Keith W. Mathias
@kwmathias.bsky.social
Associate Professor, English | first-year writing, embodied rhetorics, illness narratives, film studies, 20th Century American literatures | Living with Stage IV ALK+ lung cancer | he/him
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Keith W. Mathias
@kwmathias.bsky.social
· Oct 31
The Embodiment Of Embitterment, by Genevieve
1 track album
experimentalgenevieve.bandcamp.com
New Genevieve tune for you this Halloween! We’ve released a lot of one-offs this year and this is easily the one I’m most proud of. Had an absolute blast making this lush, spooky jam with my best buds. experimentalgenevieve.bandcamp.com/album/the-em...
Abolition is the only way forward. Reform doesn’t work. Accountability doesn’t work. Training doesn’t work. Body cameras don’t work.
Tear it all down and build something better.
Tear it all down and build something better.
I want people to realize prosecuting the police is always a long shot and even when successful that it hasn’t produced any observable change in behavior from the police in general.
January 7, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Abolition is the only way forward. Reform doesn’t work. Accountability doesn’t work. Training doesn’t work. Body cameras don’t work.
Tear it all down and build something better.
Tear it all down and build something better.
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That’s so Ravens
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
That’s so Ravens
Entire Ravens coaching staff needs to go. They were this close to the playoffs simply because they field a handful of generational / all-time greats on both sides of the ball.
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Entire Ravens coaching staff needs to go. They were this close to the playoffs simply because they field a handful of generational / all-time greats on both sides of the ball.
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Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
An enormous, massive congratulations to one of my best buds in the world and his super amazing fiancé.
January 4, 2026 at 12:36 AM
An enormous, massive congratulations to one of my best buds in the world and his super amazing fiancé.
Sharing to remind myself to come back to this later.
How can we reclaim and recenter joy and where do we even start to think about assessing it? @karismjones.bsky.social growbeyondgrades.org/blog/humanizing-assessment
Humanizing Assessment through Culturally Responsive Objectives — Grow Beyond Grades
Assistant Professor of ELA Education, Karis Jones, shares tips and techniques for how teachers can align their assessment practices with Muhammad’s CHRE (Culturally & Historically Responsive Educa...
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January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Sharing to remind myself to come back to this later.
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![[mock newspaper story]:
Cognitively Impaired Felon Invades Sovereign Nation
By NOAH VALE
Convicted felon Donald J. Trump, widely understood to be both cog
nitively impaired and psychiatrically unstable, ordered the U.S. military
to launch an unprovoked war of aggression against Venezuela and kidnap its president. First reports are that members of the military obeyed this clear violation of international law, ignoring the Nuremberg principles and committing a war crime at the behest of the felon despite their...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5lyrol4fdf5k3p4owzb5vfs5/bafkreifju2xgqo35drfrkyjn6tilc3ljyaxczp6c5dzece2eifgbvt5ajy@jpeg)
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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It’s 2026! Here are my ins and outs for Cultured Mag.
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
It’s 2026! Here are my ins and outs for Cultured Mag.
My wife and I typically hit a movie on the first of the year. This year it was the excellent Marty Supreme.
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A ★★★★★ review of Marty Supreme (2025)
Instant classic. If it weren’t for One Battle After Another, this would have been best of 2025. What a freakin film. I am so in love with Chalamet and his increasingly impressive body of work.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:29 AM
My wife and I typically hit a movie on the first of the year. This year it was the excellent Marty Supreme.
boxd.it/cn4vD5
boxd.it/cn4vD5
My brother and I have watched S1E38 of Batman: The Animated Series, “Christmas with the Joker” every year for the last few decades. It is a perfect tradition.
a man in a red shirt and blue pants is standing in front of a fireplace
ALT: a man in a red shirt and blue pants is standing in front of a fireplace
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December 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
My brother and I have watched S1E38 of Batman: The Animated Series, “Christmas with the Joker” every year for the last few decades. It is a perfect tradition.
Folks I’ve spent the majority of my break watching Godzilla films that I’ve never seen before. I highly recommend this experience.
