Cari Hovanec
@carihovanec.bsky.social
professing English, posting caterpillars, Tampa I guess
oh my God. their hands tied. every day a new unthinkable horror.
Some very disturbing evidence of mass graves emerging in Gaza. news.un.org/en/story/202...
Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office
Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war c...
news.un.orgfully seriously agree. read receipts need to mind their own business.
"You Can't Go Home Again," the first of a series of X-Files Retro Reviews, is up now on the Studies in the Fantastic blog! here's Yuly Restrepo Garcés on the most disturbing X-File of them all. more to come in the next few weeks!
You Can’t Go Home Again - University of Tampa Press
By Yuly Restrepo Garcés “Home,” the second episode of season four of The X-Files, and one of its most controversial, makes its intentions known from its first sequence: a disturbing home birth during ...
utampapress.orgif you had asked me one year ago, "how racist against Arabs are our institutions?" I would have probably said, "somewhat racist," but I truly had no idea. now it simply could not be more clear.
it's not exactly a critique of social media specifically, but Jonathan Crary's Scorched Earth is a leftwing polemic against the internet, and I think he makes a lot of compelling points in it.
my best guess is they have heard the word but could not confidently define it
don't worry, I got another, more anthropocenic freudian analogy for you when my book comes out next year
I did a thing this week and I took some shit for it and I'm proud.
important flower updates + adorable student drawing of benjamin franklin
my little dog has once again broken into the compost pile and her paws are filthy
I am sorry. and yeah, it's really bad. I used to bike commute and I would like to do it again, but it just isn't safe here.
my bus was 45 minutes late and I think the driver is going to get out and murder a maple leaf fan if the situation doesn't improve
the transit in tampa is literally so bad that I could walk the 6 miles home faster than taking the bus, but unfortunately it's 88 degrees right now
same. I'm a believer in meeting students where they are, but it feels lately like I thought we were gonna meet in front of the library and they thought we were gonna meet on the moon. I'm not mad at them, I just genuinely don't know where to start anymore.
the degree to which highly paid, extremely secure higher ed administrators are absolutely terrified of 20-year-olds saying that they don't think Palestinians should all die... I'd be surprised if I were still capable of that emotion.
also my car has been at the mechanic for 2 weeks and my 20-minute commute now takes 1-1.5 hours via bus and I tried to be peppy about it for a while but, and I'm sorry, it sucks
honestly one thing the zoomers are right about is the water bottles. accidentally left mine at home today and now so tired and dehydrated I want to die
planted some new stuff this weekend, my garden's gonna be poppin this summer
even chatgpt may be forced to concede that party going is not about the resilience of the human spirit
jonathan haidt is not really worth engaging with imo but it seems pretty obviously true that unstructured outdoor play is good for kids & lots of screen time is not. it actually is a p. big indictment of our society that everything in it is structured to encourage the latter & discourage the former.
it's so gross and bad and it pains me that anyone thinks this is what good analysis looks like
lower decks is one of the best things on TV these days and deserves more appreciation
UF is where I learned to love literary criticism 20 years ago, and I'm devastated and infuriated by the republican strip mining of it.
the humanities "feel like roadkill, or waterkill: like the manatees, overwintering on supermarket lettuce because the seagrass has been killed off by algal blooms gorged on nitrates, huddling in the warm waste water of the Crystal River power plant, to be scabbed and traumatised by passing airboats"
Michael Hofmann | In Florida
We are a small part of a shrinking thing, tail to a dwindling dog, or that thing that, in Yeats, is fastened to the...
www.lrb.co.ukwow, you have seen it with some stars! our students put it on in the fall and it was the first time I'd seen it (it seemed very different from the film), and they absolutely killed it. I think I'm a fan.
story here: vanderbilthustler.com/2024/04/06/t...
Three students expelled following Student Accountability hearings, faculty criticize university response
Outcomes of the preliminary hearings for the 27 suspended students include three expulsions, one suspension and over 20 disciplinary probations, according to the Vanderbilt Divest Coalition.
vanderbilthustler.comif I remember right, Vanderbilt also expelled James Lawson in 1960 for taking part in civil rights sit-ins, so it's interesting to see their commitment to being on the wrong side of history hasn't changed in the past 64 years.
I started the week by messing up a 9am meeting time and no-showing and now I hate myself, AMA
I once had to pay nearly $1000 to reprint a few lines from some 60-year-old poems, but tech companies can just do whatever.
Is anyone going to do anything? Ever? What's it going to take? You can't put out a song with an uncleared sample without putting yourself in legal jeopardy; meanwhile these people are openly stealing all of human creation and bragging about it! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/t...
personally I kinda like seeing all the good 90s albums on my timeline and being like, "oh yeah, I forgot about that one!" not interested in adjudicating what a "perfect album" is.
I think I was at that; if it's the one I'm thinking of, I walked out.
the Chicago citation overlords saw my skeet and found it very compelling
sorry to the haters but I've been refusing to do city of publication for years
I will *never* include city of publication in my citations. it's stupid and I won't be a part of it.
much like universities really love unions but they're just not right for us here at this time, they also love free speech but free speech on gaza just isn't right for us here at this time
starting a semester in april is honestly sick and perverse and you may be entitled to compensation
I want to hear how this goes! I have considered teaching it and have always shied away because Lawrence seems so alien to my students' frame of reference, but I still wanna...
oh no, I forgot the number one rule of academia, "if you are a team player and contribute a little effort to something, everyone else will decide you are in charge and leave all the work to you."
see, this is why I could never br a dean. for me, annoying the overachieving nerds who regard themselves as "stars" would be half the fun of expanding recognition.
The deans were aghast. They were very concerned about their "stars" and how the expansion of recognitions would undermine their sense of being appreciated.
They had no tolerance for paying people more simply for satisfactory labor over a time period. For them, merit = exemplary performance.