Lydia E. Ferguson

I could watch them play for hours

Tom Skerritt has always reminded me of my dad. I found the reliability of his salt and pepper Korean-war-vet-era mustache comforting.

Angel Reese🔥 #wnba #AtlantaDream

The 6 year-old dragging out pillows to join the blanket he and his sister just spread out in the driveway: “We’re going to have a picnic and sunbathe. It’s like a sunbathing picnic.” ☀️

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

#Atlanta! It was in the 70s and beautiful and now it’s in the 90s again. We’re ready for fall, too! Shame!

Announcing our 2027 LGBTQ Caucus CfP! "What remains: Queer politics of liberation" Submissions due December 1, 2026 wgssouth.org #lgbtq #queerstudies #wgs #womensstudies #southernstudies #genderstudies #AcademicSky #edusky #gradstudents

The anti-Ossoff ads in GA right now have so little to work with they’re either featuring AOC or complaining that Ossoff spends too much on makeup.

Showed a past student example about theme parks and roller coasters today in class (the theme is material culture studies), so if you’re following any news in Georgia, then you know that this is the one time that my freshman students were actually animated. #sixflags

Listen, if you care about equity, you should care about our accessibility. Period.

I will have a donkey some day. It’s going to happen. And goats.

My Two Dads, Simon & Simon

Steve is coming up with ever more inventive ways to gain access to the pub again.

Very cool!

Six months ago:

How did Jane Eyre, the novel that inspired the Texas Bronte Club to form in 1855, get banned in 2026? A new Texas law — SB 13 law — inspired some school disctricts to place restrictions on anything written for adults, including classics: https://pen.org/jane-eyre-banned-in-texas/ #BannedBooksWeek

the tech industry is about to invent books

This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:

In 1999 -- NINETEEN NINETY-NINE!!! -- I took an intro class at UT called "African Intellectual Thought," and it was rigorous and excellent, and it will not surprise you at all that none of the texts we read were written by people on this list. Just so depressing what's being done to my alma mater.

For a second I thought it’d be Rear Window, but Jaws is the winner, hands down. I will watch any Jaws film any time it’s on.

When it finally happens I’m gonna need #Atlanta to pop off, bc I’ll be in the kitchen ironing. Not clothes…fuse beads. This is my lot in life now.

I meant it innocently enough (just wanted a gentle needling of the patriarchy), but I fear my search for “feminist Halloween inflatables” might trigger an unwanted industry. #feminism #genderstudies #halloween

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Black Orpheus (1959)

Davy Jones was one of my first crushes.

Even as a literature and culture studies scholar I am more qualified for this job than any of these men.

Remembering Jim Henson, born on this day, 1936.

#disabilitystudies #wgs #queerstudies #southernstudies #gradstudents #feminism #womensstudies #fyc #rhetoric #americanstudies #bipoc #indigenousstudies #crt

This film gave us the best 10-minute staring contest/dance number ever.

Was recently reminded that I successfully defended my dissertation 10 years ago and just found my degree…still unopened.

Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.

Thys! "a model that assigns value primarily on the basis of whether a degree program can be mapped to high-paying jobs overlooks the value of other work that universities perform...." mississippitoday.org/2026/09/18/w...

Yesss

Watching Little Giants and reminded how much I love Rick Moranis. It’ll be nice to see him acting again.

“Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”

It’s impossible to keep track of all the misery inflicted on the public by police these days, but Jesus… I hope there’s #justiceforheehaw

Hadn’t seen a rainbow in ages, but have seen several in the past few months. Hoping it’s proof that god is gonna continue making the world even gayer. 🌈

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

Support the journalists

Packed quickly for a beach trip this weekend and managed to remember everything except shirts…for myself

Meeting Gloria Steinem after her talk at Auburn University in 2014. #womensstudies #wgs #feminism