if you're attending C19 this week, please consider attending this panel on sublimation! Come for the wayward instincts and drives, stay because your superego demands it.

proud to have contributed to this stellar special issue on "Melville's Queer Afterlives"! If you've ever wanted to learn more about Moby-Dick erotic fanfic, you're in luck 🐳

Texas A&M University Caves to Political Pressure, Violating Faculty Rights to Academic Freedom and Due Process A Union of Professionals

This week, Texas A&M has presented the most startling example yet of the consequences of our state and federal governments’ quest to undermine higher education.

Full statement from Texas AFT & @texasaaup.bsky.social:

www.texasaft.org/membership/h...

Joanna Newsom for California governor

"Mrs. Manson Mingott" is probably Edith Wharton's best drag name (second only to "Undine Spragg")

The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.

just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.

me too...I just wish Massachusetts was real 💓

fun (new to me) movies i watched in 2024

fun things I read in 2024

what is the campiest novel and why is it Silas Marner

wake up babe, new favorite sentence in Moby-Dick just dropped

here's what Red, White, and Royal Blue gets wrong about the state of exception (a thread):