Final keyword presentations in my intro to cultural studies class included "imperialism" (whole project is about Gaza) "aesthetic" (big focus on mar a lago face & white nationalism) and "theorist" (hierarchies of knowledge, who gets to be deemed a theorist). I think it was a successful term.

One thing I want work on is bumping into students at shows. It's awkward and its only because I make it awkward 🫠

Hack student loans next

See for instance: the collapse of the gender studies program and the forced hiatus of the cultural studies major (though, not the program) at my uni in a 'very blue' state.

Radical bookstores don’t just sell books. In Chicago, Baltimore, and beyond, they host book clubs, training sessions, meetings, jail support work, and organizing that can shape entire movements. New from @leftiecowboy.bsky.social

chatbots seem built for dudes who think the stripper actually likes them

CFP!! Society for the Study of Affect's MAKE conference in Vancouver: October 23-25, 2026. Consider submitting your proposals to any one of 26 streams. But I am particularly partial to number 8...we are looking for some very dirty submissions! Send it to us by May 29! Links to follow:

breaking: 80-student encampment up at Occidental College in California, demanding the Board of Trustees commit to divest from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar amid the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine at an upcoming meeting on Monday.

CFP!! Society for the Study of Affect's MAKE conference in Vancouver: October 23-25, 2026. Consider submitting your proposals to any one of 26 streams. But I am particularly partial to number 8...we are looking for some very dirty submissions! Send it to us by May 29! Links to follow:

Everyday revolution grows closer.

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

This is a devastating loss. Now more than ever, if you are at any institution, we must continue to fight for critical pedagogies and approaches to humanist inquiry. And never, ever comply in advance.

P sure Ellie (7F, blue tortie), who runs this house, is for sure a homophobe who only puts up with 2 homosexuals because we feed her.

Nice that there's still space and desire for wonder in the world.

"It took Israel only 10 minutes to carry out one of the worst mass-killings in Lebanon since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990." “..what I’m most sad about is that my pretty Lebanon, our beautiful Lebanon, soon it will all be brought down to the ground.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

But here’s the thing: killing begets killing & genocide more genocide. Israel & US (under Democrats) partnered to wipe out Palestinians using these same “radical” justifications, so why are we shocked they’re doing the same to Iran under this monster?

You laugh but LSU still, STILL, keeps a tiger in captivity. www.mikethetiger.com

What a joy it was to review @e-bumps.bsky.social's latest for QJS. Highly recommend Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood Queerness to any human who has ever felt the deep, deeeep cuts of being a queer and/or trans child. Free copies of the review here:

Occupation is strongest when it is normalized. They are not trying to terrorize you (unless you’re a target) at the airport because the point is to normalize their presence and occupation.

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

Not that anyone #onhere cares about my feelings about NCA, but the fact that the org is requiring membership to review conference submissions is laughable! More critically, NCA for YEARS has shown a pattern of attempting to DISCIPLINE the field. Stop engaging with it. It’s a garbage organization.

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"We are at war, and thousands of people are dead. We are at war, and we are complaining about high gas prices and long lines at the airport. We are at war, and running late for our next appointment." organizingmythoughts.org/the-zombie-d...

Fuck work. Do art

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

Making this skeet the cover photo of my syllabus in the fall.

I think this is a reasonable (as in, not radical) way for elective officials to show up. Literally just do this. This is *baseline* of what they should be before you vote for them. Good for Judge Mustafa Kasubhai. And yay for gender expansive folks in Oregon!

@edwarmulfo.bsky.social keeps telling me to make a salad influencer YouTube channel and I’ve never been closer to quitting my job to do it #springbreak

Ok I'll say it: laboring towards enacting abolitionist pedagogies is very difficult when the athletics department is involved with a student. Someone gift me some strength 🌀

Baltimore is on everyone's radar as productions and shows leave D.C. and we love it. But we want to remain us, OK! Thanks @lauralippman.bsky.social for the cheerleading!

Baltimore art does it different.

Student's seriously get riled up when you teach critical university studies. Would recommend. Start basic--literally explain faculty organization and that most of their professors live below the poverty line. They go wild, as we all should.

Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike. University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections. NYU, it’s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!

200 people. The world’s twin super villains have already killed 200 people in Iran.

If the new technology is as dangerous as its makers say, great power competition becomes suicidally reckless. Only international cooperation can ensure AI serves humanity instead of worsening war. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-and-...

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Whewww www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

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Tenure has never been a measure of merit, it is a carceral logic used to discipline and control. Sending lots of solidarity your way.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Yes yes yes this thread! I and I DO think it’s our jobs to give them the language to articulate against the surveillance state, neoliberalism, nationalism, etc. How to communicate about mundane and insidious forms of power that goes beyond “racism is bad.”

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Thousands of academics and campus administrators across the country are hard at work trying to discover a new type of Academic Freedom that can protect visits to pedophile island, but not criticism of Israel.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.