Our first faculty book launch of the year is just around the corner! Join us for a discussion of @emorycollege.bsky.social Philsophy Prof. Lynne Huffer's new multi-media monograph "These Survivals: An Autobiography of Extinction" (@dukepress.bsky.social) 📚 RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/u9LDySx3FC

Our friends in Emory Film and Media are taking us back 50 years with this fall's Emory Cinematheque 1975, celebrating releases from that memorable year. Screenings, which are free and open to the public, happen every Wednesday at 7:30 pm in White Hall 208. Full schedule: https://bit.ly/41I3QUj

Come work with us! Emory Graduate Students - apply by September 9th: tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Reminder! Sept 1 deadline!

A fellowship at the National Humanities Center isn't just a break from teaching or a change of scenery. It's an opportunity to draft chapters, reimagine arguments, and follow ideas into unexpected terrain. Application Deadline: October 2, 2025 Learn more: bit.ly/nhc-scholarly-programs

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Announcing The Parapraxis Film Festival Friday, September 19 - Thursday, September 25, 2025 361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn at @lightindustry.bsky.social Organized by Perwana Nazif and Hannah Zeavin For program, speaker list, & ticketing information: lightindustry.org/parapraxis

From the pen of the very talented @wrisley.bsky.social recently graduated from @emorywgss.bsky.social and now faculty at WGSX at St Mary’s College, Maryland.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

We are delighted to welcome two new Center staff. Scott Jackshaw joins differences as Managing Editor; Erin Perfect joins the archives team as Processing Archivist. Read about Scott : pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-07... Read about Erin: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-05... @differences.bsky.social

Oh, this is really great: new poetry from @differences.bsky.social managing editor, the super talented @scottjackshaw.bsky.social "apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex" @talonbooks.bsky.social talonbooks.com/books/stigmata

Feminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members. Application forms online: forms.gle/1CuqBvkBQe1g...

📣 MEET THE 2025–26 LIFE/STORY FELLOWS 📣⁠ The Fox Center is delighted to announce our 2025-26 Fellows, who will be joining us during our Life/Story theme year! 🌟 Learn more about our incoming fellows & their projects: bit.ly/3IhaoSM

Post 1/4. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Louise Lamphere vs. Brown University, the landmark sex discrimination case that changed the face of Brown. Lamphere was an assistant professor of anthropology who was denied tenure. ‪@brown.edu‬ @brownanthro.bsky.social‬

To read: this interview of Elizabeth Weed and Elizabeth A. Wilson, differences editors, by Eugenia Zuroski, president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. www.celj.org/featured-jou.... differences is CELJ's newest featured journal. @differences.bsky.social‬ ‪@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social‬

How about: Silvan Tomkins Handbook (Frank & Wilson) www.upress.umn.edu/978081668000... + The User Unconscious (Clough) www.upress.umn.edu/978151790422... + Political Affect (Protevi) www.upress.umn.edu/978081666510...

SIS Call for Summer Proposals! For faculty & graduate students working in areas related to race, sexuality, and gender! Proposal deadline is June 30, 2025. Please send proposals to [email protected], with your name, department, rank or year, and theme for proposal.

Worn out by an afternoon in front of microfilm, but did locate terrific series of letters from Solanas to her college newspaper in 1957 “my pen is dipped in blood”

Finally my essay on a 5E approach to mental distress in adversity is published! It is open access at doi.org/10.1177/1363...

"Limits of Legibility: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality" is dedicated to the memory of Selamawit D. Terrefe.

differences 36.1 is out now — featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and Iván A. Ramos: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

We’ve had so many great conversations, proposals, and ideas come to us already— we love learning what cutting edge ECRs are up to and need in the field, and we love the creative ideas we’ve been fielding from already established authors. @jennifercnash.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...

Calling all Emory WGSS alumni! Please take our alumni survey at bit.ly/WGSSALUMNI

Summer issue is coming soon!

We are very excited for this partnership!

I’ve wasted most of the morning writing prose for a learning assessment report based on a class I taught in the Fall. I got half way thru this pointless exercise and I decided to ask an AI ChatBot to write the rest for me, and you know what, it reads *much* better than what I have done 🤔

Look what turned up in the mail today! Beautiful work by Lynne Huffer and @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/these-surviv...

I guess Emory's president didn't want to sign this? www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

An amazing legacy Prof. Rose!

Welcome to Diacritics on Bluesky

Full house for John Cameron Mitchell’s lunchtime masterclass today! @emorycollege.bsky.social @emorywgss.bsky.social

Let’s do this, Freudians!

Let the countdown begin! We are about one week away from @johncameronmitchell ‘s visit to Emory. 5pm on March 25/ White Hall 208: film screening

Congratulations to WGSS undergraduate student, Soju Hokari, for being named one of the 100 Senior Honorary members of the Emory University Class of 2025! This honor goes to students who embody excellence in leadership, scholarship, mentorship and other important contributions to the Emory community

Starts Thursday!

Volume Two of Intarsia is here! Check out three amazing essays (edited by the journal's undergraduate editorial board: Olivia Gilbert, Gabriella Shapcott, Emilio Rosas Gutierrez, Stella Fox, Elle Deppe, Jade Wu, Elizabeth Brubaker, Nava Klopper). www.intarsiajournal.org @emorywgss.bsky.social

ICYMI: Watch Heather Love give this year's Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Out of the Archive Lecture. "Repeat What We Don’t Understand: In the Barbara Johnson Papers." Now available on the Pembroke Center YouTube playlist: buff.ly/YpN41Kv

We'd love to see you at the launch of Volume Two of Intarsia: 6pm Candler Library 125, Tuesday March 18. Intarsia is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal of undergraduate scholarship that addresses feminism, sexuality, sex, and gender from queer and feminist theoretical perspectives.

Congratulations to Emory WGSS Associate Professor, Dr Sameena Mulla, for receiving an NEH fellowship, alongside Dr Christina Crawford of the Art History department. We are so proud of Dr Mulla! 🎉

May 19, 1973 letter from Church of Solanas to publisher of SCUM Manifesto 🙃 “Just a line telling you about the new church and the continuing transformation of S.C.U.M into the nucleus of the vanguard party” Some terrific material in the Mary Harron papers at NYU Special Collections

Really delighted to hear Heather Love’s terrific paper on Barbara Johnson this afternoon @pembrokecenter.bsky.social Part of her new project “To Be Real: On the Uses of the Personal in Queer Theory.” Keen to read more.

Two weeks from today! A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Full program and livestream registration, available here: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

Emory University's Studies in Sexualities Program seeks submissions for its 2025 Student Essay Prize! All current Emory University students may submit to the contest. 250-word abstract to Falguni Sheth by Friday, March 21, 2025 at [email protected].

Volume 2 of “Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry” is almost here. Launching March 18! www.intarsiajournal.org @emorywgss.bsky.social

First 50 downloads of my article @criticalinquiry.bsky.social essay are free (no subscription needed), using this URL Pass it on to someone without library support www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/9W7AN...

Yay! Excited to see this.

The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤 "Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... bit.ly/valeriesolanas

"If the manifesto is about male and female, but not really in any kind of recognizably feminist way, what work are these terms doing for Solanas?" From our new issue, read Elizabeth A. Wilson's "Corroded with SCUM": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....