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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Protecting you because you have enough to feel at the moment.

Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Yes. I get a swelling, rising feeling in my center -- kind of pushing out from my shoulder blades. Happens most often when I'm singing "longing songs" (like Dimming of the Day). When I was a kid, I called this feeling "singing against the sky" because it felt like I was being held back from flying.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

It's a half anus...which considering the half-assed campaign he is likely to run, is fitting.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Endured, withstood, tolerated…or, in the sense of waiting something out you can’t change, simply bided.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My first almost-date with John was at a Beausoleil gig!

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Oh Jeff, staaaaap. That year smells like Aquanet, Giorgio, cigarettes, wet pavement, and black leather.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Did we raise the same child? I have a nearly identical piece of paper, triangle girls and all.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I realize this is a small inconvenience in the overall scheme of things but I think I have, for the third year running, scheduled my summer vacation for the month that my garden is actually going to be producing. All the tending, none of the eating.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

She was not a musician. She was a buck dancer (and hot, and in the entourage of another act). My uncle Paul headed a band and MC’d and was a bluegrass dj and for complicated (marital disharmony with my dad’s little sister) reasons, my family was at most of his summer gigs for a few years.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Yeah, Keith had a thing for my mom (one of those circuit unrequited pursuit situations) and I spent a whole summer sitting on a cooler getting sunburned and listening to him muse about the trouble with getting what you thought you wanted. Ralph was a bad boss…

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

That year‘s band (Keith, Ricky, Curly Ray, Jack, Troy, and Ralph) was the apex of the Clinch Mountain Boys. Great tune.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Overall, I’d say it served our students very well and led to stronger collegial ties with our School of Ed, but because it was an “Ed” degree, students were never perceived as part of our department’s majors even though they took more coursework with us than most of our disciplinary majors.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

As enrollment shrunk, our admin tended to ignore the shared nature of the major and when faculty cuts came, they were leveled obliviously to curricular demands of SSEd. We were able to argue for VAPs based on state certification requirements, but it didn’t protect our tenured/tenure-track faculty.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We co-planned the degrees and got them approved by State Ed so it would have been difficult for either party to grab a piece and run. However, that extra bureaucratic level also made it difficult to add anything new. And there was always a squabble over where to count the majors’ “home.”

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We respected each other’s expertise. The only friction point was trying to keep credit load reasonable — no one wanted to cede credit hours, but we wound up with degrees roughly 2/5 content, 2/5 pedagogy/methods, and 1/5 gen ed by creatively double-counting some gen eds as content or p/m.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We had a steering committee with equal rep that met every semester to review the program and monitor student performance, external test results, new standards discussions etc. NY has a clear SSEd curricular framework and certification standards; we determined the content coursework from that.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

My college closed (cue sad trombone) but we shared our SSEd — 36-48 credits of History and POS and other “content knowledge areas,” the pedagogy and methods in Ed. We had very strong programs and highly employable graduates.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My daughter is exactly like my husband and also, somehow, precisely like me…all the while being a better secret third way forward.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Why does J Rees-Mogg have a reality tv show?

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Yeah, that sucks, but hurting people pointlessly is their MO. I’d bet that if you’re willing to move to upstate New York, Albany High would take you in a heartbeat.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We picked up Bahn mi in Camden while walking around and I thought of you. Perfect sandwich.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I mean, the quality of direction, imagination, or script is not Ryan Coogler grade.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

For me, it wasn’t Black Panther, but it was an ok movie. The plot is light, but there are some quality performances that make it better than the script.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Our dead want to be found. I’m convinced of it.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Many people are using Türkiye for medical tourism, I’ve heard.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My bad. It was served up to me on the TU webpage on Thursday and I didn’t check the date.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It looks to me that he is using the little boy as a human shield (carrying him in his arms to cover his chest or putting him on shoulders to protect his head when in transit, placing him in front of him when he’s in public). I find it disturbing, even moreso than just using a child as a prop.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Once again using his child as a human shield. How disturbing.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

They told you no super-politely and when they keep you on hold the recording will thank you for your patience every fifteen seconds for 45 minutes. That’s the benefit you do get beyond those benefits you don’t.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

He’s using his child as a human shield.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

One door closes and another opens…today I got an invite to speak at a bigger venue and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without yesterday’s cancellation. This work will prosper and finds its audience.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Here’s one reason I love my medical practice…today’s text.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

At least they backed out early in the process and I wasn’t counting on that bottle of water speaker’s fee…

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I bowed out gracefully because I’m a pro, but c’mon. I was privy to their board correspondence where it’s clear they are having trouble generating an audience. Maybe it’s because they program the same tired whitewashed stories over and over to an aging shrinking white population. I could’ve helped.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Well, it’s been a hell of a day. There’s the….you know, whole DC situation…but more personally, one of my speaking invitations was withdrawn when it became clear that I really do plan to talk about Black survivance and white resistance to Black liberty. Cold feet happen a lot in southern Indiana.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

35-40 minute talk, q/a to follow, no AV requirements. Msg me if your southern Indiana org would be interested in hearing me speak on June 15-18 or on June 23-25. It's original research on an unfortunately timely topic.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'll talk about the various strategies Black Indianans used to remain free, protect their families, and build institutions in the face of white resistance to Black liberty, 1816-1851. I'm in Daviess and Knox County on the weekend of June 21-22. I am open to more stops. I charge a bottle of water.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Today I'm being my own agent and coordinating a public history speaking tour. I'll be in Indianapolis on Juneteenth and am going to be doing talks in southern Indiana thereafter. My program title is "Surviving Emancipation in Southern Indiana."

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It’s free until Bezos says it isn’t.

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