An amazing review of Deviant Matter in GLQ by Paolina Lu: “A brilliant work of world-­ unsettling theory, everyone, especially graduate students and early career scholars, should read Deviant Matter. Then read it again. And again. And again….

An entire generation of literary “it” girls whose aesthetics of wonder is only made possible by forgetting that feminism happened.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been named a 2026 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, to be presented in May, honoring his defense of the Fed’s independence amid intense political pressure and personal attacks.👇

Amongst my many commitments to self in this apocalypse is: I’m going to start watching and following baseball again.

Oh only one of the world’s great comedians with the world’s leading Melville expert. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🐋🐋🐋

Eight Days to File for the Anthropocene Settlement, see below. Fight the intellectual pirate class.

A great year in the field.

Amen, and let’s fight for universities.

Do any of you have examples of institutional language put into place to protect pre-tenure scholars engaged in diversity or equity work at your universities in the sciences who have lost funding opportunities.

Go see Chanda speak! A once in a lifetime scholar and intellectual. @chanda.blacksky.app doing the JOCs proud.

Hashtag #theleft

This looks amazing!

When they come for Tim Hortons, you’ll know that war with Canada is imminent

I found out last night that Deviant Matter got honorable mention for monograph at the American Comparative Literature Association. The Rene Wellek was a dream of mine because Lauren Berlant won it in 2013 for Cruel Optimism and it is the scaffolding for DM. I miss her. nyupress.org/978147981922...

Buffalo is a refugee resettlement site and a city eternally recovering from economic neglect and the fallout of segregation and indigenous displacement. People are so vulnerable they die during weather crises. This is a sin.

Correct

Unions are how we save post secondary education. Right now.

I’ve been saying for years that the common question is he racist or is he neurodivergent is both racist and ableist. Here I would point to the 10000000 tv shows about some anti social spectrum-y white guy (often boy or girl) genius who is rude to the less intelligent people of color around him:

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

If one was interested in the question of how a magazine like LARB covered Palestine, a thing people could do is use the search bar to find out lareviewofbooks.org/search/?q=Pa...

we are going to win

That hit piece on LARB smells like tabloid-quality writing. Good institutional stories take time and careful writing. I didn’t finish that LARB hit piece and I won’t.

The introduction of Racial Indigestion has been translated into French 💋

Honestly I’m happy about the book prize - thanks to the GLQ caucus - but mostly what I just feel is overwhelming rage at our current situation..

Another win for viewpoint diversity dailyiowan.com/2026/02/12/o...

My monograph Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot has won the 2025 Alan Bray memorial Prize for best book in Queer Studies from @americanstudiesbu.bsky.social and @modernlanguage.bsky.social — thank you GLQ caucus! And thanks to @nyupress.bsky.social for always supporting my work.

Not just funding; or a job, at all. Each and every one of these whiners knows a really nice guy with a really cool project who didn’t get a job or they didn’t get a job and they think we are so stupid that we don’t know what they are really saying.

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

After anti-liberal pressure, University of Texas to consolidate gender and ethnic studies www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Solidarity today with our friends in Mexican-American and Latinx Studies, African Diaspora Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. They are waiting to hear whether their departments are being dissolved.

I’m beginning every panel I chair for the rest of my career with this frontal attack…

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

Witness.

What’s your archive? Is there a valid relationship between your evidence and your argument?

Watch Starfleet Academy. That’s it.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

I have said it before and I will say it again: the timing of the rush to champion “viewpoint diversity” during the era of severe clapbacks from the right is not about the Chronicle’s irrelevance or untimeliness it’s about using this moment to slide their racist revanchist agenda through.

Viewpoint diversity yes absolutely. Everyone has a right to speak let’s make the world a softer place for unorthodox thinkers with their revolutionary and revanchist and violent non- insight.

The absolute nerve of the AI to ask if I am human.

Still waiting on 99% of the Epstein Files.

It’s been 9 years, 9 months, and 7 days of refusing to believe that Prince is gone. I think he’d be happy to see all the posts about his city and the revolution. My cousin found an old concert program of mine from when I saw him on his Purple Rain tour. Come back to us you purple freak we miss you.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

I’m in

Good morning 1861

If you actually call Black Studies an “activist subfield” you do not have an ideologically neutral commitment to diversity of any kind.

Yes that’s right. Viewpoint diversity. Let’s have it.

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

Yes where are these vaunted free speech warriors today?