Rad Pedagogy
@radpedagogy.bsky.social
Nothing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast explores critical approaches to teaching and learning, in conversation with leading teachers, scholars, and activists. Co-hosted by Lucia Hulsether and Tina Pippin.
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Is the “strange and wicked problem” for colleges so-called grade inflation, or is the issue the widespread cultish (and creepily punitive) insistence that grades have any place in learning whatsoever?
IN THIS ESSAY, TITLED “ENOUGH OF THIS COP SHIT,” I WILL…
#edsky #pedagogy #edusky
IN THIS ESSAY, TITLED “ENOUGH OF THIS COP SHIT,” I WILL…
#edsky #pedagogy #edusky
On the surface, grade inflation might seem simple to address, @ibogost.com writes. But it’s a strange and wicked problem on campus, with no single cause or obvious solution:
Why Students Are Obsessed With ‘Points Taken Off’
Students and professors are in a drawn-out battle over grade inflation. It may never end.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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organizing is not concierge service.
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
organizing is not concierge service.
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
Our latest episode is dedicated to anyone who has ever done work they love in an institutional context where harassment + betrayal are endemic. What pedagogies emerge in/from that dynamic? Can we make institutions that love us back?
Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.
Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.
Love Us Back: Queer Commitment After Institutional Betrayal
Podcast Episode · Nothing Never Happens · 11/01/2025 · 1h 20m
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November 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Our latest episode is dedicated to anyone who has ever done work they love in an institutional context where harassment + betrayal are endemic. What pedagogies emerge in/from that dynamic? Can we make institutions that love us back?
Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.
Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.
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Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”
September 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”
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snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.
September 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"
‘You just have to learn to play the game’: survival, resentment and resignation in women academics’ narratives of precarity
This paper discusses precarious academic labour and its implications for gender and interrelated inequalities, drawing on narrative interviews with temporarily employed UK women academics. It ident...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"
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I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant
Philosophers don't want to admit it, but Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place) is a pretty close approximation of many real philosophers.
an interesting subtopic! which shows/movies are beloved by the profession for Getting It Right! Lawyers famously love MY COUSIN VINNIE, doctors I believe love SCRUBS, apparently Aussie barristers are surprisingly fond of RAKE's depiction of some aspects of the law.
September 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant
“You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
But […] I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
But […] I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
August 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
But […] I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
But […] I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
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As a special practice for the "I can't believe we're supposed to do our routine, capitalism-maintaining things" crowd, of which I am one, let's *do something today that is not one of those things* & that's freaky even for us. (What this is will depend on what your own freak baseline is.)
August 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
As a special practice for the "I can't believe we're supposed to do our routine, capitalism-maintaining things" crowd, of which I am one, let's *do something today that is not one of those things* & that's freaky even for us. (What this is will depend on what your own freak baseline is.)
Liberal arts folks are always like “Yay!! We got a Dean / Provost / President with a humanities background!” not yet grasping that this background often makes them more, not less, strategically positioned to murder all our programs.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
August 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Liberal arts folks are always like “Yay!! We got a Dean / Provost / President with a humanities background!” not yet grasping that this background often makes them more, not less, strategically positioned to murder all our programs.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
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ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS:
Virginia Tech Humanities for Public Service Major
How one interdisciplinary department created a new major to better serve its students’ career ambitions
www.acls.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS:
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VT Religion and Culture is truly such a gem of a department and is absolutely stacked with amazing and kind scholars. I’ve benefitted immensely from the generosity of my colleagues and know how much we all have given to our teaching and service. The shortsightedness of this decision absolutely blows
just got word that my department's being shut down. two things:
1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.
2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.
2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
August 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
VT Religion and Culture is truly such a gem of a department and is absolutely stacked with amazing and kind scholars. I’ve benefitted immensely from the generosity of my colleagues and know how much we all have given to our teaching and service. The shortsightedness of this decision absolutely blows
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It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
July 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
The Religion and Culture department at VA Tech is a standard-bearer in humanities research. It’s full of rad people doing actually interesting things.
This is a devastating loss, seemingly driven by a dean hungry to flex power regardless of the consequences to people and pedagogy.
#AcademicSky
This is a devastating loss, seemingly driven by a dean hungry to flex power regardless of the consequences to people and pedagogy.
#AcademicSky
Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
August 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The Religion and Culture department at VA Tech is a standard-bearer in humanities research. It’s full of rad people doing actually interesting things.
This is a devastating loss, seemingly driven by a dean hungry to flex power regardless of the consequences to people and pedagogy.
#AcademicSky
This is a devastating loss, seemingly driven by a dean hungry to flex power regardless of the consequences to people and pedagogy.
#AcademicSky
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"We are witnessing authoritarian consolidation—not the rise or threat of fascism, but its enactment. Many people are understandably voicing alarm. In fact, it’s clear that alarm is all some people have to offer, including Democratic leaders." organizingmythoughts.org/you-must-pro...
August 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"We are witnessing authoritarian consolidation—not the rise or threat of fascism, but its enactment. Many people are understandably voicing alarm. In fact, it’s clear that alarm is all some people have to offer, including Democratic leaders." organizingmythoughts.org/you-must-pro...
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If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.
You Must Protect Anyone Chased by the Fascists
"We have to define the politics of opposition."
organizingmythoughts.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.
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I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.
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Taking Action in Higher Ed
Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.
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August 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.
halperta.com/shalperta%20...
halperta.com/shalperta%20...