Lisa L. Moore
@lisalmoore.bsky.social
Reading, writing, meditating. Lammy-awarded critic. Modestly published poet. Hill Professor of English and Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UT-Austin. Speaking for myself as a private citizen.
https://lisalmoore.com/
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I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Marxist Feminism in Flight | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxist Feminism in Flight - Volume 140 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Marxist Feminism in Flight | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxist Feminism in Flight - Volume 140 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
It feels like I'm writing mainly for posterity, but please do share if helpful.
It feels like I'm writing mainly for posterity, but please do share if helpful.
After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion
What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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It feels like I'm writing mainly for posterity, but please do share if helpful.
It feels like I'm writing mainly for posterity, but please do share if helpful.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
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For any of my U.S. friends idealizing Canada: My home province of Alberta is well-versed in the Project 2025 playbook. Alberta shame, Alberta pride. bsky.app/profile/apau...
For any of my U.S. friends idealizing Canada: My home province of Alberta is well-versed in the Project 2025 playbook. Alberta shame, Alberta pride. bsky.app/profile/apau...
September 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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For any of my U.S. friends idealizing Canada: My home province of Alberta is well-versed in the Project 2025 playbook. Alberta shame, Alberta pride. bsky.app/profile/apau...
For any of my U.S. friends idealizing Canada: My home province of Alberta is well-versed in the Project 2025 playbook. Alberta shame, Alberta pride. bsky.app/profile/apau...
I'm joining Quakers Fast for Gaza. Not that my refraining from eating, in the midst of plenty, will feed a single starving person. But perhaps it will put pressure on the US and international community to stop facilitating genocide. Join me?
www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548AF...
www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548AF...
Parents Solidarity Fast for Gaza
Thank you for joining our campaign to bring attention to the genocidal starvation of Palestinians in Gaza by US-backed Israel. We demand:
An immediate arms embargo on Israel
Immediate, unrestricted f...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I'm joining Quakers Fast for Gaza. Not that my refraining from eating, in the midst of plenty, will feed a single starving person. But perhaps it will put pressure on the US and international community to stop facilitating genocide. Join me?
www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548AF...
www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548AF...
"When asked to betray your integrity: hold fast to your ideals, gum up the works, disobey when able. Question everything, say nothing. Keep meticulous records. Leverage your advantages and harbor those who have none. Get in the way. Tell the story. Archive the truth." Link in comments.
August 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"When asked to betray your integrity: hold fast to your ideals, gum up the works, disobey when able. Question everything, say nothing. Keep meticulous records. Leverage your advantages and harbor those who have none. Get in the way. Tell the story. Archive the truth." Link in comments.
Undocumented students in Texas are facing a new law stripping them of their in-state tuition rate, even though they are Texas residents. (At UT Austin, the difference is from $11K to $$48K.) Student status also unlocks jobs and rent money. Please help if you can.
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Keeping the Texas DREAM
The CrisisOn June 4, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the State of Texas to block the Texas Dream Act, a 24-year-old in-state college tuition law. Just hours after the DOJ filed the lawsuit ...
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August 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Undocumented students in Texas are facing a new law stripping them of their in-state tuition rate, even though they are Texas residents. (At UT Austin, the difference is from $11K to $$48K.) Student status also unlocks jobs and rent money. Please help if you can.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
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It's very Vichy over here. I don't know how to do a good job of this job I love anymore, except by trying to mitigate the worst harms--which in itself is something of a moral injury.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
Right-Wing Crackdowns Drive Academics Away From UT and the U.S.
Staff morale, federal funds, and state confidence dry up
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July 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's very Vichy over here. I don't know how to do a good job of this job I love anymore, except by trying to mitigate the worst harms--which in itself is something of a moral injury.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
Believe it or not...an encouraging article from Bill McKibben. Apparently solar and wind power are increasing geometrically and are now cheaper than fossil fuels, and on track to be more widely used, very quickly. This cheered me up. YMMV.
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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July 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Believe it or not...an encouraging article from Bill McKibben. Apparently solar and wind power are increasing geometrically and are now cheaper than fossil fuels, and on track to be more widely used, very quickly. This cheered me up. YMMV.
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
Audain Museum, Whistler, BC. O how I love a mountain town.
July 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Audain Museum, Whistler, BC. O how I love a mountain town.
Art, scenery, family, outdoors. Visit to BC was like a beautiful dream.
July 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Art, scenery, family, outdoors. Visit to BC was like a beautiful dream.
