Before our descent into the state of nature, some of us really had to go to Whole Foods.

41!

My child, discussing her favorite foods: "Hot dogs aren't my favorite anymore, but I still eat them. Ham and Swiss croissants are my favorite favorite. I love them more than you, mama. Just a little bit."

It's been like this for a couple years.

Recent-ish!

I deactivated twitter several days ago. I think a congratulations is in order. (I'll probably reactivate after it.)

London for the next 5-6 days then Oxford for a few. Holler if you're around!

This panel got accepted.

Melancholic midnight post!

Everything is terrible. Here's a recent abstract.

The deadline to submit an abstract to the GSA emotion studies panels on emotions, politics,&power has been extended to March 14. I'm looking forward to the discussion on the ways emotions have been mobilized, redefined, & disciplined in German speaking Europe! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

"Mommy, is there no such thing as 'bad bye'?"

Oh yeah, this was in fact accepted Looking forward to getting yelled at during the q&a

Out this month! www.routledge.com/9781032435589

At the airport with a bloody mary, revising poems from 15 years ago.

The ADL: "Can't we all just get along [with Nazis]??"

If you’re using a family analogy for the nation, or your workplace, or anything really that’s not your fucking family, it doesn’t work. It’s not a family. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

NW

I've learned never to index a book myself!!

All of the "natalist" preaching on twitter is so boringly regressive, reactionary, and heartless. It's not only that a woman's value is tied entirely to her fertility but also that she better not complain about the difficulties of child rearing 1/4

Bye forever, 2024

Reading over proofs. I don't hate this paragraph! So that's somethingz

Absolutely incredible sequence. Read through to the punchline.

4 years ago in a faraway land (Oberlin, Ohio)

Tempted to reactivate twitter for The Odyssey discourse alone

Sorry for being quiet on here but it took me an extra week to finish grading and now i'm indexing my own book and i also made Christmas happen because women do all that it is our job and nobody told me until it was too late

Kamal Odwan hospital, the last remaining in northern Gaza, is now reportedly being evicted under Israeli orders.

It's funny because Zionists like S. Yizhar wrote material just as damning as Farha. And it's canonical.

Grinch: I would like to buy a dog Pet store employee: ok are you a guy? Grinch: No. I am some sort of gorilla Pet store employee: That is fine. Grinch: A green gorilla Employee: Doesn’t matter

Happy merry etc.

Merry Christmas to all

Who up wrapping bullshit

Craftier than i look

"Mommmm, when can we go to the Ring of Fire??" -- my child, watching another video on tsunamis

Might I also recommend Primo Levi perenniality

Done with the other site for good now, I think. Could not go into my 40s doing more of that. Every other time I posted about the Middle East, my words had more eyes on them than I wanted, and it was "cunt" this, "kapo" that, sprinkled in with some "lib zio" or "rhodesian."

Came of more age! Show me your mugs!

Odds that my paper will be accepted to a national conference with this title: "From 'Shooting and Crying' to 'Looting and Am-Yisrael-Chai-ing': Trauma, Shame, and Revenge in Hebrew Literature and Culture"?? 🫠

One of my students made a book for their final project.

Did you know they give out phds at unaccredited institutions?

"I'm sorry for being rude. But also it was funny." --my child

Basically a Hallmark card.

Israelis: Every person in Gaza should be killed, including babies Sane people: Oh, that's called genocide Israelis: Nooooooooo you antisemite! Blood libel!!! Holocaust!!!! Kristallnacht!!!! Why does everyone keep picking on us for no reason???? 😭😭😭

In a Jerusalem Post piece by journalist-terrorist Michael Starr, the author describes his latest round of service in Gaza, where he took part in the genocide as an IDF reservist. In the piece Starr admits to the murder of a young Palestinian civilian who was carrying food.

Rest, Nikki Giovanni.

I go on there for marketplace, but let's be real: facebook is fucking cursed.

Another reason I love Arabic.

Israel's authoritarian government wants to politically purge Israeli academia | Haaretz Editorial www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...