Patrick McKelvey

indeed!

Truvy the tan whippet posing cutely on a green couch; Shelby the white whippet on the floor in a position you didn’t know a dog could adopt, contorted beyond reason

Shelby broken when Truvy took her spot on the couch

Shelby, a white whippet, holding a fairly large tree branch in her mouth.

A decade ago today, Shelby bravely battled a tree branch at Amory park in Brookline

Very grateful to chat about *Provoking Religion* with Clayton Jarrard for the New Books Network! Now available on their site as well as Spotify and Apple podcasts.

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Shelby the white whippet and me, a white homosexual stare in the same direction in front of a colorful backdrop. Blues and greens abound .

Same scene as in the previous picture, but now with kisses from Shelby and visible cold brew

Sundays are for Celebrating Shelby

I had an amazing experience at a large public research university but going to a school that graduates 12k students a year is making it had to verify whether the lesbian I made eye contact with at Trader Joe’s yesterday was a friend of friend from two decades ago when I only know her first name

a thing I think about a lot is when—on her greatest hits DVD— Whitney Houston says: Hi I'm Whitney Houston, welcome to my DVD.

a white whippet who looks comically eager to please sporting a rainbow-colored mini knapsack on her slim houndly body

six years ago today, Shelby modeled her back to school look in Provincetown.

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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I was thrilled to serve on this book award committee & it is not hyperbole to say that the finalist list is STACKED with memorable, powerful works. Pick your title/s and get reading! #booksky #atds

2025 Lammy Award Finalists in LGBTQ+ StudiesLGBTQ+ STUDIES Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature // Mat Fournier. Columbia University Press Jill Johnston in Motion: Dance, Writing, and Lesbian Life // Clare Croft. Duke University Press Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability // Mary Zaborskis. New York University Press The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China // Matthew H. Sommer. Columbia University Press When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader // Susan Stryker, edited by McKenzie Wark. Duke University Press

So thrilled to see two of the most important and influential people in my life on this list! Congrats Clare and Mary!

sometimes you see an actress who think is Geena Davis and then NO. not Geena Davis. what are we even doing.

'Broderick Chow, Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024. Lianna Mark, Theatres of Autofiction. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. (NY: New York University Press, 2024). Brahma Prakash, Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India. (Delhi: LeftWord, 2023). Ben Spatz, Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024).' .

Happy to share that "Disability Works" has been shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association's David Bradby Monograph Prize. Congrats to this stellar group of finalists!

this week is so Summer Sweet Corn Gazpacho-coded

Joe Pitt? You mean Harper’s Fairy?

And Just Like That is basically good now ?

Review #4 of Disability Works is out in Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy!

"a thoughtful, nuanced, and deeply archival analysis of the intersecting histories of labor, theatre, and disability...Every scholar concerned with even loosely connected topics should have a copy on their bookshelf."

YouTube video by Dylan Duarte Joel Dickinson Ft. Bette Davis - I've Written A Letter To Daddy (Thee Werq'n B!tches Jesus Camp Mix)

I love gay people so much

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Screenshot of Scrivener Menu: Folder Called "Rough Outlines" with subdocuments titled ASO Chapter Outline, Introduction Outline, and Housing/Jobs Chapter Outline. This is followed by a folder for the Housing/Jobs chapter and a series of sub-documents

Back to using Scrivener for the new book and I cannot believe I wrote the last one without it.

French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

President Macron has just announced that France will recognize the State of Palestine in September, making it the first G7 country to do so.

How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in web searches If you find Google's AI Overview more irritating than helpful, here's now to turn it off in Chrome.

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one of South Bend's gay bars is serving a "deviled egg flight" for dinner this Friday. as someone who has long advocated for greater representation of mayonnaise and hard boiled eggs in queer spaces, this is very meaningful to me.

wages for housework but specifically for being the one who remembers which show is on which streaming service

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

Disability Works Winner, 2025 C.L.R. James Award, awarded by the Working-Class Studies AssociationShortlisted, 2025 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Association for Theat...

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Reject Transgender Liberalism | Jules Gill-Peterson In the wake of the most recent Supreme Court term, it’s clear the trans movement must change legal and political course—but what might that look like?

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whew! just finished transcribing notes on all of the archival materials that will form the basis of the three chapters of the new book I plan to write on my fellowship this year.

still a ton of reading, researching, organizing (and writing!) to do, but excited to see things starting to take shape!

Just misread a name as “Patricia Somehow” and now she is the only person care about

filing for divorce on grounds of homophobia. (I gave A a list of 4 miniseries we could watch and he chose the one not featuring Julianne Moore).

there should be one more episode where Bosco and Lydia kiss to see who gets third.