Tour poster for Kat and the Hurricane: Therapy Tour (Spring 2025) Lists dates and cities where the band will be on tour, on a beige backdrop and a highly saturated picture of a couch and lamp. May 8, Indianapolis, IN May 9, Pittsburgh, PA May 10, Washington, DC May 13, Cleveland, OH May 14, Detroit, MI May 15, Grand Rapids, MI May 16, Chicago, IL May 17, Madison, WI May 18, Minneapolis, MN May 29, St. Louis, MO May 30, Louisville, KY May 31, Newport, KY A crystal ball icon indicates that the band Biitchseat will also be playing on the shows from May 13 to May 18.

Hey, mind if we go on tour real quick? 🚙🛋️

super stoked to be on the road again, and to be playing a bunch of shows with the pals @biitchseat.bsky.social!

it's The Last Five Years of it all

(5 years ago we tried to go on our first tour)

We've gotta stop doing things like $35 adv/$40 dos or even $12/$15 bc the fees end up making buying your ticket online in advance like 20% MORE than just buying at the door 😭

(I say this as I'm about to announce shows that way -- it's just industry standard but we gotta look at the fan side of it)

Book Cover of "Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics" by José Esteban Muñoz

Book Cover of "The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America" by Frances FitzGerald

Book Cover of "American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving" by Christian Smith

Book Cover of "Epistemology of the Closet" by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

What books best capture your current obsession/work?

These are mine; currently putting all of these in conversation with each other!

Really hate that the options for artists are becoming either A) cultivate your audience on platforms that store, sell, & use your data to train AI or B) not be on socials at all

Like yes, email lists and blogs and such are great but there's just no way they provide the same reach and growth as SM

the way holding space for the lyrics of defying gravity has a tighter grip on me than Kylie singing "rise and shine" did needs to be studied

@katandthehurricane.bsky.social

Juggling three careers at once is basically like living the three drink theory: one to hydrate (day job to pay the bills), one to take the edge off (touring musician), and one to put the edge back on (grad school).

patrick star from spongebob squarepants is standing in a doorway with his arms outstretched ALT: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is standing in a doorway with his arms outstretched

Showing up to the in-laws an hour and a half late, but with the casserole that got everyone talking last year (homosexually):

really been holding space with the lyrics of Untouched by The Veronicas lately

Happy to share. Thank you for bringing this story to life! It's definitely a new favorite.

I needed a fiction break from my thesis and I've been wanting to read this all year. Read it in 3 sittings; the ending quite literally brought me to tears. @jasonkirk.fyi has really poignantly captured things that I've struggled to articulate to those who didn't grow up in our worlds. Check it out!

Hell is a World That Jason Kirk Understands Perfectly A review of Jason Kirk's exvangelical coming-of-age novel

I started up a Substack to have a place to share future writing on the intersections of politics, religion, history, and queer theory. There will also be music-related writing and book reviews, so to get myself started, I just posted a review of @jasonkirk.fyi's novel Hell Is a World Without You!

One thing I'm really looking forward to after I graduate is being able to go to all my friends' shows and events again 😔 moved in 2019, had one summer in the city, then COVID, then grad school. I've been a studious little hermit for so long

Yes, in my experience this is such a quintessential queer dating experience 😩😅

I’d like to propose: Schrödinger’s Date.

It’s simultaneously a date and not a date but you’ll never know which until the future.

At some point, something will happen and it will be clear which it was. But right now, it’s full of the possibility of both/either.

Have you ever been on one of those?

(still working on reading more outside the big two, but I do love reinterpretations of beloved characters)

Let me also just skeet (are we really calling it that?) some keyword interests to find my people!

queer & trans studies
U.S. religious history
queer epistemologies
dunking on Reagan
sex education
history of evangelicalism
comics
sad sapphic pop
diy indie music
sitcoms
drag

Following a bunch of academics via starter packs, so by way of deeper introduction:

I'm currently working on my MA Thesis, an interdisciplinary effort that uses methodologies borrowed from queer studies (Sedgwick, Muñoz) to unpack identity-forming practices within the Evangelical Right.

Got It Out Kat and the Hurricane · Album · 2024 · 10 songs

quick lil intro - hey we’re Kat and the Hurricane. we make genre-fluid synth rock/indie pop. we often joke that we make sad lesbian music, but the kind you can dance to. we just put out our debut full-length album, Got It Out, last month. have a listen!

yesterday's concept of a lunch is today's lunch, you love to see it.

I chose today to set up my account here while I'm supposed to be writing my thesis, and my recommended feed is already full of writers talking about not writing, so I think I'm in good company

Thank you! 😁 Here's hoping it takes off and I can leave that other place behind.

So, hi 👋 I'm a touring musician from Wisconsin, as well as a student/scholar working at the intersections of queer theory, religious studies, and U.S. history. My band (@katandthehurricane, not on here yet) just released our debut LP this year, and I'm finishing my MA degree in the spring. Hello!

I was pretty active on that other platform for a decade, and it carried remnants of my life all the way back to high school. Now that we're here, I'm starting fresh and focusing more on professional connections.