Read poetry, despite despite despite

after @chenchenwrites.bsky.social: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160539...

Read poetry, despite despite despite

Schumer literally has imaginary Republicans that live in his head and tell him what to do. He calls them The Baileys. So this isn't surprising at all.

SUCH an important text. I've been thinking about Jeffords' concept of "Terminal Masculinity" a lot after seeing Predator: Badlands.

I feel like there is an easy fix to make it clear what it's about, here's a quick and dirty edit:

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Humanities programs have 3 perfect tools here: "There's a reason they don't want you studying it" paired with "The only way to tear this down and rebuild is by practicing the empathy, understanding, and critical thought that can come with studying the humanities" and "We're already doing it."

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

So Disney Studies (@disnet.bsky.social) friends, which of us is going to write the paper on Zohran Mamdani x Queen of Katwe?

They playing Not Like Us at the Mamdani election headquarters

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS STOP FUCKING THROWING US UNDER THE BUS AND YOU CAN FUCKING WIN

Tonight is an UNAMBIGUOUS correction of the national moment. Among other things, it demonstrates that STANDING UP FOR TRANS PEOPLE is morally AND politically correct ✊🏳️‍⚧️

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

"You are what you eat" applies to your media diet, too.

I love this comic. It feels like the artistic equivalent of my argument in "Nintendo Switch-ing Genders: Bowsette and the Potentiality of Transgender Video Game Mechanics" 💕🏳️‍⚧️ Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0197...

Pinscreen animation is destructive by nature: the practitioner must erase the screen to create a new image. Retakes are not possible. It is time consuming, inefficient and uniquely beautiful.

In the antebellum period, judges who ruled against fugitive slaves and in favor of their owners would get more money. It incentivizes racial profiling and discrimination then as it does now. There is no real due process in a scheme like this.

In our special issue "Centering Blackness in Fan Studies," Mel Monier and Kristen Leer published "Since the moment pictures could move, we had skin in the game": Black horror podcasters as fans, critics, and creators"! buff.ly/Ve041KB

Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

I was raised in an extremely conservative, patriotic, fundamentalist Christian household, and I referred to my godmother as aunt. She wasn't related to us. My parents simply selected her during my baptism. This is a non-controversy rooted in racism and bigotry and fear of progress.

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if you feel like it) (You can't see her, but Mrs. Columbo is always there 🙏)

Instead of being a marine and getting a Nazi tattoo Platner could have popped some hrt and gotten a cool bug or a sexy naked woman tattoo and a septum ring. Let this be a lesson in proper decision making.

Today is the birthday of artist Mary Blair (Oct. 21, 1911-July 26, 1978). She produced concept art for Disney classics such as Cinderella, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, and The Lady and the Tramp. She also illustrated children’s books & helped design Disney rides like It’s a Small World.

Friends, @emmywaldman.bsky.social and I are chairing a panel at MELUS in Austin next year. The name of the panel is called “Speculation on the Margins.” We’d love to read your abstracts! Please share widely! Here’s the link to the CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This was such a delightful time! It was a class full of theater students, so I taught them about reference performance by having them act out a scene from Tangled 💕

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

This is just life as a Disney scholar 🙏

No kings! no kings! La la la la la la!

The Tommy Tallarico era is officially over 🙌 I also love that they're bringing back and reimagining the controller overlays. Such a beautifully unique aspect of the original Intellivision.

Me preparing my guest lecture on the Disney princesses, which I'll give to some lovely graduate students today ❤️

"just locker room sieg heiling"

Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

My partner asked one of her online friends what they think I look like, based solely on how she has talked about me over the past several years...and this is the image they sent 🙃

When a politician finally stands up for you, it's okay to cry 💕

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live? tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

business professor, film professor, sociology professor

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Haven't seen this shared a lot - but yes, 26 out of 30 of the scholars on the NEH Council just got axed - and surprise, what do you know about the 4 left? ⬇️

We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans

My new poem "GPS Girl" about a navigation system slowly warping into sentience and...eventually depression..is out today💜 @radonjournal.bsky.social and look at that cover!!! This whole issue is filled with dark & strange & powerful words 🖤 www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps...

My book is out! 💗 Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories. Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Grateful to guest lecture on the Disney Silver Age today to a group of lovely undergraduates ✨

POV: You're on a date with Lanky Kong. 💖 [ #OhThatNKart #fanart #DonkeyKong ]