Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️
@miamurphy.com
Chief Policy Officer, Michigan Association of State Universities. Trustee, Library of Michigan. MSU 06 / UChicago CIR 07 / MSU HALE PhD 24. She/her, but I grew up with pockets. Former husband & current wife of a wife. Personal account, skeets are my own.
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Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️
@miamurphy.com
· Jun 25
if we want to talk about youth vs experience, by the time I was 33, I had already been in charge of a combined $2.1 billion set of budgets for all postsecondary education in Michigan, and then the deputy executive of the public university coordinating board in Michigan
33 year olds aren't children
33 year olds aren't children
Started my day with electocuting my face and then went almost immediately to a wlw tamale making party
Gender is off the chart today, folks
Gender is off the chart today, folks
December 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Started my day with electocuting my face and then went almost immediately to a wlw tamale making party
Gender is off the chart today, folks
Gender is off the chart today, folks
More dispatches from the front lines of college access and affordability
A few times a year I host a paying for college information program, and it's almost always crickets, maybe one or two people. There's free money on the table, and we just can't reach them.
December 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
More dispatches from the front lines of college access and affordability
Family all gone, getting baked, eating a pizza, and watching the LOTR films for the first time in a quarter century
December 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Family all gone, getting baked, eating a pizza, and watching the LOTR films for the first time in a quarter century
Ahahahahaha, my ridiculous maiden name continues to pay off
December 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Ahahahahaha, my ridiculous maiden name continues to pay off
Woke 2: this time with pride colored guns
i’m already shorting Fox and CBS in anticipation of Woke 2
December 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Woke 2: this time with pride colored guns
Ladies, gentlemen, and distinguished others:
We are 40 days away from the Winter Olympics
We are 40 days away from the Winter Olympics
December 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ladies, gentlemen, and distinguished others:
We are 40 days away from the Winter Olympics
We are 40 days away from the Winter Olympics
The Detroit Chamber polled MI in 2024. 58% of voters believe avg student debt is about $50K. Consequently, only 8% of voters thought that a BA/BS was the "minimum to be successful in MI" and only 27% said *any college* was important to getting a good job (1/X)
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Detroit Chamber polled MI in 2024. 58% of voters believe avg student debt is about $50K. Consequently, only 8% of voters thought that a BA/BS was the "minimum to be successful in MI" and only 27% said *any college* was important to getting a good job (1/X)
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
Finally have a picture of myself hung up in our house to go with all the pictures of old me (with a bonus cameo from @cantb.bsky.social)
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Finally have a picture of myself hung up in our house to go with all the pictures of old me (with a bonus cameo from @cantb.bsky.social)
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if when you hear me refer to "rural areas" you are picturing an English town with a downtown and then a bunch of single-family homes built around it in a sensible grid or whatever, you are not picturing what I'm talking about
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
December 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
if when you hear me refer to "rural areas" you are picturing an English town with a downtown and then a bunch of single-family homes built around it in a sensible grid or whatever, you are not picturing what I'm talking about
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
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American rural areas are just abandoned farmhouses\active meth labs with a haunted general store only staffed on Halloween nights by an old man whose simply says he’s been running the place since “the war”
European rural areas have a train station stop and regular service
European rural areas have a train station stop and regular service
December 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
American rural areas are just abandoned farmhouses\active meth labs with a haunted general store only staffed on Halloween nights by an old man whose simply says he’s been running the place since “the war”
European rural areas have a train station stop and regular service
European rural areas have a train station stop and regular service
Hell yes, I figured out both the intro /outro riff and the galloping triplets on my bass for The Trooper
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Hell yes, I figured out both the intro /outro riff and the galloping triplets on my bass for The Trooper
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Bond: chucks a bar of gold
Me: "🎶Gold flinger! 🎵"
Wife: wants a divorce
Me: "🎶Gold flinger! 🎵"
Wife: wants a divorce
December 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Bond: chucks a bar of gold
Me: "🎶Gold flinger! 🎵"
Wife: wants a divorce
Me: "🎶Gold flinger! 🎵"
Wife: wants a divorce
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This photo of Mittens made me laugh so I decided to use it to make a mockup book cover for his memoir.
I will be representing him and expecting quite a competitive bidding war for publishing rights.
I will be representing him and expecting quite a competitive bidding war for publishing rights.
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This photo of Mittens made me laugh so I decided to use it to make a mockup book cover for his memoir.
I will be representing him and expecting quite a competitive bidding war for publishing rights.
I will be representing him and expecting quite a competitive bidding war for publishing rights.
Shockingly, drinking most of a bottle of red last night has caused me to find out this morning
December 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Shockingly, drinking most of a bottle of red last night has caused me to find out this morning
Drunk on ham, refosco wine from my family's region of Italy, and new estradiol patches. AMA.
ngl.link/contessamia
ngl.link/contessamia
Anonymous messages!
Anonymous messages!
ngl.link
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Drunk on ham, refosco wine from my family's region of Italy, and new estradiol patches. AMA.
ngl.link/contessamia
ngl.link/contessamia
In exceptional cases, TERF Inc., d/b/a GC, llc, will consider applications from American failed academics above the age of 40. Applications must demonstrate an early commitment to blaming the woke academy for a lack of tenure. Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan patreon support an asset.
filling out the gender critical membership card:
1) Name:
2) Age:
⏹️ 45-65
⏹️ 65+
3) I am a failed
⏹️ academic
⏹️ video game reviewer
⏹️ music reviewer
⏹️ fashion columnist
1) Name:
2) Age:
⏹️ 45-65
⏹️ 65+
3) I am a failed
⏹️ academic
⏹️ video game reviewer
⏹️ music reviewer
⏹️ fashion columnist
December 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In exceptional cases, TERF Inc., d/b/a GC, llc, will consider applications from American failed academics above the age of 40. Applications must demonstrate an early commitment to blaming the woke academy for a lack of tenure. Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan patreon support an asset.
Konichiwa, new Japanese users!
December 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Konichiwa, new Japanese users!
And now to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol for the first time
December 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
And now to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol for the first time
And now for some Xmas eve taco salad and beer
December 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
And now for some Xmas eve taco salad and beer
Quote your favorite pic from 2025
December 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Quote your favorite pic from 2025
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It’s not just unfair to me as a trans woman, it’s unfair to me as a teacher if every single student has a heckler’s veto over every lecture, discussion section, and assignment. The incentive structure you’re creating is for everyone to submit “MAGA” written in crayon and dare me not to give As.
December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It’s not just unfair to me as a trans woman, it’s unfair to me as a teacher if every single student has a heckler’s veto over every lecture, discussion section, and assignment. The incentive structure you’re creating is for everyone to submit “MAGA” written in crayon and dare me not to give As.
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Biases as a trans person aside, I think at some point we need to make a stand simply because Republican affirmative action becoming the norm will make it functionally impossible to teach.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Biases as a trans person aside, I think at some point we need to make a stand simply because Republican affirmative action becoming the norm will make it functionally impossible to teach.
Me: "we don't recruit! it's bad manners!"
Also me: tracking my annual upstream and downstream totals in TransWay
Also me: tracking my annual upstream and downstream totals in TransWay
Yeah, but I have at least one that counts for me now so you're still getting some credit
December 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Me: "we don't recruit! it's bad manners!"
Also me: tracking my annual upstream and downstream totals in TransWay
Also me: tracking my annual upstream and downstream totals in TransWay