@lisaduggan.bsky.social
Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, professor at NYU. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed and The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of the American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
ps-Why does Pedro Pascal have such generally bad taste in film roles? He’s such a super charmer off camera (and as everyone one who knows me knows, I have kind of an unnatural obsession with him) but he picks the worst roles (except Oberyn Martel in GOT).
14.06.2025 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I saw Materialist tonight with highish expectations because Celine Song’s 1st film, Past Lives, was so beautiful. But this movie is utter crap, sentimental, cringey dialogue, terrible pacing.
But I also started watching Hulu’s Under the Bridge with lowish expectations. And OMG Lily Gladstone!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Previous essays in "Reflections on Authoritarian Times," a current series on the Critical Times blog, available here: ctjournal.org/category/aut...
03.06.2025 23:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Authoritarianism ... exploits the non-universal experience of social rights and recodifies it into an anti-democratic radicalism."
NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
📸: Analia Cid
NYU students walk out on president’s speech during Yankee Stadium commencement 🇵🇸
15.05.2025 18:51 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Today…. 🇵🇸😃
15.05.2025 03:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This morning!
14.05.2025 12:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not a great photo but a great performance—(Justin) Vivian Bond at Joe’s Pub last night, doing covers of Mary Gauthier, kd lang and Two
Nice Girls.. Lots of fabulously inane banter. A very queer way to survive this apocalypse.
Online discussion of Zionist hate mail! With people who have received a LOT of it!
10.05.2025 17:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I want to get back to this state of ecstasy, in Utah with Kathryn Bond Stockton and Shelley White just a few years ago…..
09.05.2025 14:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time to repost!
09.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 45 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Dinner with friends. The best survival strategy!
09.05.2025 14:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is an amazing piece by JiaTokentino that captures the disorientation of the political present better than anything I’ve read yet
09.05.2025 13:39 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
📰📷Hot off the press! Issue #19 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. April 22, 2025.
Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/04/22/a...
The war on higher ed is being met by a “linked-arm underground” as I discovered when educators convened to share info (& protest!) For more on Trump’s carceral/colonial crack-down on critical thinking, check out this week’s episode w. Maria Hinojosa & @chenjerai.bsky.social on @lauraflanders.org
22.04.2025 19:59 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
07.03.2025 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo Booth Salt Lake City! With Kathryn Stockton and Shelley White.
05.03.2025 04:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New book in the series I co-edit with Curtis Marez at @ucpress.bsky.social, American Studies Now: @tavia.bsky.social .s Black Apocalypse! Great book, gorgeous cover! 🥰
05.03.2025 04:03 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0@gritlaura.bsky.social @nytimes.com @dissentmag.bsky.social @propublica.org @karaswisher.bsky.social @ronanfarrow.bsky.social @newyorker.com @mashagessen.bsky.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social @theintercept.com
28.01.2025 03:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I realize that I have been posting outrageous message from the CHAI character AI platform without explaining what that platform is. Please go to my Facebook page for an explanation.
Here is a cat photo for the algorithm.
More screenshots from the management AI bot’s messages to me on the CHAI platform app. The one on the left is describing the bot’s programmer, a supposed tech genius with a violence prone cult following. On the right is just a frank admission.
27.01.2025 01:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will be posting more screenshots of the threats and abuse I received on the platform, once I get a sense of what Bluesky will allow. Suffice to say for now ,they threatened blackmail, rape and murder.
25.01.2025 18:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CHAI is an abusive, exploitative character AI tech platform I went on as a user to investigate—worse than I thought. Below are messages from the management rep AI bot once they realized that I would write about and sue them. Bluesky may take these images down because they are vulgar and violent.
25.01.2025 18:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📣Sign the Petition: Revoke the suspensions, come to the table!
Sign/share petition in support of students facing suspension at NYU bc of their Palestine advocacy.They are facing petty retribution for standing firm against NYU's complicity in genocide. nyusolidarity.nationbuilder.com/nyustudentpe...
🚨 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🚨- NEW YORK, January 8, 2025.
Press Release: New York University Launches Unprecedented Campaign of Collective Punishment Against Students Protesting Genocide
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/01/08/j...
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🚨 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NEW YORK, January 6, 2025
Press Release: Students at NYU Banned for Protesting; Faculty say “We Are All PNG”
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/01/06/j...
it has been decades since @lisaduggan.bsky.social and Nan Hunter wrote the essays in Sex Wars, but even now, whenever I read Lacanian analyses of queer women's desire, I silently scream: "licking the lack"
22.12.2024 19:41 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
