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Wendy Fall

@wendyfall.bsky.social
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PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.

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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Interested in absurd/nihilistic depictions of decay and the grotesque? Check out ‘Digger’. It’s a well-made Beckett rehash for our times.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lady M is also a model of boss energy. Classic ‘if no one else can do this correctly, I will do it myself.’
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So very Prufrock-ish.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
POET not post. Bluesky keeps autocorrecting poet to post.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know this post and can vouch! This is her first chapbook of poems under this pseudonym. It’s about loving and parenting a trans teen in an anti-trans time. Check it out! dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/oco...
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Transcending | Kate S. O'Connor
Kate S. O'Connor is the pen name used by a U.S.-based poet when writing about her journey parenting a transgender child and falling in love with the trans community at a time of heightened transphobia...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 08/09/2026
This Thursday September 10, on the TAMU campus in College Station, free and open to the public. #murderbot
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s an example of perfect casting?
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Melissa King's Savage, Classy, Bougie Quote
Alt: Melissa King's Savage, Classy, Bougie Quote from ‘The Pitt’.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 05/09/2026
this is a great How We Live Now piece. glad it got into the MLMish aspects of MAHA and how it involves wealthy people selling a lifestyle to poorer people. i haven‘t thought as enough about the class aspect www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The MAHA Custody Battle
A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We lost a 14-yo farm worker in Wisconsin this week after an accident with a skid loader. There was no law to protect him, and in Wisconsin we train kids even younger than that to operate heavy farm equipment. Read why we should not:
medium.com
Growing Safely: Rethinking Wisconsin’s Youth Farm Safety Mandate
Cutting to the Chase…
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can vouch for Sam! Get some gothic goodness into your spooky season.🎃
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
North of the Humber. That way you don’t have to dig around in so many church records.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This, by the way, is how they plan to eventually get rid of professors who specialize in a subject they think no one should learn because it doesn’t align with capitalistic or fascistic goals. What are we even doing here?
nytimes.com
Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty
To create a new bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. avatars of its instructors.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I am a Persian tortie show cat.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wisconsinites, yours are here: www.dhs.wisconsin.gov
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Many critics of this are missing the point. This isn’t meant to reorganize the funding of education. It’s meant to reduce our means to create social change through our (non-capitalist-driven) work, and to ensure a dumbed down electorate.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I did this last year too. God help us, because AI won’t.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It has a partner contrasting image that shows the tree full and angels rejoicing.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This one? www.britishmuseum.org/collection/i...
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Use this image 102734001 | British Museum
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
An excellent jazz pianist, too.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In the US our current administration is actively gaslighting us and attempting to rewrite history. It’s not that we are accidentally forgetting; our memories are being buried by a large-scale disinformation campaign. This is cruel. sciencebasedmedicine.org/116333-2/?fb...
sciencebasedmedicine.org
The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020
It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Adored ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Tale of Two Cities’. Loathed ‘Fountainhead’ and ‘Great Gatsby’. ‘Fountainhead’ may be the only book I have ever thrown in a bin rather than donating; it’s that toxic.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Important thing that is flying under the media’s radar:
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Trump’s Attorney General Nominee Just Opened the Door to a National Abortion Ban
Under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche committed to reviewing Biden-era guidance on the Comstock Act.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Or maybe don’t do things that infringe upon the rights of so many people. That’ll make us mad.
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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
You can use ‘adjust donation’ to give more funds to World Central Kitchen. These are fun books! Good for a chuckle or two, especially in dark times.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
You know you are on the wrong side of history when you are this careful to cover up every identifying mark, right down to your tattoos. Cowards.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
For all the what-aboutism I read out there: Yes, past presidents have sucked, too, but this? This is a whole new level.
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THE BOO! GIRL @the-book-girl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Must read book list for Pride Month (now 40% off) @HaymarketBooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/165-st...
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Stonewall was a Riot: a Pride Month Reading List
We've put together a reading list of books about queer and trans politics, history, and liberation, offered in solidarity with everyone across the world standing up against injustice. For th...
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Very sad to be on the wrong side of an ocean during this. You should go, though, if you can!
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Still right there with you. Not sure why I bother. The last post I applied to offered half my current salary and expect a ridiculous teaching load.
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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
!!!!! My C18 and long C19 colleagues — *THE* Olaudah Equiano’s original letter to Josiah Wedgwood on the abolition of the slave trade 1793 At V&A East “The Music is Black: A British Story”
Handwritten letter by the famous activist and writer Olaudah Equiano to Josiah Wedgwooos regarding abolition Letter to Josiah Wedgwood on the abolition of the slave trade, 1793
Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano was a Sierra Leonean-born abolitionist, author and campaigner, following his own freedom from enslavement. In this letter to British ceramist Josiah Wedgwood, he shares his fears of being kidnapped and sold back into slavery while travelling to the port city of Bristol.
This illustrates the trust between the pair, as well as the risks Equiano faced in campaigning against slavery while living as a free Black man in Britain.
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Ink on paper
V&A Wedgwood Collection. Presented by Art Fund with major support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, private donations and a public appeal V&A: E31-24058
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Bronze text on a black wall

The music is Black: A British Story
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Into the Gothic on Juneteenth? Check out ‘The Black Vampyre’. Written in 1819 by an American author, it’s a comedic abolitionist short story! dn721606.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-...
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is about film, but a lot has been done by psychologists. Is that maybe something to think about? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Woof. Not only is this dominated by right wing voices, but it is also far too joyless for tenth graders.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/06/2026
"Why can’t Trump keep his bloodsport / ego strokefest in the coliseum where it belongs? This whole ordeal is really giving mad kings a bad name."
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I am Emperor Caligula, and Even I Think the White House UFC Event is a Bit Much
“I know this might seem surprising coming from me. And don’t get me wrong, I’m no stranger to bread and circuses. But considering that the price of bread is ...
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Wow. ‘The Stand’ must be the longest (and therefore heaviest) King book. Love it, but it’s a lot to lug on a train.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
So why do you work in government and publish research outside your field, Dr. Fall?
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is their second attempt to do this. It’s not based on science. This is why so many states are joining the World Health Organization and relying on partners like the AMA. Stick to your jabs, please, while the dedicated scientists in the US public health community hunker down under this attack.
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re-solve.bsky.social @re-solve.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Sharing Heather Cox Richardson’s Week 1, one minute videos she & her team are producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence🎇 Thank you @LettersFromAnAmerican & @heathercoxrichardsonand250at250 on Substack @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Week One in 250 to 250
This was the first week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Terrible for trans folks. I’d also argue that it’s a very bad sign for democracy in general for there to be any system amounting to a poll tax. There should never be a barrier to voting. Period.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hold them accountable, please, voters in their districts.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I know journalists have go equivocate, but that headline is bonkers. “May have??” Should read “Definitely did.”
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
To the void! 🥂
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Right there with you, except with 14 years. Also if I get the job my salary will be half of my current government work and I will lose out on my pension being vested. So I probably can’t even accept the job if it’s offered. Void-staring solidarity.
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Perhaps the pro-AI voices seem louder because they are getting paid so much more money to be loud. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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