Cate Denial

@cjdenial.bsky.social

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Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM-Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land

a yellow poster that says 'Welcome Cate! We're so happy you are here!" signed by faculty, staff, and administrators at the University of Minnesota-Rochester.
A photograph of a sunrise over a darkened street. In the foreground are shadowed trees. Above is a vibrant sky in shades of peach and violet.
A photograph of four individuals, smiling. Left to right, Nathan Brooks, Joshua Althoff, me, and Sophie croll.
A tweet from August 4, 2019: "Legit question for rural Americans - How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3.5 mins while my small kids play?" Tweet by William McNabb.
A short, 12-second video of the ocean coming in at Santa Cruz this morning.
A sign against a rock wall: "Tek Care Lambs Ont Road."
A copy of the book A Pedagogy of Kindness, where someone has stuck tiny white beads to the title letters to make a beaded, bedazzled book.
two rows of index-card boxes in red, lime green, blue, and teal.
A photo of me, a white woman with a short, auburn pixie cut, wearing tortoiseshell glasses, and smiling at the camera. I'm wearing a white t-shirt that says EY UP on the front (a Yorkshire greeting)
L-R, Kevin McClure, Cate Denial, and Jennifer Hart. We're all smilely widly at the camera
A packed house of people at our Resisting AI with Care and Courage panel
A photograph of rolling green hills and purplish moors, with a stormy sky overhead, and the last vestiges of a sunset.
Person one: "Bucky has a disability?" Person two: "He doesn't have an arm."
Person one: "I need feminism because when Jesus does a magic trick it's a goddamn miracle, but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake." Person two: "Fabulous" Person three: "I mean they did also kill Jesus. That was a pretty significant thing that happened. Like i understand where you're coming from here but they very much did kill jesus."
A drawing of someone with short dark hair, wearing a shirt with an airplane on it, and a skirt with a bullet train around the hem. The figure is holding a paint palette, and standing in grass beside a large body of water.
A photograph of a large vase of flowers in a riot of beautiful spring colors: white, yellow, pink, pale green, orange. There are tulips and hydrangea, lilies and poppies, stock and ranunculus.
Banner that reads "I'm presenting! CLASS 2026: the AAC&U conference on learning and student success. Tuscon, AZ, April 15-18."
A banner that reads "I'm Presenting! CLASS 2026: Conference on Learning and Student Success" Tuscon, AZ, April 15-18.
A photograph of the cover of the book _Write Like You Teach_ by James Lang.
a screenshot of a text message that I haven't yet sent. The message says "Yesterday's announcement of a major overhaul in energy policy and the impact on the environment was welcome with great excitement as we discussed. I hope that this is the beginning for our next generation to take a new direction." The message was written using predictive text.
A screenshot of my messaging app, containing a text I generated only by using the predictive text options it supplied. The message says "Yesterday's announcement of a major overhaul in energy policy and the impact on the environment was welcomed with great excitement as we discussed. I hope that this is the beginning for our next generation to take a new direction."
A timeline, stretching from 1800 to 1910, noting major shifts in the way people thought about reproduction and birth control in the United States.
A poster that says WE ARE MINNESOTA. WE PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS. There is an image of a loon within the sign of the resistance from Star Wars.
A photograph of a poster that says "Freed Between The Lines", set within a large golden frame against a chalkboard in my office.
A photograph of a white woman wearing tortoiseshell glasses, smiling at the camera. She is wearing a blue tartan hat and a pale blue scarf over her winter coat.
A photograph of a teams meeting, with five participants (including me). The text says (in Portuguese) that the bell hooks book club had a surprise visit from the author of the book "A Pedagogy of Kindness."
A photograph of Rob Reiner, surrounded by volunteers holding up "Howard Dean for America" signs. In the foreground you can see photographers taking his picture.
On the left, Rob Reiner, smiling at the camera. He's wearing a Howard Dean sticker on his black sweater. On the right, me, smiling at the camera, wearing a Dean pin.
