Rachel Feder
@rachelfeder.bsky.social
English Prof @ University of Denver
Weird books, all genres
rachelfeder.com
Weird books, all genres
rachelfeder.com
That feeling when u r telling a very long praying mantis story and u r beginning to suspect that the other moms at the playground are not that interested in your praying mantis story
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
That feeling when u r telling a very long praying mantis story and u r beginning to suspect that the other moms at the playground are not that interested in your praying mantis story
Normalize including the poet’s name in the poem the way Jason Derulo does it
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Normalize including the poet’s name in the poem the way Jason Derulo does it
the feminine urge to write a slim volume re: what romanticism can teach us about the present moment
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
the feminine urge to write a slim volume re: what romanticism can teach us about the present moment
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I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.
The fact that he named it Project Prometheus is priceless.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.
Project Prometheus?! Is Mary Shelley writing this timeline?!
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Project Prometheus?! Is Mary Shelley writing this timeline?!
Top 5 movie genres are:
we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone
90s house party hijinx
woman staring out of window
reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances
postcolonial theory, beautifully animated
we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone
90s house party hijinx
woman staring out of window
reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances
postcolonial theory, beautifully animated
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Top 5 movie genres are:
we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone
90s house party hijinx
woman staring out of window
reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances
postcolonial theory, beautifully animated
we shouldn’t be together too bad we’re better than everyone
90s house party hijinx
woman staring out of window
reproductive justice but patrick swayze dances
postcolonial theory, beautifully animated
Help I wrote a scary scene and now I need to lie down
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Help I wrote a scary scene and now I need to lie down
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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I am manifesting a movie adaptation of THIS IS MY BODY starring Kristen Stewart
It’s 11/11, let’s manifest impossible nonsense!
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am manifesting a movie adaptation of THIS IS MY BODY starring Kristen Stewart
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In impossible nonsense: I'd like to learn to do a respectable axel.
In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life.
Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.
In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life.
Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In impossible nonsense: I'd like to learn to do a respectable axel.
In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life.
Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.
In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life.
Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.
It’s 11/11, let’s manifest impossible nonsense!
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It’s 11/11, let’s manifest impossible nonsense!
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡
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All my love and solidarity to Quirk Books Union. The publishing industry has no future without unions, and I'm so proud that we were part of the effort to unionize publishing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
All my love and solidarity to Quirk Books Union. The publishing industry has no future without unions, and I'm so proud that we were part of the effort to unionize publishing.
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My heart 💓💓💓
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My heart 💓💓💓
Sudden craving for one of those 90s dessert carts. Like yes please show me an example of the crème brûlée
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Sudden craving for one of those 90s dessert carts. Like yes please show me an example of the crème brûlée
hilary duff released a new song today and my friend was like god i love living in mamdani’s america
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
hilary duff released a new song today and my friend was like god i love living in mamdani’s america
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Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.
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Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
In addition to everything else he did last night, I’m grateful to Mamdani for condemning antisemitism and Islamophobia in the same breath ❤️
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In addition to everything else he did last night, I’m grateful to Mamdani for condemning antisemitism and Islamophobia in the same breath ❤️
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FEEDING BABIES WON!!!!!
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
FEEDING BABIES WON!!!!!
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god what a huge night for Handsomeness
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
god what a huge night for Handsomeness
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everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge
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So upset about @teenvogue.com being absorbed into Vogue.
Teen Vogue’s political reporting has often been sharper than other mainstream outlets.
Now there will be no political staffers left.
www.thewrap.com/teen-vogue-e...
Teen Vogue’s political reporting has often been sharper than other mainstream outlets.
Now there will be no political staffers left.
www.thewrap.com/teen-vogue-e...
Teen Vogue Merges With Vogue.com
Teen Vogue will keep its name and mission, with Vogue editorial content head Chloe Malle overseeing the site.
www.thewrap.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
So upset about @teenvogue.com being absorbed into Vogue.
Teen Vogue’s political reporting has often been sharper than other mainstream outlets.
Now there will be no political staffers left.
www.thewrap.com/teen-vogue-e...
Teen Vogue’s political reporting has often been sharper than other mainstream outlets.
Now there will be no political staffers left.
www.thewrap.com/teen-vogue-e...
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all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.