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Vee Lawson
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they/them | assistant prof in professional writing | feminist, queer, and trans digital rhetorics + storytelling online | 🐈🧶⛺👟

For better or worse, these are all my opinions.
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If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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This doomscrolling break is brought to you by #4C26 announcements: See you all in Cleveland for "Wresting Power Back: Tactical Technical Communication for Social Media Under Rising Authoritarianism"
Dear Professor Lawson, Congratulations! I am delighted to let you know that the following proposal(s) has been accepted for the 2026 CCCC Annual Convention, "Conference and Our Conversations," taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, March 4-7: Wresting Power Back: Tactical Technical Communication for Social Media Under Rising Authoritarianism
August 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This is how Meep and Mushroom celebrate #InternationalCatDay
Two cats lay on a rug, recreationally kicking each other in the head.
August 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Mushroom and I are catching up on #FemRhet2025 virtual presentations--I love that there's a space to leave comments or questions for presenters.

Here, we're listening to Dr. Julia Allen's talk on feminist rhetorical furtherance.

#FemRhetHappensHere
A grey and white cat sits on a soft blanket in front of a table and laptop. A presentation is blurred in the background.
July 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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First blooms on this rose I planted in June! It's a DA Desdemona--such a fresh, lemony fragrance 🌱#GardenSky
A small, blush pink rose with cup shaped petals. A small, blush pink rose unfurling.
July 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Chat, what do we think this even means?
A Dell Technologies sign at the Boston-Logan airport. The top half depicts a server; the bottom half shows a tap pouring a beer. The server and tap are visually aligned. Text reads "Putting the AI in IPA. Welcome to now | Dell.com."
July 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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See y'all at #FemRhet2025! 
View from the window of a plane as it takes off from San Francisco Airport. A jet engine is in the foreground; a foggy San Francisco Bay is in the background.
July 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Came down out of the mountains early because of some altitude issues, but after logging on, I'm starting to think I should've just stayed up there 👀
Chicken Spring Lake at sunrise, with a large granite mountaintop (Trailmaster Peak) behind it. The lake is sadly not shaped like a chicken.
June 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Some #CommunityGarden snapshots on ColorPlus 🌱(@tashakaye.bsky.social's plants!)
A bee gathering pollen from lacy phacelia. Small yellow blossoms on a tomato plant. Red stems and green leaves on a beet plant. A person reaches down to pick a cabbage.
May 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Excited to be part of this panel at #CWCon25! I'll be talking about LLMs, argument bots on social media, and invitational rhetoric 🤖🦋💬
C&W 2025 Computers & Writing Conference 2025 Mining Language: Rethinking Agency in the Age of LLMs By Vee Lawson Friday May 16, 2025 / 04:45 PM - 06:00 PM Powered By Whova
May 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Y'all, students in my social media writing class are presenting their final portfolios of work they generated for their community partners—one student worked with a Little League team that gets snacks after every game, so she brought Spartan cookies for a "post-game" treat and they're so cute!
A cookie shaped like a baseball triangle and decorated with the SJSU Spartan logo.
May 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This is a @tashakaye.bsky.social community garden appreciation post 🌱
A very exuberant lettuce bed. A tall bunch of pink and purple California wildflowers. Two large cabbage plants and a tomato plant. A bed of orange, yellow, and pink California poppies.
May 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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CW: Nazism

