Catherine
@caevans.bsky.social
Queer Print Histories & Activist Cultures • PhD Candidate in Literary & Cultural Studies @CarnegieMellon • (she/her) • views my own, duh 💅
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Catherine
@caevans.bsky.social
· Jul 14
T’was the night before D*n*ld Tr*mps visit to Carnegie Mellon, and I’m here to remind you CMU students have always been anti-fascist. Some of my personal favorite CMU responses to fascism on campus through the eyes of student journalists. 1/7
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Again, it is worth keeping in mind when comparing the rate of discoveries that public funding for medicine and the sciences is orders of magnitude larger than for the humanities. We work slow in part because we work on a shoestring.
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Again, it is worth keeping in mind when comparing the rate of discoveries that public funding for medicine and the sciences is orders of magnitude larger than for the humanities. We work slow in part because we work on a shoestring.
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🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
Oh hey. I curated this show all about feminist tshirts at Chatham University. Please come through! Opening reception (Oct 15) will feature a talk by Dawson which will also be live-streamed. Register for the opening here: chatham.edu/events/detai...
Design by the very talented Megan Urban
Design by the very talented Megan Urban
October 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Oh hey. I curated this show all about feminist tshirts at Chatham University. Please come through! Opening reception (Oct 15) will feature a talk by Dawson which will also be live-streamed. Register for the opening here: chatham.edu/events/detai...
Design by the very talented Megan Urban
Design by the very talented Megan Urban
Everytime I travel for work, this exact image of Zuko greeting me after a trip pops into my head and I suddenly feel immense guilt. Shout out to @rachaelvm454.bsky.social for giving him all the pets while I’m gone. 🫶
August 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Everytime I travel for work, this exact image of Zuko greeting me after a trip pops into my head and I suddenly feel immense guilt. Shout out to @rachaelvm454.bsky.social for giving him all the pets while I’m gone. 🫶
“Scab Terminator” mutt circa 1980s picket line from @kippdawson.bsky.social’s Solidarity Scrapbooks.
August 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Scab Terminator” mutt circa 1980s picket line from @kippdawson.bsky.social’s Solidarity Scrapbooks.
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Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.
July 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.
1967. “The Medium is the Message.”
Carnegie Mellon’s Fence
Carnegie Mellon’s Fence
July 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
1967. “The Medium is the Message.”
Carnegie Mellon’s Fence
Carnegie Mellon’s Fence
T’was the night before D*n*ld Tr*mps visit to Carnegie Mellon, and I’m here to remind you CMU students have always been anti-fascist. Some of my personal favorite CMU responses to fascism on campus through the eyes of student journalists. 1/7
July 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
T’was the night before D*n*ld Tr*mps visit to Carnegie Mellon, and I’m here to remind you CMU students have always been anti-fascist. Some of my personal favorite CMU responses to fascism on campus through the eyes of student journalists. 1/7
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Y'all know I love publishing industry mess and The Crimson is delivering today! I had no idea Harvard University Press was publishing so little.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
May 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Y'all know I love publishing industry mess and The Crimson is delivering today! I had no idea Harvard University Press was publishing so little.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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"It’s time to stand our ground: not only against homophobia, transphobia and censorship, but for diverse public media, libraries, schools and other institutions," writes @lilmisshotmess.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Showed My Photo In A DOGE Hearing And Called Me A Monster. Here's Why I’m Fighting Back.
“It was the first time that I had been directly referenced in the halls of Congress.”
www.huffpost.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"It’s time to stand our ground: not only against homophobia, transphobia and censorship, but for diverse public media, libraries, schools and other institutions," writes @lilmisshotmess.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
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virginia tech's ETD repository has been crashing so often from being scraped by so many bots that they've had to close off external, non-university access. In case you needed more evidence of how LLM training hurts open access.
April 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
virginia tech's ETD repository has been crashing so often from being scraped by so many bots that they've had to close off external, non-university access. In case you needed more evidence of how LLM training hurts open access.
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FORTY remain active. Almost FIFTEEN HUNDRED canceled.
ACH has updated our Impact Database with info about canceled NEH grants as of 4/8/25. We understand around 40 grants remain active, with a small number reinstated. The $ amounts reflect awarded funds. The total amount is a fraction (~.000037%)of the 2024 US budget. Learn more: impact.ach.org
NEH Grants 2025
NEH Grants 2025
impact.ach.org
April 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
FORTY remain active. Almost FIFTEEN HUNDRED canceled.
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Not all activism is meant for public consumption. If you think all activism requires that everyone know what you're doing, are you doing work for others or for yourself?
April 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not all activism is meant for public consumption. If you think all activism requires that everyone know what you're doing, are you doing work for others or for yourself?
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The 2024 NEH budget: $207M.
One F-35 jet: ~$100M.
The cost of two jets exceeds the entire NEH budget.
One F-35 jet: ~$100M.
The cost of two jets exceeds the entire NEH budget.
April 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The 2024 NEH budget: $207M.
One F-35 jet: ~$100M.
The cost of two jets exceeds the entire NEH budget.
One F-35 jet: ~$100M.
The cost of two jets exceeds the entire NEH budget.
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1/ I need to say something a little more personal about the NEH. A 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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This has been a discussion among many of us for years now. Funding for Humanities was already grossly inadequate; we never had anything to compare to the NSF and NIH. We had a little from NEH, a little from ACLS, but most of us were producing our scholarship with next to no resources. 1/2
If the rumored gutting of the NEH is indeed happening (and I wouldn’t be surprised- it felt inevitable in the last few weeks) it will mean that an already deeply inadequate funding situation for the humanities will become reduced to almost nothing
March 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This has been a discussion among many of us for years now. Funding for Humanities was already grossly inadequate; we never had anything to compare to the NSF and NIH. We had a little from NEH, a little from ACLS, but most of us were producing our scholarship with next to no resources. 1/2
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March 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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Economic boycotts are actually very easy for me because I have no money
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Economic boycotts are actually very easy for me because I have no money
It’s a @kippdawson.bsky.social t-shirt sorting day in the Evans household. Tune in for some highlights!
February 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It’s a @kippdawson.bsky.social t-shirt sorting day in the Evans household. Tune in for some highlights!
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It’s our job as educators to foster opportunity, dignity and engagement. This vague and clearly unconstitutional memo is a grave attack on students, our profession and knowledge itself. That is why we are suing. www.aft.org/press-releas... www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Teachers union files lawsuit over Trump’s crackdown on race, DEI in schools
A new lawsuit accuses the Education Department of trying to rewrite civil rights law when it threatened to pull federal school funding over mentions of race.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It’s our job as educators to foster opportunity, dignity and engagement. This vague and clearly unconstitutional memo is a grave attack on students, our profession and knowledge itself. That is why we are suing. www.aft.org/press-releas... www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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I had a nightmare that we all started to call women’s, gender, and sexuality studies “and studies” after being prohibited from using the words “women,” “gender,” and “sexuality.”
February 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I had a nightmare that we all started to call women’s, gender, and sexuality studies “and studies” after being prohibited from using the words “women,” “gender,” and “sexuality.”
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Democracies rely on educated citizens to function and, as a result, they seek to invest in both education (schools) and information (public media, research, etc).
Dictatorships rely on the opposite—ignorant subjects—and so invest in neither.
Dictatorships rely on the opposite—ignorant subjects—and so invest in neither.
February 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Democracies rely on educated citizens to function and, as a result, they seek to invest in both education (schools) and information (public media, research, etc).
Dictatorships rely on the opposite—ignorant subjects—and so invest in neither.
Dictatorships rely on the opposite—ignorant subjects—and so invest in neither.