New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here. We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!

It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !

Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities” open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...

Kick off Pride by reading @uncannydazzler.bsky.social’s great essay about Rickie and Delia’s Haddaway dance in @atpost45.bsky.social’s latest issue on My So-Called Life 🪩

i am so proud & honored to have gotten to write about My So-Called Life and the genre of the teen drama (& to put all of the hours of my life burned away watching teen TV to use) for the @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on MSCL, edited by the brilliant @dfmorgan.bsky.social! post45.org/2025/05/my-s...

Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.

It's, like, a feast.

My So-Called Life at 30! Edited by the amazing @dfmorgan.bsky.social and with an essay by one of my favorite practitioners of the art of overanalysis @cmceleney.bsky.social

That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned— Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social

In my pursuit of descriptive games writing over prescriptive, I love reading this. Also this is a beautiful way to frame the act of analyzing a work: "Close reading requires someone you want to persuade... whose judgment you care about, and for whom you want your ideas about art and life to matter"

🚌🚉♨️ stop by Post45.org/contemporaries for our latest cluster! “Mobilizing Literature: A Response”

I read the Lawrence essay in ms for ELH, so it’s even more exciting to see it elicit such a stellar set of commentaries.

✍️ 🗣️ 🛎️ Check out our newest cluster! post45.org/sections/con... We take the occasion to think through @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," & consider what it means for Post45 to be a literary critical institution. How do social movements offer a different literary history?

It’s true! And we're live with "Mobilizing Literature: A Response." We’re super happy that @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's “Mobilizing Literature” essay has generated so much discussion, and that this cluster is a chance to think through the implications of his work. post45.org/sections/con...

We have a super secret surprise cluster for you all tomorrow! It’s going to be a fun one, with responses to @jefflawcdm.bsky.social’s ELH article, “Movilizing Literature.” Ft. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, @franciscondine.bsky.social, @isanchezprado.bsky.social, Cheryl Higashida, Irvin Hunt III ++++

Love this article and it makes me want to rewatch The Leftovers: “The hunt for Easter eggs may have started as a fannish practice, but it has now become a hegemonic one, with disconcerting results.”

ICYMI: i co-wrote a conversation on The Leftovers with two of my best friends (interspersed with a short essay by each of us) for the new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on The Leftovers 🎆 post45.org/2025/01/carr...

Does New Year's Day feel like Groundhog's Day? If so, please read these brilliant essays on THE LEFTOVERS that @annakrauthamer.bsky.social & I shepherded into 2025--a collection of meditations on what is acutely timely and always untimely about the emotional vicissitudes of structural dispossession

Great new cluster freshly up at @atpost45.bsky.social - brilliant writing on brilliant television. Thanks to Erica, Anna, and all their contributors for much patience throughout a somewhat protracted editorial and production process on this one.

i’m so proud to share this piece, cowritten w/ two of my best friends, about what it meant to watch the leftovers together. it is, in certain ways, one of the more vulnerable things i’ve written. grateful to Post45 & to @ericafretwell.bsky.social & @annakrauthamer.bsky.social for having home for it

Happy new year! I wrote about the problem of witnessing the rapture and living to tell the tale in a thrilling new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster coedited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! leftovers cluster 🎆🎇

🚨 NEW CLUSTER 🚨 AFTER THE LEFTOVERS This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.” post45.org/2024/12/afte...

Greet the new year with a new Contemporaries cluster, reflecting on one of the great TV dramas of the past decade AFTER THE LEFTOVERS, edited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social 🚨 Dropping tomorrow, 01.01.2025 🚨

Every once in a while this essay by @lkonstan.bsky.social and its accompanying cluster at @atpost45.bsky.social comes to mind for the force and clarity of its demonstration of how neoliberalism destroyed "selling out" and the implications for aesthetics post45.org/2020/08/the-...