"Civility" is a poor determiner of toxicity.
The CLR:Sky tone-policing tool reads the 14 Words, a Nazi slogan, as "grey," which is one step below "sunny" on the toxicity scale. The CLR:Sky tone-policing tool reads the sentence "Fuck Nazis" as "stormy," which is the most toxic rating on the toxicity scale.
May 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I've been getting back into film photography (not seriously, just snapshots) as a counter to taking hundreds of cellphone photos that I'll never look at again, and it's been fun to revisit experiences as I get the film developed. These are from Shinjuku Gyo-en in March, shot on Portra 400.
A person with a clear vinyl umbrella walks beneath blooming cherry trees on a rainy day. The NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building is visible through the mist in the background. Cherry trees, pines, and some deciduous trees with early leaves on the banks of a pond. It is raining. A cherry tree in bloom in the rain. A close-up of cherry blossoms in the rain.
May 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Faculty, students, staff, and community members out today with @cfaunited.bsky.social National Day of Action for Higher Education
Protestors rally outside San Jose State University.
April 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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babe wake up, new #4C26 CFP just dropped
2026 CCCC Program Chair: Melissa lanetta My Convention poem has elevator eyelids and a concierge's phone ringing without remorse all night. My Convention poem flaunts its badges and free samples in the face of a chafing dish lobby breakfast bar with sad fruit baskets and scorched coffee urns. My Convention poem bursts at the heart-seams when the crowd likes its paper even if they didn't attend, didn't listen, didn't seem to quite understand. My Convention poem goes down on its knees in the exhibit hall trampled by a pod of discount purchasers and last day pack-aways. My Convention poem is an expectant handshake and wink late night lobby dark where the unsayable is finally said and concerns are translated into conversations of sudden sociability. —Wendy Bishop, from "My Convention Poem," included in her 2001 Chair's address, "Against the Odds in Rhetoric and Composition" Why go to the conference? What does being together in real time afford that print, digital, and asynchronous online interactions cannot? What do conferences offer that recent "un-conferences" cannot or do not? Naming the theme as Conference and Our Conversations offers attendees the opportunity to create visions of future conferences and share what we've enjoyed in the past, even while encouraging us to push forward the current scholarly conversations of the field. At the 2026 conference, I invite you to imagine what CCCC can be, and what your scholarship and ideas about teaching, learning, and the work we do in higher education contribute to CCCC-and to each other. Why do we conference? Why do you conference? Conference Is Conversations The first steps to learning to think better, therefore, are learning to converse better and learning to establish and maintain the sorts of social context, the sort of community life, that foster the sorts of conversation members of the community value. —Kenneth Bruffee, "Collaborative Learning and the 'Conversation of Mankind,'' 640 Conference as the theme, however, does not work to steer your scholarship-as Bruffee reminds us, the "Conference" in CCCC represents our conversations, the sharing of scholarship and praxis in our panel presentations and hallway chats; the discovery and sharing of new ideas is what makes our community strong. Rather than encourage you to frame your contributions to the 2026 theme, I instead invite you to share what you are working on right now, to offer up what contribution matters to you most. For regardless of our annual theme, we are essentially defined by the learned conversations that take place in our field and in our classrooms. That is, our theme of Conference should inspire some of the 2026 conversation in Cleveland but does not presume to direct a year of research. As you draft your proposal, then, instead of looking to the theme for inspiration, consider this reviewer rubric that will be used to accept proposals and issue invitations. Thus, do not see the Convention theme as a desire to shape *your* scholarly concerns—rather, this theme works to add one more strand to the many conversations that already comprise our community and creates the opportunity to discuss the very specific event that brings us together each year. Conference Is Community As framed in the epigraph to this call, the 2026 Convention vision, in part, is shaped by Wendy Bishop's 2001 CCCC keynote. For Bishop, a conference is community, a place to encounter old friends and new ideas-and new friends and old ideas. So too, in Cleveland we'll share notions of what the Convention is now and visions of what it might be in the future. To discuss this theme, there will be conversation circles and focus groups to reflect on the idea of a conference and what it can offer to our members. These ideas from our community and about our community will be brought back to the CCCC leadership and shared with membership at the next Convention. We talk to each other through journals, newsletters, and Web pages. We converse formally through panels and informally in the hallways at our conferences. In our search for understanding how the written word works, we simplify for our students (the five-paragraph essay) and complexify for each other (a Bakhtinian moment in a Vygotskyan process on the margins of the contact zone). Often our unum gets lost in our pluribus [thesis statement]." —John Lovas, "All Good Writing Develops at the Edge of Risk," 265
April 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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It's good to be home
View of a jet engine and hills as a plane lands in the Santa Clara valley at golden hour.
April 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Excited to be in Baltimore for #4C25 soon!
The wing of a Southwest plane as it flies over saltwater ponds in the south San Francisco Bay. DA.1 Thursday, 3:15-3:45 p.m. DA Sessions: 3:15-3:45 p.m. Information Literacy and Technology Glitching the Machine: Queer Experimentation as Pedagogical Praxis with Generative Al By intentionally "glitching" large language models (LLMs) with queer texts, we can expose biases, reveal power structures, and reimagine language and technology. This approach, grounded in queer feminist theory, empowers students to resist normative discourses and advocate for more equitable technological futures. Meeting Room 348 (Level 300) Presenter: Vee Lawson, San José State University
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A branch of a cherry tree in bloom trails over a pond. A cherry tree covered in pink blossoms. A cherry tree in bloom in front of a temple building. Cherry blossoms at night amidst skyscrapers with neon signs.
April 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Some #kittykontent while we wait for the #bm100 start--thinking maybe tonight/early tomorrow?
A tabby cat sits on a green yoga mat.
March 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Happy Ides y'all
A spoof on "Knives Out" (the movie), reading: Kulyes STARRING CAESAR AND BRUTUS IN AND INTRODUCING THE 60 SENATORS EVERYONE HAS A MOTIVE. CAESAR HAS NO CLUE. Text over a painting of the stabbing of Caesar reads: and then caesar ran into our knives julius Caesar ran into our knives 23 times Untitled Goose Game meme reads: it's a beautiful day in the senate and you are a horrible proconsul Two paintings of the stabbing of Caesar and one photo of a Caesar salad. Text reads: you can kill the man but you can never kill the idea
March 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Zoom in for harbor seals playing between the rocks

Spent an early-birthday weekend seeing the coast with @tashakaye.bsky.social, and it was a nice recharge from keeping up with The Horrors™️
A rocky coastline at Point Lobos State Reserve. The water is blue and filled with kelp; there are green bushy plants in the foreground; and cormorants are nesting on rocks in the mid ground. Two harbor seals are playing in a pool between two large rocks.
February 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Hey #TeamRhetoric! The CFSHRC isn't on here yet, but this upcoming webinar is really timely.

🚨 Humanities research funding is more critical than ever! Join us for a 90-minute webinar about crafting grant apps & conveying your work's value to funders.

📅 February 27
⏰ 12PM ET
🔗 tiny.cc/AtAFunding
An invitation for a webinar titled “Money (That’s What I Want): How to Succesfully Fund Your Research.” The description reads “In these critical times for research funding, join our expert panelists for an essential 90-minute webinar on securing humanities grants and effectively communicating your work’s value to funders.” The webinar will be hosted on Zoom from 12:00-1:30 PM Easter Time on February 27. You can register for the webinar at tiny.cc/AtAFunding. The speakers include Heather Brook Adams from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Brandon Erby from the University of Kentucky, and Julie Kidder from Carnegie Mellon University. The graphic uses bright green, blue, and purple in an abstract design.
February 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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2024 was not a great #running year for me (too many life transitions!), so it feels good to start 2025 with a 100 mile month. Now to keep base-building in prep for Javelina this fall 🏜️
A Strava screenshot showing a monthly distance goal: 104.7 miles run out of a 100 mile goal.
February 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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After the 2017 inauguration, homophobic violence spiked in Tulsa, and I made the riskiest (and best) choice of my life:

At 23, I got married to someone I'd met on the internet less than a year before, in our living room with a few good friends as witnesses.
OP and their wife are kissing after getting married in their living room.
January 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM