The tendency among those of us with tenure is to worry about upsetting colleagues, to just keep our heads down and do our research. But here's the thing: many of these revelations come from scholars of color, disabled scholars, and JUNIOR scholars. We owe it to them to share some of that risk.

I urge all of you, friends & colleagues, to please consider signing this petition to restore transparent governance and accountability in the AMS -- with this action, we can make our voices heard & remind everyone of our mission as a member-led society docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Alice Wong's GoFundMe has been transformed into a mission to continue her work after her passing. gofund.me/47a499d5c

They made a movie adaptation of H is for Hawk and I’m wondering how that works.

If they are going to say that the issue is queer people rather than pedophiles, I sure hope the American people reject this. With every fiber of my being. If they don’t, I weep for the future.

Alice Wong and @wkamaubell.bsky.social in conversation www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rVg...

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Rest in power, Alice Wong

The right can’t decide if it's okay to hate Jews

Never in a million years did I think that being someone who loves to read books would make me clockable.

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

Mercury in retrograde is still doing its thing. The voting website stopped working for today’s Academic Council. 😬😂

Are any of the recently laid off reporters for Wired, Teen Vogue etc combing through this massive info dump?

No joke, I’m worried I may have triggered half my class by showing them the “Like a Prayer” video. These students were really not ready for peak controversy Madge.

doin some phrenology ovah here, but... like wokely and stuff

I remember once in 3rd grade (1987-8) we learned to “guess” a word’s meaning based on context. We talked about it just one day and never approached it again. A year later we were told we should look words up & annotate our questions in books. I resisted, but eventually liked that much better.

How long before this place becomes its own version of the bad place?

The year isn't over so my opinions are still in flux. Consult the replies to Ann's query to expand your musical horizons.

I have been hearing from multiple corners that there’s some very bad things happening on the AMS, and I can only speak for myself, but I think I’d rather not be a member if these shenanigans continue. I’ve been a member since 2004…

for my colleagues & friends in the American Musicological Society, a small (but big) update about what has transpired at this year’s meeting www.facebook.com/share/p/17Gz...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I don't use AI for the same reason I don't eat tapeworms... I don't like parasites.

It seems that every parent/geandparent of small children in my town had the exact same idea I had for how to spend the late Saturday morning. I’m only here because it’s across the street from my favorite local auto shop. So here I am, sitting outside, waiting for my winter tire installation.

The MA Senate will be voting on An Act Regarding Free Expression on Thursday 11/13. This Boston Globe article touts this as a positive development, but while the protections for libraries are welcome, this version of the bill strips all protections from authors. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...

I have been hearing from multiple corners that there’s some very bad things happening on the AMS, and I can only speak for myself, but I think I’d rather not be a member if these shenanigans continue. I’ve been a member since 2004…

In honor of apple picking season: the secret of why Honeycrisp apples are so expensive! This tree is angry at being alive and will make it your problem (if you plant it)

Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial. www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...

Why do scholasticahq emails just disappear?

This is because Netflix has a specific list of approved digital cameras and a specific production pipeline that ends up making everything look extremely same-y. Nothing else looks like a Netflix show, but every Netflix show looks like a Netflix show. www.vice.com/en/article/w...

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

When I first learned Brazilian history, a teachers told me that one theory for why the dictatorship ended was fatigue, ie, “Soldiers were struggling to find dates.” Romantic relationships have long been imagined to play a part in changing stupid politics. So what happens when stoicism takes over?

The hard thing about teaching a pop music theory course is that the history bit is just missing and students make these sweeping statements about genre and I'm like... yeah, no.

Just one third of Jewish voters didn’t fall for the scaremongering & Islamophobia, which trails the 40 percent (and rising?) number that say they are sympathetic with non-/anti-zionism. What’s interesting to me is that gap of about 7 percent (which is significant). I’d love some analysis on that.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved

Oh so Thanksgiving meals could have been $20 this whole time?? Food prices didn’t need to be so high?

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

A new class action lawsuit against Spotify alleges the company has “turned a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming” on its platform and that one musician in particular has been the beneficiary of “billions” of fake streams: Drake.

I am a queer Jew and lived in Maine for 2 years (and now live in the area). It is easily the most antisemitic state I know (also one of the whitest). This guy has to do the work. Don’t tell me he was a “dumb kid” when he got it. We forgive so much in the name of white, Christian youth.

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

The most amazing thing about English accents is just how localized and specific they are. For such a tiny country, you’d think all of those regionalisms would start to disappear.

I am the worst kind of reader when it comes to being based in places where I’ve actually lived. So pedantic it hurts.

I tried to explain this to a student just last week. “if you missed a flight, there’d be another one flying the same route within an hour. They’d put you on standby and it would be fine. Loved ones could meet you at the gate!”

Was there a backlash when it was Shakira and J. Lo? I don’t remember

Oh hell

1989 was a really strong year in Thai luk thung music (not sure about perfect), still during Pumpuang Duangjan time and right at the start of Jintara Poonlap's career. Siriporn Ampaipong was also doing some of her best work in that year, as linked here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55D...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Yesterday when I was grading student work, a student gave me a Chat GPT disclosure that was, in essence, a “how to” for some music software so she could make a spectrograph. Of course that was allowed, but Lordy do I wish they could teach each other instead of using all of that energy.