Margaret Patton Chapman
@mpchapman.bsky.social
Writing, teaching, Durham.
My husband was finally able to quit after trying 10 times by working with a team of care professions who came up with a plan for him to take off a week of work and download a huge MMORPG. He really only left the house that week to go see his therapist. It worked!
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My husband was finally able to quit after trying 10 times by working with a team of care professions who came up with a plan for him to take off a week of work and download a huge MMORPG. He really only left the house that week to go see his therapist. It worked!
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So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
I assume the S is for “special student” in some capacity-since he is described as a special student? It seems he only attended briefly in 1930.
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I assume the S is for “special student” in some capacity-since he is described as a special student? It seems he only attended briefly in 1930.
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"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
Yeah I definitely could not tell you the difference between
How you’d pronounce those spellings.
Not only do I say pin/pen the same I hear them the same.
How you’d pronounce those spellings.
Not only do I say pin/pen the same I hear them the same.
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Yeah I definitely could not tell you the difference between
How you’d pronounce those spellings.
Not only do I say pin/pen the same I hear them the same.
How you’d pronounce those spellings.
Not only do I say pin/pen the same I hear them the same.
That’s how I say then and have always said them. I also say pin/pen the same and as a young person said crayon and crown the same (both with two syllables) but my northern education beat that one out of me.
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
That’s how I say then and have always said them. I also say pin/pen the same and as a young person said crayon and crown the same (both with two syllables) but my northern education beat that one out of me.
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It's interesting that the same people who kept saying we did not need to address institutional racism because it doesn't really happen in our post-racial society are now aggressively and openly practicing racism at an institutional level.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It's interesting that the same people who kept saying we did not need to address institutional racism because it doesn't really happen in our post-racial society are now aggressively and openly practicing racism at an institutional level.