Sister Act 2: Perestroika

I’m sorry but the word lens should have an e at the end. What are we even doing.

just signed up to participate in Fight Back, the historical reenactment of an ACT UP meeting. really hope i get to be Maxine Wolfe.

Today I ordered two new books by two of the best and also smartest people I know. You should do the same.

Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts

Dem fundraising is now just the Erin Brockovich monologue

Just fulfilled a life goal (spoke a stranger at an airport bar for two hours). Next up: a hairdresser who banters.

Live music is terrible and someone needs to say it. (Empowered by the guy doing eagles covers at this airport bar)

It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!

Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!

New issue of American Quarterly is out and it features the first two review essays Selina Lai-Henderson and I commissioned as book review editors! Check out 1/3

Review # 7 of Disability Works is out in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism! doi.org/10.1353/dtc....

Check my review essay of recent titles in carceral studies by Orisanmi Burton, @robinmbernstein.bsky.social Holly Karibo @melanienewport.bsky.social and Doran Larson. Just published in American Quarterly. Many thanks to editor @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social

Grateful to have Review # 6 of "Disability Works" out in H-Disability! networks.h-net.org/group/review...

Notre Dame is running a search for the next Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism (associate or full). Candidates will be expected to direct and teach courses for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy. Applications due by Oct 15! apply.interfolio.com/170389

Has arrived in Durham, if you even care.

It happened to me: my Trader Joe’s cashier looked like Oscar Van Rhijn

Anthony isn't letting me cut off small squares of our dog's blankets so I can be calmed by their smell as I settle into my apartment. Rude.

Anthony is a feminist so he asked Roku to pull up “Mr. and Ms. Smith”

the best thing about medical dramas is when the patient is a nonhuman animal. the second best thing is when they are skittish about making a health professional HIV+ so instead they give them tuberculosis.

if Melissa from Eyetique texts me one more time...

As someone who came out amid what can only be described as a tidal wave of Keebler-based homophobia in the early aughts, I for one am thrilled for the Crumbl queen.

Doing a new bit where when I don’t know who sings a song I say “is this Sting?”

googling "Durham gay bars" and mostly finding places that serve breakfast sandwiches. viable.

not a GMHC volunteer who works for Burroughs Wellcome

as a person of "not teaching this fall" and "has not been in a play in nineteen years" experience, I feel like I should not be having beginning of school year stress dreams about starring in Stereophonic and not knowing my lines

Shelby when I gossip halfway across the house

"There should be a midnight showing of United in Anger every week like Rocky Horror where we say all the words that people say in their oral history interviews." -- @rachelcorbman.bsky.social

I’ll say this: at least The Gilded Age is finally doing right by Baranski and Nixon

The finale of And Just Like That is the worst thing I’ve ever seen and I say that as someone who has seen every other episode of And Just Like That. Also, I am despondent about not being able to spend between 37 and 63 minutes with these ladies somewhere between eight and twelve times per year.

Shelby when I gossip

grateful for colleagues doing the goddess's work against-a-i.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

microdosing heterosexuality by opening a joint bank account

using the Marriott points I earned paying a copay to cover a hotel near the out-of-state medical specialist where I can accrue a copay through which I will earn Marriott points which I will use...

Shelburday

the "how come no one cites this book on [bewilderingly understudied phenomenon]" to "this is the worst book I've ever read" pipeline

Job at ND! Teaching Professor of Voice apply.interfolio.com/171584

One thing that is surprisingly accurate is pop culture representations of midwestern dental receptionists

“We need to talk about Truvy.”

Shelby broken when Truvy took her spot on the couch

A decade ago today, Shelby bravely battled a tree branch at Amory park in Brookline

Very grateful to chat about *Provoking Religion* with Clayton Jarrard for the New Books Network! Now available on their site as well as Spotify and Apple podcasts. newbooksnetwork.com/provoking-re...

Sundays are for Celebrating Shelby

I had an amazing experience at a large public research university but going to a school that graduates 12k students a year is making it had to verify whether the lesbian I made eye contact with at Trader Joe’s yesterday was a friend of friend from two decades ago when I only know her first name

a thing I think about a lot is when—on her greatest hits DVD— Whitney Houston says: Hi I'm Whitney Houston, welcome to my DVD.

six years ago today, Shelby modeled her back to school look in Provincetown.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

I was thrilled to serve on this book award committee & it is not hyperbole to say that the finalist list is STACKED with memorable, powerful works. Pick your title/s and get reading! #booksky #atds

So thrilled to see two of the most important and influential people in my life on this list! Congrats Clare and Mary!

sometimes you see an actress who think is Geena Davis and then NO. not Geena Davis. what are we even doing.