Also follow me on Letterboxd for my film nonsense. boxd.it/4WF8X
Also follow me on Letterboxd for my film nonsense. boxd.it/4WF8X
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Keith uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 871 films watched. Favorites: Inglourious Basterds (2009), Akira (1988), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Phantom Thread...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Folks I’ve spent the majority of my break watching Godzilla films that I’ve never seen before. I highly recommend this experience.
Also follow me on Letterboxd for my film nonsense. boxd.it/4WF8X
Also follow me on Letterboxd for my film nonsense. boxd.it/4WF8X
Well that was certainly a very Baltimore Ravens game in part of a very Baltimore Ravens football season.
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Well that was certainly a very Baltimore Ravens game in part of a very Baltimore Ravens football season.
Contract ratified, babyyyyyyyy
Holy smokes just got the news that our bargaining team has reached a full TA on our first union contract! Incredible way to close out the semester and go into the holidays. #solidarityforever #unionstrong
December 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Contract ratified, babyyyyyyyy
Currently sitting in a mostly empty theater to watch Kill Bill: The Whole
Bloody Affair in 70mm. About to have the most intimate experience with this film I could ever imagine having.
Bloody Affair in 70mm. About to have the most intimate experience with this film I could ever imagine having.
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Currently sitting in a mostly empty theater to watch Kill Bill: The Whole
Bloody Affair in 70mm. About to have the most intimate experience with this film I could ever imagine having.
Bloody Affair in 70mm. About to have the most intimate experience with this film I could ever imagine having.
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Not sure if this is a hot take, but I’m very comfortable saying that the Baltimore Ravens’ biggest issue is their coaching. They get out coached in every phase of the game every single week. That they have won six games is a testament to the ludicrously talented roster, nothing more.
December 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Not sure if this is a hot take, but I’m very comfortable saying that the Baltimore Ravens’ biggest issue is their coaching. They get out coached in every phase of the game every single week. That they have won six games is a testament to the ludicrously talented roster, nothing more.
The vast majority of my students recognize AI as the scam it is. It’s the billionaires and administrators who are pushing it.
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The vast majority of my students recognize AI as the scam it is. It’s the billionaires and administrators who are pushing it.
So excited to welcome these hazards to Baltimore!
The voluntary recall comes as scrutiny by federal regulators and local school district officials increases.
Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses | TechCrunch
The voluntary recall comes as scrutiny by federal regulators and local school district officials increases.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
So excited to welcome these hazards to Baltimore!
Holy smokes just got the news that our bargaining team has reached a full TA on our first union contract! Incredible way to close out the semester and go into the holidays. #solidarityforever #unionstrong
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Holy smokes just got the news that our bargaining team has reached a full TA on our first union contract! Incredible way to close out the semester and go into the holidays. #solidarityforever #unionstrong
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I could go the rest of my career without people worrying about whether giving students with accommodations extra time for assignments is an unfair advantage.
In my career, every single project--every single one--I've worked on, someone has asked for more time. It has never caused major problems
In my career, every single project--every single one--I've worked on, someone has asked for more time. It has never caused major problems
December 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I could go the rest of my career without people worrying about whether giving students with accommodations extra time for assignments is an unfair advantage.
In my career, every single project--every single one--I've worked on, someone has asked for more time. It has never caused major problems
In my career, every single project--every single one--I've worked on, someone has asked for more time. It has never caused major problems
ILL is absolute sorcery
Not sure if any single part of academia felt more like a weird cheat code than Interlibrary Loan. Like, I just say a book I want, basically any book, and this crack team of experts just *get it*????
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
ILL is absolute sorcery
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
I think a lot about all of us who, ten years ago, said things like "I'm worried about X and Y under a Trump presidency," only to be brushed aside and told "X and Y will never happen in the United States! Stop being a baby!"
And here we are, watching X and Y happen.
And here we are, watching X and Y happen.
This OU bullshit, where this trans TA’s job is imperiled because she’s trans, is something I remember trying to explain to cis people I could see on the horizon like… four or five years ago, and no one would believe me, and it turns out now that it’s happening, no one still believes me lol
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I think a lot about all of us who, ten years ago, said things like "I'm worried about X and Y under a Trump presidency," only to be brushed aside and told "X and Y will never happen in the United States! Stop being a baby!"
And here we are, watching X and Y happen.
And here we are, watching X and Y happen.