Becky Hixon
@hixonbecky.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Lourdes University (views my own)
Shakespeare, adaptation, and gender and sexuality studies 🥸🤗🐙
Shakespeare, adaptation, and gender and sexuality studies 🥸🤗🐙
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Becky Hixon
@hixonbecky.bsky.social
· Jun 24
Romancing the Shrew, Redeeming the Tamer: The Taming of the Shrew 's Pop-Feminist Paradox
| Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org
I forgot to share this earlier, but my article "Romancing the Shrew, Redeeming the Tamer: The Taming of the Shrew's Pop-Feminist Paradox" was published in Borrowers and Lenders this Spring.
borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/ar...
What Taming adaptations have stuck with you the most?
borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/ar...
What Taming adaptations have stuck with you the most?
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I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
Excuse me while I cry over this incredible discussion of what makes lives grievable with unfortunately still relevant tie-ins to Gaza. I just rewatched the Hunger Games movies last year and now it looks like I have to watch them again! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Hunger Games x Frames of War
Podcast Episode · Material Girls · 08/05/2025 · 1h 5m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Excuse me while I cry over this incredible discussion of what makes lives grievable with unfortunately still relevant tie-ins to Gaza. I just rewatched the Hunger Games movies last year and now it looks like I have to watch them again! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Recently turned in a deeply researched draft of a book on What AI Actually Is and reader, this is 100% correct
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
MBA-brain is real.
They’re literally advertising it.
July 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Recently turned in a deeply researched draft of a book on What AI Actually Is and reader, this is 100% correct
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As Google builds more data centers to support its AI ambitions, the firm said its carbon emissions increased 51% btwn 2019 & 2024. But a new report paints a bleaker picture: In those 5 years, Google's emissions increased 65% & jumped more than 1500% since 2010 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google undercounts its carbon emissions, report finds
Research says Google’s carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimed
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As Google builds more data centers to support its AI ambitions, the firm said its carbon emissions increased 51% btwn 2019 & 2024. But a new report paints a bleaker picture: In those 5 years, Google's emissions increased 65% & jumped more than 1500% since 2010 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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It's almost like there's actually really good, solid information, history, and expertise about transgender medicine, including youth health care, out there and the powers and pundits that be--from SCOTUS to The Atlantic--are willfully ignoring it just to push a horrifically cruel agenda.
Friends, I still need to listen in full, but the editors of @sunypress.bsky.social's A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US appeared on the New Books Network a couple weeks ago. Tune in for a 1-hr distillation of their "incredibly comprehensive" 800-pp vol!
newbooksnetwork.com/a-history-of...
newbooksnetwork.com/a-history-of...
Carolyn Wolf-Gould et al., "A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States" (SUNY Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's almost like there's actually really good, solid information, history, and expertise about transgender medicine, including youth health care, out there and the powers and pundits that be--from SCOTUS to The Atlantic--are willfully ignoring it just to push a horrifically cruel agenda.
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The bill "provides its most generous tax breaks early on and reserves some of its most painful benefit cuts until after the 2026 midterm elections"
Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The bill "provides its most generous tax breaks early on and reserves some of its most painful benefit cuts until after the 2026 midterm elections"
I forgot to share this earlier, but my article "Romancing the Shrew, Redeeming the Tamer: The Taming of the Shrew's Pop-Feminist Paradox" was published in Borrowers and Lenders this Spring.
borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/ar...
What Taming adaptations have stuck with you the most?
borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/ar...
What Taming adaptations have stuck with you the most?
Romancing the Shrew, Redeeming the Tamer: The Taming of the Shrew 's Pop-Feminist Paradox
| Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I forgot to share this earlier, but my article "Romancing the Shrew, Redeeming the Tamer: The Taming of the Shrew's Pop-Feminist Paradox" was published in Borrowers and Lenders this Spring.
borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/ar...
What Taming adaptations have stuck with you the most?
borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/ar...
What Taming adaptations have stuck with you the most?
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I added half a dozen new entries to the Bibliography of Medieval Trans Studies, with a shoutout to @tswingard.bsky.social who added a few things recently as well. (Thank you!!)
There are a ton of great resources on here, many of which are freely accessible.
There are a ton of great resources on here, many of which are freely accessible.
Bibliography of Medieval Trans Studies
A Bibliography of Medieval Trans Studies This list builds on the works of several other great queer lists, namely: Lucy Allen's "A 'Queer Medieval' Reading List," Jeanne de Montbaston: Reading Mediev...
docs.google.com
October 7, 2024 at 6:03 PM
I added half a dozen new entries to the Bibliography of Medieval Trans Studies, with a shoutout to @tswingard.bsky.social who added a few things recently as well. (Thank you!!)
There are a ton of great resources on here, many of which are freely accessible.
There are a ton of great resources on here, many of which are freely accessible.
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DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds?
RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them
D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?
RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them
D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?
May 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds?
RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them
D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?
RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them
D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his pay-roll.
I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man's door.
- “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am not on his pay-roll.
I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man's door.
- “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
February 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his pay-roll.
I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man's door.
- “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am not on his pay-roll.
I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man's door.
- “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
My cat doesn’t understand “this will kill you” so I’ve started turning into the Trunchbull whenever she starts trying to sniff at the chocolate I’m eating
January 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My cat doesn’t understand “this will kill you” so I’ve started turning into the Trunchbull whenever she starts trying to sniff at the chocolate I’m eating
I had a lot of fun talking about Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things with Vanessa Zoltan for this episode!
If you like (or feel ambivalent about) romcoms, check out their latest season! They’ve just started their newest arc on teen films.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
If you like (or feel ambivalent about) romcoms, check out their latest season! They’ve just started their newest arc on teen films.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
10 Things I Hate About You
Podcast Episode · Hot and Bothered · S5 E34 · 1h 16m
podcasts.apple.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I had a lot of fun talking about Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things with Vanessa Zoltan for this episode!
If you like (or feel ambivalent about) romcoms, check out their latest season! They’ve just started their newest arc on teen films.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
If you like (or feel ambivalent about) romcoms, check out their latest season! They’ve just started their newest arc on teen films.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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Universal Basic Income saves lives. It is a life-saving policy.
A study of over 7 million people from 2000-2019 across 37 countries found a significant impact of cash transfers on all-cause mortality. Women's deaths fell by 20%. Deaths of kids under age 5 fell by 8%. The greater the amount and universality, the greater the impact.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 27, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Universal Basic Income saves lives. It is a life-saving policy.
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There is no reason to use Gen AI to illustrate anything. There’s excellent clipart you can get very cheaply. A lot of human illustrators will do something very cheaply if they believe in the project and know your funds are limited. Gen AI is created from stolen labor.
December 15, 2024 at 6:56 PM
There is no reason to use Gen AI to illustrate anything. There’s excellent clipart you can get very cheaply. A lot of human illustrators will do something very cheaply if they believe in the project and know your funds are limited. Gen AI is created from stolen labor.
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"Prompt Engineers" swear they are doing something b/c they had A Thought. But you fools. You bores. You absolute fucking turnips.
The Art isn't the Thought, the Idea. The Art is The Work.
And this isn't some art hoe bullshit, this is about craft.
The Art isn't the Thought, the Idea. The Art is The Work.
And this isn't some art hoe bullshit, this is about craft.
December 11, 2024 at 7:24 PM
"Prompt Engineers" swear they are doing something b/c they had A Thought. But you fools. You bores. You absolute fucking turnips.
The Art isn't the Thought, the Idea. The Art is The Work.
And this isn't some art hoe bullshit, this is about craft.
The Art isn't the Thought, the Idea. The Art is The Work.
And this isn't some art hoe bullshit, this is about craft.
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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I was told recently that a major reason humanists aren’t in as many upper admin positions is that we’re viewed as annoying progress blockers because we ask inconvenient questions and also because we’re comfortable sitting w ambiguity & discomfort and also don’t rush to the nearest solution as an end
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I was told recently that a major reason humanists aren’t in as many upper admin positions is that we’re viewed as annoying progress blockers because we ask inconvenient questions and also because we’re comfortable sitting w ambiguity & discomfort and also don’t rush to the nearest solution as an end
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Genocide was coined in 20thC, new word for an old process. But this one is so awful new words are needed: Scholasticide (Karma Nabulsi). Unchilding (Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian). James Elder from UNICEF describes a new category here- fourth degree burns, when no skin is left.
UNICEF Spokesperson Says Gaza Genocide Has Forced Him to Learn New Medical Terms
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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December 4, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Genocide was coined in 20thC, new word for an old process. But this one is so awful new words are needed: Scholasticide (Karma Nabulsi). Unchilding (Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian). James Elder from UNICEF describes a new category here- fourth degree burns, when no skin is left.
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Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
November 17, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Took the baby on a trial car run to practice for winter break when we must hit the road to see the fam. She was NOT pleased but the drive through workers were delighted by her, which seemed to soothe her ego a bit.
November 24, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Took the baby on a trial car run to practice for winter break when we must hit the road to see the fam. She was NOT pleased but the drive through workers were delighted by her, which seemed to soothe her ego a bit.
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Every one of us needs to watch this video of NM Rep Melanie Stansbury giving her clear-eyed view of a bill sponsored by JD Vance in the Senate regarding changes the next administration intends to make to the federal workforce
Due to length, I’ve had to break it up into 6 parts
Part One:
Due to length, I’ve had to break it up into 6 parts
Part One:
November 22, 2024 at 5:51 AM
Every one of us needs to watch this video of NM Rep Melanie Stansbury giving her clear-eyed view of a bill sponsored by JD Vance in the Senate regarding changes the next administration intends to make to the federal workforce
Due to length, I’ve had to break it up into 6 parts
Part One:
Due to length, I’ve had to break it up into 6 parts
Part One:
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A key reason voters don't believe the fascists are fascists is that major media outlets keep normalizing them with cover stories cueing the public they are just like Hollywood celebrities.
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
November 21, 2024 at 7:30 PM
A key reason voters don't believe the fascists are fascists is that major media outlets keep normalizing them with cover stories cueing the public they are just like Hollywood celebrities.
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"