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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 7h

I just saw the news that Bo from Days of Our Lives died and gasped. Bo and Hope were my childhood.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 8h

One of the most widely cited and esteemed scholars I know published his first book (which changed the field) when he was 50 and by then had long been employed by a university. This was in the 1980s.

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*ahem* now for a professional one I am thrilled to announce the publication of my new monograph, Virginia Woolf and Futurity, out now with Edinburgh University Press. Get 30% off with the code NEW30: it's the perfect Xmas stocking-stuffer for the Woolf-obsessed goblin in your life

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 14h

A new IWPR report confirms that college-educated Black women are more likely to lead in government than in companies. Which is why the DOGE cuts that slashed federal jobs have been particularly devastating for college-educated Black women. #blacksky

Figure 3. College-Educated Black Women Are More Likely to Be Hired for Management Positions in the Public Sector than the Private Sector
All women and Black women (bachelor's degree or higher) as a share of total managers in the public and private sectors, 2024

PublicPrivate
5.0%
15.0%
25.0%
35.0%
Women's share of all managers
41.3%
24.3%
Black women as a share of all college-educated women
15.9%
10.8%
Black women as a share of women managers
19.8%
9.2%
Black women as a share of all managers
8.2%
2.2%
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Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.7.8, https://microdata.epi.org
Note: Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive; Black women are all non-Hispanic.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22h

[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22h

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22h

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12h

ffs I just read a European job ad that explicitly requires TWO PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS for an asst prof position. yes, yes, I knew it was like this but it's truly startling to see TWO required. it's official: unis have zero respect for books & the ppl who write & publish them. Nothing affirms it more.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This measured, patient, impassioned corrective is essential to a real understanding of the complexities of cultural production. I hope it breaks through in a world dominated by rage bait and slop

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 19h

Just finished reading this finally & have too many good things to say about the thoroughness/care taken—in gathering/analyzing the data, in the writing itself, which is fantastic—to say them all here. Especially grateful for the frank comments about the variable nature of publishing decision making.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday I turned—gulp—48 and as of today I’m going to try to be a standing desk person. Aging! It is so extremely a thing!

My new standing desk—and by new I mean it sat in a box for four months until I finally asked my partner to set it up for me yesterday because I was clearly not making it happen.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

articles like this make me think all Greek life should be banned tbh

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a book. Highly recommend, relevant then, relevant now. I knew and appreciated it (and her work on race and regency!) before I got to know the wonderful @triciamatthew.bsky.social. I'm so sorry for the grief of this anniversary, but so grateful for both book and author.

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This autumn is the 10th anniversary of the publication of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure. It came out during a heartbreaking time, my mom’s passing. I worked on copy edits and proofs from her living room, between medical appointments. uncpress.org/978146962771...

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Written/Unwritten

The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and ...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Note: a bill to close this loophole already exists—and has for years. It has repeatedly passed the senate and state assembly codes committee but stalled at the rules committee, which is now supposedly, actually bothering to attend to it. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

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Hochul will seek to close ‘voluntary intoxication loophole’ after Cornell case

The governor vowed to work with lawmakers to remove a defense that can make it harder to prosecute rape when victims voluntarily consumed drugs or alcohol.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last weekend I had the honor of intro-ing a talk/book signing w/ @dbellonby.bsky.social, co-ed of Victorian Gaslighting. Diana also talked abt her essay in this book—New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions. I’ve been thinking about her talk—& the book—all week. sunypress.edu/Books/N/New-...

The cover of New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions

Edited by
Michael T. Dango
Erin A. Spampinato
Doreen Thierauf

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the expert literary science, expert data analysis, and even more expert deep investigative reporting in this piece powerfully dispel PEN's insidious mythology of the publishing industry this jewish author is thankful for the research

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 01/10/2026

“Very few editors are going to say, ‘You’re not a very good writer and your ideas don’t deserve a public hearing,’” he said. “It is such an obscure and opaque business for people outside of it that I understand the desire to make up stories about why things are happening.”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was on leave when @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social’s reports came in & the board approved his Ms. So grateful to him for understanding & my EIC for seeing it through. That too is part of a good working relationship—colleagues supporting each other & authors knowing they have the press’s commitment.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

*clears throat* “This is an original study that will appeal not just to scholars of German literature but to any reader interested in understanding how the modern publishing world came to be.” I love this book. Affect studies! Media studies! Formalism! The material conditions of production!

