Crystal Broch Colombini
@crystalbc.bsky.social
Rhetoric & writing scholar, WPA in NYC, here for all things #teamrhetoric
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New episode of the Rhetoricity podcast featuring Dr. Derek G. Handley! We talk about his recent book Struggle for the City, which documents how Black communities organized to resist urban renewal in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and St. Paul. rhetoricity.libsyn.com/no-end-to-th...
Rhetoricity: No End to the Struggle: An Interview with Derek G. Handley
This episode features an interview with , author of the book . Dr. Handley is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is also affiliated faculty i...
rhetoricity.libsyn.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New episode of the Rhetoricity podcast featuring Dr. Derek G. Handley! We talk about his recent book Struggle for the City, which documents how Black communities organized to resist urban renewal in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and St. Paul. rhetoricity.libsyn.com/no-end-to-th...
Next century, please 🙏🏻
The first half of the 20th century was extraordinarily social—but now Americans are spending more time alone than ever. @dkthomp.bsky.social reports on the technological, sociological, and political forces that fueled an anti-social society: theatln.tc/NnZyqTgA
January 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Next century, please 🙏🏻
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
14/20
14/20
January 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
14/20
14/20
Really wish I could unwatch that bridge collapse video. Don’t click. 💔
March 26, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Really wish I could unwatch that bridge collapse video. Don’t click. 💔
This!
In The Double Shift I refer to this as the affective composition of labor and argue that it used to mask exploitation.
www.fastcompany.com/91054435/pay...
Forget the paycheck, employees really want a raise in emotional salary
It’s time to inject the workforce with a healthy dose of camaraderie and fulfillment, and it starts with upping employees’ emotional salary.
www.fastcompany.com
March 26, 2024 at 12:11 PM
This!
There are regular Friday December 15ths & then there are “your application for faculty development leave has been approved” Friday December 15ths. First sabbatical in 12 (endlessly challenging) years since the PhD. I have no words.
December 15, 2023 at 4:03 PM
There are regular Friday December 15ths & then there are “your application for faculty development leave has been approved” Friday December 15ths. First sabbatical in 12 (endlessly challenging) years since the PhD. I have no words.
Truly fantastic NCA— so grateful to have been program planner for ECS this year & to everyone who pitched, presented, and engaged with ECS panels!
For those of you attending NCA this week, please consider attending panels sponsored by my division, Economics, Communication & Society, this was a great lineup programmed by @crystalbc.bsky.social! Hope to see you there
November 19, 2023 at 8:46 PM
Truly fantastic NCA— so grateful to have been program planner for ECS this year & to everyone who pitched, presented, and engaged with ECS panels!
This sounds fantastic!
SUPER excited the the first draft of my edited book Deliberating the Declaration went to the press today. It’s a great volume and the uses/ misuses/ relevancies/ irrelevancies of the Declaration over time. Preview panel at NCA, Thurs, 3:30!
polisky polcomm teamrhetoric
polisky polcomm teamrhetoric
October 23, 2023 at 1:10 PM
This sounds fantastic!
In which Target not only vibe checks us, my fellow dark academics, but also makes us “wistfully” relevant. Now *that* is service.
Dark Academia is wistfully in session.
Delve into the high arts this fall. Expand your mind—and your wardrobe—with brooding reads, potent brews and scholarly threads to fully embrace this classic trend.
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October 19, 2023 at 2:58 AM
In which Target not only vibe checks us, my fellow dark academics, but also makes us “wistfully” relevant. Now *that* is service.
So lucky to be at the Manhattan screening of this unbelievably beautiful film tonight. ❤️❤️❤️
October 14, 2023 at 11:46 PM
So lucky to be at the Manhattan screening of this unbelievably beautiful film tonight. ❤️❤️❤️
In which my 6ft + wingspan is explained.
October 14, 2023 at 2:49 PM
In which my 6ft + wingspan is explained.
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Thus is an extraordinary piece of writing.
"We cannot cross until we carry each other,
all of us refugees, all of us prophets.
No more taking turns on history’s wheel,
trying to collect old debts no-one can pay."
"We cannot cross until we carry each other,
all of us refugees, all of us prophets.
No more taking turns on history’s wheel,
trying to collect old debts no-one can pay."
“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment.
jewishcurrents.org
October 12, 2023 at 9:09 PM
Thus is an extraordinary piece of writing.
"We cannot cross until we carry each other,
all of us refugees, all of us prophets.
No more taking turns on history’s wheel,
trying to collect old debts no-one can pay."
"We cannot cross until we carry each other,
all of us refugees, all of us prophets.
No more taking turns on history’s wheel,
trying to collect old debts no-one can pay."