Danica Savonick
@danicasavonick.bsky.social
Education, social justice, feminist worldmaking, literature, pedagogy, technology | English Prof, SUNY Cortland | OPEN ADMISSIONS (Duke UP, 2024)
“Defending the university is not about defending the institution itself, but rather understanding the institution as a condition of possibility for other things to emerge.“
I'm in the new look @publicbooks.bsky.social talking with @anniemcc.bsky.social, Vineeta Singh, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel about higher education, how we have studied and organized around it, and what possibility lies therein.
Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords” - Public Books
“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
www.publicbooks.org
February 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM
“Defending the university is not about defending the institution itself, but rather understanding the institution as a condition of possibility for other things to emerge.“
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I am grateful to Colleen and to @danicasavonick.bsky.social along with everyone who joined our book discussion this afternoon. Open Admissions is a terrific and enlightening read. Get a copy and read for yourselves. www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College
www.dukeupress.edu
February 1, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I am grateful to Colleen and to @danicasavonick.bsky.social along with everyone who joined our book discussion this afternoon. Open Admissions is a terrific and enlightening read. Get a copy and read for yourselves. www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
A fantastic article by Jeanelle K. Hope on Black women's traditions of anti-fascist organizing + education as a key battleground in the struggle for democracy @readlux.bsky.social
lux-magazine.com/article/blac...
lux-magazine.com/article/blac...
An Antifascist Education
Black women’s radicalism has been fascism’s enemy for 200 years.
lux-magazine.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A fantastic article by Jeanelle K. Hope on Black women's traditions of anti-fascist organizing + education as a key battleground in the struggle for democracy @readlux.bsky.social
lux-magazine.com/article/blac...
lux-magazine.com/article/blac...
So many brilliant, creative, and inspiring ideas about how to resist & shut ICE down!
"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..."
www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...
www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...
How to Block ICE In Your City
Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay on effective tactics to disrupt ICE—and the need to target corporate collaborators
www.laborpolitics.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 PM
So many brilliant, creative, and inspiring ideas about how to resist & shut ICE down!
"If resistance is a muscle, June Jordan’s regular exercise of dissent produced a mode of courageous truth-telling that was not limited to foreign policy."
Such a brilliant & pertinent essay by Abena Ampofoa Asare
radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...
Such a brilliant & pertinent essay by Abena Ampofoa Asare
radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...
DEI in a Time of Genocide or Re-Calling June Jordan's Years at Stony Brook
| Radical Teacher
radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu
January 26, 2026 at 6:52 PM
"If resistance is a muscle, June Jordan’s regular exercise of dissent produced a mode of courageous truth-telling that was not limited to foreign policy."
Such a brilliant & pertinent essay by Abena Ampofoa Asare
radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...
Such a brilliant & pertinent essay by Abena Ampofoa Asare
radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...
An exciting CFP for the Journal of Lesbian Studies on "Lesbian Erotic Life." Abstracts due Feb. 15!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Call for Papers: Lesbian erotic life
PDF | 'How do lesbians have sex?' is a question frequently posed with a lesbophobic undertone. However, for those engaged in lesbian sex it can also... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
www.researchgate.net
January 25, 2026 at 12:31 PM
An exciting CFP for the Journal of Lesbian Studies on "Lesbian Erotic Life." Abstracts due Feb. 15!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
The test of a great university is not whether it attracts those already trained to succeed, but whether it can recognise and cultivate potential wherever it exists. At a time of deepening opportunity divides, that distinction has never mattered more.”
"Doubtless, there is a case for making social class a legally protected characteristic, forcing institutions to confront discrimination more directly." #highered #academicsky
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No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major
Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at ...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:58 AM
The test of a great university is not whether it attracts those already trained to succeed, but whether it can recognise and cultivate potential wherever it exists. At a time of deepening opportunity divides, that distinction has never mattered more.”
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"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
www.techpolicy.press
January 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
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These students are being brutally harassed by their government and still showing more bravery and integrity than most college presidents.