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is so important from Jennifer Weiner - and yes, I feel the same way having gone to a neighboring school in the same era as she describes!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“For women who’d gone to college decades ago, the ones who’d spent their undergrad yrs marching & protesting & signing petitions & occupying bldgs…the fury was laced w/ a kind of bewildered exhaustion. How is this still happening? Shouldn’t things be better by now?” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

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Opinion | I Thought Things Had Gotten Better. The Cornell Case Shows How Bad They Really Are. (Gift Article)

How could so little have changed?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Enjoyed Corey Robin's essay "On Nikole Hannah-Jones" coreyrobin675129.substack.com/p/on-nikole-...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“There’s a prevailing sense that campus culture is rape culture, especially in fraternity houses: It’s a deeply embedded feature of life here that is widely known but rarely protested.” @katemanne.bsky.social in NY Mag on Cornell but also US unis—& culture—writ large www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine being such a bad writer that you write a whole op-ed—yes, write! the ironies abound—trying to convince people that writing isn’t really that important

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you have submitted your manuscript for peer review, it is "under review." Your editor may still be looking for reviewers. That, too, counts as "under review." The process of GETTING reviewers is part of the review process. Things taking time is not a broken process. That IS the process.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hear me out: I encounter "junior" scholars who think they should have a foreword and, listen, individualism is BS but this is YOUR chance to shine. no scholar is an island, or something, but you need no introduction--EXCEPT your own introduction. don't make a foreword do your work. 😈

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Studies find that universities see an INCREASE in applications and donations after bad press about mismanaged sexual assaults. If you’re a Cornell alum, you should write to your alumni association and vow not to donate. Redirect your funds to your local rape crisis center instead.

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Any press is good press? The unanticipated effects of Title IX investigations on university outcomes

Since 2011, when the landmark “Dear Colleague” letter declared that the Department of Education (DoE) would use equal-access requirements of federal l…

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes when emailing reviewers I take care to maintain a poker face, lest I tilt the scales or suggest bias, but then I think: why would I invite a manuscript if I wasn't psyched about some element of it? I'm asking you to review it BECAUSE I want to publish it. No secret there!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not to be all “mood” but I just dug this out. From my 90s teens. Very worn. Has holes. At home working and just reeling today.

Tee shirt with a classic “your body is a battleground” graphic on it.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I miss the heyday of third spaces: the Wal-Mart parking lot where we hung out in high school in 1998

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

cw: sexual violence ICYMI, just as news broke of Cornell essentially covering up a horrific gang rape 2 yrs ago, the uni released a report saying the job of a uni is to cultivate “sound judgment” and THAT is how higher ed will win back “public trust.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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Cornell Report Gets Purpose of University Right (opinion)

Universities seeking to rebuild public trust would do well to follow Cornell’s lead.

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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning. This was one of the first GSAs in which no one mistook me for Kira, Priscilla, or Jamele. After nearly 16 years of trips to the GSA, I can say this. Sadly, this wasn't the case for a new generation of Black scholars at the GSA. Again, I say, be better white folks at the GSA.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON edited by the Practicing Refusal Collective including @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, now in stock @ibraaz.bsky.social, in anticipation of Gabrielle Goliath's ELEGY opening on 8 October ❤️‍🔥

A stack of copies of Thinking from Black: A Lexicon, a book with a bright red colour, on the mirrored steel front desk at Ibraaz.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

trying to figure out how I didn’t get into Brandi Carlisle before this extremely late date despite her sitting at the center of the Venn diagram of everything I like and my best explanation is that I hung out with too many dudes in grad school in the early aughts (sorry, dudes)

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about seeing Liz Phair in 2026 as an old is that “Why can’t I breathe” is inevitably the last song because it’s her biggest hit and yet literally no one is here to hear “Why can’t I breathe.” It’s great, it’s fine, but it’s not why anyone is here.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s so weird how S and I are the only 25 year olds at this Liz Phair concert

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

an author just asked a very common Q: will they get a new contract to replace their advance contract once their book is approved by the editorial board for publication? answer: no! advance contracts are "real," if conditional I wrote about this a while back: www.chronicle.com/article/when...

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Advice | ‘When Will I Get a Book Contract?’

The answer can vary from press to press, editor to editor, and project to project.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

whenever an author says they used AI to check for "style" I think: that's what superegos is for! that's what dialectical thought is for! that's what generalized anxiety that makes you question everything you've ever thought is for! that's what a social-media-tuned knack for reading the room is for!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Too stupid and openly bigoted—like not even trying to hide the bigotry bigoted—to engage seriously but the link to TAH on the Mellon Foundation as somehow evidence of the degradation of literary culture is truly the chef’s kiss.

OPINION
BRET STEPHENS
The Literary World’s D.E.I. Checklist
Sept 22, 2026

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Usually @rcolesworthy.bsky.social edits me, but I propose changing eek to woof, under the circumstances 🐾🐾

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Hi, I found some issues with the SEO on your website. Would you like my services?" Stop checking out the SEO on our website, weirdos! Just because AI can help make you even more annoying in endlessly hawking your wares doesn't mean you have to be, geez.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bracketing everything at stake in the uptick in homeschooling, may I just say: I would be a terrible teacher of my child. The vibes are off. That ship has sailed. Disaster all the way down. Just a mess. www.times Union.com/education/article/homeschooled-students-ever-capital-region-22425886.php

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After a push into homeschooling, parents say they love it

There are now more homeschooled students in the Capital Region than ever before. Parents say they started because of vaccination regulations or COVID, but they kept doing it because they love it.

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