Danica Savonick

Excited to present today at the American Studies Association! Our panel "Method in the Meantime: Improvising Pedagogy and Inquiry Under Pressure" is at 12 CST on ZOOM (DM me for link) I'll be talking about Sonia Sanchez's kitchen classroom! #ASA2026

“To fight & win everywhere, we need to fight & win… in local communities & in our neighborhoods, where people need access to books, to air conditioning, to the internet, to a space where…resources, knowledge & support can be available not just to the wealthy & powerful, but to everyone”

Pleased to share resources from the #ACH2026 Pre-Conference Workshops! Great ideas for teaching, preservation, and community building from @mackymoo.bsky.social Lisa Boutin-Vitela @akijas.bsky.social @danicasavonick.bsky.social Chelcie Juliet Rowell and Allison Fischbach. ach.org/news/2026/10...

Being an educator is one of the lowest-paying jobs that requires a bachelor's degree, and salaries keep falling behind inflation. If we want to keep educators in our classrooms, we have to pay them like the professionals they are. wallethub.com/edu/best-and...

Incredibly honored & excited to be a '26-'27 Schomburg Fellow! Can’t wait to work on my new project with such a brilliant community of scholars! www.nypl.org/about/fellow...

A degree from many American universities now doubles as a promise to employers: this worker will absorb an 80-hour week and endure immense psychological pressure without complaint.

“Everything that saved my life, access to abortion care, birth control, and a job that supports myself and my children are under threat… The voices of the women we have today are because Steinem and Second Wave feminists fought for those rights.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“Steinem will be remembered for her actions: co-founding Ms., advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment, mentoring younger feminists, and forming coalitions with feminists whose politics and interests might have differed from her own.” - Maggie Doherty newrepublic.com/article/2150...

I'm really excited about this one: I went through the archives of my literary hero June Jordan and pieced together the story of a revolutionary novel about land reform that she was working on for decades but never finished. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/june...

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From the brilliant tech critic Cory Doctorow who gave us “enshittification” comes “the reverse centaur”: the best perspective on the AI bubble I’ve seen. Urgent, necessary reading. Will be assigning to as many students as possible! pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Yes! Default institutional policies on AI should be AI = academic dishonesty. Then individual instructors can alter that & opt in when appropriate.

How big tech is pushing products on schools ostensibly to promote learning & creativity when really the motive is corporate profit. Great examples of educators resisting at the end! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...

Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

“The East Village is the charged, nostalgic backdrop for all of these contemporary queer stories because it was the origin point from which queer life jumped from the fringes into mainstream North American culture.”

"Not everything can be included in a memoir, even if the author wants it to be." Sarah McEachern on "Famesick" and Lena Dunham's memoirist flourishes: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lena-dunham-famesick-memoir-girls-celebrity-chronic-illness

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.

Nobody wants to join a boring movement. Socialists can’t change the world if we aren’t providing people with a good time.

How AI is ruining the messy/beautiful work of teaching & learning, and why so many of us are completely burned out www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Chelcie J. Rowell & I are pouring our little hearts into our virtual workshop "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design." Emphasis on community, knowledge sharing & peer review. Leave w/ an assignment for a class or workshop of your own! ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops...

"I believe writers...have a role to play in liberation work. By restoring specific narrative to abstract casualty data, we restore for readers the urgent somatic obliteration of individual loss." lithub.com/kaveh-akbar-...

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Ahhh this is such a brilliant, urgent, necessary guide to teaching towards institutional and social change! An absolute must-read (not to mention, it's gorgeously written). Bravo @walshbr.bsky.social !!!

Excited to talk about Audre Lorde's work as a professor this Friday at Nevada State University!

So excited to be part of this collection! My chapter is about M. NourbeSe Philip’s beautiful, brilliant, and haunting poetry collection Zong!

#TalkAboutHumanities We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together. youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ...

Emily Callaci’s Wages for Housework is a gorgeous history about imagining & fighting for a world beyond capitalism, where people are compensated for care work. “Less work in general; more time for living meaningful lives. Calling work what is work... to rediscover what is love.” I sobbed at the end.

and it occurs to me, if someone was willing to sponsor it, I would happily rework this into billboard format. Put it up in the midst of all these ridiculous ai product billboards! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

“I’m interested in trying to make a case for feminists to think structurally about these major institutions of work, family, and prison…it’s shocking how unschooled we are in thinking at the level of social structures." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Faculty wages decreased and remain below pre-pandemic levels, AAUP's 2025-26 Faculty Compensation Survey confirms. "Two steps forward, one step back. That's been the story for full-time faculty. For part-timers, it's been no steps forward at all. The AAUP data makes that undeniable."

SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!

It was windy 🤣🤣

Trump is flat wrong when he claims that birthright citizenship was intended only for the "babies of slaves." Martha Jones and I have the receipts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Sashay away, Rump #nokings

All SUNY & CUNY folks, please sign!!!

Hoping @danicasavonick.bsky.social will repost and convince friends, colleagues, and students to let their state legislators know they want them to fight for the priorities laid out in this open letter. The time to get involved is now—and every day until we have an Enacted Budget. #PublicGoodU

I spoke w/ a reporter at The Guardian about AI & she used one of my quotes as the title of her article 😂. Thanks to Alice Speri & @theguardian.com for covering our Sisyphean struggle. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

““It creates hours of additional labor ... And makes me feel like a cop” @danicasavonick.bsky.social holding a mirror up to my experience teaching and assessing in this AI hellscape.

I'm co-organizing an #MLA2027 panel on Public Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom -- please submit & spread the word! Happy to answer questions. Abstracts due March 20 @modernlanguage.bsky.social mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380