liz polcha
@lpolcha.bsky.social
she/they | literary studies professor writing a book on gender & natural history | editor and co-founder @insurrecthistory.bsky.social | I mainly post about labor and cats | Tulsa & Philadelphia
for people like me who write about 18th century science & empire, a lot of the historical figures we write about could probably be featured on this podcast
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
for people like me who write about 18th century science & empire, a lot of the historical figures we write about could probably be featured on this podcast
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Ex. If you teach about gender, you run the risk of violating the compact’s principle of “Student Equality,” since “institutions [must] commit to defining and otherwise interpreting ‘male,’ ‘female,’ ‘woman,’ and ‘man’ according to reproductive function and biological processes”. YIKES (2/2)
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Ex. If you teach about gender, you run the risk of violating the compact’s principle of “Student Equality,” since “institutions [must] commit to defining and otherwise interpreting ‘male,’ ‘female,’ ‘woman,’ and ‘man’ according to reproductive function and biological processes”. YIKES (2/2)
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Our own Drexel faculty member Linda Kim giving a teach-in on the federal administration’s proposed “compact” —would YOUR school violate it? (1/2)
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our own Drexel faculty member Linda Kim giving a teach-in on the federal administration’s proposed “compact” —would YOUR school violate it? (1/2)
People who have only ever lived in the northeast seem to know very little about settler colonialism in states like Oklahoma, and then are surprised by the extreme white supremacist politics in those states. Sterlin Harjo’s connects the dots for you in the Lowdown
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
People who have only ever lived in the northeast seem to know very little about settler colonialism in states like Oklahoma, and then are surprised by the extreme white supremacist politics in those states. Sterlin Harjo’s connects the dots for you in the Lowdown