Rachel Ellen Clark (she/her)
@rachelclark.bsky.social
English professor at Wartburg College in NE Iowa. Views presented here are mine, not my employer’s. Current research: Witchcraft and disability in the early modern Atlantic world. Research assistant: Jellybean 🐶
Today’s Canvas-setup procrastination strategy: translating the Eleanor Rykener record my damn self because I’m annoyed by other translations’ pronoun choices
August 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Today’s Canvas-setup procrastination strategy: translating the Eleanor Rykener record my damn self because I’m annoyed by other translations’ pronoun choices
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- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
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Sign the petition 👇
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- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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July 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
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The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible
June 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible
Also good: abyssal comb jelly, balloon worm, fragile pink sea urchin, giant ostracod, midwater eelpout, predatory tunicate, vampire squid, wigdroid jelly (@montereybayaquarium.org has a great list here: www.montereybayaquarium.org/visit/exhibi...)
May 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Also good: abyssal comb jelly, balloon worm, fragile pink sea urchin, giant ostracod, midwater eelpout, predatory tunicate, vampire squid, wigdroid jelly (@montereybayaquarium.org has a great list here: www.montereybayaquarium.org/visit/exhibi...)
@booker.senate.gov emphasizing that the Declaration of Independence is a Declaration of Interdependence (“we mutually pledge…”) is what got me right in the gut. #redeemthedream
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
@booker.senate.gov emphasizing that the Declaration of Independence is a Declaration of Interdependence (“we mutually pledge…”) is what got me right in the gut. #redeemthedream
#Severance is making me nostalgic for the heyday of Lost fandom, when we were making theories about hairbrushes
a man in a blue shirt and tie is standing in front of a wall with a lot of papers on it .
Alt: Charlie Day’s character in Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia standing in front of his chaotic Pepe Silvia conspiracy theory wall, with red string all over the place connecting different papers
media.tenor.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
#Severance is making me nostalgic for the heyday of Lost fandom, when we were making theories about hairbrushes
At various points I was into all of these except Insects. Not listed but also childhood obsessions: Alexandre Dumas novels, Golden Age detectives, ragtime music, King Arthur, Robin Hood, and reading the dictionary and encyclopedia
Every kid needed to pick at least one thing out of the Weird Thing My Kid is Into Box:
Greek Mythology
Titanic
Pompeii
Horses
Sharks
Dinosaurs
Space
Insects
Maudlin Poetry
I took Pompeii and Dinosaurs, though I dabbled in Sharks
Greek Mythology
Titanic
Pompeii
Horses
Sharks
Dinosaurs
Space
Insects
Maudlin Poetry
I took Pompeii and Dinosaurs, though I dabbled in Sharks
February 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
At various points I was into all of these except Insects. Not listed but also childhood obsessions: Alexandre Dumas novels, Golden Age detectives, ragtime music, King Arthur, Robin Hood, and reading the dictionary and encyclopedia
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Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
February 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
“See? Pouchless” 🐐🐐🐐
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“See? Pouchless” 🐐🐐🐐
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i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!
trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.
Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.
January 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!
I can only assume that Ugg accidentally mass-produced something that was only ever supposed to be an SNL skit
Congratulations to Ugg for achieving remarkable new heights in boot ugliness
January 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I can only assume that Ugg accidentally mass-produced something that was only ever supposed to be an SNL skit
Congratulations to Ugg for achieving remarkable new heights in boot ugliness
January 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Congratulations to Ugg for achieving remarkable new heights in boot ugliness
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025
Unfortunately I did cackle at this
Browsing the Kindle offers today and this absolutely cursed cover came up in the recommendeds. Could write an entire thesis on how this is the most wonderfully misunderstood image choice:
January 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Unfortunately I did cackle at this
SABBATICAL APPROVED, Jan-May 2026 (lord willing and the creek don’t rise)
December 20, 2024 at 3:57 AM
SABBATICAL APPROVED, Jan-May 2026 (lord willing and the creek don’t rise)
Guess what’s on my Magic & Witchcraft syllabus next semester
December 19, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Guess what’s on my Magic & Witchcraft syllabus next semester
They call this the Festival of Trees but there’s never any feasting. I think someone should eat the tree that was set up by the local “crisis pregnancy center” though
December 6, 2024 at 11:43 PM
They call this the Festival of Trees but there’s never any feasting. I think someone should eat the tree that was set up by the local “crisis pregnancy center” though
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Folks may not realize you can subscribe to a block list and it will block everyone on the list, as well as new additions for you!
Yes! If you go to the list and click subscribe, it will give you the option to block everyone on the list!
November 21, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Folks may not realize you can subscribe to a block list and it will block everyone on the list, as well as new additions for you!
Current reading-for-pleasure status: Cherie Dimaline is a genius (currently in the middle of Empire of Wild; VenCo is up next)
November 23, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Current reading-for-pleasure status: Cherie Dimaline is a genius (currently in the middle of Empire of Wild; VenCo is up next)
My mom passed away this morning. poets.org/poem/raincoat
The Raincoat
When the doctor suggested surgery
poets.org
November 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
My mom passed away this morning. poets.org/poem/raincoat
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One of the most frustrating narratives links humanities majors w poor employment prospects and outcomes. “The data really does say otherwise.” I wrote abt the new & important Humanities Indicators state level report for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social 🗃️ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/14/h...
Humanities and Jobs Data: What's the Real Story? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Escalating attacks on the humanities often cite the problem of employment for humanities majors; a new report shows otherwise.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
December 14, 2023 at 12:19 PM
One of the most frustrating narratives links humanities majors w poor employment prospects and outcomes. “The data really does say otherwise.” I wrote abt the new & important Humanities Indicators state level report for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social 🗃️ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/14/h...
I am BEGGING: put walls back into houses 2k24
February 6, 2024 at 7:43 PM
I am BEGGING: put walls back into houses 2k24
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THIS THREAD
asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
December 1, 2023 at 4:23 PM
THIS THREAD