Our regular ground coffee went up $1 & frozen meat-free meatballs by 20 cents. Our regular gin went up $2. There’s restaurant we go to about once a quarter & order the same thing every time - my order went up $1 & his went up $3. We’ve noticed these changes all in the past couple of weeks.

When reviewing and making changes on the page proofs of your book, is it normal to want to throw it out and start all over? Asking for me.

I was so bummed when I didn’t get a certain TT FT dance teaching job last year. I am now so grateful because if I had it, I would have had to quit because of the absolute nonsense that administration is doing and allowing.

Excellent reading. Saving this article.

I got the page proofs of my book today! So stressful. So exciting. I cannot wait to get this into your hands. #academicsky #traumainformedteaching #danceeducation #theatreschool

Having such a terrible experience at Quest Diagnostics. 830 appt. 815 I checked in (and there was no empty seats in the waiting room) with the option to have them text me when they were ready. Received no text. Came back at 915 and my name was not longer on the board.

Hiked Little Si in the PNW today. A very different beautiful than my usual Everglades walks.

In Seattle for a week accompanying my sister through some medical stuff. Also have some time for fun and food. What should I not miss this week? Also let me know who is around for coffee!

I turned in the copy edits on my book! One step closer to publication!

Back home after teaching 6 consent, boundaries, and closure workshops for over 200 theatre and dance students this weekend. The kids want to be professional. They want to creative. And they want to be safe. They can be all 3, we those in power create those conditions.

I’m apparently 700 years old. I’m sitting in bed knitting and watching “The Golden Girls” at 10pm on a Friday.

Me: in an elevator, in the hotel, wearing a mask. “What floor?” Them: “6.” Me: gets out on an earlier floor. Them: “do you think she’s ok?” Me to myself: aren’t you glad I’m wearing a mask if I’m not???

Teaching 3 workshops on consent in the classroom today. 1 to dance students, 1 to theatre students, and 1 to both faculties. If you were in 1, what question would you hope I answered? #consentintheclassroom #consentinthearts #consentinacademia

Facts.

Sitting in a hotel room, knitting and watching the Phillies.

If you were about to tell your parents their homophobia is not at all Christian, or loving, or acceptable, what would you say? Give them to read/listen to? Besides yelling at them. Bc that’s what I want to do. I’m angry.

I’ve reached a new level of old where intensely playing the piano for a couple of hours makes my foot hurt.

Judge orders "Alligator Alcatraz" to immediately start dismantling -- to render it uninhabitable as DeSantis will likely appeal. Remarkable ruling: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the DeSantis and Trump administrations to stop bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state begin closing out operations at the immigration detention facility within 60 days.

I am honored to be mentioned by name & w/ several citations in an article “Integrating Consent Practices in Dance Education” in the new issue of JODE, w/ the words, "Perry has taken a particularly leading role...". Thank you. Being seen in this way means so much. #acdemicsky #danceeducation

If you are an artist using genAI for anything (especially art) I assume that you do not value creativity, autonomy, sustainability (of your field or the earth), or compensation. #genAI #performingartsansAI #AIisaconsentissue

I honestly really bummed to not be teaching this semester. And a little be relieved. #academicsky

I need good podcasts! Dance, theatre, creative process type. Or trauma-informed somatic/movement stuff. Or feminist. Or entrepreneurial without the “hope you were born rich or have a tech startup” this discussion only applies to rich folks type.

“Boundaries are the invisible walls around your resources: your time, energy, beliefs, values, and body.” From “The Trauma of Burnout” by Dr. Clare Plumbly

“We have invited large lying models into fields that require the truth.” That 🔥 was brought by my AI engineer partner to an AI in academia thread in the bad place this morning. #aiinacademia #aiisaconsentissue #ailies

We found out this week that despite a fully functioning proof of concept from our R&D round, dancers.ai will not be receiving any more funding from our current support because of changing giving priorities.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

What an absolute journey the Totentanz project for Momentum Stage, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has been. Now, 1 year after we knew our audacious proposal had been accepted, we are sharing our outcomes. Visit dancers.ai to see it!

Just want to boost this petition one more time. These things actually help organizers gain support in the gov. Please sign and share! chng.it/c4JZGQgJmw

STOP USING AI TO MAKE ART. It's not innocent. It's not harmless. It's damaging the fabric of humanities capacity to create true art and expression, and cheapening the human experience outright.

📣 Now that the #MAGAMurderBill is back at the House, I'm updating my House District-level healthcare enrollment pie charts w/the latest data, 2024 partisan lean & the population at risk of losing coverage highlighted. Next up: #FLORIDA (Districts 15 - 28): acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...

Academia dot com just tried to sell me a subscription based on a summary of my own paper AI did. Not cool.

Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning. Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Had to work today so I couldn’t protest in person. But donated to a bail fund and hung up our Pride flag. Protesting how I can.

A play about women, by a woman should definitely be directed by a man. (This is sarcasm^)

Well. What a day. My full manuscript is in! I cannot wait to share this book with you. Stay tuned for more info as I move through the final steps of the editing process.

I realized the other day that those of us working in the performing arts do the most stressful part of work- interviews and first days- over and over again. No wonder I have anxiety.

My sister sent me a picture from my parents’ house today. My mom is reading “Reaching your Prodigal.” We’re not sure if this in one or both of us. #exvangelical folks- what nonsense can we anticipate coming our way?

Did about half of my notes from the technical editor today. Anyone else get these and go “did you even read this book?!”

I think about James Baldwin on Shakespeare all the time: “he could have done this only through love—by knowing, which is not the same thing as understanding, that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him.”

“…the absence of humans is a feature, not a bug…”

My second book is in the proposal review process as my first book is in the editing process. I am a silly person.

Subbed a couple ballet classes today at a studio a friend runs. A child’s grandparent complained to her that I was wearing a mask. 😷

It is 630pm on a Monday and I am in bed. This past 6 weeks has been so professionally fulfilling but challenging. This week I’m attempting to get some rest and recuperation. Unfortunately, the world is on fire and very stressful.

My favorite Star Trek episode is on- DS9’s “Bar Association.” Which I just learned was directed by Levar Burton. And I love it even more now.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

Picked up a grab bag of stickers today to give as little gifts. One sticker said “Don’t trip on something that is behind you.” And that one I kept for me.

If you didn’t know, now you know! I am so excited to be the Director of Praxis at IPEC Intimacy ! www.ipecintimacy.com