Holly Hassel
@hollyjhassel.bsky.social
writing teacher and WPA, feminist, vegetarian, mom, ex-middle school football coach, Lions Fan, coauthor https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/6535-reaching-all-writers, 1st gen college grad, 1× Jeopardy! champ, Keweenaw
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November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
#DetroitLions
Working on this. It's writing itself.
Working on this. It's writing itself.
October 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#DetroitLions
Working on this. It's writing itself.
Working on this. It's writing itself.
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Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽♀️
September 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽♀️
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Career Advice | A Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny
July 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Career Advice | A Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny
For every academic who has had to write something with others against their will. :)
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
#committees, #reports #academicwriting #academicsky
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
#committees, #reports #academicwriting #academicsky
The Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have (opinion)
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write.
www.insidehighered.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
For every academic who has had to write something with others against their will. :)
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
#committees, #reports #academicwriting #academicsky
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
#committees, #reports #academicwriting #academicsky
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Once a rural hospital closes, it’s not coming back. We’re looking at irreversible damage to healthcare for rural Americans. Every story should mention this.
July 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Once a rural hospital closes, it’s not coming back. We’re looking at irreversible damage to healthcare for rural Americans. Every story should mention this.
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What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
July 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken Congress?
Our corrupt Supreme Court?
Our ridiculous buffoon President?
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A Pell Grant and work study helped me get through college. Others deserve that chance as well. #AcademicSky
Trump planning to make it harder to go to college (unless you're rich) by cutting both Pell Grants and work study programs, all to give massive tax cuts to billionaires.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which may limit low-income students’ college access
About 40% of undergraduates rely on Pell Grants to pay for college, and experts say if the plans are enacted, many of the lowest-income students would be forced to drop out.
www.nbcnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A Pell Grant and work study helped me get through college. Others deserve that chance as well. #AcademicSky
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Filed for a preliminary injunction in our suit against the attack on NEH, & it seems our case will be looked at alongside the Authors Guild suit. Both approaches are vital, & they're different from each other. Will keep you posted. Plz help with donation to Pave the Way www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
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May 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Filed for a preliminary injunction in our suit against the attack on NEH, & it seems our case will be looked at alongside the Authors Guild suit. Both approaches are vital, & they're different from each other. Will keep you posted. Plz help with donation to Pave the Way www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
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The Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social task forces on AI want to hear from members, prospective members, and interested writing, literature, languages, and Humanities educators!
Please take a moment to fill out the survey! www.surveymonkey.com/r/DVBMXDR?ut...
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May 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social task forces on AI want to hear from members, prospective members, and interested writing, literature, languages, and Humanities educators!
Please take a moment to fill out the survey! www.surveymonkey.com/r/DVBMXDR?ut...
Please take a moment to fill out the survey! www.surveymonkey.com/r/DVBMXDR?ut...
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People counting down to 2028 thinking Trump is just going to just peacefully leave when his term is over, like they can just wait out an authoritarian takeover, are completely delusional and have absolutely zero understanding of what fascism is.
May 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
People counting down to 2028 thinking Trump is just going to just peacefully leave when his term is over, like they can just wait out an authoritarian takeover, are completely delusional and have absolutely zero understanding of what fascism is.
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Please, I’m begging The NY Times to write about any other college than Harvard.
(And, yes, I know that Brooks is not a serious thinker, but still.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...
(And, yes, I know that Brooks is not a serious thinker, but still.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...
Opinion | ‘We Are the Most Rejected Generation’
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Please, I’m begging The NY Times to write about any other college than Harvard.
(And, yes, I know that Brooks is not a serious thinker, but still.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...
(And, yes, I know that Brooks is not a serious thinker, but still.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...
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#CFP: Seeking chapter proposals for a Routledge Handbook of Humanities and Social Science Communication. Abstracts due August 3. Chapters: January 15.
#AcademicSky #Humanities #ScholarlyPublishing #WritingStudies #TeamRhetoric #AcademicWriting #AppliedLinguistics #RhetComp #Disciplinarity #AcWri
#AcademicSky #Humanities #ScholarlyPublishing #WritingStudies #TeamRhetoric #AcademicWriting #AppliedLinguistics #RhetComp #Disciplinarity #AcWri
CFP: Routledge Handbook of Humanities and Social Science Communication
Call for Proposals: Routledge Handbook of Humanities and Social Science Communication Editors: Gwendolynne Reid (Emory), Chris Anson (NC State), and Xiao Tan (Utah State) Since the 1970s, fields rang...
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May 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#CFP: Seeking chapter proposals for a Routledge Handbook of Humanities and Social Science Communication. Abstracts due August 3. Chapters: January 15.
#AcademicSky #Humanities #ScholarlyPublishing #WritingStudies #TeamRhetoric #AcademicWriting #AppliedLinguistics #RhetComp #Disciplinarity #AcWri
#AcademicSky #Humanities #ScholarlyPublishing #WritingStudies #TeamRhetoric #AcademicWriting #AppliedLinguistics #RhetComp #Disciplinarity #AcWri
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A lot of people seem to think following the U.S. Constitution is optional—like picking which shoes to wear in the morning. It’s not. If you’re within the boundaries of the United States, the Constitution applies to you.
April 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A lot of people seem to think following the U.S. Constitution is optional—like picking which shoes to wear in the morning. It’s not. If you’re within the boundaries of the United States, the Constitution applies to you.
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Fuck their exemptions. Its always about save me, fuck the rest of us, with these people
They all need to Stand up to this fucker or sit down & suck it up like the rest of us have to
They all need to Stand up to this fucker or sit down & suck it up like the rest of us have to
April 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Fuck their exemptions. Its always about save me, fuck the rest of us, with these people
They all need to Stand up to this fucker or sit down & suck it up like the rest of us have to
They all need to Stand up to this fucker or sit down & suck it up like the rest of us have to
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The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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No means no—whether it’s women or countries. This regime just doesn’t understand respect or boundaries
JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
March 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
No means no—whether it’s women or countries. This regime just doesn’t understand respect or boundaries
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Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
March 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
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1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.
Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.
My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.
My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
March 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.
Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.
My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.
My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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The modern Republican party can accurately be described as a group of child molesters who are stealing from us
March 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The modern Republican party can accurately be described as a group of child molesters who are stealing from us