Michael J. Murphy, PhD🏳️🌈
@emmjaymurphee.bsky.social
•Prof., Gender & Sexuality Stds., U. Illinois Springfield uis.edu/wgs
•Founding member, UIS United Faculty uisufinfo.wordpress.com/
•LGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history, faculty unions.
•Founding member, UIS United Faculty uisufinfo.wordpress.com/
•LGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history, faculty unions.
Already cut off all donations to my graduate alma mater (WashU) for how they treated pro-Palestinian activists last year. This would rise to a whole different level…
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Already cut off all donations to my graduate alma mater (WashU) for how they treated pro-Palestinian activists last year. This would rise to a whole different level…
“Art majors are unemployable!”😶
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Art majors are unemployable!”😶
Meeting to merge the tenure and non-tenure track faculty unions at University of Illinois Springfield! ✊
October 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Meeting to merge the tenure and non-tenure track faculty unions at University of Illinois Springfield! ✊
Chicago street art ✊
October 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Chicago street art ✊
Cats have backbone (unlike most universities)!
October 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Cats have backbone (unlike most universities)!
Chat do women archbishops have names?
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Chat do women archbishops have names?
Can we stop and marvel at the genius of this WGA logo? The balance between squares and lines, creating an optical impression of a map of the U.S. Truly genius. This is why we (still) need the arts!
October 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Can we stop and marvel at the genius of this WGA logo? The balance between squares and lines, creating an optical impression of a map of the U.S. Truly genius. This is why we (still) need the arts!
Antifa raising the flag over Iwo Jima (Feb 23, 1945)
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Antifa raising the flag over Iwo Jima (Feb 23, 1945)
My faculty union colleagues at new library groundbreaking, U Illinois Springfield.
September 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My faculty union colleagues at new library groundbreaking, U Illinois Springfield.
Participated in powerful faculty union action today!
September 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Participated in powerful faculty union action today!
Antifascist = pro-education!
September 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Antifascist = pro-education!
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk!
September 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk!
Prepping for faculty union contract action on UIS campus tomorrow. ✊
September 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Prepping for faculty union contract action on UIS campus tomorrow. ✊
Your silence will not save you! #AcademicSky
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Your silence will not save you! #AcademicSky
Soz! Can’t have my free speech rights. Still using them! ✊
September 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Soz! Can’t have my free speech rights. Still using them! ✊
That’s ok, I wasn’t using my 1A civil rights anyway!
September 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
That’s ok, I wasn’t using my 1A civil rights anyway!
Here are the course descriptions for children's literature courses from Texas A&M's catalog and the English Dept website at the main campus. The uni obv limits character count in course descriptions making it impossible to detail every aspect of a course in advance...as is typically the case.
September 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Here are the course descriptions for children's literature courses from Texas A&M's catalog and the English Dept website at the main campus. The uni obv limits character count in course descriptions making it impossible to detail every aspect of a course in advance...as is typically the case.
If the sex binary is so “natural” and “inevitable” why does the US government need to enforce it through extortionate behavior? 🧐#BrownUniversity
July 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
If the sex binary is so “natural” and “inevitable” why does the US government need to enforce it through extortionate behavior? 🧐#BrownUniversity
University of Illinois system president just emailed that some of our international students have had their student visas canceled, without even the courtesy of notification. This will cause many to abandon study in the U.S. Who would come here to study under such conditions?
April 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
University of Illinois system president just emailed that some of our international students have had their student visas canceled, without even the courtesy of notification. This will cause many to abandon study in the U.S. Who would come here to study under such conditions?