Mingyuan Wan

Tomorrow is the first event in the Research Seminar Series I've convened with Oliver Dixon, for Cambridge Film and Screen. Very excited for a busy term ahead, all welcome!

Also Cambridge rental market is abysmal…

House viewing is so stressful… it’s probably a bad idea to do thesis submission, job applications, and house viewings at the same time 😭

Huge congratulations!! So Proud of you Dr Goh:)

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.

(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

I had the pleasure of interviewing Miriam Margolyes earlier this week for @bigissue.com. 🎤

The full interview will be out soon, but due to the latest news on Palestine today, I thought I’d share this clip early. 👇

Miriam Margolyes: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish”. 💬

The cover for the upcoming volume "The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us"

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

Look, I get it. Thanks THI for running these numbers. But it’s just so frigging depressing to measure scholarship and learning by $$. We Humanitarians profit the world in other ways too. 😔

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.

France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

“The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved.″

France has Europe’s largest Jewish population & largest Muslim population in western Europe.

“We love your argument but we hate your text. Can you do this on a different (group of) text(s)”
How do you figure I came up with this argument?

And this is perhaps why Kpop Demon Hunter (and many Disney/Pixar films) is well-received among the queer audience:)

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.

newfascismsyllabus.com

Bodies of Water

Written by our SIG member @maguiregeoff.bsky.social, BODIES OF WATER explores the fluid, queer aesthetics of contemporary Latin American cinema sunypress.edu/Books/B/Bodi...

“Viewpoint diversity”: Promoting white nationalists, banning ideas white nationalists don’t like

“Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic

“Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect

Essay: Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do so

Let’s be very clear: do not allow Israel and the U.S. to co-opt women’s rights and the feminist Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution to justify their criminal war on Iran.

My essay: www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-neta...

:)

‘There’s a million footnotes I haven’t done, but just you wait, just you wait’

Thx!!

I did it! Now I have a first full draft of the PhD thesis:)

shower thoughts: if students are using #ChatGPT to write, would examiners eventually use #ChatGPT to mark?

If and when that happens, will we have a system where #ChatGPT directly talk to each other in complete gibberish? 😅

Another thing you can do for the queer artists and writers and so on whose work you admire this Pride month: go give their books etc solid star ratings on (sigh) sites like Amazon and Goodreads. Because people who hate the existence of that work are always gonna be punitively low-rating them,

💪🤞

Another day another straw man argument made by the reviewer…

This has been a quietly simmering right-wing panic for a few years now, the alleged "epidemic" of children cutting off their parents.

There's no evidence for this phenomenon whatsoever, much less the bizarre "SJW therapy-speak" explanation they always reach for.

Revision probably takes a while but still:)

The last 5k words of thesis to write and then it’s done omg! I can do this!💪

Lol it’s true!