Johanna Mellis
@johannamellis.bsky.social
Ex-D1 swimmer, historian, ADHDer, @endofsportpod.bsky.social. A sportsperson for life who critiques it to make it better for others. Writing slowly on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her.
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Six of the tenured faculty that the president is firing are in history. (!)
It’s arbitrary. None of the members of the committee that advised Bowie State’s president about “retrenchment” were elected by the faculty senate.
That’s against USM policies.
Here’s the resolution CUSF passed last May:
It’s arbitrary. None of the members of the committee that advised Bowie State’s president about “retrenchment” were elected by the faculty senate.
That’s against USM policies.
Here’s the resolution CUSF passed last May:
September 30, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Six of the tenured faculty that the president is firing are in history. (!)
It’s arbitrary. None of the members of the committee that advised Bowie State’s president about “retrenchment” were elected by the faculty senate.
That’s against USM policies.
Here’s the resolution CUSF passed last May:
It’s arbitrary. None of the members of the committee that advised Bowie State’s president about “retrenchment” were elected by the faculty senate.
That’s against USM policies.
Here’s the resolution CUSF passed last May:
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In news that should surprise no one at all
The social media influencer known online as "Clavicular" has been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl at his family's Cape Cod home.
‘Looksmaxxing’ influencer known as 'Clavicular' is charged with rape in Massachusetts
The social media influencer known online as “Clavicular” has been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl at his family’s Cape Cod home.
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September 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
In news that should surprise no one at all
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Even more civic thought jobs - the dominant trend in academic job hiring in the humanities this cycle is how much right-wing civic centers are hiring historians and political theorists:
careers.utoledo.edu/jobs/assista...
apply.interfolio.com/193458
careers.utoledo.edu/jobs/assista...
apply.interfolio.com/193458
September 23, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Even more civic thought jobs - the dominant trend in academic job hiring in the humanities this cycle is how much right-wing civic centers are hiring historians and political theorists:
careers.utoledo.edu/jobs/assista...
apply.interfolio.com/193458
careers.utoledo.edu/jobs/assista...
apply.interfolio.com/193458
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Like I hope Martins Navratilova and all the other TERFy cis lesbians who aligned themselves with the anti-trans movement are happy now
September 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Like I hope Martins Navratilova and all the other TERFy cis lesbians who aligned themselves with the anti-trans movement are happy now
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Ok but in all seriousness I don’t feel like pitching this but if you’re an editor who actually wants a response to this that includes historical context, please get in touch. There’s so much here
Riley Gaines: "I went to the WNBA game in Minneapolis. It was a bunch of, like, disgruntled lesbians."
September 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Ok but in all seriousness I don’t feel like pitching this but if you’re an editor who actually wants a response to this that includes historical context, please get in touch. There’s so much here
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I have been looking for months and I might just suck at this, but does anyone know if there are digitized archives available of "She" magazine? Specifically the South Florida lesbian mag that published from 1999-2015?
September 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
I have been looking for months and I might just suck at this, but does anyone know if there are digitized archives available of "She" magazine? Specifically the South Florida lesbian mag that published from 1999-2015?
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Portland soccer fans! Please join us on Sun., 20 Sept. at 2pm to talk soccer politics—from the FIFA greed machine to Portland soccer fans fighting for justice. We'll be at the lending library "Booked!"—in downtown #PDX right across the street from the soccer stadium. @107ist.org #RCTID #BAONPDX
September 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Portland soccer fans! Please join us on Sun., 20 Sept. at 2pm to talk soccer politics—from the FIFA greed machine to Portland soccer fans fighting for justice. We'll be at the lending library "Booked!"—in downtown #PDX right across the street from the soccer stadium. @107ist.org #RCTID #BAONPDX
Disability grief effing sucks. The feeling of disappearing. being a shell of your former energetic, intellectually engaged self (which = masking, overworking)
Some days I don’t know who I am anymore, beyond pain management, always 🤔: “can I do X today, tmrw, next month?” “What am I forgetting?!?”
Some days I don’t know who I am anymore, beyond pain management, always 🤔: “can I do X today, tmrw, next month?” “What am I forgetting?!?”
