“It’s an ideal that can seem silly and callous. It’s an ideal that is, perhaps, impossible to completely live within. But as tired as the ideal sounds, as trite as the president’s invocation of community is, the students I know believe in it.”
thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…

One of my most humbling recent experiences was discovering that not a one of my non-academic friends knows who Judith Butler is

“How can we engage the state without fracturing the queer community—peeling off those the state can give the least to, and thus neutralizing the movement?” Sam C H 🏳️‍🌈 and Hugh Ryan on the promises and tensions in queer visions of the state:

bostonreview.net/articles/queer…

“As queer people, do we see the state as something basically pragmatic and useful, or do we see it as essentially malicious?” Hugh Ryan talks with Sam C H 🏳️‍🌈 about his new book, A QUEER THEORY OF THE STATE:

bostonreview.net/articles/queer…

I had a fantastic time talking with Sam C H 🏳️‍🌈, who was up for some probing questions about the relationship between queer people and the state. So happy that Boston Review reached out to publish it! Increasingly, they are one of my go-tos for rigorous queer thought

Excited to see this banger of an interview (if I may say so) with ⁦Hugh Ryan⁩ about A Queer Theory of the State out in ⁦Boston Review⁩ bostonreview.net/articles/queer…

UVA administrators found that their own policies *did* allow for recreational tents on grounds. So they simply changed the policy hours before police stormed the campus. I wish I could say I’m surprised. dailyprogress.com/news/local/edu…

Proud to be included in a special forum on the life and work of Bob Tobin, a pioneer of German queer studies, gone too soon. I wrote about Julius Evola and the appeal of parts of the gays rights movement for today's far right.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

The George Mason Board of Visitors just voted to grant me tenure. Feeling so overwhelmed and thankful and giddy and excited and relieved

Cannot stop losing my mind about the fact that all this is over some kids trying to stop an extremely well-documented campaign of mass murder and starvation against innocent civilians. How does anyone support what Israel is doing at this point?

...And it's officially approved! ᴊᴜsᴛ ʟᴏᴏᴋ ᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ɢᴜʏs

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Whenever I watch You've Got Mail, I worry a bit that I'm Frank

But at what cost?

This is absolutely horrifying

I had such an amazing time in Zaragoza, meeting brilliant colleagues from across Europe. Very thankful that Carlos Domper invited me to deliver the keynote at this conference

Mañana toca volver a casa, a Zaragoza, para participar en el seminario de VOICES. Red de Investigación. En mi caso, presentando la conferencia inaugural de Sam C H 🏳️‍🌈 con un título tan sugerente como “Doing Queer History With, Around, and Beyond the State”. Planazo para cerrar la semana 😎

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Are you setting up your fall seminar series? Are you obsessed with counterinsurgency or histories of colonial violence? Do you want the hot gossip on which French military theorist is the biggest fraud*? Then you should invite me to talk about my forthcoming book!

*still Galula

I was recently told by a peer reviewer that mentioning Germany’s stance on Israel in an article on the history of democracy in Germany was a “red herring” 😆