Absolutely loving this season

Robert Reich Reacts: Banned SNL Sketch About Media Control Someone told me to watch this SNL sketch about America’s “media-opoly.” It feels eerily prophetic given the Warner Bros/

This SNL sketch from 1998 about America’s “media-opoly” makes some eerily timely points.

Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.

Watch.

Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.

An image of text that says 'Education Department plans to reinstate ousted civil rights workers'

BIG WIN: A court ordered the Trump Education Department to reinstate the civil rights workers they fired.

I taught kids with disabilities––the kind of students helped by these workers. Every child deserves to be treated fairly.

I’m staying in this fight for our kids.

Next week, giving a workshop at British Shakespeare Association Conference on the same. With many thanks to Monica Cross, Joe Raik and Devon Burke for letting me share snippets of their Hero, Aaron and Bertram respectively with other Shakespeare scholars. Workshop still open! See you there!

Yay! 2025 @britgrad.bsky.social - telling a story about 2018 @theshakesforum.bsky.social me, using a 2020 TTF pic of me - arguing for the inclusion of bespoke interpolations into Shakespeare’s text (e.g., maybe Isabella needs better words and that’s okay?).

1/2 @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

To be fair, there should ALWAYS be a content warning for Measure for Measure! 🤣

Awwww, thx!

Heading into the post lunch slot… with Emily Raven on augmenting Shakespeare #BritGrad2025

Or: no, you didn’t lecture Tom Hiddleston about his acting technique while possibly flirting with him while he was on drugs and leading you through a series of stolen cars as part of a larger cabal of historians involving several of your professors. 2/2

It’s wonderful to wake up from a deep night of REM, but it also means sorting out your dreams. Such as: wait, no, you didn’t see a monarch butterfly evolve out of a sword, and then turn into a spaceship and fly off into the sky. 1/2

((((Hugs))))

Thrilled and honored that Open Window Theatre is doing my Christmas Carol for a third year in St. Paul/Minneapolis. They’re adding 10 more shows this year (yay!). And apparently last year the show was 90% sold out BEFORE IT OPENED. They do a great job. Get yer tix early! openwindowtheatre.org

Sunday in the Park with Einstein Sondheim, Seurat and Existential Dots

Help a PhD folks. WHY is a point 0-dimension? Isn’t a point literally the bare minimum of being?

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Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.

Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

As I said in yesterday's post - some companies, like Klarna, that laid off a lot of people for AI are now rehiring them.

And that's customer service, which is a relatively routine administrative job compared to others.

Ran out of room in previous post to tag #LGBTQWriteAThon! (Although where’s the I&A?) Anywhoozle…

This month’s writing goals are to continue writing new poems and putting them up on Wattpad, as well as of course to continue to work on my thesis which is nearing deadline for first draft. Eek!

Hello! I am Emily Cassandra Aria Raven (trying on a new last name). Queer, disabled, neurospicy writer & PhD person. Most of my life has been spent in the theatre, but I’ve gotten back into writing page poetry (rather than my usual poetic verse drama) this past year. First line of latest poem below.

*finds spoons*
Hello #LGBTQIAWriteathon!
(chronically ill) Author of epic YA Fantasy w. queer &ND MCs here🧵

1. “Pass more than I did, boys?” Des called, pulling up in his rusty motor carriage
Smartly dressed parents congratulating graduates behind me looked down their noses at him. I glared at them

Guess who’s deep-diving into theoretical physics and ontological philosophy for her “I’m just writing about silly squiggles on a page for people who like to play dress up” thesis?

THIS GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL

A rainbow background with the words: happy pride! Happily: gender queer, a romantic, polyamorous… And constantly becoming

Happy Pride! It’s been a long journey to get here. I’ve been lucky bc I was among so many others further along than I on the rainbow, so my little shifts in pronouns or preferences were barely ripples to the ppl who surrounded me. I wish everyone out joy in this month. I wish everyone in: liberty. 🏳️‍🌈

I think I just discovered scripts and speech prefixes from 2500 BCE.

Ohmigosh, you guys.

This is seismic.

(Or I’ve been awake too long. But I think it’s seismic.)

#phdlife #theatre #hieroglyphics

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

It's also the day for my favorite meme!

If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

It’s beautiful in DC right now. Peak bloom from the cherry blossoms and petals drift by wherever you walk, blown in from some distant or nearby tree.

When I first transitioned, they were blooming, years ago.

On this Transgender Day of Visibility, I am yearning for our own spring to return.

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

Might save a life.

Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire

Frickin’ Vance slouched through my dream last night, and I demand a refund.