Big week on deck around these parts!!

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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Plenty more to say but in summary it is extremely chickenshit behavior to launch a tireless bullying campaign against a fifteen year old girl who simply wants to play with her friends as a strategy for currying favor with MAGA.

When WV Republicans bully trans kids like Becky Pepper-Jackson, don't take the bait • West Virginia Watch As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in B.P.J. vs. West Virginia, the weight of the world must be on Becky Pepper-Jackson’s shoulders.

I have some commentary out in @westvirginiawatch.com today about Becky Pepper-Jackson’s case and the reality of being a teenage girl in the crosshairs of the radical Right westvirginiawatch.com/2026/01/14/w...

I have a new article out in QED about rural queer loneliness’s potentialities and Radclyffe Hall’s Well. This thing has been on an editorial odyssey lol but I don’t take for granted that it was born in grad school and survived some years in and out of academe. muse.jhu.edu/article/978899

Donate to Lill Prosperino -Memorial and Scholarship Fund, organized by Lupo Bonino Our beloved and badass friend and comrade Lill Prosperino passed away on ju… Lupo Bonino needs your support for Lill Prosperino -Memorial and Scholarship Fund

Some of Lill’s comrades are organizing a scholarship fund, documentary, as well as two memorials in their name. Contribute here if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/lill-prosp...

Meeting Lill in 2018 was a much-needed shock to the system for me at a really crucial moment of my young adulthood. They were so wise and moved with a deep commitment to a liberatory politics that defied what the NPIC deemed as the norm. They’re gone too soon - may their memory be a blessing.

Lessons from Lill (1990-2025) 'Four feet of love and fury'

Central Appalachia lost one of our very best last month. Lill Prosperino was everywhere - protesting JD Vance at ASA, slinging Narcan and syringes in WV in spite of the harm reduction ban, standing on the tracks with striking Blackjewel miners in EKY… substack.com/inbox/post/1...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

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Glad this finally reached a resolution after almost six years 🙏🏻

I did NOT like that one. Her movies are really her best work, I’m still devastated by The Future years after I last watched it 💀

Gonna start making this my first move

I love her but some of her books are better than others. It Chooses You and No One Belongs Here More Than You are the best ones imo

Explaining the Backstreet Boys to my class 🥵

Living for the student who referred to Phyllis Schlafly as “silly Phylly”

Bringing one of my most prized antiques to class today 🫡

Tomorrow

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

Rare W (article got accepted to Feminist Theory 😊)

Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.

SNL sure does love having Timothée Chalamet use AAVE…

My Dangerous Desire to fill out a worksheet…

Theodore joining me for the “whole body quits” part of the semester 👽

Talk about failing up!!

Bringing back some retro Rich Rod haterade I fear

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Ugh this sucks so much Hooper! The only thing anyone said to me that helped with my grief is “may her memory be a blessing” and, truly, may it be so 💔