"Queer Ear still centers masculine representations that presume an inherently cis and male subject...in many ways enforcing a false equivalence between what is masculine and what is wrong with what we might construe as the non-queer music theory: cis music theory."

It must be really exhausting and lonely to constantly view other scholars as adversaries rather than folks you are in community with and to whom you have an ethical obligation.

@iaspm-us.bsky.social invites nominations for the 2026 Woody Guthrie and Greg Tate Book Awards: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Guthrie-and-...

Happy July 4th 🤘🏻

CFP: @iaspm-us.bsky.social 2026 Conference Popular Music and the State iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/2026-confere...

I am off to Paris for the Depression in Popular Music Conference and IASPM 2025. It will be my first time in France! Let’s see how rusty that middle school and high school French is 😅

GUESS WHO’S IN THE BEAN CLUB

I am very excited to share that I have accepted a position as Associate Professor of Music in the Music Department at Smith College! I will be relocating to Northampton, MA over the summer.

Honored to have been recognized by the WMU college of Fine Arts with the Excellence in Creative Research award for 2025. 🥹

There are some folks who are impacted by cuts to NIH & NEH grants posting things like, “I don’t usually post political things on fb but this is the last straw!” Just think about how that must sound to trans folks, immigrants, etc., that it wasn’t worth speaking up until *your* job was impacted.

Sorry I’m late for my appointment, “Purple Rain” came on the radio and I was unable to leave my vehicle

Congrats @lmgm.bsky.social on winning this year’s Guthrie award!!

Two big events coming up at today’s PopCon/IASPM-US meeting! First, we have the IASPM-US business meeting at noon in the music complex. We have some exciting announcements, including this year’s prize winners and next year’s conference

Heading to PopCon/IASPM-US 2025! DTW is going hard with the 90s pop today “How do I liiiiiive without youuuu”

Feeling honored to have been elected to serve as the next president of @iaspm-us.bsky.social (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch)! Thank you to everyone who voted. I’m very glad I will continue to serve with Anthony Kwame Harrison and the rest of the board.

In case you missed it last week, the video of my conversation with Big Freedia, moderated by Loren Kajikawa, hosted by @rad-institute.bsky.social is now available: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-c...

Look at @cristina4.bsky.social go! Love hearing about her book, Art Music Activism (@illinoispress.bsky.social) at the WMU Center for the Humanities Books & Beers Series 🤩

Y’all I just talked to Big Freedia in front of I don’t know how many people 😮‍💨

😮‍💨 that was so stressful

I am presenting a talk on my book as part of the Books and Beer series of the WMU Center for the Humanities ... join us if you are in Kalamazoo! We can share a beer while listening to some stories of Music Activism 😁

Happy beyhive presale day to all who celebrate

Tomorrow! New Orleans, Katrina, and Bounce: A Conversation with Big Freedia. Hosted by @rad-institute.bsky.social, moderated by Loren Kajikawa, ft me in convo with the Queen Diva. FREE. 4pmET. There’s still time to register! www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-c...

I’m really tired of us getting Big Freedia’s voice but not getting to see her on the stage 😑

This is a better link to the post-Grammy thoughts. Making my Cowboy Carter Tour plans…. She coming! www.barrons.com/news/beyonce...

A little late sharing but here’s the follow up on Beyoncé finally taking home AOTY with quotes from me and @birgittajohnson.bsky.social 🤠 apple.news/Abrj6a9RZQI-...

@ucpress.bsky.social blog just published a piece I wrote about bounce: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Lots of bad & heavy stuff going on. I’m trying to remind myself of things I’m looking forward to! Like presenting at the HipHop Literacies conference at Ohio State in March (new work on Meg Thee Stallion, Doechii, depression & anxiety) & at IASPM in Paris this summer (Beyoncé & queer sampling)

Delighted to be quoted alongside my esteemed colleague @birgittajohnson.bsky.social in this piece on Beyoncé and the Grammys www.france24.com/en/live-news...

I’m really excited about this FREE upcoming @rad-institute.bsky.social event I’m doing on February 11, in conversation with thee Big Freedia, moderated by Loren Kajikawa! “New Orleans, Katrina, and Bounce: A Conversation with Big Freedia.” www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-c...

I am late to the party but Bad Bunny’s latest is *so good*

Something I’m really looking forward to in 2025 is this conversation with Big Freedia and Loren Kajikawa hosted by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute on February 11 at 4pm ET. It is a webinar, you can register to attend for free! www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-c...

Absolutely nobody: Me to my dog: Popular. You’re already popular. The way you play with toys and talk to boys, the way you scream and shoouuuut

I cannot really put into words how gross it feels to pour your heart out into an email to your provost just to get an AI-generated response.

I wouldn’t mind a deny defend depose murder ballad from @jakeblount.com

for everyone taking part in the action tomorrow/Tuesday, 1) thank you! 2) here's some info that may be helpful + how to make sure your link is included in the collection of #LGBTQNotGoingBack writings/creations...

Democrats' backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights must stop now! here is my proposed action. Please share widely and please let me know if you plan to participate! #LGBTQNotGoingBack on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/planned-ac... or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/planned-acti...

Updating my CV is forcing me to give [tentative] titles to some projects that I’ve committed to but am still in the early stages of forming but it’s making me kind of excited for what they could be

For my German-speaking friends, I was interviewed for this piece for German radio on the “Roxanne Wars.” I’ve been dubbed over but hopefully they captured some good sound bites from me (mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut 😅). www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-roxanne-...

I was interviewed for and quoted in this long-form Rolling Stone piece along with very smart scholar friends @alyxvesey.bsky.social and @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social! Thanks @abbananafish.bsky.social for chatting w/ me about the racial implications of who gets considered and celebrated in sapphic pop

I’m quoted in this piece in Rolling Stone on the year in Sapphic pop (alongside @alyxvesey.bsky.social and @lauronkehrer.bsky.social). www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I received an email invitation to contribute to a project through a contact form and the sender expressed some concern that they couldn’t find my email address. 1st of all the contact forms work. I got the message. But also they allow me to filter out harassing emails!

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

Sharing again because nothing has really changed since last year except the updated vaccine formula

IASPM/Pop Con CFP extended to November 22. You won't want to miss this one e e e e docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Standing room only for the #ams24 LGBTQ study group panel… why do we keep putting these events in the tiniest rooms 🙄

Yes I’m at #ams24

This feels like a knock-off @musicologyduck.bsky.social 😒

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy