The part of my job that is putting comments on student papers explaining the etymology of “seminal” and “disseminate.”

Apply to our 4S open panel on “Machine Desires: Sexual Technologies, Sexual Reverberations”. Seattle, Washington, September 3 – 7 Apps due January 31: 4sonline.org/meeting.php Pls share

I feel like the absolutely absence of posts about holding space for defying gravity on this site is mind blowing and unacceptable

Today is the official publication day for my new book, I Know You Are, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman from @UMinnPress. You can pick up a copy here or read the ebook for free: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791828... Get 40% with code MN91270

Happy pub day to two incredible Forerunners! Shenila Khoja-Moolji's The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood and Cait McKinney's I Know You Are, but What Am I? @skhojamoolji.bsky.social @caitmckinney.bsky.social

Coffee and pencils, today let’s think with @caitmckinney.bsky.social who writes: “.. there is delight, learning, and even repair available through the act of looking back at how Pee-wee used to look forward, at play and in relation with all his beautiful machines.” upress.umn.edu/book-division/

"If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present."

Completing the marketing “author questionnaire” for a book is by far the most shame-inducing task involved in this job, other than the job market. “Who will be interested in this book?” NO ONE? My friends…? Please stop looking at me.

Anna Anthropy has put Dys4ia back online. For those who don't know, Dys4ia is considered critical to the indie games canon of the 2010s, getting a level of recognition, and notoriety for the maker, that ultimately caused her to try & erase it from history. Dev notes here: w.itch.io/dys4ia/devlo...

This is gonna be a must read for media and disability studies, and health communication. Can’t wait.