By Lila Dominguez, Editor in Chief of the Roosevelt Standard, news site of Roosevelt High School: "Later in the afternoon today my high school Roosevelt was paraded by ICE vehicles during dismissal. Our community and staff stepped up to protect one another."
ICE Needs To Get Out Of Minneapolis
On Wednesday January 7th at 3:20 pm I was working in the wrestling basement of Roosevelt Highschool to publish an article about the tragic event that occurred earlier today in South Minneapolis when a...
rooseveltstandard.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
These students are being brutally harassed by their government and still showing more bravery and integrity than most college presidents.
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**Thread** Actions are continuing to spread across the country to protest ICE, the killing of Renee Good and all those killed and at risk from ICE goons.
On Jan. 7, Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, sparking national outrage and protests condemning the organization and national government. Teen Vogue spoke to young people marching in NYC, where DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was speaking, to share their thoughts.
January 9, 2026 at 4:19 AM
**Thread** Actions are continuing to spread across the country to protest ICE, the killing of Renee Good and all those killed and at risk from ICE goons.
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As Noem spoke, a crowd of dozens of protesters marched from Foley Square to rally outside One World Trade Center, denouncing Good’s killing and ICE’s efforts more broadly.
from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:
from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:
Protests Greet DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on New York Visit After Minneapolis ICE Killing
www.thecity.nyc
January 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
As Noem spoke, a crowd of dozens of protesters marched from Foley Square to rally outside One World Trade Center, denouncing Good’s killing and ICE’s efforts more broadly.
from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:
from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:
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Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
While there is so much that is disturbing about this case study in the destruction of academic freedom, one high point is the refusal of the targeted professor to submit
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is so good! The Baldwin Test offers a framework for challenging the mystifying, celebratory rhetoric of tech companies, with specific questions for interrogating surveilling, proprietary ed tech. Long live critical & creative pedagogy!
I took Tucker’s piece as an inspiration for my own post for the Civics of Technology and applying the Baldwin Test to investigate claims about educational technology:
Applying the Baldwin Test to Ed-Tech — Civics of Technology
In this post, Charles Logan argues that educators can apply the Baldwin Test to Ed-Tech.
www.civicsoftechnology.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:44 PM
This is so good! The Baldwin Test offers a framework for challenging the mystifying, celebratory rhetoric of tech companies, with specific questions for interrogating surveilling, proprietary ed tech. Long live critical & creative pedagogy!
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Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.
Notes on Unbearable Stupidity, January 6, 2026 Edition
"A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis Trump had created over Greenland," Anne Appelbaum said the other day on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter. "Danes told me tha...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.
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NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
www.importantcontext.news
January 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM
NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
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ACH 2026 welcomes proposals on all aspects of digital humanities work. Share your research, tools, pedagogy, or community projects with our vibrant DH community. Virtual conference June 24-26. Deadline: Feb 2
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January 6, 2026 at 2:15 PM
ACH 2026 welcomes proposals on all aspects of digital humanities work. Share your research, tools, pedagogy, or community projects with our vibrant DH community. Virtual conference June 24-26. Deadline: Feb 2
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
January 6, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
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Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS:
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English Majors at Work
English Majors at Work: Career and Life Pathways details the professional superpowers—the many marketable skills—gained from studying literature, creative writing, film, and popular culture. It prepar...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS:
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
I can’t wait to assign this!!
Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS:
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
English Majors at Work
English Majors at Work: Career and Life Pathways details the professional superpowers—the many marketable skills—gained from studying literature, creative writing, film, and popular culture. It prepar...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:18 AM
I can’t wait to assign this!!
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This should exist in every city in the country.
January 4, 2026 at 9:52 PM
This should exist in every city in the country.
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The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
January 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The media doesn’t talk enough about the fact that ”Let’s Make America Great Again” was Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
Nothing this man does is original, at all, including illegal/imperial invasions in Latin America
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A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
January 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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“When I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.”
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
“When I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.”