Mariel V
@marielv33.bsky.social
English teacher in JC. Watcher of women’s sports. Go Bats! 🦇🗽
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our women’s figure skating team gives 2019 uswnt vibes and that’s the highest possible compliment i can bestow
the energy on the US women's team keeps smashing through ceiling after ceiling I s2g
February 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
our women’s figure skating team gives 2019 uswnt vibes and that’s the highest possible compliment i can bestow
Arsenal is getting CONCACAF-ed by a physical Corinthians team and a Mexican ref crew.
1-1 in London the roof has come off the Emirates!!!
February 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Arsenal is getting CONCACAF-ed by a physical Corinthians team and a Mexican ref crew.
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Stengel had to go ahead goal into an open net and missed and AKB had an absolute howler bump past her in the only real shot taken against in the second half and JCA didn't think they needed changes until the 85th minute in attack. Gotham is back, baby. (a miserable game)
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Stengel had to go ahead goal into an open net and missed and AKB had an absolute howler bump past her in the only real shot taken against in the second half and JCA didn't think they needed changes until the 85th minute in attack. Gotham is back, baby. (a miserable game)
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Obviously, I am not without self interest here but a "if you liked Heated Rivalry" list without a single f/f romance? Like come the fuck on. Straight romance? Check. Straight romance that's not even sports? Check
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...
Love ‘Heated Rivalry’? Read These Romance Novels Next
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Obviously, I am not without self interest here but a "if you liked Heated Rivalry" list without a single f/f romance? Like come the fuck on. Straight romance? Check. Straight romance that's not even sports? Check
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...
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Beginning today, nurses across NYC are on strike for safe staffing and dignity.
While CEO’s pocket millions, nurses carry a staffing crisis they didn’t create.
We stand with @nynurses.bsky.social
#PatientOverProfits
While CEO’s pocket millions, nurses carry a staffing crisis they didn’t create.
We stand with @nynurses.bsky.social
#PatientOverProfits
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Beginning today, nurses across NYC are on strike for safe staffing and dignity.
While CEO’s pocket millions, nurses carry a staffing crisis they didn’t create.
We stand with @nynurses.bsky.social
#PatientOverProfits
While CEO’s pocket millions, nurses carry a staffing crisis they didn’t create.
We stand with @nynurses.bsky.social
#PatientOverProfits
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read André’s piece, and then put your feelings in this survey
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM
read André’s piece, and then put your feelings in this survey
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If you're not already subscribed to André's newsletter, do so immediately. This is the best summation we've yet read on what the NWSL Commissioner stood for in 2025, and what her and her office's actions meant (and will mean) for professional women's soccer in America.
wrote about the nwsl’s odd business decision to stop caring about soccer
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
who cares about soccer
in nwsl leadership? no one, it seems
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January 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
If you're not already subscribed to André's newsletter, do so immediately. This is the best summation we've yet read on what the NWSL Commissioner stood for in 2025, and what her and her office's actions meant (and will mean) for professional women's soccer in America.
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We and our fellow independent supporters groups stand with the players.
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We and our fellow independent supporters groups stand with the players.
I do appreciate that the PA’s argument is basically like “let the spirit shoot themselves in the foot financially if that’s what they want to do but under no circumstances will we allow the league to set a precedent that they can decline a contract just because.”
NEW: Players union says NWSL engaged in ‘flagrant’ violation of Trinity Rodman’s free agent rights
www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...
Players union says NWSL engaged in ‘flagrant’ violation of Trinity Rodman’s free agent rights
The NWSLPA says the league violated at least five different sections of the current collective bargaining agreement.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I do appreciate that the PA’s argument is basically like “let the spirit shoot themselves in the foot financially if that’s what they want to do but under no circumstances will we allow the league to set a precedent that they can decline a contract just because.”
I am (perhaps unreasonably) filled with hope for Jersey City because it looks like the largest “opposition” bloc on our incoming city council is two DSA members pushing further left, and not, like, some machine cronies who think parking is the most pressing issue in our city.
