@kellysauskojus
she/they. writing and organizing for food justice in Upstate SC. postdoctoral fellow at Clemson doing community-engaged first-year writing / grantwriting. chronic pain/fibro, probably writing or reading in bed.
there are many good reasons to go see sinners but one underrated reason is that the music is really fire??? and my favorite queer Smithsonian folkways label ethnomusicologist PhD student JAKE BLOUNT consulted on the soundtrack
YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.
Just really smart work connecting some of my beginning ideas to their own experiences working on grants and working with partners and dang I'm just so glad I had the gumption to share it with them
Y'all i did a thing I've never done before in class and shared some in-progress grants research with my students and wow wow wow I was blown away by how smart their takes were
I can't get over "he's not coming back" being said on Good Friday.
Student journalists across many university campuses continue to be one of the groups who have handled this moment with the most clarity
I am so hype for this!!!
Info for the Roundtable "Toward a Rhetoric of the Religious Left in the United States" with me (Bethany Mannon, Nabila Hijazi, Joshua Cohen, and Anie Patterson Partin -- 12:15 in room 308!
Info for the Panel "The B-sides of Religious Rhetorics" with TJ Geiger, Jonathan Marine, Bethany Mannon, Kelly Sauskojus, Chris Battle, Joseph Jeyaraj -- 3:15 in rm 316
Come see me talk about religious rhetoric with some brilliant researchers (inc. @kellysauskojus.bsky.social) at #4C25 today!
thanks I will see you!
hello!! I would love to come to your talk! Can you share when / where it's happening, the app is killing me lol...
At least it is Friday, folks!
I'd like to offer space for anyone here who has lost funding this week - be it IMLS, NEH, anything - to share in these replies what you were working on so folks can hear all the great things now at jeopardy. I will be reposting all of them.
Protest sign with black text listing a subset of words that were flagged for further scrutiny by federal agencies (including “bias” “increase diversity” “disability” “racism” “trauma” “victim” and “women”). In large red letters over top, the words “These words kill fascists” is written, an homage to Woody Guthrie.
We will keep fighting and standing up for science.
like, that is HOW I am a writer and have ideas that are worth writing about. trusting this process and also maybe starting to see how some of the little pieces and ideas I've been cooking on are starting to emerge into discrete articles / classes / conference talks / book ideas (!!??!)
and also just like personally encouraging to me where I'm like ?? do I even have ideas ??? but like I'm doing the work to read in my area, take notes and respond to them, scribble little paragraphs and outlines
very reminiscent of some conversations in our English Dept here at Clemson where writing and reading are technologies for having new ideas
Grantwriting as Project Development for Academic Book Writers journals.shareok.org/writersccjou...
"a writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them" -- poet William Stafford quoted in Julie-Françoise Tolliver's really helpful piece on
Mutual aid builds trust.
Trust builds relationships.
Relationships build organizing.
Organizing builds power.
Power is how we ultimately win.
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These folks have never *ever* believed in freedom of speech, or freedom of any kind but the freedom to amass levels of wealth that are cataclysmic to organized society.
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@drbethany.bsky.social one of them is your book!!!! which I've been saving for myself as a special treat ever since I defended but now over spring break I finally get to give her the time she deserves
7. I love queer folk punk and I love @bandcamp.com for making it easier to find queer folk punk bands I've never heard of and this week it's The Incredible Bard of Baldwin County with their new track "Baptists (a hymn for shitheads)"
bardofbaldwincounty.bandcamp.com/album/some-r...
6. So many people have been talking about Parable of the Sower in connection with the LA wildfires (my childhood home) and so I FINALLY read it and whewwwwww please someone call me so we can talk about it for two hours, I am still processing it
5. Using the magic powers of "hell yes I need to write a glowing book review of one of my besties' books" to have TWO free books sent to me this semester, I feel like such a scammer but I'm probably just hiding from my grading and more intimidating writing projects
4. every Monday I make a big pot of beans and that's really nice (this is a dried bean stand account fyi)
3. One of my students is personally reminding me of how much I love a well placed semicolon and I'm so proud and I think?? this is the semester where I want to talk about wording and prose as much as research and content finally
2. as part of my "binge read a book of poetry every Sunday" I also read Nikki Giovanni's My House. I've read a lot of her poetry before because she also spent a lot of time writing about Knoxville but this is by FAR the greatest thing I've read by her, really truthful about love / work / anger
never know what to write about #onhere so I've been keeping a list of good stuff from this past week a la some of my favorite email newsletters, maybe I'll do it regularly??
1. I just finished reading Care Work which is so FABULOUS like obviously it's brilliant but more importantly written so well
Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.