Harper B. Keenan
@harperkeenan.bsky.social
Asst Prof at UBC. USian in 🍁. studying childhood/imagining pedagogies/unscripting curriculum/trans-ing through life. www.harperkeenan.com
Pinned
Occasional Paper Series #52 - Bank Street College of Education
www.bankstreet.edu
Here to share some good news, which is that a special issue I edited called “The Adventures of Trans Educators: A Comic Issue” has just been released! It features comics created through a collaboration bt trans educators and queer/trans artists. Share widely! www.bankstreet.edu/research-pub...
don’t mind me, just making my way through my job as a professor by singing my kid’s favorite Daniel Tiger songs to myself (“Things may change and that’s okay, today we can do things a different way...”)😂
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
don’t mind me, just making my way through my job as a professor by singing my kid’s favorite Daniel Tiger songs to myself (“Things may change and that’s okay, today we can do things a different way...”)😂
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
May tonight mark the beginning of the end of every political dynasty that made life harder, nights darker, and the world more violent.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
May tonight mark the beginning of the end of every political dynasty that made life harder, nights darker, and the world more violent.
what a SPEECH
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
what a SPEECH
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
Zohran Mamdani: We have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani: We have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Never thought I’d live to see a winning candidate in a major election open their victory speech with a shout out to this guy.
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
The data will include information that researchers provided with the understanding that it would remain confidential.
This includes demographic information on the applicants as well as peer review comments on applications.
This includes demographic information on the applicants as well as peer review comments on applications.
November 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The data will include information that researchers provided with the understanding that it would remain confidential.
This includes demographic information on the applicants as well as peer review comments on applications.
This includes demographic information on the applicants as well as peer review comments on applications.
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
🧵The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has put forward a motion to release ALL data in relation to federal research funding applications.
This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."
This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."
November 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
🧵The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has put forward a motion to release ALL data in relation to federal research funding applications.
This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."
This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
The Worst Intersection in Vancouver winner (loser?) has been crowned 🏆👀
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The Worst Intersection in Vancouver winner (loser?) has been crowned 🏆👀
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
gotta say as a bowdoin grad it is a pretty conservative small New England liberal arts college. lots of hockey kids from boston. the times is positioning the “Africana studies major” thing pretty conspicuously here
I honestly don't think the NY Times has been this bad in my lifetime, it's deeply shameful.
October 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
gotta say as a bowdoin grad it is a pretty conservative small New England liberal arts college. lots of hockey kids from boston. the times is positioning the “Africana studies major” thing pretty conspicuously here
love that the story we will tell our grandchildren about game 4 of the 2025 world series will be “the Jays were up, runners on two bases, he swings … and CRASH! Sportsnet went down.”
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
love that the story we will tell our grandchildren about game 4 of the 2025 world series will be “the Jays were up, runners on two bases, he swings … and CRASH! Sportsnet went down.”
I can’t believe we all missed that, but at least now we seem to be back on Sportsnet
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I can’t believe we all missed that, but at least now we seem to be back on Sportsnet
how are you gonna crash during the world series, sportsnet?!
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
how are you gonna crash during the world series, sportsnet?!
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
Public schools can’t afford to lose more teachers. Black teachers make up only 6% of the profession and are leaving at higher rates. Stress, lack of respect, and pay gaps (earning about 6% less than white peers) are driving them out.
Becky Pringle Sounds the Alarm on the Black Teacher Exodus
“We are going in the wrong direction,” the NEA president says. And we should all be worried.
wordinblack.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Public schools can’t afford to lose more teachers. Black teachers make up only 6% of the profession and are leaving at higher rates. Stress, lack of respect, and pay gaps (earning about 6% less than white peers) are driving them out.
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
When education tops the list in the worst possible way 😭
October 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
When education tops the list in the worst possible way 😭
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah
universities really need evening child care, given how many courses happen at night. does anyone have this?
September 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
universities really need evening child care, given how many courses happen at night. does anyone have this?
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...
Nexstar’s takeover of Tegna would require an overhaul of FCC ownership rules - Poynter
The proposed sale would exceed the FCC’s 39% cap, igniting debate among broadcasters, unions and press groups
www.poynter.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
Reposted by Harper B. Keenan
Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.
What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.
man i really love the arbutus greenway. i wish vancouver had more stuff like this.
September 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
man i really love the arbutus greenway. i wish vancouver had more stuff like this.