Mara Lee Grayson
@maraleegrayson.bsky.social
Nonprofit | Former Tenured Faculty, Comp/Rhet | Author of Books on Racism & Antisemitism in Education | Poet | Brooklyn-bred (She/her)
New poem, “footnote 1. the verb,” up at New Feathers. Thanks to the editors for including this poem!
Read it here: www.newfeathersanthology.com/footnote-1-t...
Read it here: www.newfeathersanthology.com/footnote-1-t...
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footnote 1. the verb Mara Lee Grayson
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April 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
New poem, “footnote 1. the verb,” up at New Feathers. Thanks to the editors for including this poem!
Read it here: www.newfeathersanthology.com/footnote-1-t...
Read it here: www.newfeathersanthology.com/footnote-1-t...
Preview of a new poem up at Variant Lit.
Thanks to the editors for including my work in this issue! 🙏🏻
variantlit.com/how-to-be-th...
Thanks to the editors for including my work in this issue! 🙏🏻
variantlit.com/how-to-be-th...
March 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Preview of a new poem up at Variant Lit.
Thanks to the editors for including my work in this issue! 🙏🏻
variantlit.com/how-to-be-th...
Thanks to the editors for including my work in this issue! 🙏🏻
variantlit.com/how-to-be-th...
Well, that’s quite nice! Thanks to the folks at Posit for the nom!
Read the poem, “The Invisible Girlfriend Grows Restless,” here: positjournal.com/2024/05/21/m...
Read the poem, “The Invisible Girlfriend Grows Restless,” here: positjournal.com/2024/05/21/m...
December 18, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Well, that’s quite nice! Thanks to the folks at Posit for the nom!
Read the poem, “The Invisible Girlfriend Grows Restless,” here: positjournal.com/2024/05/21/m...
Read the poem, “The Invisible Girlfriend Grows Restless,” here: positjournal.com/2024/05/21/m...
Very excited to see my piece “Beyond Racial, Religious, and Political Binaries: Toward Antisemitism Literacy” in the new special issue of Journal of Literacy Research! Gratitude to the editorial team and congrats to fellow contributors.
Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Beyond Racial, Religious, and Political Binaries: Toward Antisemitism Literacy - Mara Lee Grayson, 2024
Literacy studies scholarship and pedagogy have not attended comprehensively to Jewish cultural literacies or the discursive operations of anti-Jewish hate. As a...
journals.sagepub.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Very excited to see my piece “Beyond Racial, Religious, and Political Binaries: Toward Antisemitism Literacy” in the new special issue of Journal of Literacy Research! Gratitude to the editorial team and congrats to fellow contributors.
Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Did the writers on The Diplomat just shout out cooperative overlapping?!?!?!
November 25, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Did the writers on The Diplomat just shout out cooperative overlapping?!?!?!
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Netflix can’t keep its stream up for Serrano/Taylor, but can keep it together for an extended Mike Tyson ass shot.
November 16, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Netflix can’t keep its stream up for Serrano/Taylor, but can keep it together for an extended Mike Tyson ass shot.
Netflix, you are not so good at this. Sorry.
November 16, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Netflix, you are not so good at this. Sorry.
Truly honored and humbled to see my work included in this important research paper series. So much gratitude to Alvin Rosenfeld, Gunther Jikeli, and the rest of the team at ISCA/IU for inviting me to contribute.
Read the paper here: isca.indiana.edu/publication-...
Read the paper here: isca.indiana.edu/publication-...
The Racialization of American Jews and Antisemitism on College Campuses
Beinner Family Research Papers: Mara Lee Grayson
isca.indiana.edu
November 11, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Truly honored and humbled to see my work included in this important research paper series. So much gratitude to Alvin Rosenfeld, Gunther Jikeli, and the rest of the team at ISCA/IU for inviting me to contribute.
Read the paper here: isca.indiana.edu/publication-...
Read the paper here: isca.indiana.edu/publication-...
