My tweets

[lollardfish]

• Wed, 12:31: ROCK! MT @Feminist_Times: Women made some of Gibsons best guitars. Forgotten women of Kalamazoo by @Madame_George http://t.co/xz42N2dTU7
• Wed, 13:13: Admin #bloat by the numbers - how does it happen? http://t.co/Z0Fy4xMQRx #adjunct #badmin #highered #academia
• Wed, 13:16: Admin #bloat by the numbers - lessons from @AcademeBlog and @NewFacMajority http://t.co/Z0Fy4xMQRx #adjunct #badmin #highered #academia
• Wed, 13:30: This image should be the Official Symbol of Admin Bloat. Because what embodies higher ed more than a dog's stomach? http://t.co/srbv85QQZz
• Wed, 14:18: In #highered it's not just that we are becoming more businesslike, it's that we're becoming an inefficient business.http://t.co/IUODheaUax
• Wed, 14:49: RT @shamarcookie: @deandad @fabianbanga Couldn't attend workshops because childcare is expensive and I was poor. I needed a salary & benefi…
• Wed, 14:51: RT @ThatPicard: .@deandad You're learning--contingency has a price & it's not paid exclusively by #adjuncts. @NewFacMajority
• Wed, 15:04: RT @pankisseskafka: My response to the straw-womanification of me, @TenuredRadical and @MariaMaistoNFM in @fullstopmag today: http://t.co/m…
• Wed, 16:37: RT @NewFacMajority: Hey, #adjuncts, we are the New Faculty Majority. Like us on Facebook & keep up with #highered, adjunct issues. https://…
• Wed, 16:58: My post today on "bloat." Featuring statistics on administrative expansion and pictures of dog's stomachs. http://t.co/Z0Fy4xMQRx #highered

• Wed, 17:09: RT @anna_bahr: Columbia proves that it takes sexual assault seriously with this cake it is serving in a dining hall http://t.co/hJccRvO3Q6
• Wed, 17:15: RT @TenuredRadical: @pankisseskafka @MariaMaistoNFM @fullstopmag great response: also you identify a tendency of academic political critiqu…
• Wed, 17:15: RT @TenuredRadical: @pankisseskafka @MariaMaistoNFM @fullstopmag Its not possible 2 b inclusive, left or antiracist enough 2 not serve as a…
• Wed, 18:50: Let's talk about the rise of the administration and the fall of the #faculty - http://t.co/Z0Fy4xMQRx #adjuncts #Academia
• Wed, 19:00: RT @MarkOrlan: Weak arguments by @Lollardfish about the use of #custserv lingo in #highered being bad for students http://t.co/gn3CQk9iy0 *…
• Wed, 19:37: A business professor tweeted out that my arguments about customer service were weak. I asked why, he said nothing. That's poor service.
• Wed, 19:58: RT @ggreenwald: Congrats to @digby56, the writer who most inspired me to begin writing about politics http://t.co/rh2o2N7UO3
• Wed, 20:17: One of the best blogger - @digby56 - won a major prize. I am indebted to digby's work documenting police abuses against the mentally ill. +
• Wed, 20:18: The prize that @digby56 won is http://t.co/L5IjhhOFZQ. So well deserved.
• Wed, 21:52: RT @BleedBlueBassem: @Lollardfish The last assignment of the year and I'm stuck with critically analysing your article about Faculty member…

• Wed, 21:52: RT @BleedBlueBassem: @Lollardfish It's for Techniques of Persuasion class. I'm supposed to deploy models of passage analysis and standardiz…
• Wed, 21:52: RT @BleedBlueBassem: @Lollardfish and in the end I'm supposed to conclude with either your argument was WEAK or STRONG. fun stuff :)
• Wed, 22:23: "Where they see agonizing, I see identifying discrimination." @JessicaValenti takes apart the "Confidence Gap." http://t.co/U8lTVSqo9Z
• Wed, 22:25: I had a lovely conversation with @BarbaraBrotman from @chicagotribune about GoT. Told her it was ALL TRUE! EVERY BIT OF IT!
• Wed, 23:28: RT @NewFacMajority: In #highered, administration growth continues & faculty growth falls, except #adjuncts, says @Lollardfish.... http://t.…
• Thu, 01:43: RT @sherights: 5 more followers until we reach 2000! Help #feminism flourish
• Thu, 12:01: Sharecroppers. Migrant Workers. Slaves? No - #Adjuncts are labor. We're all labor. Via @chroniclevitae - http://t.co/ouZu43ESJm

Comments

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

It's a good piece and a good effort. What's interesting to me is that it doesn't talk about rape and abuse, given the staggering numbers of people with disabilities who are sexually abused. I suspect they are trying to normalize rather than rely on outrage messaging.

[taldragon.livejournal.com]

agreed. also, I wonder if the column ran out of words, and therefore had to narrow its focus significantly.