Eira Tansey @TeamMidwest@glammr.us

on the bright side, maybe this means we can destroy the center-liberal idea that anything a woman does can't be criticized because of choose your choice feminism.

can't wait to be gaslit by Republicans putting up a right-wing woman for RBG's seat and then crying "Look who are the REAL sexists now" this is going to trigger memories of bad ex-boyfriends who tried to lecture me on feminism, hurray!

Also: at some point humanities/social sciences faculty are going to have to deal with the fact that many (not all! there are notable and beautiful exceptions!) faculty from other disciplines Do Not Get It when it comes to the flows of power. The College of Business prof quote about "well things are good in my college!" is almost beyond parody

Re: the UMich failed no-confidence vote: "Silke-Maria Weineck, a professor of German studies and comparative literature, said before the meeting, "There is so much going on it’s hard to keep track. It’s like the Trump presidency."" wow can I identify first-hand with this quote based on my own place of work https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/09/16/univesity-michigan-faculty-no-confidence-resolution-schlissel/5817477002/

@amelish relevant to your "having conversations industrial complex" post

I have a half written blog post about the coopting of listening by management, and this is such a good example of this kind of nonsense in action. It tells you that management thinks listening is actually a form of ceding power, instead of actually ceding any kind of decision-making authority https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2020/09/15/university-michigan-mark-schlissel/5806538002/

highway to hell inbox edition

It's so clear to me that my university is engaged in slow-motion efforts to break the unions, from privatizing housekeeping staff (AFSCME) to reclassifying SEIU positions out of their bargaining unit to increased precarity for faculty (AAUP). I'm glad I have tenure & a union and as chair of my library's faculty I'm doing what I currently can to push back on this but envisioning a future at an institution so wedded to perfecting the art of corporatization is demoralizing

i'm only just now encountering the book Disciplined Minds and wondering why this was not on my radar of " influential books I need to get around to reading one day." It seems like it has a lot of Barbara Ehrenreich vibes from what I've read about it. Is there a reason why it doesn't seem more widely known?

also: 2 weeks of vacation! imagine! I sure cannot!

Motion to sanction white "leaders" who talk about their lake house boating adventures and their anti-racism reading on vacation. This is from the director of the regional clinical research alliance.

i am literally one grapevine unit of measurement away from writing an open letter on my blog to older white women in the profession who don't realize what an opportunity for mentorship they are missing when they enact hostile gatekeeping as an attempt to leave a legacy. I saw this so much with the SAA election and I am seeing it repeated again in my own organization right now.

This burnout CFP looks fascinating and I am very tempted to submit something to it https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cfpburnoutbook/

Has anyone from all of our new found interest in the 1918 pandemic encountered any lasting cultural changes that lingered for at least a few years after the worst of it was over? I feel like the big difference between then and now is a lot of cultural things will permanently change this time.

I do so much talking to older white liberals/second wave feminists who are SO DEFENSIVE every time you point out "hey we need to talk about this thing you did" and these conversations never get easier or less exhausting aaahhhhhh

(having one of those existential days)

Sometimes it's fun to go back and think about how all these archivists in the late 1980s predicted we'd deal with electronic records issues by embedding archivists/RM into the beginning of the records creation lifecycle and wow that sure worked out well and successfully didn't it

Motion to ban people from wishing Happy Hannukah if they schedule anything during Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur

if we're watching the collapse of the postal service and schools before our eyes, y'all know libraries aren't far behind right