“It appears that hijinks are the most logical course of action.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 1x05, “Spock Amok” 🖖🏻📺💬

“You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I see or hear is colored by what I imagine you will say of it. What is amusing is twice so, if you have laughed at it.” Emma Bull, War for the Oaks 📚💬

“…embodied writing is not in opposition to political writing. In fact, it is the kind of political writing that I am most interested in reading.” Melissa Febos, Body Work 💬

“As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.” “The enemy doesn’t care about my feelings, Captain, so I don’t waste my time having any.”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Memento Mori” 🖖🏻💬

“…is that not what a Scholar does? Question the world, examine it from every angle, and marvel at the wonder of it all?”

• Natasha Inwood, “The Road to Fjallmark,” Wyngraf Volume 1 💬📚

💬📚 “A storm can be a cozy thing when one isn’t in it.” - Kristin Cashore in Jane, Unlimited

💬📺🖖🏻 “Exhilaration enhances the absorption of knowledge.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer” [Cool how this sums up my whole deal.]

💬📺🖖🏻 “The part of me that really wants is the part that has to wait in line.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer”

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The life of the mind tends to ignore the body, but our bodies aren’t so easily avoided. - Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia, reflecting on bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

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Explaining away the plight of adjuncts as brainwashed dupes ignores the structural realities of the disastrous academic job market. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia