Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her)
@bethgodbee.bsky.social
✨Feminist educator, writer, and coach.
✨Former writing studies professor.
✨Committed to social and racial justice.
✨Rooting in Southern Appalachia.
✨Connect for writing groups, retreats, coaching, & more via Heart-Head-Hands: Everyday Living for Justice.
✨Former writing studies professor.
✨Committed to social and racial justice.
✨Rooting in Southern Appalachia.
✨Connect for writing groups, retreats, coaching, & more via Heart-Head-Hands: Everyday Living for Justice.
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for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…
June 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…
“Intervening into Burnout: An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.” →
youtu.be/w26WpyJH4kA?...
This is the last (for now) in the career discernment playlist, sharing in audio form articles previously published in Inside Higher Ed. This one appeared on July 7, 2023. I argue: +
youtu.be/w26WpyJH4kA?...
This is the last (for now) in the career discernment playlist, sharing in audio form articles previously published in Inside Higher Ed. This one appeared on July 7, 2023. I argue: +
Intervening into Burnout: An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. | Heart-Head-Hands
youtu.be
June 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Intervening into Burnout: An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.” →
youtu.be/w26WpyJH4kA?...
This is the last (for now) in the career discernment playlist, sharing in audio form articles previously published in Inside Higher Ed. This one appeared on July 7, 2023. I argue: +
youtu.be/w26WpyJH4kA?...
This is the last (for now) in the career discernment playlist, sharing in audio form articles previously published in Inside Higher Ed. This one appeared on July 7, 2023. I argue: +
We’re just a week away from the summer writing group!
If you’ve been curious about or wanting to join a #writinggroup, maybe now is the time?
There are still spaces to join us on Fridays 10am-1pm ET:
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If you’ve been curious about or wanting to join a #writinggroup, maybe now is the time?
There are still spaces to join us on Fridays 10am-1pm ET:
heart-head-hands.com/product/onli...
Writing Group: Meets Weekly Online | Heart - Head - Hands
If you’re seeking accountability and support for your writing, consider joining this online weekly writing group.
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May 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We’re just a week away from the summer writing group!
If you’ve been curious about or wanting to join a #writinggroup, maybe now is the time?
There are still spaces to join us on Fridays 10am-1pm ET:
heart-head-hands.com/product/onli...
If you’ve been curious about or wanting to join a #writinggroup, maybe now is the time?
There are still spaces to join us on Fridays 10am-1pm ET:
heart-head-hands.com/product/onli...
I've been writing and sharing poetry more since Helene, because sometimes all I feel are the same lines welling up again and again. Here’s one of those poems. And so much gratitude for each of you writing and finding ways forward in (m)any shapes and ways. <3
May 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I've been writing and sharing poetry more since Helene, because sometimes all I feel are the same lines welling up again and again. Here’s one of those poems. And so much gratitude for each of you writing and finding ways forward in (m)any shapes and ways. <3
To this day, I wish we'd use the language of "burn up" instead of "burn out," since burnout is really about the oppressive systems burning us up. But, alas, here is a new read-aloud of my article from 2022 about how burnout/-up is a collective experience and needs collective intervention as well. +
May 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
To this day, I wish we'd use the language of "burn up" instead of "burn out," since burnout is really about the oppressive systems burning us up. But, alas, here is a new read-aloud of my article from 2022 about how burnout/-up is a collective experience and needs collective intervention as well. +
May always feels like a time for recommitting -- recommitting to creative work, to writing projects (especially those set aside), and to ourselves and the people we write with and for. There's an invitation to start again as spring is in full bloom and the promise of summer awaits. +
May 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
May always feels like a time for recommitting -- recommitting to creative work, to writing projects (especially those set aside), and to ourselves and the people we write with and for. There's an invitation to start again as spring is in full bloom and the promise of summer awaits. +
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Israel is starving and bombing Palestinians to wipe Gaza off the map.
Now more than ever, Americans must speak out against Israel’s genocide.
Call your lawmakers. Demand an arms embargo. Don’t stay silent.
Now more than ever, Americans must speak out against Israel’s genocide.
Call your lawmakers. Demand an arms embargo. Don’t stay silent.
Americans have tuned out Gaza at the worst possible moment
Israel has a horrifying new plan for “the concluding moves” of the Gaza war. Yet it’s flying under the American radar.
ow.ly
May 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Israel is starving and bombing Palestinians to wipe Gaza off the map.
Now more than ever, Americans must speak out against Israel’s genocide.
Call your lawmakers. Demand an arms embargo. Don’t stay silent.
Now more than ever, Americans must speak out against Israel’s genocide.
Call your lawmakers. Demand an arms embargo. Don’t stay silent.
For May Day and International Workers Day, I want to share the career discernment article "What I Learned as I Was Leaving."
Here's a new read-aloud of this article previously published in Inside Higher Ed: youtu.be/rWoDKJa3-qs?...
Here's a new read-aloud of this article previously published in Inside Higher Ed: youtu.be/rWoDKJa3-qs?...
What I Learned as I Was Leaving: An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. | Heart-Head-Hands
youtu.be
May 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For May Day and International Workers Day, I want to share the career discernment article "What I Learned as I Was Leaving."
Here's a new read-aloud of this article previously published in Inside Higher Ed: youtu.be/rWoDKJa3-qs?...
Here's a new read-aloud of this article previously published in Inside Higher Ed: youtu.be/rWoDKJa3-qs?...
I'm so grateful for Alice Ragland writing and sharing "Not All Opinions Deserve a Microphone in the Classroom": www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/arti...
Not All Opinions Deserve a Microphone in the Classroom
We should be teaching students how to evaluate evidence, not how to politely entertain lies.
www.diverseeducation.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I'm so grateful for Alice Ragland writing and sharing "Not All Opinions Deserve a Microphone in the Classroom": www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/arti...
I'm emotional as writing groups are ending this week, surely because these past few months have been such a brutalizing time and because the people and community co-created have meant the world to me. +
April 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm emotional as writing groups are ending this week, surely because these past few months have been such a brutalizing time and because the people and community co-created have meant the world to me. +
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Not even the dead are safe in Gaza.
Palestinians fear Israel has bulldozed Gaza’s largest cemetery—erasing generations, even in death. Graves destroyed. Bones scattered.
This is not war. It’s genocide.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
Palestinians fear Israel has bulldozed Gaza’s largest cemetery—erasing generations, even in death. Graves destroyed. Bones scattered.
This is not war. It’s genocide.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
Palestinians fear Gaza’s largest cemetery has been destroyed. Not even our dead can have peace.
Al-Sharqiya Cemetery, near Gaza City, is the largest cemetery in Gaza. It has been inaccessible since the genocide began and many fear it has been bulldozed and destroyed, along with the remains of…
mondoweiss.net
April 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Not even the dead are safe in Gaza.
Palestinians fear Israel has bulldozed Gaza’s largest cemetery—erasing generations, even in death. Graves destroyed. Bones scattered.
This is not war. It’s genocide.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
Palestinians fear Israel has bulldozed Gaza’s largest cemetery—erasing generations, even in death. Graves destroyed. Bones scattered.
This is not war. It’s genocide.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
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While taking in this administration’s actions, as anyone who has ever been bullied knows all too well, just because they are using intimidation tactics, threatening, being abusive, harmful, or exerting oppression, this does not at all mean that they have prevailed.
It just means they are bullies.
It just means they are bullies.
April 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
While taking in this administration’s actions, as anyone who has ever been bullied knows all too well, just because they are using intimidation tactics, threatening, being abusive, harmful, or exerting oppression, this does not at all mean that they have prevailed.
It just means they are bullies.
It just means they are bullies.
I am repeating to myself often "give it to the water" and imagining that I can pour out and offer up what I can't carry alone. Here's a view of Beaver Lake on a recent evening walk. I am so grateful to live here, near water and surrounded by mountains. Sending love on this spring weekend. <3
April 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I am repeating to myself often "give it to the water" and imagining that I can pour out and offer up what I can't carry alone. Here's a view of Beaver Lake on a recent evening walk. I am so grateful to live here, near water and surrounded by mountains. Sending love on this spring weekend. <3
This new read-aloud shares the article “Planning to Leave?" which was published in Inside Higher Ed (IHE) back in 2018: youtu.be/h2AzR8xsq6g?...
Planning to Leave? An Article on Career Discernment by Beth Godbee, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. | Heart-Head-Hands
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This new read-aloud shares the article “Planning to Leave?" which was published in Inside Higher Ed (IHE) back in 2018: youtu.be/h2AzR8xsq6g?...
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The U.S. pays 17,900,000,000 in federal tax dollars for the Israeli military’s weapons, but could instead fund:
April 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The U.S. pays 17,900,000,000 in federal tax dollars for the Israeli military’s weapons, but could instead fund:
Reposted by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her)
Across higher ed, “I have never seen a climate of fear like this in my life" Todd Wolfson & @chenjerai.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social tell me. "But I’m seeing something else too... that fear is turning into anger & that anger is turning into action"
Listen to our vital conversation @therealnews.com
Listen to our vital conversation @therealnews.com
![Screenshot of TRNN article/podcast:
‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universities
by Maximillian Alvarez
April 11, 2025
“I have never seen a climate of fear like this in my life anywhere. We’re getting hundreds of emails every single day from faculty, staff, and students [saying], ‘I need a safe place to stay.’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:whkwshl6hbdotj7h4xqsxuid/bafkreifoxptodbiuu72plst3sgd7mtkfbefbbuou7jd43wgq4eajvuathm@jpeg)
April 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Across higher ed, “I have never seen a climate of fear like this in my life" Todd Wolfson & @chenjerai.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social tell me. "But I’m seeing something else too... that fear is turning into anger & that anger is turning into action"
Listen to our vital conversation @therealnews.com
Listen to our vital conversation @therealnews.com
This new blog blog post shares part of today's newsletter with reflections on befriending fear and cultivating courage: heart-head-hands.com/befriending-...
