Kristen Seas Trader

Rhetorician. Writer. Thinker. Mama. (Not necessarily in that order.)

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

Not to jinx it ... but I think I just finished my presentation draft nearly a week before I present. Unheard of! #RSA50 #firstsessionmotivation #enthymemeforever

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

How will I get this presentation done by next Thursday? I actually have to arrive prepared to present this year. Weird. #firstsessionproblems #RSA50

[Sarah Layden @BySarahLayden]

People criticized the Parkland, FL students for posting on social media during yesterday’s school shooting. Please. They were bravely documenting their lives, which they feared were about to end. We need to bear witness. And stop it from happening again.

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

So, I'm *THAT* professor assigning her own work to her students. But I don't care. This is still my favorite piece and it fits perfectly into my topics course on social/mobile media writing. #mediaecosystems #rhetoricalcontagions

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

"Enthymeme as a term indicates a point of undecidability that bridges rhetoricity and rhetoric, operating as the nexus of dynamic affectability and hermeneutic stasis, or the point where our capacity to Become meets the imperatives of Being." #ofacertainpersuasion #teamrhetoric

[Midwest People's History @MPHProject]

"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls."

R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

@calmoots The world moves fast. Buckle up. (And burn old tweets.)

[dugglebutt @dugglebutt]

I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE A HANDBASKET

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

"... women working in education are more often requested to give extensions, boost grades and be more lenient when it comes to classroom policy."

What kills me is when colleagues know this but still encourage caving into it.

https://t.co/73YkhxVefv

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

Can we please take our democracy and fate as a nation more seriously than a celebrity reality show? Running the country requires more substance than an acceptance speech from another shameless self-promoter.

https://t.co/EXG7Y6cOBo

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

Dark side of identity politics that "eat their own."

"People who are at bottom kindred-spirited [...] end up disoriented by the suspicion that they might be on different sides of justice after all, merely because their particular fragments don’t happen to coincide perfectly." https://t.co/kzdhblcIvz

[Sarah Layden @BySarahLayden]

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves https://t.co/pb4lYJ6s2i via @brainpicker

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

@caseyboyle @sophist_monster Choosing rootlessness as anti-materialist minimalism masks a parallel rise in demand for housing alternatives that mirror the gig economy - i.e. rootlessness not as freedom but as affordable compromise for achieving the American Dream.

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

@sophist_monster @caseyboyle Now it's a necessity in a widening class gap but rebranded as choice not oppression.

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

Matt Lauer lost his job.
Charlie Rose lost his job.
Mark Halperin lost his job.
Glenn Thrush lost his job.
Billy Bush lost his job.
Harvey Weinstein lost his job.
Kevin Spacey lost his job.
But in politics...
Conyers still in Congress.
Moore still running.
Trump still President.

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

@sophist_monster I believe this is, in fact, how everyone's personality is defined. But, yes, what they said about *you* is spot on.

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

Another wise investment of my book budget funds has arrived. @sophist_monster

[U.S. Senator Al Franken @SenFranken]

RED ALERT: Senate GOP just added provision to their tax plan that would gut ACA & kick 13M ppl off insurance. Yes, it's same tax plan that would add $1 trillion+ to deficit while giving majority of benefits to corporations & the rich. We need you to make your voices heard again.

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

“all of us ... know of colleagues ... who have a reputation for sexually harassing students and nothing is done ...” https://t.co/JmBH8mVz6Y

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

I need more of this. Today. Everyday. https://t.co/pylEJiTyOB

[Kristen Seas Trader @kstrhet]

Seeing this again in my feed, I'm struck by how weak I feel in this regard. Curious how such a feat is possible let alone sustained. https://t.co/mgChrR657n