jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

Sorry to be a Wife Guy, but between work and illness, KL and I haven’t had a whole conversation in like 36 hours, and my life is an empty pit of sadness. 😭😭😭

I threw out my back by [checks notes] sleeping.

If you do nothing else today, please tell the LGBTQIA+ kids in your life that you love them exactly the way they are.

It’s #transdayofvisibility🏳️‍⚧️ so here’s your reminder that there’s no wrong way to be trans or gender nonconforming. I’m so glad to be trans nonbinary, and I’m so glad that all you trans folks out there exist! We’re worth fighting for. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 #whatprofessorswear

Now we’re prepping a virtual workshop I’m facilitating tomorrow for ADA University in Azerbaijan.

We’re grading papers

I was in a hurry this morning, so here are some afterwork Target selfies. #whatprofessorswear #whereprofessorshop

Literally 😭

The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

I have a doctorate in media studies, I can’t save your life but I can help you pick out the most dramatically cinematic way to die.

No you don’t understand, when a baby is born, a doctor says it’s a penis-boy or a vag-girl, and that’s the absolute last word on whether that kid can run a triathalon at an olympic level.

Ezra Klein: I'm Ezra Klein, and today I'm joined by one of the foremost intellectual theorists of Trumpism. He is an associate editor at the Rancho Cucamonga Review of Ideas and a fellow at the Schlafly Institute of Punitive Economics. [a baked potato in a top hat]: Thanks for having me, Ezra.

Me: maybe we just shouldn’t sex segregate sports. Cis women: but then women will never win at anything Me: Why do you think that? Cis women: *listing all the ways they think women are biologically inferior to men* Me: Ah, misogyny, got it.

Women with an advanced degree are paid the same as men with just a bachelor's. And at every education level, women's hourly wages are about 20% lower than men's

I have a PhD in Communication & this is true

If you’re going to @pcaaca.bsky.social in Atlanta in a few weeks, come hear my talk on gender, labor, and Karel Čapek’s play RUR, Friday at 3PM in the SFF area.

"Your outie wears a 'dress-bitch' t-shirt. Your outie once referred to Eleanor Shellstrop as a trash bag. Your outie is a demon named Trevor."

If you feel like being extra cute for the day, you can just do it, nobody’s gonna stop you. #whatprofessorswear

If anyone ever talks about me the way Ivan Klíma talked about Karel Čapek, I’m going to throw myself into the ocean.

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If you need help convincing people not to watch the new HP show, here it is. JKR will make $20m per year from the show, per Forbes. She also openly admits that she pours her fortunes into anti-trans activism, per Yahoo News. There’s a direct pipeline between HP and trans people’s suffering.

Last time students protested, ICE snatched a bunch of them off the street and sent them to concentration camps. So like, maybe ask the government where the campus protests have gone.

Went all out with the colors today 🩵💜🩷🧡🖤 #whatprofessorswear

No thank you.

Me a month ago: I need to read up on historical reactions to emerging computer technologies. @uminnpress.bsky.social: We gotchu, bestie. (Published today: Techno-Negative by Thomas Dekeyser)

Me explaining my 5/5 teaching load, adjunct gig, freelance editing, and research agenda to a grad student entering the job market

About to do a big thing, good vibes welcome! #whatwriterswear

This is for @momebie.bsky.social, who needs some squid facts to balance out their duck facts.

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS HATTER

Accidentally closed out the browser without saving the rubric I was building in Turnitin, so I guess it’s time to stop working forever.

A little-known fact is that purrs are actually the sound of a cat transmogrifying 1/4 cup wet food into 347 lbs. of poop.

Sunday Snuggs

Slept all day because I’m definitely NOT struggling with depression and burnout

I really do love that people are taking action to stop honoring Cesar Chavez in light of accusations that he abused girls and women for years. But maybe we could also do this for white men??????

idk sometimes I like to wear mismatching things with cat print and flowers and color 🤷🏻🌈🐱💐 #whatprofessorswear

Eid Mubarak, friends!! 💜🎉

Olu Sun, Stede Moon, Stede Rising

I told my Raskolnikov joke, and reactions were split.

Listen. I love staring at a screen until my eyeballs bleed as much as the next guy. But a bar is only good if it’s got exactly 1 TV with a 12” screen hanging behind the bar, 30 years of grime on every surface, an old cigarette vending machine, and a local guy who’s the unofficial mayor of the bar.

Microdosing adrenaline by writing emails before I’ve had coffee

I miss that time 6 hours ago when I didn’t know who Russell Brand is.

I have a copyediting joke but I always tell it worng.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

I hope this email finds Nemo.

Happy Wednesday from me and my mitten-wearing lobster sweater! 🦞 #whatprofessorswear