Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct
@erindwyer.bsky.social
History professor @ OU, views are my own. Author of Mastering Emotions, 2021. I write about slavery, emotions, & poison, I skeet about teaching, politics, & pop culture. She / hers. Proud union member. Live in Detroit but my heart is still in NOLA
I thought you were fae but you’re clearly from another planet, either way you’re doing the best you can with a terrestrial form.
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This spider walk lives in my head and I recently made my partner (not a taskmaster viewer) watch this challenge just to show him this brain worm of a “walk.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It's a shame I have an ethical compass being being a political consultant is the greatest grift. You say "Hey Pete, grow a scruffy beard and throw trans people under the bus with both hands, that will be one gazillion dollars, 'k bye!"
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
When we lived in Boston I LOVED going to the Cape in the winter, it felt so haunted. And you find an unsettling amount of bones.
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct
also would just like to voice my disappointment that this episode was not called "Wenches on the Benches" #Taskmaster
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
See also Sinead O’Connor’s work, my first understanding of British politics as a kid came from “Black Boys on Mopeds.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When we first moved here I got made fun of for pronouncing the big street near us like a French word, Livernwah. The median local pronunciation is “Livernoy,” but our Detroit born and raised daughter says “Livernoise.” It’s the Michigan hard S.
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We have family in Connecticut and one mentioned to her neighbor that she has family in Detroit, he immediately replied “that’s impossible, no one lives in Detroit.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
When people who don’t live in Detroit first learned we bought a house in Detroit people would ask us “what about when you have kids? What about the schools??” Like we hadn’t thought of that, and like sending our kid to a public school that’s actually integrated wasn’t a major reason for moving here.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A veritable Carmen Sandiego search for sex pests.
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"We've put you on a pedestal, it's also a bludgeon!"
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Now we turn to Door Dash for their take on jobs outlook in November..."
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I often think of Frederick Douglass leaving an August 1862 meeting with Lincoln & going on to write that he thought they'd never see abolition realized under Lincoln, meanwhile that same meeting made Lincoln sure he needed to pass the Preliminary Emancipation proclamation, & he did weeks later.
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This was my first thought too!!!
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM