Lauren Shoemaker
@LaurenShoe4Co-owner of Werner Books in Erie, PA | Assistant Professor of English | Caribbean, Resistance, and Women’s Lit @slipperyrocku
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Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Shoemaker (LLCW) who is this year's faculty recipient of the Woman and Allies of Distinction award!
Swap letters of rec for service work. I care to write the letters, but if I need a bunch of bureaucratic jargon generated for something…it’s tempting
The professor moral panic over ChatGPT will subside when they all start using to write letters of rec.
grocery store chains: we set record profits this year retail chains: we've never made so much money energy companies: we just posted our best quarter on record news article: who is to blame for inflation? you peasants wanting wages, probably
man, so many homeless people are about to die from this weather around the country, and it’s a policy choice.
For those of you who haven’t abandoned Twitter yet, here are two of the four kittens (and mama) that we are fostering. They still need help opening their eyes sometimes after a lengthy nap. Enjoy! ❤️
One of my favorite sub-genres of art is Cats Stealing Food in Still Life Paintings. It’s so wonderfully disrespectful. So here is a thread celebrating the need for snacks triumphing over art. First, Still Life with Cat. Alexandre-Francois Desportes, 1705. thegreatcat.org/the-cat-in-art…
Gender studies became the joke discipline of conservatives bc it provides the tools for the clearest indictment of processes they wish would remain obscure. Universities have to undermine it too as it challenges their own practices. Gender is a misnomer; it’s power studies
This is particularly interesting for those of us who teach research and writing. How often are students using TikTok for academic-ish searches?
As an elder millennial who came of age when Google became a verb, I had difficulty grasping that ~40% of Gen Zers use TikTok for search. So I hosted a mini-focus group with Gen Zers to learn more. Here are 3 takeaways:
Tbh both are right answers and relatable to me
As an elder millennial who came of age when Google became a verb, I had difficulty grasping that ~40% of Gen Zers use TikTok for search. So I hosted a mini-focus group with Gen Zers to learn more. Here are 3 takeaways:
If you don’t know a handful of women who’ve had an abortion, you’re not morally righteous or statistically anomalous; you’re just not the kind of person women trust with their secrets.
Do not recommend reading about disappearing bird species in Hawaii because the altitude at which mosquitos can survive keeps rising thanks to climate change
I boycotted conferences this year after being slated last in a panel and given 4 minutes to present last March. Needed a whole ass year to cool down
As an elder millennial who came of age when Google became a verb, I had difficulty grasping that ~40% of Gen Zers use TikTok for search. So I hosted a mini-focus group with Gen Zers to learn more. Here are 3 takeaways:
I have a chapter in here that is for the birds. The real ones.
Drs. @danette_dimarco and @Timruppert555 are co-editors of a soon-to-be released book of scholarly essays titled “Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination.” Look for it in April: buff.ly/3IPBlbS.
I don’t have an 8 am for the first time in…a lot of years. Thankful for a post- 5 am wake-up 😄 jk I’ll be up at 5 because I’ll feel like I’m over-sleeping
Writing my narrative for my first TT review like “haha yes, I’ve taught for 15 years I am junior faculty lol”
Why am I forcing myself to do all this grading when it’s clearly a no bones day??
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