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Performance historian, disability historian. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024) 30% off with code NYUP30 https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/ https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey

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Some more good news! I just found out β€œDisability Works” received the Midwest Modern Language Association Book Award!

21.11.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Second chapter of β€œSupporting Actors: AIDS, Infrastructure, Performance”—-drafted!

17.11.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rigatoni Collette

15.11.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

say what you will about the gendered division of labor but I for one like to watch SVU while someone else cleans the roof

14.11.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To me it seems heterosexual in the same way putting your cold hands on someone is heterosexual

14.11.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke

history is a fucking joke lmao

13.11.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4626    πŸ” 949    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 94

Is backing a car into a driveway heterosexual behavior?

14.11.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

please go to this i cannot talk about this book anymore

13.11.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Flier for roundtable discussion on Provoking Religion at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin! 
The provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center, 203

Flier for roundtable discussion on Provoking Religion at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin! The provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center, 203

Humbled and thrilled about this upcoming roundtable on *Provoking Religion* at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin -- the provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center!

13.11.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Patrick Mckelvey. Disability Works: Performance after Rehabilitation | Modern Drama Disability Works is an examination of disability and Deaf performance in the United States from the post-war period to the 1980s through the lens of vocational rehabilitation programs. Case studies ar...

Review # 8 of Disability Works is out in Modern Drama!

doi.org/10.3138/md-6...

13.11.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As of twenty-nine minutes ago, I get to publicly share that "Disability Works" won the South Atlantic MLA Book Award!

09.11.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

In this episode of SVU, Alec Baldwin is a charismatic journalist who, upon accused of being elitist says: β€œno, Olivia: I write for the man who rides the 7 train.”

03.11.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Tap: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast This podcast looks at topics of current interest to professors and graduate students in the academic field of theatre and performance studies, including new ideas, theories, scholarly methodologies, t...

Thrilled that my Theatre Journal essay on guide dogs and rehabilitation performance cultures is the subject of the first segment on the latest episode of On TAP! Many thanks for the hosts for taking the time to read and discuss this weird essay.

www.ontappod.com

02.11.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re a homosexual

02.11.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A calico

01.11.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The guy in front of me in the security at La Guardia was traveling with only a medium pizza and a cat?

01.11.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Bahaha same. Sadly I’m missing it but hopefully we can goss soon!

01.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did! I actually saw you enter from a distance and wanted to hang out after to say hi but was late to a dinner

01.11.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The guy sitting next to me at Prince 🚬 was decked out in all leather and a backwards cap that said 🚬 on it and sighed adoringly whenever gay characters were nice to each other

01.11.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When I told the airport bartender I was flying American he pulled out the bourbon bottle and poured another ounce in my glass

30.10.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Waiting on my now delayed flight to NY and someone at the gate was blasting a Cuomo speech from his laptop. I requested he use headphones and now the only thing I can hear is someone else summarizing various episodes of Big Bang Theory. I have erred

30.10.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sandra Bernhard 'I'm in the mood for a little bit of Burt'
YouTube video by B4inSF Sandra Bernhard 'I'm in the mood for a little bit of Burt'

does anyone else watch this like...seven times per day

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1SL...

30.10.2025 04:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Lesbian Lives Film Program

Lesbian Lives Film Program

Small white dyke in vegan leather jacket holds postcard for Tip/Alli with their own face on it.

Small white dyke in vegan leather jacket holds postcard for Tip/Alli with their own face on it.

TIP/ALLI sneak peek at Lesbian Lives NYC tomorrow!! We’ve got postcards for those curious about the film/pining for their very own @rachelcorbman.bsky.social pinup, so if that’s you come on by!! πŸ‘―β€β™€οΈπŸ“½οΈπŸŒˆπŸš€

23.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my very favorite things in the world is the three seasons of SVU where there is no ADA. Is Casey Novak licensed this week? Which continent is Alex Cabot on? Sharon Stone: do you need SAG pension credits maybe?

23.10.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my very favorite things in the world is the three seasons of SVU where there is no ADA. Is Casey Novak licensed this week? Which continent is Alex Cabot on? Sharon Stone: do you need SAG pension credits maybe?

23.10.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Still from SVU that reads β€œAstoria Griddle” followed by an address and date

Still from SVU that reads β€œAstoria Griddle” followed by an address and date

New drag persona just dropped

22.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just realized I’m three degrees from Laurie Metcalf. That’s like….really good.

21.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

realizing my vocal fry is so severe voice-to-text transcribes "yes" as "yaz"

21.10.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Googling β€œcan you download a website?” And then googling β€œis googling β€˜can you download a website’ the digital humanities?”

16.10.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I like Durham a lot but also why is every bar and restaurant so aggressively....Joybird-coded.

14.10.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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