Paisley Currah, our indispensable commentator on transgender issues in government and politics, and my bestie since were editors at the Queen's University Journal in 1983. Read his scary but smart new piece in the New Yorker. Link in comments.
May 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Paisley Currah, our indispensable commentator on transgender issues in government and politics, and my bestie since were editors at the Queen's University Journal in 1983. Read his scary but smart new piece in the New Yorker. Link in comments.
Morning inspiration! Take a look at this short video with a WGSS undergraduate student researcher and YOU WILL FEEL BETTER. You might feel better still by giving a small donation to our fund to support research like this project, on LGBTQ+ health care in India.
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40 for Forty is LIVE!
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May 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Morning inspiration! Take a look at this short video with a WGSS undergraduate student researcher and YOU WILL FEEL BETTER. You might feel better still by giving a small donation to our fund to support research like this project, on LGBTQ+ health care in India.
mailchi.mp/austin/40-fo...
mailchi.mp/austin/40-fo...
Here is my dorky but sincere video, offering you the chance to partner with our Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, where vital conversations about gender and sexuality are happening in spite of it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sDy...
WGSS, Get Ready for 40 Hours for The Forty Acres!
YouTube video by utwgss
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May 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Here is my dorky but sincere video, offering you the chance to partner with our Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, where vital conversations about gender and sexuality are happening in spite of it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sDy...
Modernist friends: Can you recommend a biography of Gertrude Stein? Or just a great book or article on Stein and her circle, especially in relation to feminism? (Not much there, I know!) Looking forward to some summer reading....
April 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Modernist friends: Can you recommend a biography of Gertrude Stein? Or just a great book or article on Stein and her circle, especially in relation to feminism? (Not much there, I know!) Looking forward to some summer reading....
Why we do what we do! WGSS Powers Award winner Neha Yamalkar’s undergraduate research wins recognition from the College of Natural Sciences
April 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Why we do what we do! WGSS Powers Award winner Neha Yamalkar’s undergraduate research wins recognition from the College of Natural Sciences
A gleam of hope this morning. Mixed feelings for sure, especially re: Jagmeet Singh, who lost his seat. (As did mini-Trump Poilievre, who is refusing to step down--right from the playbook.) However. This election result is a rebuke to Trump and we needed it. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Carney's win caps a remarkable turn of events — and sets up the immense challenges ahead | CBC News
After what could be the most remarkable four-month period in the history of Canadian politics, Carney has won his own mandate and this dizzying swirl of history has produced a uniquely split result.
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April 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A gleam of hope this morning. Mixed feelings for sure, especially re: Jagmeet Singh, who lost his seat. (As did mini-Trump Poilievre, who is refusing to step down--right from the playbook.) However. This election result is a rebuke to Trump and we needed it. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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🔔 For over a century, AAUP has stood for the freedom of faculty to teach in their areas of expertise without government censorship. We also stand for faculty’s role in the governance of universities. These principles have made Texas universities great. 👏👏
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AAUP (@aaup.bsky.social)
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
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April 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🔔 For over a century, AAUP has stood for the freedom of faculty to teach in their areas of expertise without government censorship. We also stand for faculty’s role in the governance of universities. These principles have made Texas universities great. 👏👏
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✴️ @utaustin history professor Lauren Gutterman on the danger Texas Senate Bill 37 and other restrictive bills pose to the honest teaching of US history in Texas colleges and universities.💯 #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #AcademicSky statesman-tx.newsmemory.com?publink=0d30...
Texas bills would end honest discussion of US history
As a historian and faculty member at the University of Texas, I love t
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April 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
✴️ @utaustin history professor Lauren Gutterman on the danger Texas Senate Bill 37 and other restrictive bills pose to the honest teaching of US history in Texas colleges and universities.💯 #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #AcademicSky statesman-tx.newsmemory.com?publink=0d30...
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No executive order can erase your existence. No law can diminish your dignity. Today and every day, we see you, we honor you, we stand with you. #TransDayOfVisibility #LGBTQ🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
March 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
No executive order can erase your existence. No law can diminish your dignity. Today and every day, we see you, we honor you, we stand with you. #TransDayOfVisibility #LGBTQ🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
For nervous system regulation: owls in towels. Link to more in comments.
March 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
For nervous system regulation: owls in towels. Link to more in comments.
Sending peace from the Austin Zen Center
March 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Sending peace from the Austin Zen Center