jen, unhinged night owl
@byjennrodriguez.bsky.social
she/her 🏳️🌈 writer & managing editor @ Pitt 👩🏻💻 coffee and comic lover ☕️
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Embarrasingly introducing myself ✨ My name is Jen Rodriguez (she/her), a queer writer and editor.
I’m a managing editor for an academic journal, have an MA in history 🗃️, and used to be a reporter in rural NY/PA. I currently study the Aztec-Mexica, enslavement & gender.
I’m a managing editor for an academic journal, have an MA in history 🗃️, and used to be a reporter in rural NY/PA. I currently study the Aztec-Mexica, enslavement & gender.
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All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
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The second of our yearly lists--this one features thirty-five articles and chapters authored by contingent historians in 2025.
2025 Journal Article List
A companion to our 2025 book list.
contingentmagazine.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The second of our yearly lists--this one features thirty-five articles and chapters authored by contingent historians in 2025.
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this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down
Not Pitt recommending an AI assistant for Education from the same company that just lost a copyright infringement lawsuit
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Not Pitt recommending an AI assistant for Education from the same company that just lost a copyright infringement lawsuit
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Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.
Introducing The Union Bug, a new podcast
The Union Bug is a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering January 2.
www.wordsaboutwork.news
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.
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gentle reminder that just because something you made didn't make a "best of" "year end" list doesn't mean you didn't make anything important in 2025
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
gentle reminder that just because something you made didn't make a "best of" "year end" list doesn't mean you didn't make anything important in 2025
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Things you can learn about using this list: orthonymity, florilegia, theriac, sissie houses, El Tajín, GRECE, the taṣvīr-i hümāyūn, Hospitallers, disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and Medieval Europe, and anti-Klan activists in interwar Missouri.
2025 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Things you can learn about using this list: orthonymity, florilegia, theriac, sissie houses, El Tajín, GRECE, the taṣvīr-i hümāyūn, Hospitallers, disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and Medieval Europe, and anti-Klan activists in interwar Missouri.
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be sure to donate to their alumni funds today though
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
be sure to donate to their alumni funds today though
Dollar General carts are the new deer, and no I will not be taking questions on this
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Dollar General carts are the new deer, and no I will not be taking questions on this
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Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
2025 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
My new prized possession 🥰
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My new prized possession 🥰
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November 30th: December 1st:
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
November 30th: December 1st:
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Totally stocked to get @thetattooedprof.bsky.social's forthcoming Campus Crisis Tool Kit from @sunypress.bsky.social at 50% off!
(& I'm buying Patrick Chura's biography of Michael Gold too, cuz he was a Friend Of some of the leftist Jewish writers my new book project is about).
(& I'm buying Patrick Chura's biography of Michael Gold too, cuz he was a Friend Of some of the leftist Jewish writers my new book project is about).
Celebrate the season and save 50% on a vibrant mix of titles! Use code SHDAYS25 at checkout when you shop at sunypress.edu
#holidaysale #booksale #happyholidays #ReadUP
#holidaysale #booksale #happyholidays #ReadUP
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Totally stocked to get @thetattooedprof.bsky.social's forthcoming Campus Crisis Tool Kit from @sunypress.bsky.social at 50% off!
(& I'm buying Patrick Chura's biography of Michael Gold too, cuz he was a Friend Of some of the leftist Jewish writers my new book project is about).
(& I'm buying Patrick Chura's biography of Michael Gold too, cuz he was a Friend Of some of the leftist Jewish writers my new book project is about).
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Celebrate the season and save 50% on a vibrant mix of titles! Use code SHDAYS25 at checkout when you shop at sunypress.edu
#holidaysale #booksale #happyholidays #ReadUP
#holidaysale #booksale #happyholidays #ReadUP
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Celebrate the season and save 50% on a vibrant mix of titles! Use code SHDAYS25 at checkout when you shop at sunypress.edu
#holidaysale #booksale #happyholidays #ReadUP
#holidaysale #booksale #happyholidays #ReadUP
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My Deweycember reading challenge begins! www.twitch.tv/lostarmiger
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My Deweycember reading challenge begins! www.twitch.tv/lostarmiger
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Here's a whole list of Native folks you SHOULD be following. They are brilliant, funny, smart and full of heart. The epitome of what community should and could be.
go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Here's a whole list of Native folks you SHOULD be following. They are brilliant, funny, smart and full of heart. The epitome of what community should and could be.
go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
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first, make it exist. second, make it make sense. third, make it good. fourth, make it bad again. fifth, make it worse. sixth, there is no sixth. it's perfect. you're done
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
first, make it exist. second, make it make sense. third, make it good. fourth, make it bad again. fifth, make it worse. sixth, there is no sixth. it's perfect. you're done
My neighbors put my empty recycling bin in their trash can...(trashy-styled Matryoshka dolls)....and put it on the curb for pickup tomorrow morning.
I genuinely want to know what goes through their heads when they do these things bc what in the actual fuck
I genuinely want to know what goes through their heads when they do these things bc what in the actual fuck
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
My neighbors put my empty recycling bin in their trash can...(trashy-styled Matryoshka dolls)....and put it on the curb for pickup tomorrow morning.
I genuinely want to know what goes through their heads when they do these things bc what in the actual fuck
I genuinely want to know what goes through their heads when they do these things bc what in the actual fuck
Gonna see if I can make it a tradition for my mom to chase pigs on Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Gonna see if I can make it a tradition for my mom to chase pigs on Thanksgiving
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Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities.
We center these tradi...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
I think it’s time to ban Greek retellings
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I think it’s time to ban Greek retellings
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Been signing off all my emails this week with the turkey emoji (🦃🦃🦃) because I am an *adult*
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Been signing off all my emails this week with the turkey emoji (🦃🦃🦃) because I am an *adult*
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The newest issue of the Journal of Asian Studies features "Emerging Crossroads: The Intersections and Fissures of Black Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies," a special forum section. Read it online: buff.ly/X5puSiG
Buy this issue: buff.ly/FW8xoFz
Buy this issue: buff.ly/FW8xoFz
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The newest issue of the Journal of Asian Studies features "Emerging Crossroads: The Intersections and Fissures of Black Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies," a special forum section. Read it online: buff.ly/X5puSiG
Buy this issue: buff.ly/FW8xoFz
Buy this issue: buff.ly/FW8xoFz