Public university acting like a public university 💫

We are so excited for Aaron Lecklider's talk--"Abnormal Forms: Seeing Voyeurism in the History of Sexuality"--with a response by Anna Lvovsky! Join us this Tuesday at 6pm. Details below. mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/aaron-le…

Should conferences require masks rn? (Just want to see something)

"The depressing thing about the Christmas season - isn't it? - is that it's the time when all of the institutions are speaking with one voice." Eve Sedgwick, Tendencies never loses its force

Disability is radicalizing

Recommended reading by the brilliant Ayla Zuraw-Friedland 🪐

help me understand how the same ppl who think vaccines are poison are totally fine with forever chemicals nytimes.com/2025/01/22/cli…

I wrote about Gloria Steinem's forgotten first book for Public Books ! Many thanks to John Plotz and @AaronLecklider for incisive suggestions. publicbooks.org/b-sides-the-be…

When she happened upon Gloria Steinem’s “The Beach Book,” sari edelstein recounts, it was like discovering buried treasure, a time capsule from the 1960s. What did it mean for the queen of the second wave to write a book so superficial and silly? buff.ly/40RD5N1

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Boston doesn’t listen to kings.

You can disagree with some (or all) of the tactics and rhetoric of the student protesters at Columbia--and I'm happy to debate this in the future--but right now this is very simple: The Trump administration is trying to deport someone for speech they don't agree with. That is all

🚨🚨🚨 The poet SANDRA LIM is giving a talk at Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard on April 9, 6pm, called "Repetition, Repetition." Allison Adair is responding. It's the last meeting of the year for the Am Lit Seminar I run with sari edelstein. Many poets will be in attendance! Join us!