Three new(ish) poems & a reflection in the latest issue of Community Literacy Journal. Photo is a preview of one. Find the full reflection & poems here: digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
April 12, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Three new(ish) poems & a reflection in the latest issue of Community Literacy Journal. Photo is a preview of one. Find the full reflection & poems here: digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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The best response is to ask why so many pundits are so dedicated to this destructive, illiberal mode of discourse disguised as intellectual commentary--and whether they're willing, in the name of truth, to learn about where it comes from. 10/10
January 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
The best response is to ask why so many pundits are so dedicated to this destructive, illiberal mode of discourse disguised as intellectual commentary--and whether they're willing, in the name of truth, to learn about where it comes from. 10/10
“Antisemitism and the Presumption of Jewish Whiteness”
3rd Annual Joint OU/UT Webinar
January 25 | 7PM Central
Learn more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/scjs/events/...
3rd Annual Joint OU/UT Webinar
January 25 | 7PM Central
Learn more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/scjs/events/...
January 9, 2024 at 9:41 PM
“Antisemitism and the Presumption of Jewish Whiteness”
3rd Annual Joint OU/UT Webinar
January 25 | 7PM Central
Learn more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/scjs/events/...
3rd Annual Joint OU/UT Webinar
January 25 | 7PM Central
Learn more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/scjs/events/...
I’ve been thinking a lot about how many people seem to see the world in very stark oppositional terms (black & white, right & wrong, good & bad) & always know, without a doubt, which side of a given (false) binary to be on. Like, doesn’t it get boring in your mind?
January 7, 2024 at 10:55 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about how many people seem to see the world in very stark oppositional terms (black & white, right & wrong, good & bad) & always know, without a doubt, which side of a given (false) binary to be on. Like, doesn’t it get boring in your mind?
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The earth is melting. A pandemic continues to ravage society and vaccine preventable diseases are making a comeback. Fascism and nationalism is on the rise. War crimes are being committed everywhere. We’re in a new gilded age.
Swear as much as you fucking want. It’s, honestly, very appropriate.
Swear as much as you fucking want. It’s, honestly, very appropriate.
Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim
Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim
Swearwords increasingly used for emphasis and to build social bonds, rather than to insult, say academicsSwearing has become more widely acceptable over the past two decades because it is increasingly used for other purposes than to insult people, linguistics experts have said.“Fuck” and “shit”, the two most commonly used swearwords in the UK, are frequently used to emphasise a point in conversation or to build social bonds, rather than with the specific intent to cause offence, according to academic researchers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2024 at 12:53 AM
The earth is melting. A pandemic continues to ravage society and vaccine preventable diseases are making a comeback. Fascism and nationalism is on the rise. War crimes are being committed everywhere. We’re in a new gilded age.
Swear as much as you fucking want. It’s, honestly, very appropriate.
Swear as much as you fucking want. It’s, honestly, very appropriate.
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Thank you TODAY for covering the current COVID surge. I really appreciate so many sharing the COVID wastewater charts! It shows that, contrary to the cynical narrative of "pandemic fatigue," many still care & want to know the data so they can protect their communities.
www.today.com/health/news/...
www.today.com/health/news/...
January 6, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Thank you TODAY for covering the current COVID surge. I really appreciate so many sharing the COVID wastewater charts! It shows that, contrary to the cynical narrative of "pandemic fatigue," many still care & want to know the data so they can protect their communities.
www.today.com/health/news/...
www.today.com/health/news/...
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Translation: Supreme Court to decide if ER doctors can let pregnant people die, in violation of federal law
January 5, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Translation: Supreme Court to decide if ER doctors can let pregnant people die, in violation of federal law
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Anti-Semitism is very appealing to zillionaire oligarchs, from Ford to Musk, because it allows them to go "a small group of rich elites is manipulating everything in politics, the media and finance, not me though, definitely not me"
June 7, 2023 at 10:40 PM
Anti-Semitism is very appealing to zillionaire oligarchs, from Ford to Musk, because it allows them to go "a small group of rich elites is manipulating everything in politics, the media and finance, not me though, definitely not me"
The idiocy & absurdity of current sociopolitical discourse are astounding, as is the disinformation coming from every direction. I’m not sure if those of us in rhetoric & literacy studies have succeeded wildly or failed devastatingly.