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I am (perhaps unreasonably) filled with hope for Jersey City because it looks like the largest “opposition” bloc on our incoming city council is two DSA members pushing further left, and not, like, some machine cronies who think parking is the most pressing issue in our city.
Similarly, there’s been both some really great and really trash stuff written about this phenomenon for m/m fanfiction on tumblr over the years, but tumblr’s search function is… nonexistent.
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Similarly, there’s been both some really great and really trash stuff written about this phenomenon for m/m fanfiction on tumblr over the years, but tumblr’s search function is… nonexistent.
Used this lesson (and materials) with my seniors today. Part 1 went fabulously! On to Part 2 tomorrow. We’re at Chapter 10 (out of 12) in The Namesake and I already know this will be an excellent resource for students as they begin to create an evidence bank for their essays next week. THANK YOU!!!
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Used this lesson (and materials) with my seniors today. Part 1 went fabulously! On to Part 2 tomorrow. We’re at Chapter 10 (out of 12) in The Namesake and I already know this will be an excellent resource for students as they begin to create an evidence bank for their essays next week. THANK YOU!!!
The historical context about King James is good trivia. That’s it.
This is controversial but I love using the film of Macbeth that stars Patrick Stewart: it uses the visual language of the 20th century and equates Macbeth’s rise with authoritarianism. Always get some “OH”s from students.
This is controversial but I love using the film of Macbeth that stars Patrick Stewart: it uses the visual language of the 20th century and equates Macbeth’s rise with authoritarianism. Always get some “OH”s from students.
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The historical context about King James is good trivia. That’s it.
This is controversial but I love using the film of Macbeth that stars Patrick Stewart: it uses the visual language of the 20th century and equates Macbeth’s rise with authoritarianism. Always get some “OH”s from students.
This is controversial but I love using the film of Macbeth that stars Patrick Stewart: it uses the visual language of the 20th century and equates Macbeth’s rise with authoritarianism. Always get some “OH”s from students.
Yes, and, the facade of fairness is slowly dropped over the course of the play. After Macbeth assumes power, his foulness is increasingly out in the open (eg. the MacDuff fam’s assassination), and named as tyranny by other characters.
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yes, and, the facade of fairness is slowly dropped over the course of the play. After Macbeth assumes power, his foulness is increasingly out in the open (eg. the MacDuff fam’s assassination), and named as tyranny by other characters.
A2. “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
Teaching this play with a new co-teacher this year, and he has highlighted how this idea of fair appearances belying foul machinations comes up again and again and again in act 1. How Duncan talks about old Cawdor, Banquo the witches, Lady M her husband etc
Teaching this play with a new co-teacher this year, and he has highlighted how this idea of fair appearances belying foul machinations comes up again and again and again in act 1. How Duncan talks about old Cawdor, Banquo the witches, Lady M her husband etc
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A2. “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
Teaching this play with a new co-teacher this year, and he has highlighted how this idea of fair appearances belying foul machinations comes up again and again and again in act 1. How Duncan talks about old Cawdor, Banquo the witches, Lady M her husband etc
Teaching this play with a new co-teacher this year, and he has highlighted how this idea of fair appearances belying foul machinations comes up again and again and again in act 1. How Duncan talks about old Cawdor, Banquo the witches, Lady M her husband etc
The PWHL fully does not care that their last expansion draft absolutely gutted the NY Sirens, leaving them with no marketable stars and an even worse on-ice product.
You want 12 teams when you can’t even fully back and support the ones you have? Unhinged decision making.
You want 12 teams when you can’t even fully back and support the ones you have? Unhinged decision making.
By next season the PWHL could jump to 12 teams depending on the next few months and the returns from the 2025-26 Takeover Tour.
To some this might seem quick, but the league's motto is simple: "Time is overrated."
frontofficesports.com/pwhl-12-team...
To some this might seem quick, but the league's motto is simple: "Time is overrated."
frontofficesports.com/pwhl-12-team...
