the latest from RD: @drdadabhoy.bsky.social on the Mamdani campaign's success in defeating electoral Islamophobia religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

#ASAP16 starts today and we're joining you in Houston! Check out the blog for the details on our presence and how to save on books and journal issues in #art, #VisualStudies, or any other discipline. buff.ly/JpzNSZW

NEW: 🎶 What if pop music shapes our feelings as much as it reflects them? A new study by Xiaolu Wang of 260k+ Chinese-language songs (1967-2023) finds lyrical sentiments moves in 35-year emotional cycles.

Finding the soundtrack to one of my favorite movies of all time has been a peak moment for me

They’re plotting something

Sharing again!

Anyone out here know a scholar working on alt-right meme culture? Would especially be great if they have expertise in DH and/or social media network analysis!

Very excited to be presenting at this year’s @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social conference. Ready to listen and learn from incredible Latinx studies scholars 🙂‍↕️

Tomorrow!!!

ISO freelance/remote work: I recently moved for personal & research reasons and it’s been financially tense, would love and appreciate any leads on work. I’m available to write, edit, transcribe, translate and anything connected to that.

ISO freelance/remote work: I recently moved for personal & research reasons and it’s been financially tense, would love and appreciate any leads on work. I’m available to write, edit, transcribe, translate and anything connected to that.

GO OFF LORD GRANTHAM

My last paycheck having been in July and my next one being in September should show everyone how completely unlivable grad student “salaries” are.

July first watches: • What’s Up Doc? (1972) • Miami Vice (2006) • Mars Attacks! (1996) • Rebecca (1940) • Bringing Down The House (2003) #filmsky

#filmsky friends: looking for something silly and thriller-ish (like a simple favor) to watch pls send recs!!

I guess crying while watching little women (2019) is just business as usual for me 🥲

Putting this out there (summer edition): in need of a side gig(s)/freelance opps — whether local to atx or remote! I’ve got experience copy editing/writing, archival research, audio editing, and a quick learner! Would appreciate any leads 🫡 help out a broke grad student 😭

Putting this out there (summer edition): in need of a side gig(s)/freelance opps — whether local to atx or remote! I’ve got experience copy editing/writing, archival research, audio editing, and a quick learner! Would appreciate any leads 🫡 help out a broke grad student 😭

“I urge us to pay attention to the commercialization of suffering. The rapid, yet now mundane way that we can easily turn violence into merchandize for the self-justified.” open.substack.com/pub/thediari...

All students have to do for my class is watch movies and tv episodes and talk abt them for 10 minutes and they’re still using ChatGPT to give them summaries instead of ACTUALLY watching 😭

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

A little more than halfway through June and it’s honestly been a great personal Pride film fest (w a detour for the materialists)

WELCOME CANCER SEASON! CARE MORE! FEEL IT ALL! MOODY! DEFENSIVE! NEEDINESS AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! INSTEAD OF BILLIONAIRES WE COULD HAVE HOUSING! AND HEALTHCARE! AND CHILDCARE! AND FOOD FOR ALL! EMO AS AN EXTREME SPORT! ABOLISH ICE! FREE THEM ALL! ARMS EMBARGO! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER!

I’ve covered protests in this city for at least a decade. Last time I remember a Guard deployment was 2020 after George Floyd’s murder… and that came after thousands took to the streets in multiple neighborhoods, damaging businesses. Much larger scale than the last 48 hours.

As the world continues to try to stop us from existing, I find myself thinking of art that saves us. For its one year anniversary, I wrote about my own journey with I SAW THE TV GLOW and interviewed a number of trans people on the ways it impacted them.

#LiberateComptons #ComptonsCafeteria #TransHistory #SanFrancisco video h/t: GayShame

Dear bay area friends, I will be in SF this weekend for a conference! So if you have any recs on places to eat at, drink at, or see hmu! ✨

This would be an obvious act of ethnic cleansing under international law.

Work through the free "DIY Web Archiving" zine w/a group of friends, coworkers, students to learn & save at-risk data, fan art, whatever's on the web that matters to you! By @quinnanya.me @akijas.bsky.social @ilya.webrecorder.net @bitarchivist.net & me: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... Example pages:

My favorite thing to do each mother's day is to help get moms held in jail by unethical money bail back to their families. Join in!

Latin Yankee Papa Yankee Daddy Yankee

Can't wait to read the religious scholars on this one. I mean an Augustinian!

The rats have chosen a new pope.

JUST IN: Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that the more than 130 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the next pope should be.

one of the Christian influencers I follow on instagram posted a video about how she worries people are using Chat GPT like it is god and someone left this comment and it has been stuck in my mind ever since

lil bro is a college grad 🎓

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

Building out a syllabus for my summer course: Diaspora and Pop Culture! If you have any recs for readings, films, poems, tv shows, music, etc send them my way! 💓🤞🏼 It’s a short course but I want to make it as fun for my students as possible 🤗

The thing you have to always keep in the back of your mind wrt Black directors and success is a quote from Shaka King: "In Hollywood, even the math is racist."

how do you say “diva down” in Latin

Now is the time for CONCLAVE fans everywhere

"As the first Latin American and Jesuit pope, he shifted the Vatican's attention to the Global South, challenging economic inequality, environmental degradation, and corruption," said Andrew Chesnut, professor of Catholic studies at VCU" @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

I need chisme soon or it's over for me

In the midst of all this news let’s not forget the ways Harvard has allowed the doxxing of student protestors, squashed unionizing efforts, denied tenure to woc faculty, refuses to establish an ethnic studies dept, and has cut programs geared towards diversity and inclusion

The Trump Administration sent Harvard a detailed list of extreme demands on Friday. It called for the dismantling of "DEI" Harvard centers, including a legal clinic, tha study human rights, and the surveillance of students political views. Harvard has responded and rejected these demands.

Do you teach courses in Caribbean studies? Contribute your teaching materials to dLOC's collection of open educational resources and receive a stipend of $2,000 or $5,000. We are accepting proposals until Monday, April 14!