visiting London in 2016: oh wow the trains stop running btwn 12-6am so i guess we'll have to club hop until dawn 😇 visiting London in 2026: oh wow i'm so grateful there are plenty of benches in this museum so i can sit and rest while referencing Rick Steves' room-by-room guide to all the art 🥰

clearly the answer is London, and tbh commuting to Atlanta for fieldwork stints prob wouldn't even be as stressful as when i commuted from Brooklyn to Long Island 3-4x per week

i've been in London for six hours and already seen so many things i wish i could talk about w/ my grandma (a self-proclaimed "anglophile" who grew up dirt poor in rural Alabama, became an English teacher, loved Shakespeare & Brit lit broadly speaking...

@jakedownsmusic.bsky.social bluesky isn't letting me message you for some reason (what is kws??) but plz send me your headphones article and find me on whatsapp so we can keep the conversation going~

and if my disability ever has me feeling lazy/useless (as it often does), please remind me that to make this happen i: 1) applied & got accepted to an international conference 2) applied for & secured external research awards (since my dept can no longer fund international conference travel)

amidst all the uncertainty, something v dope is that i now have a "permanent address" in Georgia so my vote will actually count in the next couple elections!!!

my second major new year's resolution was to travel to London (for the first time since taking advantage of post-brexit cheap airfare, fully A DECADE AGO) and i'm about to fly JFK -> Heathrow and i'm SO EXCITED!!!

during my next year and a half of research fellowship, aside from (obviously) doing fieldwork + volunteering for the abortion healthlines, i've decided to devote some of the time i'd usually spend grading/emailing on a literary project... anybody wanna guess what i'll be reading??

if 87% of my students are gonna use the cheating machine i at least want the cheating machine to accurately cite the work it gobbled up without the authors' consent

some summer reading: Atlanta, New York, and London

mad respect to the guy who sat alone at the crowded mexican restaurant last night watching "Jeopardy!" on his phone, which was propped against the salt & pepper shakers

i asked around for local moving company recommendations and instead, 11 queer ppl are insisting on helping me pack up all my shit, load it into a u-haul, and transport it to the storage facility

i'm going to London for seven days (for the first time since 2016!) and i'm so excited!!! so far i've packed: - 3 Shakespeare plays - 4 novels set in London - plug converter so i think i'm pretty much set, right?

why does every single individual mundane little task now require downloading an app????????

since i'm about to box up all my books for a move (final destination TBD 😬), i thought i'd post a photo of the books i love so much that i've read them btwn 5-20x each

just found out that "clavicular" is a PERSON I have no desire to expand my knowledge beyond this; thank u for respecting my wishes during this time

F marry kill: writing conference papers, writing journal articles, writing grant proposals

as a lifelong Auburn fan (it's an inherited family trait, for better or worse), sometimes i feel like Charles Barkley's outspokenness on political/culture issues makes up a tiny bit for the horrific nightmare of Tommy Tuberville being a United States senator

I wrote about Luna Composition Lab, Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid's amazing mentoring program for teenage female, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming composers: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/a...

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

it's been hours now and i'm sorry but how did the university not have some form of contingency plan in place

speaking for myself, this is literally THE WORST POSSIBLE DAY for canvas to crash

By the way if you are ever having a day that you don’t have the spoons for writing ALT there are people around to help you with that! -

and in the case of those not going thru the ordeals listed in #2, people self-managing their abortions (esp ppl of marginalized identities) face heightened risk of criminalization either way (procedural or medication), abortion access for people living in ban states is often a FUCKING NIGHTMARE

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

i keep finding bowie books that look AMAZING but they're all like 500+ pages long and i'm gonna have limited space in my carry-on 😬

i get why people say this (& agree w/ the intended sentiment!) but also i know many trans men who have gotten pregnant

re: the court ruling on mifepristone today, there are great resources such as Abuzz and Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants that mail abortion pills (on a sliding scale, including for free), and their request forms are remaining open

well this fucking sucks www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

so rude when u finally send emails you've been procrastinating on sending for weeks and then the recipient doesn't respond within a day!!!!!!

some ethnomusicologists get fellowships so they can travel to exotic places and/or study beautiful music u can tell i'm passionate about my project because i'm using mine to hang out in the southeast US (i can diss it because i'm from here) and study sounds that i hate 🤗

the full-text of my article about anti-abortion anti-ableist rhetoric is now available: muse.jhu.edu/pub/120/arti...

ACLS announces the 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships, supporting 50 early-career graduate students transcending the boundaries of doctoral research: bit.ly/3OV2PVF

today is the day i can announce that i've been awarded two research fellowships!! the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation fellowship will support my fieldwork for 2026–2027 & the Policy Studies for Interpersonal Violence fellowship will support my dissertation writing the following year

This this this. Gender go whirrr (yet again).

ever since january 6, 2021 i have made a point of reading the first few posts in my feed before posting something silly and/or earnest, and yooooo i'm really glad i did that just now

i literally have two weeks to decide whether i want to spend the next two years in NYC, ATL, or Lexington, and my head is spinning 😵‍💫

putting it out there to remind myself and all y'all: if you start feeling paranoid that everyone on earth received a mass text announcing that you are a terrible person, you probably need to take a nap

hello bluesky friends! does anyone know of any couches i could crash on in London ca. early/mid June? i'm traveling to the UK for a conference but hoping to hang around afterwards to explore. i'm very quiet & tidy 🤠

I think I've posed this question in the past but I'm curious to hear how people's academic interests shifted over the course of their education (e.g. my undergrad thesis title was "Satie's Influences on Minimalism" and my doctoral dissertation is about the antiabortion movement)

holy shit www.texastribune.org/wp-content/u...

ok bluesky please tell me your favorite Bowie books/biographies ⚡

ok bluesky please tell me your favorite Bowie books/biographies ⚡

MAJOR LIFE UPDATE: for the next 11 hours and 19 minutes, i am caught up on grading

here it is: - my third peer-reviewed journal article - proof that I can write about something other than sound/music - proof that I can't write about anything unrelated to abortion - an essay I wrote 3 (!) years ago & am nervous (but kinda proud?) to see finally floating around out in the world

"I don't want to happen but it probably will" is classic abuser language: "look what you made me do." Except it's not on the scale of a household, but of a nation of 90 million and millennia of civilization.....

surfaced from a BRUTAL 24 hr migraine, sent a couple of (what felt like) super important emails, glanced at the headlines for 8 seconds and immediately CRINGED

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

I've been deep in the throes of article revisions this past week, and even tho it's challenging (& even frustrating at times), at the end of each day all I can think is wow, I love writing so much. I cannot imagine outsourcing this process to AI.

why did i decide to wear the cute new jumpsuit (w/ buttons AND a belt) on a day i'm guzzling coffee and have to pee every 40 minutes