Oh man, Nikki Giovanni. What a poet, what a loss. From “Mothers” (1972):

I just heard that Nikki Giovanni has joined the ancestors. What saddening news. I taught her poems yet again this semester & doing so was one of the highlights of the class. She was my favorite poet as a child & remains a favorite. May she rest in poetry always - Nikki Giovanni

reminder that as TV/Film editor for @mid-theory.bsky.social, i am currently ✨ taking pitches ✨ i am interested in: 1) non-Hollywood film 2) non-US/Anglophone TV 3) minor/odd objects 4) industry/political economy 5) offbeat takes 6) args that synthesize an actor/director’s career 7) craft reality TV

I love how it's apparently possible to imagine everything about teaching being done by AI *except* grading, which is literally the worst and stupidest part of teaching (if by grading we mean scoring rather than responding/assessing/advising). Fuck all these ppl, basically.

A Delany fest on the way today @atpost45.bsky.social!

🪩🔮It's here! The @atpost45.bsky.social Samuel Delany cluster, edited by @blakestricklin.bsky.social, has dropped! Featuring work by @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, & @breu.bsky.social, the cluster takes up Delany's writing on sex, community, encounter, and more! 🔮🪩

So happy this essay and cluster are out! It is an honor to be able to pay tribute to the great Samuel Delany.

This Friday the 29th, we bring you “Samuel R. Delany’s Improbably Communities,” on the author’s sex-worlds & the politics of (often) public sex in his essays and novels. Ed. by Blake Stricklin; ft. work by @kirinwgrene, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, and Christopher Breu! post45.org/contemporari...

Excited to read this.

So excited to be part of this with @blakestricklin.bsky.social, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon, and Y Howard! My thanks to Blake and Francisco Robles for putting this together! A celebration of the pornographic writings of the great Samuel R. Delany.

Very excited for this—read about Delany's Times Square, & also Phallos, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, The Motion of Light in Water, & more! Enjoy this cluster & find wonderful & perverse alternatives to/of consumption on Friday, in honor of the Times Square of yore.

🥳🫣 Surprise—there's a brand new CLUSTER COMING TO YOU Friday, on Samuel Delany's Sexual Politics & Paraliterary Style! Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard) Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!

in case you missed it earlier today: a new episode of the @atpost45.bsky.social Pod45 podcast, featuring me, @lintax.bsky.social, @stalpaz.bsky.social, and @eleanoir.bsky.social discussing the cluster on "Suspicion" that Eleanor edited! open.spotify.com/episode/2fjP...

You can now find Post45 Contemporaries on Instagram and Threads! Follow us on IG via instagram.com/atpost45/ & Threads via threads.net/@atpost45 You can check out more of our profiles via linktr.ee/atpost45 Thanks, all! Keep posted for more stuff soon.

ack, I even already follow them but somehow didn't find them! you are all so brilliant and awesome!!!

YOU ARE FUCKING BRILLIANT AND AWESOME

Having a scholarly book out in the world is weird! Here’s a part of it, on theorizing race over and against the narrative impulse, thanks to @atpost45.bsky.social — so if this is of interest, scroll to the bottom to find ✨way more where this came from✨ t.co/3Cs1c8I3nR

We @atpost45.bsky.social have a cluster for you on John Keene. Edited by Brittney Michelle Edmonds, the cluster features Phillip Brian Harper, Margo Natalie Crawford, @kqandrews.bsky.social, @bamenke.bsky.social, Yogita Goyal, Matt Brim, Tyrone S. Palmer, & Fred Moten. post45.org/contemporaries

It’s here! Our cluster on John Keene can be found at post45.org/contemporaries. Edited by Brittney Michelle Edmonds, the cluster features work by Phillip Brian Harper, Margo Natalie Crawford, @kqandrews.bsky.social, @bamenke.bsky.social, Yogita Goyal, Matt Brim, Tyrone Palmer, and Fred Moten.

A list of a few recent publications to settle into the new place: "Little Magazine" cluster at @atpost45.bsky.social feat. a dozen essays on post-1960 little mags: post45.org/sections/con...

I am incredibly honored to be in the company of these brilliant people.