Rose Casey
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Rose Casey
@rosecasey.bsky.social
· Apr 15
Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
Want to do something *good* today?
Send a note of support to Becky Pepper-Jackson from WV, who's standing up to anti-trans bigotry in school sports at SCOTUS today.
All messages are approved by my friend Mollie of WV ACLU, so only positive messages will get through!
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Send a note of support to Becky Pepper-Jackson from WV, who's standing up to anti-trans bigotry in school sports at SCOTUS today.
All messages are approved by my friend Mollie of WV ACLU, so only positive messages will get through!
padlet.com/mkennedy243/...
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Want to do something *good* today?
Send a note of support to Becky Pepper-Jackson from WV, who's standing up to anti-trans bigotry in school sports at SCOTUS today.
All messages are approved by my friend Mollie of WV ACLU, so only positive messages will get through!
padlet.com/mkennedy243/...
Send a note of support to Becky Pepper-Jackson from WV, who's standing up to anti-trans bigotry in school sports at SCOTUS today.
All messages are approved by my friend Mollie of WV ACLU, so only positive messages will get through!
padlet.com/mkennedy243/...
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"This is rather dramatic but lost in the general media turmoil over everything else - 🇺🇸 is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law."
Full list of orgs here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Full list of orgs here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
"This is rather dramatic but lost in the general media turmoil over everything else - 🇺🇸 is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law."
Full list of orgs here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Full list of orgs here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.
A Founding Father of NPR Worries About Its Fate
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.
As of today, I am "I now need progressive lenses" years old
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
As of today, I am "I now need progressive lenses" years old
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Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Smart thread on AI that says something I've not seen articulated before
A better framework is to address the broader project of AI to displace interpersonal contact, thought, negotiation; and to normalize this project. This aspect of AI is essential to the economic agenda that it underpins. 2/n
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Smart thread on AI that says something I've not seen articulated before
On AI, from the student perspective: my oldest is in his 1st year at college & has been repeatedly accused of AI. He's had to go to profs to explain that he didn't use AI: its just that both of his parents are English professors and he really does write in complex sentences & understands Althusser.
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
On AI, from the student perspective: my oldest is in his 1st year at college & has been repeatedly accused of AI. He's had to go to profs to explain that he didn't use AI: its just that both of his parents are English professors and he really does write in complex sentences & understands Althusser.
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I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
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At last, a chance to repost my favourite ever font-related controversy with alt-text, now that Calibri is back in the news.
December 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
At last, a chance to repost my favourite ever font-related controversy with alt-text, now that Calibri is back in the news.
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The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.
gothamist.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
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CRUCIAL! by Stephanie Foote
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
Project MUSE - Almost Heaven: West Virginia University and the Transcendental Grifter
muse.jhu.edu
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
CRUCIAL! by Stephanie Foote
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I had such a wonderful two-day visit to Kenyon this week to talk about my book!
Ask me to visit your campus!
Ask me to visit your campus!
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I had such a wonderful two-day visit to Kenyon this week to talk about my book!
Ask me to visit your campus!
Ask me to visit your campus!
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL.,
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Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-13165-IT
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
October 31, 2025
TALWANI, D.J.
Pending before the court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc.
No. 3] seeking to enjoin, on an emergency basis, Defendants' November 1, 2025 suspension of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP"). For the reasons stated
below, Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action and are likely to succeed on their claim that
Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is unlawful. Where that suspension of benefits rested
on an erroneous construction of the relevant statutory provisions, the court will allow Defendants
to consider whether they will authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November, and report
back to the court no later than Monday, November 3, 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiczapq36myqhzcrdp4jfodg5rkso7nuvlta4e5b5r4l5upce7b3le@jpeg)
![As both parties acknowledge, Congress has not yet appropriated any new funds for SNAP
benefits for Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025. Pls.' Mem. 6 [Doc. No. 4];
Defs.' Opp'n 7 [Doc. No. 18]. But Congress took steps to protect against the deprivation of
SNAP assistance. In the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Pub. L. No. 118-42, § 6, 138
Stat. 25, 93-94, Congress separately appropriated $6 billion to the SNAP program "to remain available through September 30, 2026" and "be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations." See also Pub. L.
No. 119-4, § 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature
of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. § 2014(a) and the appropriation of these funds to be available
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Case 1:25-cv-13165-IT
Document 26 Filed 10/31/25
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through this current fiscal year, the government is obligated to use this contingent reserve
account to fund SNAP "as may become necessary to carry out program operations." 138 Stat. at
93-94; Pls.' Mem. 11 [Doc. No. 4].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiac7aa6icx44x5xjkilpwj7il5oriyttttnrslzrhkwvw6b32cbnm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
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So there is a new article out about grade inflation at a certain school and people think it's funny that students told the student paper that the report was stressful and here's why I don't think it's funny
A friend of mine killed herself my senior year
It is a high pressure place
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A friend of mine killed herself my senior year
It is a high pressure place
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October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
So there is a new article out about grade inflation at a certain school and people think it's funny that students told the student paper that the report was stressful and here's why I don't think it's funny
A friend of mine killed herself my senior year
It is a high pressure place
and
A friend of mine killed herself my senior year
It is a high pressure place
and
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may I recommend having your library order @rosecasey.bsky.social 's book
October 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
may I recommend having your library order @rosecasey.bsky.social 's book
I'm so excited about this book!
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm so excited about this book!
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
An amazing feature of raising two boys almost entirely on my own: seeing that bond only grow after my eldest left for college, our mutual respect blossoming. It's especially gratifying that my simultaneously arty/macho fashion designer college kid newly sees me & my feminist parenting so positively.
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
An amazing feature of raising two boys almost entirely on my own: seeing that bond only grow after my eldest left for college, our mutual respect blossoming. It's especially gratifying that my simultaneously arty/macho fashion designer college kid newly sees me & my feminist parenting so positively.
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Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
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Happy official publication day to Close Reading for the Twenty- First Century
October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Happy official publication day to Close Reading for the Twenty- First Century
Okay, one more follow up: we know that associate profs often end up not far ahead of assistant profs. Has anyone had success (via legal or internal pressure) addressing situations when most assoc. profs in a dept have lower salaries than asst. profs? Or do we (academia) just accept this?
Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Okay, one more follow up: we know that associate profs often end up not far ahead of assistant profs. Has anyone had success (via legal or internal pressure) addressing situations when most assoc. profs in a dept have lower salaries than asst. profs? Or do we (academia) just accept this?
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Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Academics, I'm looking for any successful cases of challenging salary inversion/compression, including methods (internal persuasion, legal, etc.) DMs are open!
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🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
October 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.