Quote from The Phenomenology Of Sex, Love, And Intimacy by Susi Ferrarello (2016). Photo from Lashes magazine (1981).

CARAS is excited to announce the 2025 “Classics” history and theory reading group focused on Kink and BDSM. More information at carasresearch.org

Clip of Mistress Jill Carter's 1996 IMsL fantasy with her wife Vi Johnson, cofounders the Carter/Johnson Leather Library & Collection. Carter was the 1st Black International Ms. Leather. This year she was one of the first living individuals to be inducted into the Leather Hall of Fame. #LeatherWomen

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 !

It’s official. I’m tenured. But more meaningful to me is the fact that I was promoted to Associate Professor on the day that my partner-in-crime since grad school, Zach Tavlin, was also promoted to Associate. I aspire to be even a fraction of the writer & thinker you are @zachtavlin.bsky.social

#Chicago!!! Do not sleep on learning more about poetry from one of the most brilliant minds! @zachtavlin.bsky.social on #EmilyDickinson. @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

The brilliant @kirinwgrene.bsky.social and I talking about my new book, In Defense: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire, at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore! It was a great evening.

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...

🪩🔮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! 🔮🪩

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.

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.

🥳🫣 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!

Hard copy of The Black Scholar Black Radical Pleasure II just arrived!🔥

The Black Scholar just published the second issue of Black Radical Pleasure that I guest edited. Thrilled to share this special double issue 🔥: www.theblackscholar.org/now-availabl...

I always have far too much fun at The American Studies Association conference.

Don’t sleep on James Hosking’s beautiful collages, up at Gerber/Hart Library & Archives. Up until March!

It was a pleasure to co-organize this great event yesterday. Thank you, Tina Post, for your refreshing scholarship and for your generosity.

Appropriately opening on my birthday and basically my “Sex in Public” class. Cannot wait for this. Alexis Heller is the curator whose work I’m most excited by. #radicalperverts #museumofsex

Day One: Invisible Man. 15 week slow, deep reading of the novel in context. This is my favorite way to read with students and it is still never enough time for me, or for some of them.

The Whitfield Lovell retrospective “Passages” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art is astonishing.

First day of “Queer Worldmaking,” a studio symposium that’s half history/half installation techniques that I’m co-teaching w/ artist Jade Yumang, starts tomorrow! “A posterior glance at different moments, objects, & spaces might offer us an anticipatory illumination of queerness,” (Muñoz).

Don’t sleep on Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth Century American Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2023) by Zachary Tavlin, the most graceful and talented writer and thinker I know.

Will hunt down my people’s food.

"It's valid to criticise clifi +ask what it could be doing differently, but the bulk of criticism should go to non-climate fiction that portrays the natural world as a stable reliable backdrop to human affairs. The reality is that those works are essentially all fantasy now." Schneider-Mayerson

Is Stanislaw Lem’s SOLARIS (1961) *the* anti-SF SF novel? @zachtavlin.bsky.social might have convinced us all at last night’s SF Bookclub.