September 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Disability grief effing sucks. The feeling of disappearing. being a shell of your former energetic, intellectually engaged self (which = masking, overworking)
Some days I don’t know who I am anymore, beyond pain management, always 🤔: “can I do X today, tmrw, next month?” “What am I forgetting?!?”
Some days I don’t know who I am anymore, beyond pain management, always 🤔: “can I do X today, tmrw, next month?” “What am I forgetting?!?”
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Whether we want to admit it or not, every NFL game is a snuff film.
It's long past time fans of the sport faced up to a reality that becomes clearer every day: American football is simply too dangerous.
This year, turn off the NFL.
Our latest in @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com.
It's long past time fans of the sport faced up to a reality that becomes clearer every day: American football is simply too dangerous.
This year, turn off the NFL.
Our latest in @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com.
CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching
A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Whether we want to admit it or not, every NFL game is a snuff film.
It's long past time fans of the sport faced up to a reality that becomes clearer every day: American football is simply too dangerous.
This year, turn off the NFL.
Our latest in @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com.
It's long past time fans of the sport faced up to a reality that becomes clearer every day: American football is simply too dangerous.
This year, turn off the NFL.
Our latest in @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com.
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I read stuff like this, and I think of @endofsportpod.bsky.social on college athletes + capitalism.
This story should have more attention. ASU's idiot coach brought in some military prick to run a grueling boot camp-style workout in the heat, which included restricting water intake. NHL prospect player suffers a heat stroke and is probably going to die from it.
arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona...
arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona...
ASU hockey player Matthew Mayich has no chance of recovery after heatstroke, attorney says - Arizona Sports
"His body ceased functioning in a fundamental way, and this condition is irreversible," Robert Carey said.
arizonasports.com
September 4, 2026 at 12:39 AM
I read stuff like this, and I think of @endofsportpod.bsky.social on college athletes + capitalism.
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NEW: wrote about why it’s so problematic that many of the new women’s basketball documentaries are erasing Black women’s names, greatness, labor, & contributions from the history of the sport.
the basketball documentaries erasing black women from the sport
this trend is a real problem
www.thefrankiedlc.news
September 3, 2026 at 8:35 PM
NEW: wrote about why it’s so problematic that many of the new women’s basketball documentaries are erasing Black women’s names, greatness, labor, & contributions from the history of the sport.
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This has actually become a complete recalibration of what even matters and is at stake for all our classrooms. No matter what the field, what we teach, somehow we must all be part of the great AI push and prostrate ourselves at the feed of our tech gods, or be treated like children
September 3, 2026 at 10:32 PM
This has actually become a complete recalibration of what even matters and is at stake for all our classrooms. No matter what the field, what we teach, somehow we must all be part of the great AI push and prostrate ourselves at the feed of our tech gods, or be treated like children
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I just don't understand this push--otoh, they claim "AI is just a tool, and students need this tool" but otoh, administrators and some faculty are insistent that all professors, irrespective of field or interest or method, MUST use this tool because they say so.
its so ludicrous.
its so ludicrous.
September 3, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I just don't understand this push--otoh, they claim "AI is just a tool, and students need this tool" but otoh, administrators and some faculty are insistent that all professors, irrespective of field or interest or method, MUST use this tool because they say so.
its so ludicrous.
its so ludicrous.
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I just interviewed Susan Cahn, one of the academics whose work has been foundational to my own, and she knew who I was and had read my book and thanked me for my work and I am kind of dumbstruck? I cite her book COMING ON STRONG all the time!! 😭😭😭
August 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I just interviewed Susan Cahn, one of the academics whose work has been foundational to my own, and she knew who I was and had read my book and thanked me for my work and I am kind of dumbstruck? I cite her book COMING ON STRONG all the time!! 😭😭😭
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my debut for the @newrepublic.com! on Dolly, and how she was always entirely herself even in a world that wasn't ready for it newrepublic.com/article/2147...
