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Arielle Zibr👻k

@zibrak.bsky.social
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feminisms, projects, popular cultures 📚 | Literary Tour of the US, The Great Courses | 12 Stories by American Women, Penguin Classics | Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures, NYU | Writing Against Reform, UMass Prof @ UWyo 🏔️ views own 👐www.ArielleZibrak.com👐

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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Post-Structuralist Diaries: a witty rom-com about a middle-aged woman who's ready to settle into a life of Althusserian pessimism when she reads the late work of Michel Foucault and begins asking how WE shape the institutions.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Among things to be grateful for: opportunities to engage with international graduate students on my campus and around the world. I can't wait to head to Germany to meet new scholars of literary realism. What if this is the beginning, not the end?
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sept 25, come hang out w/ me in Madison, CT, to celebrate the PB launch of Victorian Gaslighting & see @dbellonby.bsky.social, @sunsetandecho.bsky.social & @zibrak.bsky.social in convo about all their great books—Tangled! 12 Stories by American Women! & more! www.dianaebellonby.com/victorian-ga...
How do stories from the nineteenth century help us understand women’s lives today? Join three writers as they discuss their new books, feminism, the stories we tell, and the stories that hide. We’ll take a closer look at Diana Bellonby’s new co-edited collection of women’s gaslighting stories, then share a lively conversation about her work, Sarah Mesle’s new Tangled: Seven Iconic Moments in White Women’s Hair and What They Tell Us About Power, Pleasure, and Complicity, and Arielle Zibrak’s recent Twelve Stories by American Women and Guilty Pleasures. Bellonby, Mesle, and Zibrak will be introduced by Rebecca Colesworthy, Senior Acquisitions Editor, SUNY Press.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
HUGE thanks to @sophiastewart.bsky.social for including my book Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures @nyupress.bsky.social in this "Wake Up Your Brain" round-up for fall reading @theatlantic.com -- a good read itself if you're struggling with the transition from sexy hockey to The Odyssey . . .
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"How might we look to past representational failures or successes in order to develop more aesthetically exciting and engaging ways to capture and articulate the institutional forms on which our collective democratic life depends?" www.boundary2.org/2026/05/lisi...
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Lisi Schoenbach–The Case of the Disappearing Institution
Graduation picture from the Lincoln School of Nurses in 1915. Larsen is second from left in the front row. This post is part of a dossier of texts “On Not Hating the State” that was initially generate...
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Childhood, IMHO, is for reading books in beanbag chairs.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
HUGE thanks to @sophiastewart.bsky.social for including my book Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures @nyupress.bsky.social in this "Wake Up Your Brain" round-up for fall reading @theatlantic.com -- a good read itself if you're struggling with the transition from sexy hockey to The Odyssey . . .
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I had the pleasure of teaching these women 19th-Century American Women Writers. Few made it to the finish line. College is hard and prison is brutal. But these women did receive their BAs, and everyone who participated (especially me) got the lesson of a lifetime.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So now individual episodes of my series, A Literary Tour of the United States, are now available for purchase on Amazon Video if you want to bone up on a locale before a trip, or crib some class prep. I won't tell . . . www.amazon.com/dp/B0GN3P4DR...
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Watch A Literary Tour of the United States | Prime Video
In A Literary Tour of the United States, you'll take an epic excursion across America, from the wide expanse of the continental states to Alaska, Hawaii, and beyond, delving into the writing that distinguishes our nation's literature across three centuries. Your guide is Professor Arielle Zibrak of the University of Wyoming, an award-winning author and scholar of American literature.
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
the thing about Curry and Dolly they had in common was taking their art completely seriously but not taking themselves too seriously and that is why they were such a joy
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Where's the famous argument that Daniel Deronda should be two separate novels again?
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
An event about the stories women tell at CT's oldest luxury beach resort! Come play with us. Diana Bellonby, Sarah Mesle, & Arielle Zibrak on Women’s Stories Fri, 9/25/2026 - 5:30pm Place: Madison Beach Hotel Faulkner Room 94 West Wharf Rd. Madison, CT 06443
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Diana Bellonby, Sarah Mesle, & Arielle Zibrak on Women’s Stories
RJ Julia opened 35 years ago as an independent bookstore whose mission was, and is, to be a place where words matter, where writer meets reader, where the ambiance and selection and merchandising of b...
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...
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University of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major - Daily Nous
As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media....
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
this is everything right now
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unpopular opinion: people in the nineteenth century read more, so they wrote better.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This #America250 skip the nationalist spectacle and AI propaganda and come on my road trip of literary America instead. Warhol said we “have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see." Let me show you. #greatcoursesplus #USA www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIP3...
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A Literary Tour of the United States | Trailer | A Great Courses Documentary
YouTube video by UW English Department
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Simone would like to remind you this #America250 that National Parks are fur everyone and there are fresh water oceans in the middle of this continent.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Listen, no one is ok right now. But also, yes.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I love the people of this great nation.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The vain femme urge to be rescued by the publishing industry.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Dandiacal futurist man summer.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I have a new piece in @truthout.org today about autonomous libraries and the collections and spaces they create for political movements. truthout.org/articles/as-...
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As Censorship Expands, Autonomous Libraries Are Springing Up to Fill the Gaps
From California to Illinois to Oregon, flourishing anarchist libraries are spreading knowledge and building community.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Get into shape, boys.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
When you ask an archivist to scan a folder you think will be 4 pages and receive 378 pages of clippings on your subject compiled by an unpublished researcher 40 ago, it fills your heart with gratitude and underscores that our time here is merely the parentheses around a scope of touch unknowable.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Tips on foiling fascists.
“Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police,” “act stupid,” “Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble,” “Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe,” “Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.”
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
original tote bag feminists
Members of the women's suffrage movement prepare to march on New York's Wall Street in 1913, armed with leaflets and slogans demanding the vote for women in canvas totebags.

