Tekla Hawkins

professional internet surfer, queer, chronically ill. nsfw. they/them. tweets are my own.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

Are you a person who a) has ADHD and b) is presenting at #4c23? @digiwonk and I are making a short film about ADHD and conference papers--filmed, edited, & presented on site--and we want to talk to you! DM one of us if you think this is cool & you can spare 15ish min on Thurs!

[Tekla Hawkins @tekla_h]

Pro tip to improve your beginning of term inbox: I sent out a pre-class announcement and invited everyone to send me their favorite meme or picture of their pet or plants. The 1,000 announcements are now mixed in with pictures of dogs in earphones, do recommend

[Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck]

On Christmas Eve, @GovAbbott decided to make a political statement by dumping three busloads of migrants on the doorstep of the Vice President, never mind that temperatures were well below freezing.

What kind of leader thinks this is the right thing to do? What kind of person?

[Tekla Hawkins @tekla_h]

a. Many of these people were recent kidnapping victims in Mexico
b. It is going to be below freezing in Texas this weekend

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

Over the weekend, U.S. immigration officials processed and released more than 1,700 migrants into El Paso, overwhelming local shelters. Via @elpasomatters: https://t.co/tO7vwy2sHY

[Tekla Hawkins @tekla_h]

🙃

[Eileen Boris @eileen_boris]

The California academic strike is the most important in US higher education history https://t.co/cJLo2Cvulp

[Adam Serwer 🍝 @AdamSerwer]

If Twitter goes down not being able to tweet about it is gonna be the hardest part

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: University of California grad student workers have launched the largest academic strike in U.S. history.

Workers tell us they can’t afford to eat, pay rent, or have kids.

The university has an endowment worth nearly $30 billion.

[Tekla Hawkins @tekla_h]

I just got out of a class analyzing coverage of the Pulse shooting to learn about the shooting at UVA.

[Matt Dowell @dowellml]

Yesterday in a convo w/other teachers, I said students* are being disabled at a rate none of us have ever experienced, and that hit me really hard. We are working w/ students being made disabled & there’s just no recognition of that by higher ed institutions.

*teachers too

[steven monacelli @stevanzetti]

“The left is going to have to accept that when people ‘kill babies’ in Texas, we hang them from a tree” — failed Republican candidate Jeff Younger.

Some deeply, deeply unsettling rhetoric is being cultivated at TPUSA chapters in north Texas.

[Charis Hill | they/them | 🇵🇸 😷 @BeingCharisBlog]

Masks are a DEI issue

[molly conger @socialistdogmom]

if we collectively ruin the richest man on earth with nothing but the power of shitposting, it will all have been worth it. we will finally have a definitive answer to the question “is posting praxis?” and it will be a resounding yes, echoing over the burning rubble.

[Meghan O'Rourke meghanor.bsky.social @meghanor]

That is, these kinds of pieces tend to depict patients' anger as evidence of their *irrationality,* rather than, say, logical frustration at bad medical science (FYI, the same thing is all over 1980s #AIDS journalism) :

[Sarah Fischer @_sarah_fischer_]

List of journals in rhet/comp that I wish someone gave me on the first day of my grad program! #teamrhetoric

https://t.co/QNcG3Ud3yE