My paper accepted to AAR! Which means it's time to either overcome my fear of flying or prepare for a three day road trip. So where should I stop between Virginia and Colorado?

I should rewatch Sinners again

Chat - Léo Forest, 2023 Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel on Paper

New Englanders just be putting anything on their vanity plates huh

please appreciate my commitment to color coordination

You ever accidentally stumble into asking an academic about the thing that turns out to be an incredible footnote they had to cut? Amazing feeling.

over here living my life such that the majority of devout Christians i personally know are anarchist transgender kinksters. What do you mean they aren't all like that

I would like to humbly request that things stop happening until I have finished the dissertation.

So grateful to have my first-ever fiction piece "Lighthouse" published in The Lindenwood Review! This tiny flash story has been 9 years in the making and I'm so glad it found a home. digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/lindenwood-r...

Reading some shit from the social sciences about how kids decide which college to attend. The established literature does not seem to factor in "I must get as far away from my family as I can," "I need to be the most unique person in this graduating class" or "I've been deported--now what"?

The sun is out and the air is pleasant outside. Relatedly, life is worth living again.

It's always the days when you're all set to get shit done for real that something life-altering happens.

AAR/SBL folks: We're very excited about our CFP for the Science, Technology, and Religion unit this year! Have a look and consider submitting something by the March 6 deadline! @aarweb.bsky.social @sblsite.bsky.social

Idk man I think this whole dissertating thing is gonna be cool and fun, like, actually

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Slavic heavy metal exists. Did you know that? Whoever is in charge of the aux at this dive bar does.

Reminding myself once again that being annoying and being an op are not the same thing.

They are places I haven't been, languages I don't speak, foods I haven't tried, books I haven't read, and people I haven't met. I wake up every day excited to learn about the world and the things in it. What separates me (and us!) from the gutter racists is that we see existence as joyful.

Steeple Syre, MN

Wuthering Heights is one of those movies that makes me go, huh, maybe I am aromantic after all.

I have the soul of a thematic dresser and a field of study that is absolutely not conducive to thematic outfits.

Yemeni coffee is so so good my god

People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.

Sometimes people ask for coffee shop recs and all the good will I have for my fellow humans leaves me, replaced by the resource-guarding behavior of an ill-trained German Shepherd.

Been getting hype for guerrilla archives and other projects in that independent vein lately.

Tragic: local woman's preferred semi-secret coffee spot blown up. Site previously conducive to productivity now the domain of undergrads.

But having a bunch of fun and making important memories. College is such a magical time for human development (young people learning how to be independent, with new peers from all over!), I want nothing more than to get a permanent job to keep teaching students at this life stage forever!

Reading Plato's Republic today and man I really don't think we take seriously enough how fucked his view of human sexuality and family were.

Go fuck yourself, Phil.

Organizing in the real world with real, flawed people is messy and if I were to give any advice it would be that sometimes it's better to complain to your real life friends (who are not directly involved) rather than process emotions online.

I understand him.

"Necropolitics" is such a cool title. It's a shame that, judging by the first three pages, I'm too stupid to understand it.

Three years into the genAI crisis I'm seeing my institution sponsor a pedagogy workshop focused on how to keep genAI *out* of the classroom for the first time. A breathe of fresh air. May the tides turn.

Want to get lost in thousands of geese, poorly panned, set to Nightwish "Wishermaster". Of course you do. Or not. Whichever. It's your 30 seconds. 🪶 Higher resolution: youtu.be/aLafbym3wlg

What difference does UVa delaying opening until 10am make if the high for tomorrow is still in the 20s?

begging people to learn what "anarchy" is

These albums are mirror twins.

Hey so this isn’t actually what anarchism is! Trump’s aggressively hierarchal, centralized form of government is diametrically opposed to anarchism, which even the worst definition characterizes as a *lack* of governmental authority, not an *excess* of authority concentrated on a fascist!

romanticize public transportation

You ever try to explain to a woman whom you love and admire that you kind of think Nietzsche is cool actually?

The Museum of the Palestinian People in DC. Highly recommend, along with the book store right next to it.

"haha, I'm probably just going to stay in and read tonight!" I text my friend before spending the next six hours bingeing Mormon Housewives

This is true and valid but does make me worry for people whose writing gets inaccurately flagged as not their own. I don't think we've figured out a good and fair system for this yet.

The new Knives Out movie is fantastic but like how did *no one* think to call the bishop at any point?

Sorry Judith, but maturing is realizing psychoanalytic theory isn't that cool.

I should get a hobby that isn't religion or politics.