Dolly Parton Never Wavered
From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.
newrepublic.com
August 26, 2026 at 6:49 PM
my debut for the @newrepublic.com! on Dolly, and how she was always entirely herself even in a world that wasn't ready for it newrepublic.com/article/2147...
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I’m on All Things Considered today talking about right-wing extremism & the WNBA. I believe it airs again at 6:30 PM ET
@thefrankiedlc.news nice commentary on the NPR WNBA piece!
August 26, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I’m on All Things Considered today talking about right-wing extremism & the WNBA. I believe it airs again at 6:30 PM ET
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The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
www.chronicle.com
August 25, 2026 at 11:34 PM
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
If any faculty members would be willing to chat about how they navigated the process of getting disability accommodations for their adhd at their institution, please lmk.
I feel like my soul is shriveling with all the barriers at my school. There’s no mentors I’ve found who have done it.
I feel like my soul is shriveling with all the barriers at my school. There’s no mentors I’ve found who have done it.
August 25, 2026 at 9:49 PM
If any faculty members would be willing to chat about how they navigated the process of getting disability accommodations for their adhd at their institution, please lmk.
I feel like my soul is shriveling with all the barriers at my school. There’s no mentors I’ve found who have done it.
I feel like my soul is shriveling with all the barriers at my school. There’s no mentors I’ve found who have done it.
Will share more about this tomorrow!! TY Sean and Eleven Named People 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@johannamellis.bsky.social on how rightwingers in the US use sports to erase transgender people, casting exclusion as a path to “feminine” motherhood and a white nation. Johanna's advice: We need to believe them when they tell us that.
It’s not just about sports
The Right uses sports to erase transgender people, casting exclusion as a path to “feminine” motherhood and a white nation. We need to believe them when they tell us that.
elevennamedpeople.substack.com
July 29, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Will share more about this tomorrow!! TY Sean and Eleven Named People 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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The SCOTUS Anti-Trans Ruling
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social and @reveleth.com join to unpack SCOTUS’s recent ruling on cis and trans people in sports.
open.spotify.com/episode/4mJI...
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social and @reveleth.com join to unpack SCOTUS’s recent ruling on cis and trans people in sports.
open.spotify.com/episode/4mJI...
![SCOTUS ANTI-TRANS BIGOTRY
[picture of Kavanaugh]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysfa4uxubdysuajuxu22qpns/bafkreiegcadouimzgnq7l2u5ygskol25zpsrvqixcoawbjlzst3pdjduda)
July 23, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The SCOTUS Anti-Trans Ruling
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social and @reveleth.com join to unpack SCOTUS’s recent ruling on cis and trans people in sports.
open.spotify.com/episode/4mJI...
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social and @reveleth.com join to unpack SCOTUS’s recent ruling on cis and trans people in sports.
open.spotify.com/episode/4mJI...
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It was an honor to be in conversation with @reveleth.com and @johannamellis.bsky.social on this episode of @endofsportpod.bsky.social about transphobia in and beyond sports and the necessity for solidarity among so many linked struggles over gender, race, and disability.
youtu.be/tJT9qDjQtiE?...
youtu.be/tJT9qDjQtiE?...
July 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It was an honor to be in conversation with @reveleth.com and @johannamellis.bsky.social on this episode of @endofsportpod.bsky.social about transphobia in and beyond sports and the necessity for solidarity among so many linked struggles over gender, race, and disability.
youtu.be/tJT9qDjQtiE?...
youtu.be/tJT9qDjQtiE?...
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I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...
Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deserves
Victor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education
www.ms.now
July 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...
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DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.
White House launches 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations in this region
The White House launched gas stations, it announced on July 7, but the prices aren't much lower than the national average. See where they're located.
bit.ly
July 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Revealing and predictable that the very same people who were frothing at the mouth with determination to dehumanise and ban black and brown intersex sportswomen react with an indifferent shrug to the idea of athletes representing a mass-murdering invader country being allowed.
July 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Revealing and predictable that the very same people who were frothing at the mouth with determination to dehumanise and ban black and brown intersex sportswomen react with an indifferent shrug to the idea of athletes representing a mass-murdering invader country being allowed.