Helen Kapstein
@wordbird20.bsky.social
postcolonial scholar, mama, cat lady, alto (not necessarily in that order)
My institution, #CUNY, is happy to pay someone up to $200,000 to “advance AI.” Meanwhile, I fight the good fight to keep it the fuck out of my classroom, for a heck of a lot less.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My institution, #CUNY, is happy to pay someone up to $200,000 to “advance AI.” Meanwhile, I fight the good fight to keep it the fuck out of my classroom, for a heck of a lot less.
Reposted by Helen Kapstein
Explaining why he pardoned Santos, Trump openly admits crime is ok if you’re a loyal Republican
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Explaining why he pardoned Santos, Trump openly admits crime is ok if you’re a loyal Republican
Reposted by Helen Kapstein
Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
Zoë Wicomb, 1948—2025, RIP
Zoë Wicomb, the pioneering South African author and academic, has died in her home of Glasgow, Scotland. She was 77 years old. Born in the then Cape Province, Wicomb was raised in Namaqualand, then at...
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
#Petroforms the book is real and I’m talking about it tomorrow at John Jay College. @wvupress.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#Petroforms the book is real and I’m talking about it tomorrow at John Jay College. @wvupress.bsky.social
Trump administration ending funding for Hispanic-Serving Institutions, claiming they are “racially discriminatory”?! Everything is upside down and back to front. What does this mean for @cuny.edu? For @johnjayco.bsky.social??
U.S. Department of Education Ends Funding to Racially Discriminatory Discretionary Grant Programs at Minority-Serving Institutions
Today, the Department announced that it will end discretionary funding to several Minority-Serving Institutions grant programs that discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to instit...
www.ed.gov
September 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Trump administration ending funding for Hispanic-Serving Institutions, claiming they are “racially discriminatory”?! Everything is upside down and back to front. What does this mean for @cuny.edu? For @johnjayco.bsky.social??
Saw this wonderfully original documentary tonight at the Foreign Press Association. Highly recommend: youtu.be/OMytTsr2psM?... #Khartoummovie
September 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Saw this wonderfully original documentary tonight at the Foreign Press Association. Highly recommend: youtu.be/OMytTsr2psM?... #Khartoummovie
Excited to be coming to Galway for this! Will be presenting on Southern African archives & chairing a #petrocultures panel.
Check out our updated programme for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference ‘Erosion – Creimeadh’ in Galway.
Speaker biographies have also been added to the website.
asle.org.uk/events/galwa...
Let the countdown begin! ⏱️
Speaker biographies have also been added to the website.
asle.org.uk/events/galwa...
Let the countdown begin! ⏱️
August 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Excited to be coming to Galway for this! Will be presenting on Southern African archives & chairing a #petrocultures panel.
What could possibly go wrong?
EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator.
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
Shit, man. www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/e... Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor who starred as Theo in ‘The Cosby Show,’ dead at 54 | CNN
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor who starred as Theo in ‘The Cosby Show,’ dead at 54 | CNN
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, an actor and artist who rose to fame as a child as Theodore Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” has died, according to a source close to the actor.
www.cnn.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Shit, man. www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/e... Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor who starred as Theo in ‘The Cosby Show,’ dead at 54 | CNN
Anyone speak Portuguese? Trying to renew a pp (in case, you know, we need an out) and the translate fn spit this out: “semre scenaie an original documento, excluding a cow,” which I am assuming is not correct.
July 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Anyone speak Portuguese? Trying to renew a pp (in case, you know, we need an out) and the translate fn spit this out: “semre scenaie an original documento, excluding a cow,” which I am assuming is not correct.
Your monthly contribution and mine now count for that much more. #plannedparenthood
Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers of healthcare for poor people across the country. 70% of its patients are under 150% of the poverty line. In vast parts of the country, it is the only place people on Medicaid can get reproductive care.
The Supreme Court just ruled to defund it.
The Supreme Court just ruled to defund it.
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ALLOWS states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Your monthly contribution and mine now count for that much more. #plannedparenthood
I thought they were all in love with Diane!!
June 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I thought they were all in love with Diane!!
She was everything : www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Loretta Swit a.k.a. Hot Lips of TV’s ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 87
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
She was everything : www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Move over, Nadine Gordimer! According to Google AI, I wrote Burger’s Daughter!!
May 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Move over, Nadine Gordimer! According to Google AI, I wrote Burger’s Daughter!!
“Art history beats finance” in degree showdown: www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance
In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.
www.cnbc.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Art history beats finance” in degree showdown: www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
Neuroscience backs up these stances—you are more likely to think that strangers are “squalid” if you’re conservative and more likely to be open to other people’s ideas, lifestyles, foods—you name it—if liberal.
Immigration policy in my two countries, 2025:
🇺🇸No longer give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, only white people who didn’t like that apartheid ended
🇬🇧Stay away all of you squalid strangers
🇺🇸No longer give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, only white people who didn’t like that apartheid ended
🇬🇧Stay away all of you squalid strangers
May 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Neuroscience backs up these stances—you are more likely to think that strangers are “squalid” if you’re conservative and more likely to be open to other people’s ideas, lifestyles, foods—you name it—if liberal.
Tomorrow! Excited about the fourth and last installment of this amazing energy hums teach-in. I’ll be presenting on corporate pedagogy in the classroom.
Please join us for the fourth and final installment of our Energy Democracy teach-in series on Thursday 8 May at 11am. The fourth session is based upon the fourth module of our syllabus—on “democracy” and “case studies in energy democracy.” More info and link to Zoom meeting: staceybalkan@gmail.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Tomorrow! Excited about the fourth and last installment of this amazing energy hums teach-in. I’ll be presenting on corporate pedagogy in the classroom.
Reposted by Helen Kapstein
Please join us for the fourth and final installment of our Energy Democracy teach-in series on Thursday 8 May at 11am. The fourth session is based upon the fourth module of our syllabus—on “democracy” and “case studies in energy democracy.” More info and link to Zoom meeting: staceybalkan@gmail.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Please join us for the fourth and final installment of our Energy Democracy teach-in series on Thursday 8 May at 11am. The fourth session is based upon the fourth module of our syllabus—on “democracy” and “case studies in energy democracy.” More info and link to Zoom meeting: staceybalkan@gmail.com
Ripped from the 19th century headlines?!?
May 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ripped from the 19th century headlines?!?
BREAKING Federal judge in Vermont orders release of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi!!
April 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
BREAKING Federal judge in Vermont orders release of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi!!
May I suggest: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
So we have to pay for fashy kitsch out of canceled NEH money www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/a...
Trump Administration Seeks Artists for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Statues
Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
May I suggest: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”