Katina Rogers

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Working to make higher education more equitable & joyful. Author of PUTTING THE HUMANITIES PHD TO WORK (2020) & PRESENCE OF ABSENCE (2024). Obsessed with fungi. She/her.

Member of there NYC District 15 Community Education Council // opinions my own

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A perfect illustration of the difference between justification and motivation. Saving money was how they justified the policy--how they persuaded voters to let them make this change. The real motivation was arguably to erode public institutions and bolster private ones. A much less palatable aim.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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the clearest accounting of what Kathy Hochul took from us when she canceled congestion pricing

See How Your Subway Service May Suffer Without Congestion Pricingwww.nytimes.com Extensive cuts totaling $16.5 billion have suspended crucial repairs and upgrades to New York City’s vast transit network.

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It's not illegal in any state to travel for an abortion, that's a good one too. Lots of people assume it is. You don't have to say you were "camping."

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I have a lot about abortion, too: Current state laws don't explicitly criminalize self-managing an abortion. A medication abortion is not physically easier than a procedure. You can ovulate almost immediately after an abortion. Bleeding for 0-6 weeks after a medication abortion is totally normal.

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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This was really fun and, hopefully, informative. Thank you to everyone who participated! Get the full resource here and share with your friends - www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bjcpr...

Join us on Wed, July 10 from 1-3pm for a workshop led by ACH member @heatherfro.bsky.social on navigating the academic job market. It will cover the hidden curriculum behind applying for academic jobs & what to know ahead of going on the market. Register here: members.ach.org/civicrm/even...

Navigating the Academic Job Market, featuring Heather Heather Froehlich – ACH Membershipmembers.ach.org

www.dropbox.com

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Just dropped: Forthcoming remarks from VP Kamala Harris on Project 2025 and Trump in Vegas

Tomorrow!! Free, all welcome—please join us!

Navigating the Academic Job Market, featuring Heather Heather Froehlich – ACH Membershipmembers.ach.org

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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

anyone need a timeline cleanse?

(the alt-text says it best, but suffice it to say that Alaska is the very best place)

Self-promotion incoming! This client testimonial means so much to me because it speaks to my approach as well as the results—process, not just product. Thank you, Ashley Cheyemi McNeil, for letting me be a small part of the inspiring work you do at Full Spectrum Features.

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my partner is watching and I inadvertently saw like ten minutes of it and am so depressed

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After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays. gothamist.com/news/nyc-lib...

NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundaysgothamist.com In November, the mayor's budget cuts forced libraries to close on Sundays. The issue has been a thorn in his side ever since.

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KEEP YELLING AT HIM IT WORKS

Libraries and Arts Programs Spared From Cuts in N.Y.C. Budget Dealwww.nytimes.com The City Council successfully pushed to reverse budget cuts that Mayor Eric Adams had proposed to libraries, cultural institutions and composting.

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Now do breastfeeding. (With my kids, I was eating peanut butter by the jar-full just to get enough calories). "In humans, the energetic cost of pregnancy is about 50,000 dietary calories — far higher than previously believed, a new study found." www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/s...

Scientists Calculated the Energy Needed to Carry a Baby. Shocker: It’s a Lot.www.nytimes.com In humans, the energetic cost of pregnancy is about 50,000 dietary calories — far higher than previously believed, a new study found.

Listen, we know the academic job market is absurd and painful. But higher ed needs good people, so we want to help folks navigate the process. Hope you can join us! @heatherfro.bsky.social is great, this workshop/discussion will be fantastic.

Navigating the Academic Job Market, featuring Heather Heather Froehlich – ACH Membershipmembers.ach.org

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Navigating the Academic Job Market, featuring Heather Heather Froehlich – ACH Membershipmembers.ach.org

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy

So proud to be joining the D15 CEC this year. You all laid an amazing foundation five years ago. The whole city should follow suit IMO

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📚BOOK RELEASE!! 📚 It's here!! THRILLED to share my latest book, *Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing*. Because punctum is amazing, the ebook is FREE. This little book has been SO many years in the making. I'm so moved to see it published punctumbooks.com/titles/the-p...

The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing – punctum bookspunctumbooks.com

Table of contents for those who are interested!

No wonder everything feels extremely busy, good grief

Join us June 25 to celebrate the launch of this edited volume on the radical possibilities of centering students in community college and graduate education. Edited by Sujung Kim, Kaysi Holman, and Leigh Garrison-Fletcher. My chapter is on activist administration www.eventcreate.com/e/june25book...

Book Launch: Humanizing Collectivist Critical Pedagogy! | June 25, 2024www.eventcreate.com Join us for this first launch event of a book filled with concrete examples of teaching that creates learning spaces with students, values their mutual agency, and invites everyone to play a leading r...

I went to the this evaluation discussion—it was really astonishing to hear all the good news, not just in terms of integration but also academic outcomes and student/familiy stress levels. EVERY district should follow suit. Proud to be on this district's Community Education Council 💛

Actual good news! "Middle schools in a section of northwest Brooklyn that stretches from Sunset Park to Cobble Hill went from being the second most socioeconomically segregated to 19th out of the city’s 32 local districts. Teachers and students say friendships are emerging across income lines."

What Happened When Brooklyn Tried to Integrate Its Middle Schoolswww.nytimes.com A new report found that many schools enrolled more racially and socioeconomically diverse groups of students without sparking a major exodus of families from public schools.

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Congratulations to Katina on the release of this astonishing book — freely available online via punctum (or in an affordable paperback). For anyone interested in the said and unsaid in writing, check it out!

The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing – punctum bookspunctumbooks.com

thank you so much, Matthew!!

If anyone would be interested in reviewing this, or otherwise engaging in some kind of discussion around it, definitely let me know 💛

The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing – punctum bookspunctumbooks.com

lolol #1 new release in comparative literature 😂Can't imagine it's a very crowded field, but I feel a little bit vindicated nonetheless. (I thought I left comp lit behind the day I finished my phd in 2010... pretty sure my advisor wrote me off at that point, too) www.amazon.com/Presence-Abs...

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Maura Smale 😷💉

thank you!!! some of this goes all the way back to my dissertation—writing I never thought I would engage with again. I'm so happy it found a home!