they’re both right

For all those scholars of theories and novels at the ACLA next week (Jun 16-18)!! Christina Gilligan and I are super excited about these conversations! Join us with Cara L. Lewis Jennifer Gutman Penny Cartwright @_louisklee Alex Lenoble @dannybwright Jin Chang Alex Buckley & William Coker

Link here: acla.secure-platform.com/a/solicitation…!!

@dannybwright on Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater (2018) & the novel's "flexible ontological form" was fascinating. Looking forward to reading Grounds of the Novel when it's out!

All 18 high school students in my summer course have seen Clueless (1995) multiple times?!

heya! we are extending the CfP deadline until September 11th, 2022 for "The Nicknames of Distortion: A Hortense Spillers Symposium" - looking forward to your submissions! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

"Certain dips in public satisfaction have, I think, tended to reflect less on the quality of her output than on our vacillating faith in pop music as a form of salvation" -- walter been michael newyorker.com/culture/listen…

Five yrs of dating and four months of marriage all leading up to this moment

🤩🤩🤩 Athanassia Williamson this is so great!!

the best plot in MM is Tantripp/Pratt — charming workplace flirtation where you joke together about wishing your gross boss would die, and then you guys get engaged, and then the boss you hate DOES actually die — 10/10, no notes

final LCH LawCultureHumanities program lawculturehumanities.com/wp-content/upl… / Chaoran MA Aileen Editha Dr. Yael Machtinger Christina Gilligan ゆん Jamie Jelinski @DeanneSowter Geoffrey Kirsch @jackquirk_ Brie McLemore, MPP/MA Meg D.Lonergan (they/she)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Lindsay Stern Hijaab Yahya

Today's a good day to reread this gem from The Baffler. thebaffler.com/salvos/looks-l…

The CTRL F results for “specifically” and “indeed” in my dissertation draft are DEVASTATING 😭

It may seem contradictory that a state known for coercively sterilizing Black women & girls (“Mississippi appendectomy”) to prevent them from giving birth would force a 13-year-old Black girl who was raped to birth the baby. Both are reproductive slavery. time.com/6303701/a-rape…

Reading over abstracts as I send a reminder to panelists that MLA papers should be SHORT (this goes for all of you, too), and I'm so excited for this panel. Sunday at 8:30am, but completely worth it. Join us! FID@MLA mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meeti…

on an airplane I have fully charged headphones & am listening to emotional songs & looking whimsically out of a window whilst thinking about all of the ways a heart can break in one lifetime I am sorry I simply do not hear the crying baby but I do agree there is much to cry about