Delighted to share that *Provoking Religion* got Honorable Mention for this year's Best Book Award from the British Association of American Studies. This book was a decade in the making, and it's lovely to hear it is being received well!
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Excited to share that *Provoking Religion* won the Popular Culture Association's 2026 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies!
I found Disability Works to be a generous book, generous in its invitation to the reader/scholar to take up the valuable archival and theoretical research on display here and to intervene in the rehabilitation paradigm, to go beyond it. I believe it is an innovative and vital contribution to a number of different fields and will prove invaluable to scholars of theatre and performance studies and critical disability studies, and indeed it should appeal to anyone interested in the complex relationalities that emerge at the intersection of disability, art, and labor. It is a deeply necessary book in the contemporary moment and offers hope for speculative futures.
Review #11 of "Disability Works" is out in Theatre Journal! What a pleasure to be ready by Tony McCaffrey!
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if you're coming direct from Chicago, the train is 2 hours from millennium station to SB Airport, which is just outside the city. Driving is a good option, too, unless you hit rush hour. If you're flying in from somewhere else, though, the puddle jumper flight is like 15-20 minutes!
Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
This piece is getting picked up again, so I share it in honor of World AIDS Day: floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/01/h...
Flier for roundtable discussion on Provoking Religion at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin! The provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center, 203
Humbled and thrilled about this upcoming roundtable on *Provoking Religion* at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin -- the provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center!
As of twenty-nine minutes ago, I get to publicly share that "Disability Works" won the South Atlantic MLA Book Award!
Thrilled that my Theatre Journal essay on guide dogs and rehabilitation performance cultures is the subject of the first segment on the latest episode of On TAP! Many thanks for the hosts for taking the time to read and discuss this weird essay.
www.ontappod.com
This podcast series by Lynne Gerber and her team about a San Francisco church facing the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s is simply stunning. Check it out!
no concrete solutions that haven't been offered, but commiserating as someone who is also very bad about this. i even moved to the midwest in hopes that no one would find me.
I wear an ND hat while mowing the lawn and carry an ND American Studies water bottle to the gym!
Truvy the whippet approaches catching a ball while her sister ignores her
Truvy catches the ball!
Truvy looks very snoopy like as she runs toward a ball still far above her
Truvy waits for the ball to fall closer to her snoot
Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts
no way!
Book award announcement described in post
It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!
My profile picture with the award announcement
Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!
How have I only now discovered TJ's Chile Crackers. Wow.
this is me every time I accidentally glimpse Patrick's inbox... like, HOW???
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday (Sept. 6), celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling shunned and crediting Pope Francis with the change.
Grateful to have Review # 6 of "Disability Works" out in H-Disability!
networks.h-net.org/group/review...
two alphabet songs!
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Notre Dame is running a search for the next Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism (associate or full). Candidates will be expected to direct and teach courses for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy.
Applications due by Oct 15!
apply.interfolio.com/170389
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.
Sunny picture of a perky but skeptical white whippet named Shelby in my arms
Shelburday
