Come work with us! We are recruiting MA and PhD students for next fall.

My department at CU Boulder is now accepting applications for our MA in Media and Public Engagement and our fully funded PhD in Media Studies. We’re especially interested in PhD applicants exploring Digital Humanities. Feel free to reach out if you have questions. www.colorado.edu/cmci/academi...

I send an occasional newsletter with updates on shows, residencies, and community weaving projects. It’s the best way to keep in touch beyond social media. Subscribe here: mailchi.mp/057b230200ca...

hi all! I've released my Boulder Colorado Voter Guide update for the 2025 election. the guide covers state and local ballot measures, as well as candidates for city council and BVSD school board. enjoy!

Boulder, Colorado's city government was a different place back in 2020. so famously NIMBY that Boulder City Council made an appearance in "Better Call Saul":

@queerhairboulder.bsky.social I finished Compound Fracture this morning! Thanks for the suggestion that was an intense but incredible read. 

Our work on #transgender gender euphoria in #games is out: Designed & Discovered Euphoria: Insights from Trans-Femme Players' Experiences of Gender Euphoria in Video Games! (Open access for anyone interested.) #chi2025 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Excited to be part of #CHI2025 in Yokohama! Come check out our Experimental Weaving demo at the Interactivity sessions — hands-on woven textiles, new weaving software, and creative research tools from the Unstable Design Lab. April 28–30 — see you there!

Only took another 25 years to legalize the living situation I and nearly every other student living off campus had to adopt to afford living in the city circa 2000.

Join us for our Experimental Weaving Talk with Ricki Dwyer on Wed, Feb 5, at 9 AM MST! ✨ 📌 Sign up: campaign-statistics.com/link_click/b... Dwyer, a Brooklyn-based artist & Bronx Museum AIM Fellow, explores weaving as world-building & somatic practice. #ExperimentalWeaving #WeavingArt #FiberArts

The Media Archeology Lab will have a drop-in reception for their new opening in the CASE building on the CU Boulder campus on Friday January 31st from 12pm to 4pm. Stop by and experience life outside the internet! www.mediaarchaeologylab.com

oh hi we're doing t-shirts again, here's the pre-order info: open.substack.com/pub/mediaarc...

Front page of tomorrow's NYT:

Come be our colleague!

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

The TikTok ban permanently reshapes the ideological tilt of the online creator landscape towards the right. Cheering for it in any way is extremely shortsighted www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...

“Lord take Teams not TikTok”

I'm thrilled that my paper "Slay the Runway: Activating Community Spaces for LGBTQIA Youth Through Fashion and Performance" was accepted to #ICA25. Now have to figure out what I'm going where. Maybe a look from last year's show?

hey #commsky folks: while waiting for the #ica25 outcome, now is a good time to follow the International Communication Association here, so that 🦋 is the premier platform for the conference: @icahdq.bsky.social.

They convinced me to nap between appointments. It wasn't hard.

Dog sitting and enjoying a brief respite from winter weather. #boulder #colorado

I know these are just rebranded Lucky Charms but something about this cereal 🥣 is so tempting. #squishmallows

Final grades are officially posted—on the longest night of the year, no less. Fitting for what might have been the longest semester of my life. How did this semester feel for you? 🌙📚

Another accidental Adorno find today. The apocryphal single copy of “Music in Radio,” written for the Princeton Radio Research Project in 1938, hidden in an untitled black binder. This analysis, among other disagreements with quantitative research, infamously got Adorno expelled from the project.

#colorado weavers have a deadline.

The community weaving we started at Rocky Mountain Equality's queer fiber night and finished at the NoBo library is almost done. #queer #trans #fiber

We're almost done our first coded weaving. We made it in collaboration with community members at the new NoBo Library maker space. @boulderlibrary.bsky.social .

Backstrap loom weaving at @boulderlibrary.bsky.social this week. I challenged patrons to make chunky and funky scarves. They listened!!

Hey #boulder friends, don't forget to cast your vote for the library cafe's new name. Good news! This ballot is shorter than we're used to in Colorado: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8122961/T...

"The future didn't disappear overnight. Berardi's phrase 'the slow cancellation of the future' is so apt because it captures the gradual yet relentless way in which the future has been eroded over the last 30 years." --Mark Fisher (still ruminating about imaginary networks as #othernetworks)

Weaving Data: Code of Democracy. Join us tomorrow at the NoBo library 10am-1pm. No experience required.

My #Spotifywrapped is extremely inaccurate this year thanks to my late dog's taste for classical music. When it came to music she preferred the classics while I am more a Club Classics girl. #charlixcx #chappelroan #claudedebussy #bach

I need a new local coffee shop. Everyone at this place is too rich and I'm not sure I can keep up. #boulder

🎨 Join us Dec. 4 at 9 AM MST for a talk with Bhakti Ziek, renowned weaver & co-author of The Woven Pixel! Bhakti will share her creative process & why she asks, "What’s the best tool for this idea?" before turning to her looms. Link in bio. bhaktiziek.com #Weaving #TextileArt @cuatlas.bsky.social

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

Writing letters of recommendation on Thanksgiving because some PhD programs require December 1 submissions. We know you programs aren’t going to look at these applications until January!

Another visitor outside our window. #deer #colorado #snow

DIY #AfternoonTea. We are getting legit.

This is what we woke up to today.

My Thanksgiving tradition: Googling how to use the drip coffee maker at our Airbnb. #coffee #htg

Start your morning with Bhakti Ziek on Dec 4 at 9 AM MST! A pioneer in experimental weaving, Bhakti blends tradition and innovation, asking, “What’s the best tool for this idea?” Her work spans TC-1, inkle, tapestry, and shaft looms, redefining how weaving can express creative vision. #fiberart

I'm working on a gemstone soaked flag design. This is going to take me weeks. #flag #fiberart #indigo

We went to see #Wicked last night and it lives up to the hype. The chemistry between Grande and Erivo is beyond electric. It's a vibe that I could watch all day. The best moments are when the camera rests on Erivo as she considers her next move. Plus the maximalist scene design is delicious.

I set up a communal backstrap loom at Boulder's Studio 24 in NoBo. Stop by during open studio hours to put a few lines into our collaborative weaving. The pallet I selected for us is pretty, bright, fuzzy, and weird. The yarn is all thrifted or upcycled. Have fun! #weaving #fiberart #boulder

✨ The 2024–25 Experimental Weaving Talk Series is here! Explore “Expanding Experimentation” with 8 speakers on weaving’s intersections with art, design, tech, & culture. 📅 Fall 2024–Spring 2025. I'll be hosting! Details: unstable.design/experimental-weaving-talks

We're hiring!!

Reworking this sassy sash for a mini-exhibition I'm organizing at the Boulder Public Library.

My department just made its own Starter Pack. Of interest to those who take humanistic approaches to the study of social justice and media.

Lots of hard work to get to today 😅 -- but I couldn't be happier to launch our new clinic!