I remember one that was “Bears praise X” and I was so hype for that person for a second!

Alright #PCA2026: one last preview!
I've posted about the talks in the 1:15 panel; at 11:30, we have a roundtable featuring instructor, intern, and student perspectives on a fan fiction class as resistant queer space.
You know you want to hear about a class where these were the discussion groups:

This panel comes right after a paired roundtable on a fanfiction class in a red state, which I'll post one last preview for, first thing tomorrow ❤️

A slide with the title "The Blorbo Blueprint," featuring images of Peter Parker, Yugi Mutou, and Dean Winchester with pro-trans imagery

Alright, #PCA2026, let me give you the 3/3 preview for tomorrow's last Fan Studies panel (Fan Studies XIII, at 1:15): Conan Anderson's "Construction of Transmasculinity Through Slash Fiction" (fuller title redacted for Bluesky)
Image credits to Newt_L_Young, Lee20 & JamieVoiceOver, & Transicon.

Hey, thank you for the access copy! I was really interested in this topic, but a colleague was presenting at the same time; appreciate having multiple ways to access the work!

This panel is paired with a roundtable, Fan Studies XII, on queer pedagogy, hope, and resistance, just before at 11:30

A slide, with a backdrop of art from Final Fantasy XIV, that reads "Writing a Self-Insert Fic is Still Terrifying"

Time for today's sneak peek at Fan Studies XIII, #PCA2026: a little preview of Tammy Vu's "MMOs, Fan Fiction, and the Lived Experiences of Individual Players Within the Confines of a Story," which you can hear Saturday at 1:15

This panel is also paired with a roundtable, Fan Studies XII, just before 👀

A slide from an academic presentation with the title "Connecting Theory to Fandom," with images of the characters Aventurine and Veritas Ratio from Honkei Star Rail.

Hey #PCA2026, have a little sneak peak of Fan Studies XIII, featuring Aurora Elledge on "Queering the Canon: Fanfiction and Queer Theory," at 1:15 Saturday. Context-free spoiler:

In the middle, let me also rec LGBTQ Studies V on Friday, with great papers on different angles and issues of rep in queer media.

Wrap up your Saturday with two paired sessions—Fan Studies XII and XIII. The first is a roundtable on how and why to teach a fanfiction class; the second will feature queer and trans studies papers. (What if Edelman and Muñoz’s debates on queer futurity were a fic? Come find out!)

Heading to #PCA2026 and putting together your schedule? I know where you should start and end!
First thing tomorrow, catch Game Studies I for a killer lineup that includes Brandon Westfall’s great arguments on the queer erasures of playersexuality.

Be gay; eat lunch (@ #Shax2026)

Always my favorite part of SAA

Heh #Shax2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social come along to the “Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet at Thirty” seminar tomorrow morning led by @benbroadribb.bsky.social @gemmaallred.bsky.social & me!

Donate to Help Matthew Graduate From MIT, organized by Irene Dong Hello everyone, my name is Irene. I'm writing this on behalf of my friend, fellow MIT studen… Irene Dong needs your support for Help Matthew Graduate From MIT

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

📚🌈 1 week until our first reading group session of 2026! This month we are talking about The Shapes of Sex by Leah DeVun 📚🌈

📍Where?: over Zoom
⏰ When?: Thursday 12th Feb from 1-2:30pm PT/ 4-5:30pm EST/ 9-10:30pm GMT

📚 To sign-up to the reading group visit: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."

An articulation of a thing that bothers me has emerged from my mid-term grading marathon: Some students think that the point of assignments is to show (off) what they KNOW, when what I want is to see what they’ve LEARNED.

Only took me 16 years to name, but will be useful going forward!

love when medieval texts use words that aren’t always as tied to gendered/sexed embodiment in ME as they are in modern English. tell me more about the Green Knight’s womb or the male dragon’s womb or maidens marrying maidens, I’m imagining beautiful trans and queer medieval worlds in my mind

A screenshot of part of an email, which reads "Your last chance to join the global AI conversation"

Do you fucking promise, tho?

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

The work on “Q” in Masten’s Queer Philologies, but also: it’s broader and more of a popular history, but I really love how Rubenhold’s The Five rethinks the historiography of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Writing groups are really such invaluable tools for making sure time gets carved out for your work. I’m making time for this one as often as I can; I hope I see some of y’all there:

robert tombs article titled what netflixs rrr gets wrong about the british raj

mfer is literally named "rob tombs", did they summon the spirit of the british museum into an op ed writer

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

Acknowledging that, like, by definition all scams are scummy, the near-daily spam texts I am getting about “jobs” feels…just particularly scummy in this moment. Taking advantage of people who are desperate for work while all their options are being actively eroded…gross, gross, gross.

Flyer reading CRAFT FAIR FOR GAZA / Proceeds will go to mutual aid orgs operating in Gaza / Sunday, Sep 7, 12-6 pm, 729 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn

CRAFT FAIR FOR GAZA!
Tomorrow! 629 Nostrand Ave. 12-6 PM

We do not have the resources for another pet, really; moving a cat in with me is exactly like creating a two-cat household (with the implicit Mixed Results), but THE NAME

My spouse has just shared that his proposed name for a cat is Vinegar Tom, and this may be it; this may be the tipping point where we get a cat