PWHL Is Targeting Rapid Expansion to 12 Teams
The PWHL quickly added two expansion teams for 2025–26. It aims to add another four after gathering data from this year’s Takeover Tour.
frontofficesports.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The PWHL fully does not care that their last expansion draft absolutely gutted the NY Sirens, leaving them with no marketable stars and an even worse on-ice product.
You want 12 teams when you can’t even fully back and support the ones you have? Unhinged decision making.
You want 12 teams when you can’t even fully back and support the ones you have? Unhinged decision making.
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this piece provides a good look at why queer folks and allies are adamant about protecting the space. it's special, and necessary.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍
Why women’s soccer is so important to queer people | CNN
Someone dressed as Marge Simpson, complete with a gigantic blue wig and a lime green dress, belts out Hot to Go by lesbian pop icon Chappell Roan to a rapt audience gathered inside a marquee in the mi...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
this piece provides a good look at why queer folks and allies are adamant about protecting the space. it's special, and necessary.
Absolutely! Good Shakespearean actors make the text comprehensible and engaging in a way reading can never.
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Absolutely! Good Shakespearean actors make the text comprehensible and engaging in a way reading can never.
But if we read the scene in contemporary translation, students can gather the needed info quickly, and we can spend way more time close reading Act 1, Scene 3, which is SUPER important to the rest of the play.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
But if we read the scene in contemporary translation, students can gather the needed info quickly, and we can spend way more time close reading Act 1, Scene 3, which is SUPER important to the rest of the play.
But the scene has not one but two different messengers report this information and early modern language for battles is particularly obscure: it’s confusing.
My favorite film adaptation leans into using this scene as establishing how chaotic battle is: unhelpful.
My favorite film adaptation leans into using this scene as establishing how chaotic battle is: unhelpful.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
But the scene has not one but two different messengers report this information and early modern language for battles is particularly obscure: it’s confusing.
My favorite film adaptation leans into using this scene as establishing how chaotic battle is: unhelpful.
My favorite film adaptation leans into using this scene as establishing how chaotic battle is: unhelpful.
Maybe it’s because I now teach at a school with 35 minute periods, but I really believe reading everything in Shakespeare’s language isn’t a good use of our time together.
Take Macbeth Act 1, Scene 2: the point of the scene is Macbeth is that so good at war he’s rewarded with the title Cawdor.
Take Macbeth Act 1, Scene 2: the point of the scene is Macbeth is that so good at war he’s rewarded with the title Cawdor.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Maybe it’s because I now teach at a school with 35 minute periods, but I really believe reading everything in Shakespeare’s language isn’t a good use of our time together.
Take Macbeth Act 1, Scene 2: the point of the scene is Macbeth is that so good at war he’s rewarded with the title Cawdor.
Take Macbeth Act 1, Scene 2: the point of the scene is Macbeth is that so good at war he’s rewarded with the title Cawdor.
I think hitting one in 9th or 10th and one in 11th or 12th is ideal. Repeated engagement with difficult material leads to greater confidence and comfort. Also, Shakespeare can be used to address so many different skills/standards, which makes it a boon as a teacher.
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I think hitting one in 9th or 10th and one in 11th or 12th is ideal. Repeated engagement with difficult material leads to greater confidence and comfort. Also, Shakespeare can be used to address so many different skills/standards, which makes it a boon as a teacher.
When I stopped being snooty about using summaries and films and contemporary translations, my Shakespeare units got way better.
I needed to get out of my own way, and be really clear on what the goals are. Using these tools didn’t make me a failure or my units less rigorous.
I needed to get out of my own way, and be really clear on what the goals are. Using these tools didn’t make me a failure or my units less rigorous.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
When I stopped being snooty about using summaries and films and contemporary translations, my Shakespeare units got way better.
I needed to get out of my own way, and be really clear on what the goals are. Using these tools didn’t make me a failure or my units less rigorous.
I needed to get out of my own way, and be really clear on what the goals are. Using these tools didn’t make me a failure or my units less rigorous.