Looking for recommendations! I am teaching a Horror and New Media course in the fall. It will cover a wide array of transmedial horror texts (film, television, video games, internet content, podcasts, etc.) Comment any materials you think I should include in my curriculum 💜

So we're all assigning Backrooms when teaching semiotics, yes?

Person on my bus had a tattoo of a ghost smoking from a bong. Hard to see other people living your dreams.

Today I am 30.

It's always nice when colleagues let me know when they see my work out in the wild.

Finally filed my taxes so that a bunch of billionaire sexual predators can do war crimes.

Overheard conversation between two teens on the bus: "Midsommar is hella good." "Yeah, A24 is goated."

I'm really enjoying the @arrowvideo.bsky.social Video Store series. The Criterion Closet for weirdos! youtu.be/boxhRcNPa0I?...

Navigating academia in this current moment is terrible (seriously, the job market is god awful and even worse than it normally is), but seeing my work being cited more and more is genuinely thrilling.

I never imagined I would see a Jeepers Creepers-themed drag performance set to a dubstep remix of the nu metal song "Bodies" by Drowning Pool. But last night I was proven wrong.

Let's all take the time to appreciate that the Patriots and their fans are sad right now.

He should go on The Masked Singer.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

I'm switching from Goodreads to StoryGraph. Feel free to follow me there if you want. app.thestorygraph.com/profile/mill...

*not counting academic books.

Okay, I *think* I'm satisfied with the updated list of assigned films for my Queer Film class.

Good stuff.

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

Good on ya, New York.

For your GRADUATE students! Submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due in ONE month on November 1, 2025. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/aw...

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Imagine breaking up Tenacious D so that you could be in an Anaconda remake.

Applying to jobs while simultaneously finishing a dissertation is... a lot.

Well, at least we'll get a new Charli album. youtu.be/ID0rqEWrN44?...

Eddington is quite disappointing. It feels like a 2.5 hour South Park episode in that it tries to critique "both sides" but never actually says anything of substance. A very frustrating watch.

Well, I guess I should throw away my Against Me! shirt.

Good mail day 🧛‍♂️

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Such a fantastic presentation on '80s Bombay horror by my friend and mentor, Kartik Nair. And Kartik was nice anough to gift me a signed copy of his book! Thank you @benspky.bsky.social and everyone at Seattle U for organizing this!

Final Destination: Bloodlines is a hoot and a half. Probably the most fun I've had at the movies since Barbarian.

Sinners is just as great the second time 'round fyi

Gimme gimme gimme!!! youtu.be/OpThntO9ixc?...

The 11.2 issue of Feminist Media Histories is live! 🤩 This issue is devoted to "Nontheatrical Medias" and is guest edited by Tanya Goldman and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa. You can read their introduction below: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Sinners is pretty great! Let Ryan Coogler (and other filmmakers) make more original movies!

I love days devoted to reading.

We are delighted to share the winner of the 2025 SCMS Horror Studies SIG Grad Essay contest: Sarah Potvin! Sarah is a PhD student at Texas A&M University. Her winning essay is titled "The Encroaching Horror of Suburban Blandness: The Stepford Wives' Feminisms."

Had a great time presenting at #SCMS25 in Chicago! Thank you to everyone who attended my panel!

#SCMS25 folks! Come by my panel today at 11:00 AM! 💜

En route to Chicago for #SCMS25 #SCMS2025! Excited to present on Saturday!

Linda Williams is one of my favorite scholars. Much of my own research is grounded in her ideas. She will be deeply missed.

Mickey 17 is unfortunately disappointing. The first half is great, the second half is very messy. Too many characters and too many plot points that don't go anywhere. It felt like a lot was left on the cutting room floor.

Wild how we're all expected to just file our taxes as if everything is normal and the IRS isn't currently on fire.

Overheard someone call Jimmy Carter a socialist.

I watched Emilia Perez and good god the bad reviews aren't exaggerating. Imagine a Pedro Almodovar film stripped of any catharsis, nuance, and quality.

The latest issue of Feminist Media Histories is now live! This is the first issue I've helped publish since I took on the role of the journal's managing editor. Thanks to the lovely folks at UC Press, the entire issue can be accessed for free throughout Black History Month.

The Transgender Law Centre works on supporting trans rights in areas like healthcare, employment, and immigration. They're trans-led and provide legal assistance, policy advocacy, public education. I've just donated and, if you can, I would recommend you do too <3 transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/

More imperative than ever: don’t cross picket lines

This one really hurts. RIP David Lynch.

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017