Lily Saint

Assoc. prof. of English at Wesleyan U.

[David Freedlander @freedlander]

This is one of the best political ads I’ve ever seen

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The African Literature Association is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Nairobi in June 2025. CFP for the annual conference can be found here: https://t.co/YJ4vsSlzHq @AfricanLitAssoc

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@farahbakaari @oliviastowell one of my students was on that show I can say no more

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@_ElevenPeople @michiganstateu He was so kind! We ended up stranded together late in Ann Arbor once the night before a conference. Though he didn't know me at all he decided we find a place to eat. We ate sushi and discussed Nollywood films (and astronomy!); he was hospitality personified. Go well Ken.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Under Eric Adams, New York City is in its brazenly transactional era of government. Frank Carone is its master practitioner. https://t.co/i0RaUBceFE

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Thrilled to be co-organizing a MLA panel on the continued dominance of the historical novel in African literature with the indomitable @farahbakaari . Please share widely! https://t.co/u4kiY3ol99

[Queens College PSC @psc_qc]

Yesterday the Queens College #CUNY Provost instructed all chairs to fire 26 people in substitute lines.

26 people have lost salaries & possibly health insurance 15 days before the start of the semester!

@PSC_CUNY #FundCUNY #APeoplesCUNY #FixCUNY #NewDeal4CUNY #CareNotCuts

[WesleyanAAUP @WesleyanAAUP]

Look Ma, we're in the paper!

Wesleyan faculty: University can afford to give tenure to adjuncts https://t.co/wuLkp7WoQR

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@bhakti_shringa @gautierari You're gonna be the best interlocuter he's ever had! You know and love his books so well!

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If the @amnh can update their Thanksgiving diorama then isn't about time they deal with their diorama on the Pokot people of East Africa?

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@sm_osment course; yes; just raging over here at midnight

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@sm_osment agreed but it's symptomatic of a larger reluctance of faculty to get directly involved in organizing. There are tons of reasons for this (burnout esp.; faculty caught up in the infantalizing structures of academia; low pay/no time) and there are BEAUTIFUL exceptions...

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@sm_osment yet another reason everyone should be unionizing or getting the cogs on their aaup chapters all greased up again

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@sm_osment organizing is happening already but it sounds like it's pretty dead on that front at #wvu which of course emboldens admin to make the dick moves they've been making.

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@bucephalus424 @gabrielwinant Can we discuss how this fighting back happens though? Inclined to think it's not on social media. I know faculty are demoralized but I also hope they're working on ways to make a ruckus and to get the students keyed up too

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@bhakti_shringa It's obvious. My dad wears the same clothes three days in a row and bathes perhaps even less than that so his hair stays the same.

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@nicolemrizzuto1 @proffwolff I told you I was reading Aidoo's Changes and she has "flabberwhelmed" in there

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@bhakti_shringa @farahbakaari Girl good luck finding one novel about peace

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@farahbakaari @bhakti_shringa I wish! Anne c❤️rson 4eva