It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

My post is up! Thanks to the editors of The Polyphony and to @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @oliviaglaze.bsky.social for providing a space to discuss how past cultural narratives are shaping our present.

So excited to be part of this volume along some very talented people! Thanks again @katharinemurphy.bsky.social & @oliviaglaze.bsky.social for the opportunity!

My new year resolution is to use ‘ontology’ and ‘epistemology’ knowingly rather than confidently

Sledding in Central Park on Christmas Eve is what childhood memories are made of.

Miracle on 34th Street: Me just getting tickets to Santaland in Herald Square

Gisèle, may your life be full of love, dignity and healing. I’m so sorry you had to be so brave

I still have no intention of watching White Lotus because I live on the upper east side and deal with enough awful rich white people

Me at every holiday party

Look maybe Hell doesn’t exist but also there are two Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas albums

A hurricane alert on your phone but for SantaCon instead

‘We will continue to seek moments of hope’ is my new motto ❤️

Teaching a class to SF students. Halfway through a picture frame starts shaking behind one of my students’ walls. ‘Is that an earthquake?’ he shouts out to housemate. It is. We continue. They all agree to grab a burrito after class. Did I just stumble into an SNL sketch on California

No one cares about your no one cares about your Spotify Wrapped comments

Found myself joking this morning about how new arrivals are ‘drops’ these days how everyone keeps ‘dropping things’ which is frankly quite careless lol and yes I guess I should start checking out senior care facilities

I guess someone was dreaming of a white Christmas apple.news/AY6B8EvABTTW...

Me: should we go and see Santa? My seven year old: you know it’s not real Santa, right? You’re just taking a picture of your child next to a stranger

New glasses from when I’m not wearing lenses. And yes, they match my Ruby Woo lipstick

Death, taxes and my mother telling the same joke that nobody ever laughs at during every family gathering for the last 20 years because THIS time things will be different

Hats off to the woman buying a frozen turkey at 11am, this is the delusional optimism we all need rn #DefyingGravity

Also if you’re an American follower whose favourite Thanksgiving dish is turkey, please let me know! Every year I conduct an informal survey amongst students and NO ONE has ever picked turkey

Really looking forward to not hearing your endless airplane stories!

Also I guess I’m back on Bluesky now that a large number of people decamped here recently

I love that week in fall when people in NYC pull out their Good Coats

Thank for all your birthday wishes! Age feels better than it looks. Also the children insisted we have birthday cake for breakfast so I’m certainly feeling very awake this Monday morning. And last but not least, my darling husband gave me the most ‘welcome to NYC’ present🗽 🚕 🥨

Fourth of July from our sofa

Summer solstice in Manhattan

To mark Juneteenth, here’s a poem by one of my favourite Black writers, Clint Smith:

Who the hell turned on the sepia filter

We move to New York and the west coast gets flooding and the east coast wildfires. Sorry y’all, this one is on us! (And climate change). To quote my husband: ‘It's the flipside of "CA had covid masks because we had prepped for wildfires". Now NY has wildfire masks because of covid.’

hacker: I have all your passwords me: omg thank you, what are they

My five year old daughter: ‘wait, is this a shirt or a sweatshirt’ Me: ‘a shirt’ daughter: THEN WHY AM I SWEATING It’s 90 degrees in NYC