Melissa Forbes

PhD candidate | writing studies | U of Illinois | I tweet about my cats mostly

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

@digiwonk I just paid for mine at the airport kiosk.

[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!

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

At the liquor store:
Pre-Covid: Don’t worry, I’m not drinking all this alone—I’m just having a party!
Post-Covid: Don’t worry, I’m not having a party—I’m just drinking all this alone!

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

@cjp_still Exactly this--I try to only assign things I'll be genuinely excited to read. Also, a bonus of heavily emphasizing exigence is that every paper makes a case for why I should care.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

@marlowjm @NCTE_CCCC This also happened to me! But this morning when I finally got a moment to go back and try to puzzle it out, the rejection email had disappeared. Curious.

[Jonathan Slavin (he, him, they, them) @slavin_jonathan]

Hard not to remember that a violin vigil for Elijah McClain got tear gassed.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

thinspiration is flagged as a misspelling, but fatspiration autocorrects to fitspiration.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

My Microsoft Word accepts "fitspiration" as a correct spelling and I do not like it.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

@jhfrith Shocked at the omission of this early but pivotal role https://t.co/XDtInPFq8Z

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

It is December 27 and @AlaskaAir is pumping “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime” while we board. I would like to be compensated for my inconvenience and suffering.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

Hey, grad students who might turn your diss into articles: make Future You happy by keeping those chapters short.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

Dreamed I ran into my grade school PE teacher.

Me: Mr. B! You used to teach me like 25 years ago!
Him: So sorry, but I don't remember you.
Me: That's okay; I was terrible at everything.
Him: Oh that's right...

My body can't do a layup, but my brain can sure dunk on myself.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

I take back my last tweet about hoping for a ghost in the building. There was just a fearsome clank in the next office over and now I have the adrenaline sweats.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

It's a Friday night and I've been on campus for hours writing and practicing new karaoke songs during my breaks but just now there was an UNEXPECTED THUMP at the other end of the supposedly empty hall. Please please just be a ghost who just really likes Lizzo.

[Tayari Jones @tayari]

I can't stop thinking about the woman at my book signing who told me that she reads 30 books a year but had never read a book by a black author. She smiled when she said it.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

Writing about a shitty article Hugo Schwyzer wrote for Jezebel in 2011 and accidentally gave it Spongebob-style caps. But seriously, "ThE ReAl rEaSoN YoU ShOuLdN't fUcK yOuR PrOfEsSoR" really captures the compelling elegance of his argument, which is "b/c you'd be disappointed."

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

@AnnaHolmes Decade-old question from a stranger out of nowhere, but: out of curiosity, who came up with the name for Groupthink? Was that you, or Denton, or a mysterious GMG cabal?

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

Fourteen months old and my cat knows all the keyboard shortcuts for umlauts and accents but I still have to look them up every time.

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

@asmendenhall @citeblackwomen YESSSS. This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for!

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

Today's discussion has me thinking: I'd like to consciously amplify the voices of scholars of color in my research and teaching, but obvs not all POC explicitly identify as such in their work. Is there an existing resource to help with this?
#wpalistservfeministrevolution

[Melissa Forbes @theresheprose]

@LitaStarr So smart!