Rick Godden
@rickgodden.bsky.social
Medievalist. First Gen. Assistant Professor, LSU. Disability advocacy, medieval stuff, and food/drinks. And cats. Opinions my own. he/him
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I love you, Alice. Give them hell from behind the veil 🧡
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I love you, Alice. Give them hell from behind the veil 🧡
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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I thank you, Alice Wong—author, activist, daughter, sister, friend, and innovator—for being with us here for as long as you were.
I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.
I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I thank you, Alice Wong—author, activist, daughter, sister, friend, and innovator—for being with us here for as long as you were.
I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.
I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.
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RIP Alice Wong, fiercest, finest, most fabulously dressed freedom fighter and friend. She changed the world a bit at a time every day and never stopped loving it. She taught me so much. I can’t believe this. I miss her bravery and clarity already. 💔♿️
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
RIP Alice Wong, fiercest, finest, most fabulously dressed freedom fighter and friend. She changed the world a bit at a time every day and never stopped loving it. She taught me so much. I can’t believe this. I miss her bravery and clarity already. 💔♿️
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Just out: out latest issue on “access”, featuring @rickgodden.bsky.social, Katherine Little, Kisha Tracy, Sophia Liu, & Stephen Yeager! Also @hannahalucas.bsky.social, Karen Elaine Smyth, an interview with Mohamed K Dhouib, and “How I Teach” with Kristen Haas Curtis! escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedag...
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession
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October 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Just out: out latest issue on “access”, featuring @rickgodden.bsky.social, Katherine Little, Kisha Tracy, Sophia Liu, & Stephen Yeager! Also @hannahalucas.bsky.social, Karen Elaine Smyth, an interview with Mohamed K Dhouib, and “How I Teach” with Kristen Haas Curtis! escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedag...
Calling all Folklore people! Come be my colleague! If anyone knows of people that might be interested, please share widely.
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Assistant Professor - Folklore
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September 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Calling all Folklore people! Come be my colleague! If anyone knows of people that might be interested, please share widely.
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Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers
Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant
William Blake: or thicc Satan
Wordsworth: or what???
Blake: I have produced a sketch-
Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant
William Blake: or thicc Satan
Wordsworth: or what???
Blake: I have produced a sketch-
September 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers
Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant
William Blake: or thicc Satan
Wordsworth: or what???
Blake: I have produced a sketch-
Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant
William Blake: or thicc Satan
Wordsworth: or what???
Blake: I have produced a sketch-
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Anyway, check out my guide fellow reporters! j-source.ca/a-guide-for-...
A guide for reporting on how young disabled and chronically ill people use online communities - J-Source
When you’re sick at home, social media can be a lifeline
j-source.ca
August 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Anyway, check out my guide fellow reporters! j-source.ca/a-guide-for-...
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I wrote about the em dash
Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please
Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I wrote about the em dash
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In May, our Co-Investigator Prof Tanya Titchkosky led a Spring Institute "Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving" on disability perceptions in and outside of medicine at OISE University of Toronto. Read Tanya's reflections on the event: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...
Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving
Our Spring Institute promoted International Conversations about disability perceptions in and outside of medicine hosted by OISE, University of Toronto, Canada in May 2025
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August 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
In May, our Co-Investigator Prof Tanya Titchkosky led a Spring Institute "Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving" on disability perceptions in and outside of medicine at OISE University of Toronto. Read Tanya's reflections on the event: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...
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Black Sabbath and black-leather Xenomorphs. Chestbursters and headbangers.
I wrote about the heavy metal vibes of ALIEN: EARTH for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...
I wrote about the heavy metal vibes of ALIEN: EARTH for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...
Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth Is Not Such a Tight Ship
The new TV series on FX trades in the brutal simplicity and narrative economy of the "Alien" franchise for something rangier and looser.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Black Sabbath and black-leather Xenomorphs. Chestbursters and headbangers.
I wrote about the heavy metal vibes of ALIEN: EARTH for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...
I wrote about the heavy metal vibes of ALIEN: EARTH for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...
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*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
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August 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
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Can’t wait to tell my students about this
August 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Can’t wait to tell my students about this
Slightly diminish a band: Soundpatio
Slightly diminish a band: Brown Sabbath
Slightly diminish a band: Pewter Zepplin
August 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Soundpatio
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The Washington Post running this five days after a shooting directly caused by this kind of disinformation is - and I very rarely use this phrase - journalistic malpractice. Meanwhile, what have elected Democrats or public health leaders had to show so far other than literal thoughts and prayers?
This op-ed from NIH director Jay Bhattacharya is *infuriating*. He says we have to stop funding mRNA vaccine research because it hasn't "earned public trust." Motherfucker, WHO DID THAT.
Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Washington Post running this five days after a shooting directly caused by this kind of disinformation is - and I very rarely use this phrase - journalistic malpractice. Meanwhile, what have elected Democrats or public health leaders had to show so far other than literal thoughts and prayers?
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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
August 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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Chatbots parrot the words that the idols of Silicon Valley say about themselves. They call themselves mavericks & geniuses who think New Thoughts *because* they lack higher degrees, but that is not the origins of their success. Their success was in getting silly VC money through connections.
August 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Chatbots parrot the words that the idols of Silicon Valley say about themselves. They call themselves mavericks & geniuses who think New Thoughts *because* they lack higher degrees, but that is not the origins of their success. Their success was in getting silly VC money through connections.
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A suitably sunny day to receive my author copy of Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power from @illinoispress.bsky.social
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
August 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A suitably sunny day to receive my author copy of Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power from @illinoispress.bsky.social
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.
August 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.
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All five of these are lazy and three of them are essentially fraudulent
Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.
I say that with all due gravity.
August 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
All five of these are lazy and three of them are essentially fraudulent
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Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.
I say that with all due gravity.
August 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.
I say that with all due gravity.