the pleasures of a dimly lit queer bar

Lee Kronin’s The Mummy was sooo good: creepy, delightfully gory, & with a wonderfully humorous Mexican abuela.

Richard Bruce Nugent on the teaching agenda today—a good Monday!

We have other ways to practice being together on this earth. Interdependence is not weakness. Collaboration is generous and hospitable.

I think USians need to find ways to grieve what's happening in the U.S. without reproducing imperial logics that the U.S. is "losing a position as the world superpower" or "as the leader in science" or "as the leader in research" or "as the leader in . . . "

also, the focus on "majors" is a way to cut programs that actually enroll fine, but students pick other things because they are told to by ... their parents media advisors admin college counselors general vibes ... but they still take the classes because they actually want to learn.

The circle of death is: Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

The backlash has arrived

getting professional headshots this summer & telling the photographer this is the aesthetic I’m aiming for:

at the homosexual bar discussing important subjects: Madonna’s Confessions On A Dance Floor: Part II

Guggenheim had about a 4% funding rate this cycle; ACLS had roughly a 3% funding rate; & the Trump NEH is ideologically distorted. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

LaToya Jackson

"It was well-known that Mendieta explored her Cuban and American identity through her art. However, the comic biography highlights how she supplanted the Eurocentric foundations of her formal training by incorporating an Afro-Latin American worldview." Read more here: muse.jhu.edu/article/976995

Two newly released databases documenting the lives of more than 150,000 enslaved people in Cuba and Brazil are now available to researchers, offering an unprecedented empirical foundation for studying slavery in the Americas www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-sla... @claclsgc.bsky.social

"I think there’s an inability for those people who have wealth in the country to understand and value something like Hampshire. It was dedicated to a transformational education, in an era when higher education has been hijacked by the transactional" - Ken Burns '75 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Freud was really spot-on about so much 😭

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

FRIDAY!

it would be so nice if mainstream journals in gender and sexuality stopped having "special issues" on Africa and simply had articles about Africa as part of their regular

They’re closer now, 85% of the way there if you can help close the gap.

The warehouse model of prison isn’t working, education is chicagoreader.com/city-life/in...

a black plastic bag, like the ones given out at bodegas, windswept through the city-skyline—sublime!

Today in Washington DC! With the ever inspiring Soraya Chemaly! ! politics-prose.com/sara-ahmed-0...

alleyway slivers

Deadline approaching for our grant-supported Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy in California, Louisians, Michigan, Utah, and Wisconsin. www.mla.org/Events/MLA-I...

SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!

The recent Godzilla movies are so good. Mothra is so queer-coded.

abolish ICE

"tactility is the presence of another kind of world" going to sit with that from @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social a while today

now that the semester is winding down, I want to write a few more reviews. Time to pitch these editors!

a journal asked me to review a recent monograph, keeping it under 1k words. I’m at 800 & nowhere NEAR concluding what I need to say 😭

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

“If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.” Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

More than one man needs removing from office. They are all complicit. All evil. I do mean evil. All genocidaires. All monsters.

a sitting president threatening to end a civilization—pure evil.

Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached.  When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta/threads: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime!

We are hiring 3 full-time lecturers in the English Department at University of Illinois at Chicago! 3/3 teaching load. Eligible for union membership (UICUF). Join us!

mixing colours

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

the quotidian beauty of New York City

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

"What happens if we give in to the fullness of the messy, unsavory, and discomfiting complexity of laziness's historical baggage and stigmatized underpinnings, which have long been construed as ethically, socially, and politically compromised?" @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social

great turnout! A lot of grad students came, so many came up to tell me they read Revolting Indolence & In Theory Darling (I signed books!).

currently stationed in a part of Texas where there are seemingly no Tejano cholo boys to fawn over—disappointing!

always read tricia matthew