sara as an alarm song and imagine waking up to that every day
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In 45 min!! #4C26
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This year the labor caucus panel is also secretly a second queer caucus panel, featuring dual-carding caucus members Kathleen Dillon and Bethany Hellwig
Tales from the Trenches: Academic Labor Organizing in Troubled Times
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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Small but mighty crew: #Adequate contributors meet up at #4C26
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Based on my conversations today I have come to understand that many of you who live in other cities know about and really like our mayor and maybe you’d like to come to our session to learn how our students engaged with the election #4C26
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#4C26 Me and my friend & co-teacher Danny Katch will be presenting Friday at 2:45 about our paired learning community courses on democracy and political rhetoric, which we taught during the 2024 presidential election and during the 2025 NYC mayoral election
Room 13, exhibit hall level C2, Huntington convention centerSlightly longer version of the session description already present in the post, screenshot from the conference app
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CCCC Queer Caucus @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We’re excited to see everyone at #4C26! Tag us in your queer session posts so we can boost you ☺️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
On my way to the airport for #4C26, excited to see everyone ☺️☺️ I’m also posting at @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social this week
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Author copy arrived yesterday! Adequate, edited by @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social I'm very proud of this chapter, nearly three years in the making 😊
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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
when students tell you they're taking your lgbtq studies class so they can be more informed for discussions with their loved ones 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🥰
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