New article for Flow Journal. Check it out! www.flowjournal.org/2025/10/robo...

It's here! My new publication, "From Maid to Machine: Her, Hegemony, and the Twenty-First Century Mammy" is now available, open access, through JCMS.

Here it is! Here’s the truth about the Trump Administration. Darren Beattie is going to be put for a key post, the Acting “Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.” He left the 1st Trump Admin due to criticism he received for attending a conference tied to white nationalists.

I will never get over Kendrick's historic sweep at the Grammy's last night. Huge night for hip hop, huge night for the West Coast. And the crowd screaming along to THOSE lyrics? Diabolical.

i am reminded that in moments of tyranny, our imagination ffor better & for black futures is the first thing to be seized. for my 5th (!) annual 28 films for the 28 days of black history month, i highlighted 28 black cinematic visions of resistance, childlike wonder, and unending imagination:

Midwest friends, I'm co-organizing this regional film and media studies graduate symposium this April, feat. keynote presentation from Prof. Neil Verma! Abstracts due February 16th. Please recirculate and forward to anyone you know who might be interested!

Welcome, TikTok users! Bluesky is just like TikTok, except instead of videos we post words and instead of fun we have "discourse"

I'm very excited to share that my department at USC is hosting a new conference this summer - The Hollywood Conference! Please spread the word and come join us in LA (the obviously spot for this) next July. www.thehollywoodconference.com/cfp

hey everyone, unfortunately i was laid off from my job and am now looking for mobile engineer roles focused on flutter (android/ios); 6 years experience with flutter for mobile apps i'm from brazil and would need a remote role since i can't exactly move from here right now thanks in advance!

Check out my Interview of Director/Activist/Rapper Boots Riley! This interview was done at the University of Washington as an Office of Public Lectures event in collaboration with my home department of Cinema and Media Studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kD7...

the Media Studies Department I now belong to is really just the most warm, supportive, smart, collegial workplace I've ever belonged to. so that means you should apply! new position for an Assistant Prof. Technology, Justice, and Equity! pls share jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

It's no coincidence that the two forms of animal discourse from Trump are either calling migrants "animals" or weird sentimental AI images of cute pets. For men like him, animals must be dominated or tamed. And the category of "animals" can always include groups of humans.

Patience (noun). What you have when there are too many witnesses present.

Some horrific resonance to weeks of breathless panic over US students in tents protesting followed by precision military strikes on fucking tents in Gaza and knowing the response from liberal establishment will probably be silence

They gave Mel Brooks an honorary Oscar at an untelevised ceremony which is frankly the only thing I’d have wanted to see. Here he is, being awesome

Wins for Oppenheimer and Godzilla Minus One mean this is the first time a movie and its sequel both won Oscars the same year.

"Just how bad is it in Gaza?" - 1% of population killed in 3 months - 85% displacement - 1 shower per 4,500 people - 1 toilet per 220 - 2/3 hospitals closed 706,000 people are starving to death worldwide -- 577,000 of them (82%) are in Gaza. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Back up everything!! Your files. Your photos. Your music. Your arguments…

Darth Vader: I know what you are getting for Xmas. Luke: How is that possible? Darth Vader: I felt your presents. Luke: That is such a lame dad joke! Darth Vader: It’s funny that you should mention that…

I ordered a chicken and an egg online. I'll let you know.

Banana duck. Doot dooo do do do.

Nature: So, what shade of blue would you like to be? Splendid Fairy-wren: Yes #urbanNature #wildOz 🪶🌏🐦

Today in "linguists are not kidding when they say that language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before in the entirety of human history"

Your Monday motivation.

*takes notes for book*

This is absurd. I love it.

This can't possibly be the same body from my childhood, can it? It used to be... so resilient.

This is objectively hilarious.

We spend a lot of time telling kids that they can be whoever they want to be, but I think it might be more important to tell them that they can be who they are

Your timeline has been blessed by the raven of Friday Fortune, wishing for you the best of weekends.

Every worthwhile American cuisine has one of four origins: 1. Invented by ethnic minority that wasn't allowed to eat regular food 2. Invented by cult to stop masturbation 3. Asshole customer, chef revenge 4. World's Fair