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

i'm sorry that i've re-posted this a couple times but i'm gettin' a lil anxious 😬 plz feel free to message me for more info & plz feel free to share this post!!

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

We are rebuilding our whole economy around an instrument that has roughly the same chance of being right as a coin toss.

went to a concert of minimalist music tonight and remembered that many people do drugs to better enjoy the music whereas for me, the music makes me feel like i am on drugs 🌀

I haven't been following the birthright citizenship case, but after spending the last year writing about fetal personhood, it strikes me that the right is trying to read birth out of the 14A in both directions. Immigrants born here shouldn't get rights but fetuses not yet born should.

do any of my followers happen to be experienced with biology/medical research? my musicological brain is drowning and i need a life raft

A little too on the nose SCOTUS struck down the conversion therapy ban on trans day of visibility

my anxiety has been so high this week that i've gotten to the point of uncontrollable sobbing 😢 plz tell me a song/piece that you can't stop listening to lately? 💚

"The suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

✨manifesting✨ an affordable apartment in Brooklyn for me and my best friend but also please keep an ear out for any 2BR spots opening up around May 15th!!!

this week i get to fulfill my middle school dream of becoming Rory Gilmore (i got invited to give a colloquium talk at Yale)

~having a lot of feelings~ can be so rough (depression etc) but i literally just passed out from joy and wonder at the Morgan Library

Next, @susanrinkunas.com wrote about how Georgia police wrongly arrested a Black woman for murder after an alleged abortion. Reproductive justice groups that represent pregnant people say state law doesn’t allow such prosecutions, even with Georgia’s abortion ban in effect.

huge thanks to whichever of y'all music nerds made this site for planning the perfect commute

seeking IRB approval for my fieldwork on antiabortion protests, which involves 1) pregnant-but-imminently-not-pregnant research participants and 2) recording sounds that "take place in public space" but can be heard in private spaces (e.g. clinic waiting room), and i think i'm glitching their system

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

context: my brother Jack got engaged a few months ago today my dad turns to me and says, out of the blue: "Well, I'm glad he and Caitlin are happy, but I always hoped your brother would end up with a girl named Jill" 😐

Gave a talk on fetal ""heartbeats"" last week + am giving another one in two weeks; even with such a short amount of time btwn events, i have to update all my maps & statistics. The antiabortion movement is CONSTANTLY hard at work, buzzing in the background amidst all the other ongoing horrors.

lately i spend the first 2-4 hours of my day utterly consumed by an unpinpointable, immobilizing dread that not even my "make drone music not drone strikes" playlist can quell 😵‍💫

A real opportunity was missed in not calling this “Terminal Degree”

i live in a neighborhood near a Jif factory and sometimes i'll be on a walk and the whole town smells like peanut butter and i kinda love it

This is a gentle reminder that you can toggle the option in the settings so you never forget to add alt text ever again.

i've officially transitioned from "holy smokes i have to give a 60 min lecture about my research (followed by 30 min Q&A) i'm going to throw up" to "holy smokes i LOVE my research!! and i get to talk about it for a whole ass hour!! and then get feedback on it from rly smart cool people!!"

particularly infuriating considering that doctors & medical professionals are reporting pregnant people to the police for, e.g., taking valium while pregnant

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

glad i have a peer counseling shift on the repro healthline today. there are small ways we can support our fellow humans who might be dealing with crises that, while seemingly unrelated to the war in Iran, all stem from the white supremacist cisheteropatriarchal project of US imperialism.

85 people confirmed dead

objectively hilarious that an Ivy League school is paying me $$$ to come give a lecture about my research and for weeks i thought i wouldn't even be allowed to do a run-thru of the lecture **at my own school** because DEI

OMG yes please!!! Good Alabama folk include The Knights and Orchids Society, TAKE Resource Center, ALTRAC. And if you want to support affirming care for those 19 and older in our area hit me up - we will soon have it in both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.

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Abortion pills remain undefeated post-Dobbs. The antiabortion movement has tried so many different things, and the net result is a total of 0 seconds post-Dobbs that abortion pills have been further restricted. ZERO. On the flip side, they are cheaper and more available than ever.

was just telling a friend the other day about how Radigue has been one of the most influential composers in my life -- her work literally changed how I listen. RIP

Last saved celebrity pic is your therapist

This shit, in combination w/ the undercover anti-DEI campaigns, has obliterated all the joy I used to get from teaching. It's beyond soul-crushing. Take me back to my 9-5 cubicle life.

Five women authors by whom I've read at least five books (*at least 2 of which I've given 5 stars, because otherwise the list is way too long*): - Virginia Woolf - bell hooks - Elena Ferrante - Anne Carson - Eudora Welty bonus: Sigrid Nunez

have started transcribing some of the eight hours of field recordings i took this past weekend at the abortion clinic, and i feel this 90-second clip really sums up the overall ominous/distressing vibe

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

the other day one of my cohortmates offhandedly told me he had seen my articles floating around Chinese social media and i was like WHY DIDN'T U SCREENSHOT THAT IMMEDIATELY DUDE, that kind of thing feels like a lil firefly glowing in the dark abyss of academia's demise