Befriending Fear and Cultivating Courage | Heart - Head - Hands
These reflections on courage dive into how fear can be teaching and motivating instead of entirely activating or destabilizing.
heart-head-hands.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This new blog blog post shares part of today's newsletter with reflections on befriending fear and cultivating courage: heart-head-hands.com/befriending-...
Reposted by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her)
Watch the full conversation between @blackquantum.bsky.social & Fred Moten, talking about Dismantling the Master's Clock here www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdR-....
Thanks to the legendary @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for this meeting of minds!
Purchase your copy at www.akpress.org/dismantling-...
5/5
Thanks to the legendary @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for this meeting of minds!
Purchase your copy at www.akpress.org/dismantling-...
5/5
CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Rasheedah Phillips with Fred Moten
AK Press and City Lights celebrate the publication of Dismantling the Master’s Clock On Race, Space, and Time By Rasheedah Phillips Published by AK Press Pur...
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April 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Watch the full conversation between @blackquantum.bsky.social & Fred Moten, talking about Dismantling the Master's Clock here www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdR-....
Thanks to the legendary @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for this meeting of minds!
Purchase your copy at www.akpress.org/dismantling-...
5/5
Thanks to the legendary @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for this meeting of minds!
Purchase your copy at www.akpress.org/dismantling-...
5/5
Reposted by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her)
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
www.npr.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
Reposted by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her)
My weekly curated list of must-reads and some final thoughts for the week. "I believe we can do better. I see better every day in the decency of people who choose to act, defy authority, and care for each other. I know we can amplify that spirit and create more safety and justice in this world."
Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on the Consequences of Trying
I believe in our potential and creativity, even in the face of the mess this country has made.
organizingmythoughts.org
March 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My weekly curated list of must-reads and some final thoughts for the week. "I believe we can do better. I see better every day in the decency of people who choose to act, defy authority, and care for each other. I know we can amplify that spirit and create more safety and justice in this world."
Reposted by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (she/her)
ICE has already moved Rumeysa Ozturk to Louisiana in violation of a court order signed last night ordering her not to be removed from Massachusetts.
This is rendition to avoid legal process and to torture detainees in Louisiana.
apnews.com/article/tuft...
This is rendition to avoid legal process and to torture detainees in Louisiana.
apnews.com/article/tuft...
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
A lawyer for a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation.
apnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
ICE has already moved Rumeysa Ozturk to Louisiana in violation of a court order signed last night ordering her not to be removed from Massachusetts.
This is rendition to avoid legal process and to torture detainees in Louisiana.
apnews.com/article/tuft...
This is rendition to avoid legal process and to torture detainees in Louisiana.
apnews.com/article/tuft...
With gratitude, I share a new article: “‘Because We’re Going to Mess Up’: Practices for Accountability—Not a Piecemeal Approach” co-authored with Rasha Diab and published in CCC.
Here's a post sharing more about the article, including how to get a copy: heart-head-hands.com/new-article-...
Here's a post sharing more about the article, including how to get a copy: heart-head-hands.com/new-article-...
New Article: “Because We’re Going to Mess Up”: Practices for Accountability—Not a Piecemeal Approach | Heart - Head - Hands
This post shares a new article: “‘Because We’re Going to Mess Up’: Practices for Accountability—Not a Piecemeal Approach” (with Rasha Diab).
heart-head-hands.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
With gratitude, I share a new article: “‘Because We’re Going to Mess Up’: Practices for Accountability—Not a Piecemeal Approach” co-authored with Rasha Diab and published in CCC.
Here's a post sharing more about the article, including how to get a copy: heart-head-hands.com/new-article-...
Here's a post sharing more about the article, including how to get a copy: heart-head-hands.com/new-article-...
It's the spring equinox, and I want to send blessings on this day of new beginnings. But I've also been struggling. Collectively, there's so much violence & so much heartbreaking. I'm full of rage and certainly cursing a lot. Personally, I'm trying to say hard things & to stay with hard emotions. +
March 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
It's the spring equinox, and I want to send blessings on this day of new beginnings. But I've also been struggling. Collectively, there's so much violence & so much heartbreaking. I'm full of rage and certainly cursing a lot. Personally, I'm trying to say hard things & to stay with hard emotions. +