December 23, 2023 at 10:37 PM
The idiocy & absurdity of current sociopolitical discourse are astounding, as is the disinformation coming from every direction. I’m not sure if those of us in rhetoric & literacy studies have succeeded wildly or failed devastatingly.
If you can’t define the concepts in your resolution in the ways they are actually defined *and* have historically been defined by the communities from which they originated, you have no business writing that resolution.
December 5, 2023 at 4:14 AM
If you can’t define the concepts in your resolution in the ways they are actually defined *and* have historically been defined by the communities from which they originated, you have no business writing that resolution.
New article: “Assimilation/Appropriation: What Jewish Discourses in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Tell Us about the Limitations of Inclusion” in College Composition and Communication, 75:1, special issue on Cultural Rhetorics. 🙏🏻 to the editors for including my work!
December 5, 2023 at 12:01 AM
New article: “Assimilation/Appropriation: What Jewish Discourses in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Tell Us about the Limitations of Inclusion” in College Composition and Communication, 75:1, special issue on Cultural Rhetorics. 🙏🏻 to the editors for including my work!
I started working on a new book over the weekend, which means my kitchen cabinets have been perfectly reorganized.
November 27, 2023 at 11:03 PM
I started working on a new book over the weekend, which means my kitchen cabinets have been perfectly reorganized.
The disinformation, misinformation, lies, & outright hate speech in that other place are astounding. I’m just shouting attempts at logic, complexity, & empathy into the ether at this point. Why am I still there?
November 22, 2023 at 3:45 PM
The disinformation, misinformation, lies, & outright hate speech in that other place are astounding. I’m just shouting attempts at logic, complexity, & empathy into the ether at this point. Why am I still there?
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"They describe that path as one that cannot be boiled down to a hashtag: one in which... Israelis and Palestinians would remain on the land they each call home."
Amazing, and not in a good way, how something obvious to everyone besides fringes on the ground, is such a revelation in the US
Amazing, and not in a good way, how something obvious to everyone besides fringes on the ground, is such a revelation in the US
Israeli and Palestinian Activists Ask Americans to Take Side of Peace
Sally Abed, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and Alon-Lee Green, a Jewish Israeli, found polarization in America over the war in Gaza. They also found longing for a new approach.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2023 at 10:38 PM
"They describe that path as one that cannot be boiled down to a hashtag: one in which... Israelis and Palestinians would remain on the land they each call home."
Amazing, and not in a good way, how something obvious to everyone besides fringes on the ground, is such a revelation in the US
Amazing, and not in a good way, how something obvious to everyone besides fringes on the ground, is such a revelation in the US
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was it ~ a symbol of the war itself ~ NYT or was it actually maybe just a functioning hospital with a lot of sick and wounded people in it, hundreds of whom are now in a mass grave?
November 16, 2023 at 2:32 PM
was it ~ a symbol of the war itself ~ NYT or was it actually maybe just a functioning hospital with a lot of sick and wounded people in it, hundreds of whom are now in a mass grave?
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Amazing. After a big day of pushing the anti-semitic Great Replacement fantasy, Elon has decided to... double down and embrace the far right 'white pride' crowd. A very normal and healthy thing for the guy with the world's largest media platform.
November 16, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Amazing. After a big day of pushing the anti-semitic Great Replacement fantasy, Elon has decided to... double down and embrace the far right 'white pride' crowd. A very normal and healthy thing for the guy with the world's largest media platform.
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"Some people spend their lives in search of truth or an answer. I hope to spend my life in the full embrace of not knowing. Poetry, I think, is a way of turning toward indeterminacy."
-- Natalie Scenters-Zapico
-- Natalie Scenters-Zapico
November 14, 2023 at 10:17 PM
"Some people spend their lives in search of truth or an answer. I hope to spend my life in the full embrace of not knowing. Poetry, I think, is a way of turning toward indeterminacy."
-- Natalie Scenters-Zapico
-- Natalie Scenters-Zapico