"While Penn ultimately rejected the compact…the university has already adopted many of its proposals…the climate of fear [has] many opting to avoid engaging in controversial or left-coded material." newrepublic.com/article/2100...

Teaching students to avoid "bothering" their teachers stops learning in its tracks, undercuts essential social development, and trains kids not to seek help (from people) when they need it. Its sole function is to enable higher student-teacher ratios. @aft.org promoting this is sick and sickening.

Guest post for the @uncpress.bsky.social blog connecting the argument of my forthcoming book to some current events, including #kingcharlesIII #hantavirus and #MVHondius.

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

You can now use promo code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30% when you pre-order the book!

as me about the prestigious foundation who told me and my dean IN WRITING that "UIC does not meet our standards for an eligible faculty institution"

abject oriented ontology

🚨: My new monograph ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, and SEA, 1926-2014 is available for preorder from OXFORD UP, with 30 percent discount.

🦠 Cover reveal! 🦠 PARASITIC EMPIRES, forthcoming from @uncpress in Fall 2026. Please pre-order using this link: uncpress.org/978146969725...

I have a Spivak joke but I can’t speak it

Brenda Shaughnessy

This issue has my review of Abigail Boucher wonderful new monograph, “Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction.”

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Please reset your face to factory color settings.

#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop: Call for Papers Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Jake gave me such useful feedback on this essay in its earlier stages. Thank you my friend!

Having to change BlueSky account handle from super-bass because Nicki Minaj is now a fascist was not on my end of 2025 bingo card

he sees you when you’re sleeping: the santopticon

Back from deactivation to reveal my headshot for book publicity. PARASITIC EMPIRES: INFECTION, INSULARITY, INTER-IMPERIALITY is now in production at UNC press.

Advice for female associate profs on balancing academias gender inequities, including vastly unequal workloads, inverted pay, and engaging productively with male admin? Looking for resources, conversations, and more!

Essentially, what happened was that the inventors of poppers were like: how do we get non-queer folks to sustain the same level of brain damage? And so AI was born.

From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458 #poem #booksky #writing

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

the fact that anyone in America can think this & feel comfortable saying it out loud represents a profound failure of public education— like, a breakdown at the systematic level

This is definitely what happened. Mad king behavior.

“But if what I’m after is the story, the vibe, the suspense, I might be justified in feeling that I’d ‘read’ the book. Certainly, I’d be unlikely to seek out the unabridged version.” Not to gatekeep or whatever but you have not, in fact, read the book.

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

It’s been a bit since I shared this one, pub’d in Feb—A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US, from @sunypress.bsky.social. 794 pp of empirically grounded info, personal experiences, & trans history BY trans ppl, physicians & scholars. Now 30% off w/ code SPRIDE25. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...

Tenured!

Any historians of the late British Empire on here? Can you suggest any sources on the of colonial governance in the 20s onwards? I read somewhere that with this retreat of the colonial state, private orgs took up the onus of services like public health. Does this sound right? Many thanks 🙏🏽

Going to my first American Lit Association conference in May for a health/environmental humanities panel to speak about my ongoing work on Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death, and as I was researching more fiction on the Panama Canal I found that two historical novels about it came out in 2024 👀

This is Pikachu

If you are interested in: 🔹legacies of the 19th century in the 20th/21st 🔹modernism’s uses of the Victorian 🔹imperialism & its afterlives 🔹ripple effects of Atlantic slavery in indentureship, bonded labor, migration 🔹aesthetic effects of delay, recursivity, suspension PLEASE SUBMIT TO NAVSA 🌿🙏

66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.

The racist uber driver taking me from the NOLA airport to my airbnb was spewing the exact same nonsense. When I told him I’m from Austin but prefer Houston he was like “after Katrina all the Blacks [sic] went there and crime went up 400%.” My blood was boiling.

a Guardian piece from exactly one year ago www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

Victorian women: Reader, I married him 21st century gays:

Nobody: Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure: “Nice window. Can I jump out of it?”

Bad Sisters on Apple TV is the best show I’ve seen in a long time

It’s so funny to me when white scholars denigrate antiracist and anticolonial scholarship as less rigorous or… “caricatural.”

Why is it any surprise that Matt Gaetz paid for sex

First post honor belongs to Kiwi kins