comfortable, affordable office couch for reading and/or disassociating: go.

To be honest I’m still really stuck on the concept of “a salute to Miley Cyrus.”

Seatmate on this flight is a talker. Remember me fondly.

Mythological football coach/AP US history teacher: There’s no I in IcarUS

Shelby the whippet licking her lips at the vet office

Tfw your vet insists you need to change food to something 100% more expensive than your already exceedingly bourgeois diet

not gay as in happy queer as in my whippet needs to see a neurologist.

Queer and Trans Histories of Disability A few years ago, I decided to teach a course titled Queer and Trans Histories of Disability during a stint as a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. I created the class, in part, as an opportun...

Review # 13 of "Disability Works" is out in GLQ. A thrill to be reviewed by Rachel Corbman in this essay on Queer and Trans Disability History alongside Kunzel's fabulous "In the Shadow of Diagnosis" and Whatcott's "Menace to the Future" (which I look forward to reading!).

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Another day as the goddess’s strongest 🚬 (I survived a veritable cascade of four [4] distinct minor inconveniences).

Book Review: Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation by McKelvey, Patrick - Emily H. Ruppel, 2026

Review #12 of Disability Works is out in "Work and Occupations." Many thanks to Emily Ruppel for the review!

"McKelvey’s analysis of disabled critiques of rehabilitation represents a major contribution to labor studies, disability studies, and leftist politics."

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I’m listening to this tape of a panel of gay and lesbian therapists from the 1970s and the gay men are all obsessed with accidentally having sex with their clients in bathhouses and the lesbians are all obsessed with what happens if they run into their clients at poetry readings

2-yr Postdoc @ Indiana in the History of Black Writing Research Center to highlight Black archival collections across the country.

Deadline: May 15, 2026

Joke obviously inspired by a good joke by @rachelcorbman.bsky.social

How to Train Your Dragon in an Epidemic

“The first feature film from the drag race universe” sounds like a threat

A 70 year old butch pulled her SUV over to meet Shelby and Truvy (my whippets) and when she pulled away her license plate just said HUNTY

Preparing a guest lecture on Rent and so far the only visual component of my PowerPoint is Sarah Schulman’s headshot

Convalescence brought to you by graham cracker maxxing

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!

A contestant on guy’s grocery games just said the phrase “umami ombudsman”

In this episode of criminal minds they identify one of two victims as being “homeless” and another being “the complete opposite”

Happening now: an anti-war demonstration is getting underway in Chicago's Federal Plaza, in response to US/Israeli attacks on Iran and Donald Trump's threat to Iran this morning that "a whole civilization will die tonight."

A few dozen people here so far.

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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The literary quote in this Criminal Minds episode about a planned community for sex offenders is by EM Forster.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? revival with Martha Plimpton and Richard Kind.

not many people know this but originally Larry Kramer originally titled The Destiny of Me

The Normal Heart: 2 Fast 2 Furious

In this episode of criminal minds, a girl boss running a meeting and she says: “I can’t take all the credit. The Cornell education is starting to show!”

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT

there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Bars in North Carolina are like we are not a gay bar. However we host a 78 person bear meetup six days a week. And don’t even think about missing lesbian karaoke.

This restaurant industry lesbian is evangelizing Brueggers Bagels. She went this morning when she was too high it was her first time. She ate too many breakfast sandwiches. “Can’t beat the brisket. Just look up the menu online!”

Two lesbians are talking about whether they should open their relationship; two lesbians are talking about whether they can “communicate about communicating, for once,” two lesbians are talking about uranium