Paul Thompson/Getty Images
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Are you in Philadelphia? Come see this dream panel on the Novel and Reproductive Labor and hang with us TOMORROW 5-7. Would love to see familiar faces! I'll be talking about Edith Wharton, Can-Do feminism, eugenics, and fiction.
PUBLIC PANEL:  THE NOVEL AND REPRODUCTIVE LABOR
May 1st, Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 401  -  5-7pm 
Lilith Todd, "Mary Wollstonecraft's Weaning Forms." 
Dora Zhang, "Reproducing People: On Types and Stereotypes."
Arielle Zibrak, "The Destructive Imagination of the Eugenic Novel Heroine."
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Very excited to read this!
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Honestly, I feel like I've been in this meeting vibe.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Chris Smalls, the worker who took on Amazon and won, reminds us: power doesn't come from wealth, it comes from people who organise and act. Nothing changes if we do nothing. Solidarity is action.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Most states have collections of their historical newspapers digitized online and those free sites have been so much more helpful to my book project than the big expensive databases I fortunately can also access. Local news and public access for the win. Then, now, always.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A lot of accusations are confessions these days.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients. The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...
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The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients
Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
In 1914, this hero gave a talk on women's right to ignore fashion. Nina Wilcox Bull, caftan feminist ancestor. (She also wrote The Mummy, made hats, and purchased a ruined spanish castle.)
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Make it your personal mission not to become ignorant and compliant. Become worse at your job. Read books. Do projects that take days. Take walks in the woods with friends. Love a houseplant. Choose not to use AI. Stop buying time-saving things and hoarding wealth and objects. Start hoarding time.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I feel like the only way anyone is going to have a good year is if @netflix.com lets me make a period drama set at Vrilia Heights, the real-life Metaphysical Summer Camp in Wisconsin created to bring sexual vigor back into the lives of young Americans.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Just read Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear-- a true feminist thriller about tradwife culture. WOW. It’s going to be in my head forever, and on my American Women Writers syllabus come Fall.
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Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
A Novel
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I've never seen something so right put so wrong.
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Jay McInerney: Edith Wharton is ‘like Henry James with balls’
The Bright Lights, Big City author on the joy of a Julian Barnes novel and why you should read the ‘famously underrated’ James Salter
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Under Water www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Better books! Better movies! Better art! Better childcare! Better schools! Better healthcare! So simple!
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Why do dead men make so much? What if we donated all proceeds of dead authors' works, beyond a living stipend for their immediate families, to a collective fund to support new writers? Writers are becoming other things that actually make them money. We are losing literature altogether.
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On the Auction Block: Jack Kerouac’s Record-Breaking Manuscripts
Just a few weeks ago, on March 12, 2026, which would have been Jack Kerouac’s 104th birthday, the On the Road scroll sold at auction at Christie’s in New York for a whopping $12,135,000. This marks…
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Imagine a humanoid educator named Arielle with twenty years of classroom experience and she reads and writes very quickly and she's very mad at you.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Should I stop dyeing my gray hair in front of Zendaya?
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Should I Stop Dyeing My Gray Hair?
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ok, new one, not "The Trump Era" but the "Asexual Revolution."
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Might change my name to Sophie to become a more polarizing critic for likes.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
How many times must we beat this dead My Little Pony?
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
What are we saying, scholars of now: Trump-Pandemic Era? Open to suggestions.
The bulldozed East Wing of the White House.
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The reason why the most vulnerable are drawn to toxic, ableist alternative wellness spaces is that the health care system, and especially the mental healthcare system, is itself a negative eugenic program in its utter ineffectiveness to help them.
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