Nahir I. Otaño Gracia

Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and now Florida bar undocumented students from enrolling in public universities. I see this as part of a wider project to resegretgste higher education. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

In news that will surprise absolutely no one in HE... ‘It notes that institutions “routinely” hire consultancies for these restructures as well as change management specialists, however, these processes often introduce additional management layers, “adding cost rather than removing it”…’

On the bus. Can't make one of the stops. A bear lives there, and we don't want to disturb it. I love New Mexico!

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We're thrilled to be supporting Across Two Seas, a symposium put together by Denva Gallant at Rice University. This lineup is incredible, and there is travel funding for folks in the @folger.edu Institute consortium! Don't sleep on this one: acrosstwoseas.com #RaceB4Race

Available for pre-order (The exhibition opens October 18th @folger.edu) Patricia Akhimie’s work here is phenomenal. Featuring work by @profkfh.bsky.social and yours truly.

In a moment of self-realization, I have learned that I love to spite people more than I hate AI. And I fucking hate AI!

Should I do a 🧵 on my just-published article on how one of the most trusted - and most expensive - antiquities dealers was faking the paperwork to make freshly looted artifacts look like they had long, legal ownership histories? I should. But I'm so tired. Tomorrow! hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...

Omg you all! My book was reviewed at Reception, issue 17 by Jonathan F. Correa Reyes! "Otaño Gracia invites us to revisit medieval Arthuriana from the perspective of sources often dismissed as derivative. But more than an invitation, she offers a navigational chart and a compas." Swooning!

My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.

Omg you all! My book was reviewed at Reception, issue 17 by Jonathan F. Correa Reyes! "Otaño Gracia invites us to revisit medieval Arthuriana from the perspective of sources often dismissed as derivative. But more than an invitation, she offers a navigational chart and a compas." Swooning!

If anyone without access to PMLA would like a copy to the cluster, feel free to DM me with an email. I am happy to send them your way!

Do these people understand what going public with an accusation like this does to a woman's life? Her courage astounds me.

Where @tnflorvil.bsky.social and I, among other things, point out that arguments against scholars of the past as anachronistic and/or too political are a white supremacist attack against the humanities (and in some ways against the scientific method).

(1) there is a good book by joy james called “Transcending the Talented Tenth.” I think about it a lot. she reminds us that scholarly stardom (oft masked as leadership) is flawed, that it reproduces inequities at the level of mentorship…

Strikers might win games, but goalies make sure you don't lose them. I always tell people that, for me, being a goalie is about protecting your team and not losing. If the goalies don't let a ball in, it's 0 - 0, a tie. You can't win without goals, but you can certainly lose without a good goalie.

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Whenever I cross to the otherworld, I get spit back out to the real world. Bah!

ICE could never have built such a large-scale deportation machine without the voluntary assistance of local law enforcement. In a new @inquest.bsky.social excerpt, Peter Mancina traces how jails became "force multipliers" and how the immigrant rights movement pushes back. Read on:

One of our amazing alumni discussing the colonial history of teeth. museumofbritishcolonialism.org/paper-trails...

With the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy, the U.S. continues to incarcerate more people than any other country. Nearly 2 million people are locked up in the U.S., according to @prisonpolicy.org’s 2026 report.

My latest for Truthout. Black job loss due to structural racism in Trump 2.0 truthout.org/articles/bla...

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

The So What welcomes your articles! Email thesowhatpub@gmail.com with your submissions exploring the ‘so whats’ of medieval studies and medievalisms, as well as short, pedagogical and/or creative pieces.

Applications are open for the 2026/2027 Arthuriana Editorial Fellowship, beginning fall of 2026. Fellows will work with the Arthuriana team to understand the nuances of publishing an academic journal.

My edits are officially submitted for my visual essay and reflection piece. My very kind reviewers both said its understandable, accessible, and stunning. Boom! Coloring book slinging archaeologist can do peer review journals too, even if its a bit of a slower timeline as an independent scholar.

Anyway "harvard" is not "higher ed" and everyone should read @josheyler.bsky.social's book.

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

We lost Felipe Staiti from Enanitos Verdes! Enanitos Verdes is one of the greatest Latin American rock bands of the last 30 decades. If you don't know them, today is a good day to listen to their music, celebrate one of the greatest, and learn more about the rest of the world. Easy assignment

“Gen AI… is a vampire. It is built to suck up water, power, rare earth metals, and the vast swath of human culture that was digitized and published on the internet for the common good. In return for these precious resources, gen AI gives us slop. It is eating our planet whole.“

We lost Felipe Staiti from Enanitos Verdes! Enanitos Verdes is one of the greatest Latin American rock bands of the last 30 decades. If you don't know them, today is a good day to listen to their music, celebrate one of the greatest, and learn more about the rest of the world. Easy assignment

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

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"in wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

I just came up with the perfect comeback for something that happened two years ago! LOL!

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...