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Kelly Watson

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Aspiring Crone. Meat-free since ‘93. Waves at animals. She/her Bummer Studies PhD. WVU prof. Colonial history, history of sex & sexuality, indigenous studies, etc. New project - the Pied Piper of Papua New Guinea: D. Carleton Gajdusek’s colonialism


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Damn cat ate my bread again!

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Congratulations Dr. Bell!!

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The only appropriate response! Thanks

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In other news, I’ve finally signed my soul to the company store and have been officially appointed as the Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at WVU. This is, of course, both an honor and a curse.

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Netflix documentary about a serial sperm donor from the Netherlands

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Although my program might only have the equivalent of 2 faculty, we are very very rich in thumbtacks

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Your move, Hemingway

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This documentary about the dude with 1000 kids just skips right past the rampant white supremacy.

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Lower Decks is the best Star Trek since DS:9. Fact.

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Yep! My family had a cabin near Terra Alta when I was a little kid and I know we visited the falls but I didn’t remember it at all. We took my in-laws today

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Thanks! His name is Station. He’s around 8 years old and has been with us for a few months now

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Now that’s how you enjoy a sporting event

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Jealous! That is most certainly not how my 3 cats behave. The two former strays are far better than the cat we’ve had since she was a kitten though

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About to watch Crossroads (2002) for the first time, AMA

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That's the plan, but I worry that I've been on the job market for too long and people will be tired of seeing my application.

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I need an intern to slap my hands with a ruler whenever I try to click on a news story about US politics.

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One of my closest friends just spent several days in the hospital because of salmonella. (She is doing ok now) What a time to be alive.

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Yeah. I made it through the abortion disaster but turned it off before immigration. My stomach hurts.

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I made it 22 minutes. I really tried y’all.

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t’s weird reading my own book at this point because I’ve forgotten most of it. I am continuously shocked by all the cool stuff I once knew!

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negotiating makes me want to cry and then throw up

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A short list of things that I would rather do than watch the upcoming presidential debate: Brush my cat’s teeth Snake my shower drain Read Homi Bhabha Watch Tom Sandoval’s band live

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Here’s a piece of cat history that I think about often: When path-breaking English anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood was conducting fieldwork in New Guinea in the 1930s, she carried her cat Sally with her the whole time. Sally was the first cat the indigenous people ever saw. What a damn cat!

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A rare opportunity to see me with my hair properly straightened (plus bonus before pic)

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Enough time has passed since I published my book that I’m actually excited to be working on an essay about cannibalism and colonialism again.

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JFC. Panem today, Panem tomorrow, Panem forever.

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I know that I shouldn’t read comments on news stories about mass shootings, but I’m a masochist.

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Was rudely awoken at 6am by a cat peeing on my pillow, while I was sleeping on it. I love Webinar very much but he’s so dumb. He loves being in the bed with us but he’s too scared of the other cats to just leave when he wants to. He’s the least brave cat in the world.

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Well, you are so much better off now! And you are free to be a trash heathen

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Oh no! We still have boxes of their stuff (mostly awards they gave themself) but not an actual office

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And you dealt with this eventually by quitting, right? I’m not ruling that out (jk. Sort of. Not really)

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I wish! When we invited them to give a lunchtime talk it was a disaster

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