A photograph of my hospital bed in a hallway, with curtains around it. You can see the white blanket that covers me, and my blue, green, and white striped socks (Pacas - the best).
A black-and-white photograph of the Liffey river in Dublin, close to the Ha'Penny Bridge. I'm standing on the left, contemplating the view.
My brother's photo of the Temple Bar bar (in Temple Bar) lit up for Christmas with thousands of lights. There's a giant lighted set of reindeer on the roof, too.
Me, dressed as BB8 from Star Wars for halloween, alongside my niblings, dressed as Holzman from Ghostbusters, and Elsa from Frozen.
A screenshot that says "You've sent $25 USD to FISH of Galesburg."
A bunch of pink, purple, and white flowers interspersed with green leaves
A screenshot of a completed quiz that shows I completed it and scored 94%, or 19/20 questions answered correctly. The quiz says I am a "fact-check champion"
A bunch of flowers on a wooden table. The flowers are yellow, orange, white, cream, pink, purple, and red. They are all different varieties!
A photograph of me standing on campus, in front of alumni hall, holding a copy of the Nursing Clio Reader
A beautiful bunch of pink, purple, and cream flowers with lots of greenery.
A photograph of me, a white woman with short auburn hair and tortoiseshell glasses, wearing a green and white dress, and standing in front of a sign that says "Coeur de Catherine". (Heart of Catherine)
A photograph showing the Library of Congress reading room, four or five storeys high, with dozens of individually lit study carrels in the main part of the room.
A photograph of the cover of the book Of Many Minds. The main title is in bright blue, green, and red, and down the edges of the page you see a multitude of different pens, pencils, and highlighters, no two the same
A photograph of a copy of the book A Pedagogy of Kindness. It is dogeared, wrinkled, and full of post-it notes
An overhead photograph of a road passing through snowy fields. The road forks toward the left of the picture.
A photograph of the leadership fellows from the ACM, New York 6, and ACS listening to Kimberley Griffith from UMD on Wednesday morning, July 23, in Chicago.
A receipt from OUTMemphis showing that I made a donation and covered payment processing fees. The amounts are blacked out.
A photograph of a white woman with short auburn hair and tortoiseshell glasses, smiling at the camera. She is wearing a green dress and a white cardigan. Behind her is a colorfully-painted wall.
A purple poster that says "Keep Calm and Flunk On" in white text.
A life-sized panel about Chief Heap of Birds, depicted in the American military uniform he was forced to wear at Fort Marion on the orders of Richard Henry Pratt.
A photo taken from the battlements of Fort Marion (Castillo de San Marcos) looking out to the Matanzas River.
A NASA satellite photograph of the five Great Lakes in North America.
A poem by Beth: "Emotional outbursts / Erratic behavior / Due to my uterus / Wandering Hippocrates / / Marital sex and / Pregnancy to keep / It firmly rooted / Shackled to the man / / I speak directly to my / Womb who tells me I am gay."
A photograph of framed art on top of a bookshelf. In the middle is a small poster that says "Hope is a Discipline." You can see the edge of a hanging quilt behind it, and a baseball from Field of Dreams in front of it.
A screenshot of a weather app showing that the real temp at 6.04am is -10F (-23C) with a windchill of -20F (-28C).
A photograph of a chalkboard, framed, and leaning up against a white wall. The chalkboard has rectangles of clean white paper against it by what look like magnets.
A screenshot of the top of a contract signed between me and Johns Hopkins University Press last Friday, for an essay called "For Those Who Do Not Love The Archives," to appear in the book -Of Many Minds-
A photograph of the sun, low in the sky but not quite setting, illuminating the clouds in shades of butter yellow. Below is a patchwork of fields. The sun is reflecting in a pond on the ground.
A photograph of a jar of pickles on a small white plate, taken by JESHOOTS at pexels.com
On the left, me, a white woman wearing tortoiseshell glasses, with short auburn hair. I'm mid laugh. On the right, Becky Weaver, grinning widely, wearing a white shirt with a grid on it, a green jacket, and a jaunty scarf.
On the left is me, in a grey sweater dress with a pink and purple fair isle detail, smiling at the camera. On the right is Chris Friend, holding a copy of my book, and grinning wildly.
A photo of me, a white woman with short auburn hair and tortoiseshell glasses, wearing a yellow coat and standing in a bright autumn landscape. I'm wearing a bright fuschia scarf (that I knitted)