Colleen Kelly
@colleenkelly.bsky.social
Former Victorianist/current HS teacher. ✍🏻 romance. Rep by Tara Gelsomino. Tell me all your Austen jokes. Free romance 👇
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Colleen Kelly
@colleenkelly.bsky.social
· Feb 28
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I don’t understand why she didn’t just adapt Whitney, My Love (complimentary to Whitney, My Love)
Yes, let's turn a dark gothic tale of generational trauma and damaged people damaging everyone around them into a long-form ASMR video and label it the "greatest love story of all time", I'm sure it'll play very well in TikTok edits by people who can't read.
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I don’t understand why she didn’t just adapt Whitney, My Love (complimentary to Whitney, My Love)
NOTHING made me treasure the messy, silly, brain-scratchingly odd turns of phrase 14-yr-old writers use than reading the interchangeable brainless and heartless robotic slop some of them try to pass off as their work
Voice in writing is hard to develop, and harder to justify as a fungible skill in our STEM-crazed society. I've always thought our voice as a writer is our inner voice to ourselves. I hate that we are subcontracting the challenge, and joy, of navigating our human experience to inhuman tech.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
NOTHING made me treasure the messy, silly, brain-scratchingly odd turns of phrase 14-yr-old writers use than reading the interchangeable brainless and heartless robotic slop some of them try to pass off as their work
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Austen in the streets, Shelley in the sheets
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Austen in the streets, Shelley in the sheets
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Did Women Ruin The Workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Did Women Ruin The Workplace?
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It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
The asylum where they raised me
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The asylum where they raised me
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I don't want anyone to starve. I don't care who they voted for. If we live in a world where I decide who gets to live based on whether or not I personally like them, we are fucking lost in the weeds.
That's also Trump's vision of America.
That's also Trump's vision of America.
November 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I don't want anyone to starve. I don't care who they voted for. If we live in a world where I decide who gets to live based on whether or not I personally like them, we are fucking lost in the weeds.
That's also Trump's vision of America.
That's also Trump's vision of America.
Halloween may be over but my Jane Austen silhouette pumpkin lives on (for like three more days, damn squirrels)
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Halloween may be over but my Jane Austen silhouette pumpkin lives on (for like three more days, damn squirrels)
Look! Two of my best friends (@alexandravasti.bsky.social and social media-phobe Raisa Rexer) are writing about the history of lesbian erotica together! They’re so cool! Do I know how to pick em or what?
On a Hunt for 19th-Century Erotica, We Found Lesbians
What are we to make of the sapphic love depicted in early fiction and photography?
www.historynewsnetwork.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Look! Two of my best friends (@alexandravasti.bsky.social and social media-phobe Raisa Rexer) are writing about the history of lesbian erotica together! They’re so cool! Do I know how to pick em or what?
One day I will teach “Those Winter Sundays” without getting choked up when I read it, but that day is not today
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
One day I will teach “Those Winter Sundays” without getting choked up when I read it, but that day is not today
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Is the work of schooling a credit-taking exercise, apparently modeling the private-sector practice, or is it the last place where we can expect to collaborate and contribute to developing young human beings without being expected to turn the screen over and ask for a tip?
October 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Is the work of schooling a credit-taking exercise, apparently modeling the private-sector practice, or is it the last place where we can expect to collaborate and contribute to developing young human beings without being expected to turn the screen over and ask for a tip?
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We can talk about curricula, approach, philosophy all we want, but I despair that none of it will mean anything in terms of improving student engagement, interest and outcome, or solving faculty burnout and frustration, until we can lower class sizes and extracurricular burdens and raise salaries.
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
We can talk about curricula, approach, philosophy all we want, but I despair that none of it will mean anything in terms of improving student engagement, interest and outcome, or solving faculty burnout and frustration, until we can lower class sizes and extracurricular burdens and raise salaries.
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Y'all, the dead baby joke and shit-talking about ugly people *is in the surviving letters*
I'm sorry but as an eighteenth-centuryist, lol.
Jane Austen would be cancelled on campus if we'd read her letters?
Truly a take only possible from someone who doesn't know the mountains of heinous dirt we have on almost all major writers of the period.
Jane Austen would be cancelled on campus if we'd read her letters?
Truly a take only possible from someone who doesn't know the mountains of heinous dirt we have on almost all major writers of the period.
October 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Y'all, the dead baby joke and shit-talking about ugly people *is in the surviving letters*
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT
GUYS
GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC
GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU
OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
GUYS
GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC
GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU
OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
GUYS
GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC
GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU
OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
GUYS
GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC
GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU
OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM
Disaffected 15 yr old rolling her eyes at me from across the classroom: you’re not going to make us write sonnets, are you?
Me, suddenly inspired, heart growing 3 sizes that day: I am NOW!
Me, suddenly inspired, heart growing 3 sizes that day: I am NOW!
My most toxic trait as a teacher is that I think scansion is fun
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Disaffected 15 yr old rolling her eyes at me from across the classroom: you’re not going to make us write sonnets, are you?
Me, suddenly inspired, heart growing 3 sizes that day: I am NOW!
Me, suddenly inspired, heart growing 3 sizes that day: I am NOW!
My most toxic trait as a teacher is that I think scansion is fun
October 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My most toxic trait as a teacher is that I think scansion is fun
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All we can say is "this shouldn't be happening!!!" - but we can't really say WHY, because almost no-one is brave enough to say "the status quo for undocumented immigrants was exploitative. our immigration system is unjust and non-functional, and these people should have legal protection"
October 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
All we can say is "this shouldn't be happening!!!" - but we can't really say WHY, because almost no-one is brave enough to say "the status quo for undocumented immigrants was exploitative. our immigration system is unjust and non-functional, and these people should have legal protection"
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MAGA Catholics are so gross to me. first off, a LOT of these immigrants are Catholic, and the catechism is EXTREMELY CLEAR on the church being one united global body. those people are your family. your loyalty should be to them and not the president!
October 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
MAGA Catholics are so gross to me. first off, a LOT of these immigrants are Catholic, and the catechism is EXTREMELY CLEAR on the church being one united global body. those people are your family. your loyalty should be to them and not the president!
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9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.
Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.
Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.
Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools
The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...
www.propublica.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.
Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.
Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.
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Educators should look at AI grading of student writing in the same way collective society looked at the potential for human cloning after the arrival of Dolly the sheep, something that is an affront to our humanity and must be rejected completely. There is no rationale to support this.
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Educators should look at AI grading of student writing in the same way collective society looked at the potential for human cloning after the arrival of Dolly the sheep, something that is an affront to our humanity and must be rejected completely. There is no rationale to support this.
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Teachers are overworked! So let’s pretend that if they use AI, they will save time and then we can hire even fewer of them! Outstanding. Nice work all around.
October 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Teachers are overworked! So let’s pretend that if they use AI, they will save time and then we can hire even fewer of them! Outstanding. Nice work all around.
“It’s as though the modes of thinking intrinsic to the liberal arts have been fracked: excavated from their pedagogical bedrock; processed into generic, blandly adaptable ‘skills’; and then injected back into our curricula and institutions, albeit in a barely recognizable state”
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I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
www.publicbooks.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“It’s as though the modes of thinking intrinsic to the liberal arts have been fracked: excavated from their pedagogical bedrock; processed into generic, blandly adaptable ‘skills’; and then injected back into our curricula and institutions, albeit in a barely recognizable state”
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I don’t like to post student malapropisms because it’s not kind and they’re learning, but “an act with fetal consequences” was too good not to share
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I don’t like to post student malapropisms because it’s not kind and they’re learning, but “an act with fetal consequences” was too good not to share