To be filled under things I never thought I'd have to say, acetaminophen doesn't cause autism.

I've been very lax with my social media lately, but if I was going to....

Just watched Terrified. We were. Really good movie. #horror

SIGH. #Academics #ProfLife #Academia

It’s the 10th anniversary season of my podcast, but today is the 9th birthday of the very first episode, looking at Slenderman with @andreakitta.bsky.social Celebrate my podcastiversary by going back to where it all began at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/season-1/epi... It’s come a long way!

The news has been devastating at best, but this is a whole new level of wrong. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

I keep explaining Plato's allegory of the cave to her, but she keeps chasing shadows anyway.

#Teaching is all about flexibility. As someone who studies #ConspiracyTheories I thought I was going in today to talk to my class about the lab leak theory, but instead they wanted to know if I heard that Vance killed the Pope. 🤷‍♀️

First, they came for the billionaires, and I said nothing for I was not a billionaire Second, they came for the millionaires, and I said nothing for I was not a millionaire Everything was pretty cool after that.

Whelp, guess I'm an enemy of the state now for all of my research on #COVID19 and #ConspiracyTheory

I just saw Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum and it was legit one of the scariest movies I've seen in a while. I watch mostly only #horror so that's saying a lot.

This isn't a good sign. www.tampabay.com/news/educati... #Academics #HigherEd

Things are very, very bad, but I've got foster kittens and they are pure and good. And dumb. So. Very. Dumb. #kittens #cats #AdoptDontShop

During comments at a dinner last night, Trump mentioned that tariffs on pharmaceuticals, medications that Americans NEED, are coming in very shortly. There's some huge issues which will come from this, mostly, cutting many Americans off from access to their meds for years to come. 🧵 1/10 #healthcare

If you're following the drama at my university, you should know they just arrested Faith. www.witn.com/2025/03/28/e...

Hello Monday.

Yesterday Gus let his intrusive thoughts win and jumped into a very full bathtub. His little legs couldn't touch the bottom, so he floated for the few seconds it took to rescue him. Gus then decided that wet cats are incapable of movement and sat in the corner until he dried off.

Memorial University's Folklore program take a picture of you and your committee at your PhD defense and posts it on the wall of the seminar room, which is pretty great when you go back to visit and speak with the graduate students.

I bought them their own couch, pretty sure they like it. #Cats #kittens #AcademicsWithCats #AdoptDontShop

I mean you all weren’t willing to get uncomfortable to fight me and fascism is a lot bigger than I am.

I almost missed the last day, some of the authors mentioned are well-known, but more need to know Dr.Tananarive Due. Great professor (seriously watch Horror Noire), amazing novelist. Read The Good House, The African Immortals, The Reformatory is the pinnacle of her writing, so far, she's amazing.

Day 27 is another YA novel because YA horror is pretty damn scary and FULL of death these days! This one has cults, fan experiences, and diverse characters. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

I almost forgot to post today's author and book (it's my birthday and it was a busy day)! Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward another from the "you're kidding yourself if you don't think this is horror" category. Maybe just accept that you might like #horror? #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 25 is a book I read awhile ago, but it's still great. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Today I saw a squirrel with a can of Red Bull near Burt Reynolds' grave at Hollywood Forever cemetery. No notes. Chef's kiss. Perfect day. Nature is beautiful.

Day 24 is another re-imagining, but this time it's inspired by Carrie about the not-so-subtle racism that happens in small towns and colorism. The Weight of Blood by Tiffany B. Jackson. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors

Day 23 already? Time for One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon. Inspired by Stepford Wives, this novel is about a town where everything isn't what it seems. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 22, let's talk about Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. This one is a great re-imagining of the Mami Wata with folktale elements and structure. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

I keep thinking about how politicians are calling professors the enemy. Me. The one that wrote that letter of recommendation for your kid on a Sunday because they found the perfect job at the last minute. The one that walked your child in crisis to student counseling. #Academia

Day 21 and I've got to mention The Secret Life of a Black Aspie by Anand Prahlad. This is one of my favorite books to use in my Disability Studies class and today I'm just hoping to be able to teach it again in the future. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 20 is Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. It's a stunning critique of the prison system in the US where the imprisoned can fight to the death, gladiator style, to gain their freedom. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors

Day 19 and just one more academic book, I promise. Passed On: African American Mourning Stories by Karla FC Holloway is a fantastic book about death in African American culture. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

I told myself don't do academic, but have you read Nightriders by Gladys-Marie Fry? 1975 but feels so relevant & shuts down that whole "black people are more superstitious than white people" bs that I hear so often as a folklorist. Very approachable, you'll like it! #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 17 and I would be a bad folklorist if I didn't include Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston. I think her other works get more attention, but this is an excellent collection of Black folklore and we're lucky to have it. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

I'm completely outraged that the T has been removed from LGBTQ+, so today's feature is Model Home by Rivers Solomon. Horror has SO MANY great books by and about our trans friends. (And it sounds like I'm going to have to do a month of LGBTQ + horror). #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 15 and there's so many books by the author I could have picked but I went with the first I read, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

So as anyone who has known me for more than 10 seconds, I'm not into love stories, but as love stories go this is one I was tricked into reading and it was good! An American Marriage by Tayari Jones #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

When you work in an English department with a kitchenette and people think they're too good to wash their own dishes.

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

It's Day 13 and you need some southern gothic today. This Cursed House by Del Sandeen is fantastic, one of those books that even if you know the genre, you're still surprised and angry at anything that interferes with you finishing the book! #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 12 is Roxane Gay and it was difficult to pick which book to highlight, so I went with one you may not have read: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.

Day 11 is The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson because #witches. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 10 is Beloved by Toni Morrison. I love how people will tell me they hate #horror and then talk about this book like it's not horror. ##BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors

Day 9 and it's not horror! Hell of a Book by North Carolina author Jason Mott is an amazing read and if you get the chance to see him speak, GO! #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 8 is The Spite House by Johnny Compton. If it's not already obvious, I love a #hauntedhouse and this one about a father and his two daughters who move into a haunted "spite house" is pretty great. And, of course, the house isn't the only thing that's haunted. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors

Day 7 and how did it take me this long to get to Octavia E. Butler? I highly recommend The Parable of the Sower (and its sequel, where back in 1998 Butler used "Make America Great Again" as the presidential campaign slogan for the dictator Jarret.) #BlackHistoryMonth #blackauthors