Casey Johnston

time for me to take up smoking i guess

O (2001), Ten Things I Hate About You (1999), Romeo and Juliet (1996), She’s the Man (2006)

you probably can't say this on tiktok but casey is absolutely right:

"The beauty of books is how internal and subjective the experience is. I got so used to hanging my entire intellectual life out on the internet laundry line, Googling every object I encountered... Reading books has been restorative to my sense of my own experience."

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Very worthwhile read!

hell yeah the insanity list rocks

Field Notes notebook with a public transport seat in the background

I have started to keep an insanity list next to me, in particular when reading a #book. It's physical by choice, because if I have to pull out my phone to note something down I'll be sucked into all the app temptations.Game changed, @caseyjohnston.bsky.social

www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...

underappreciated how many people *lost the ability to read* things of any length after the 2016 election. Including me! It took a couple years for me to stop feeling like my brain was tearing itself apart in anything approaching silence

… and not because anything “got better”

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

and always, feel free to go stand or crouch/sit awkwardly in a bookstore aisle and read 15-20 pages of my book to see if you want to buy it bookshop.org/p/books/a-ph...

as a person who reads a lot and has been yelling for months about writers who don’t read, I wholeheartedly endorse Casey’s excellent advice—this bit especially. go to bookstores! go to the LIBRARY!

this guy gets it

thank you megan!!!

how to read more from someone who actually struggles

i got tired of "how to read more" advice from people who are book critics and don't own tvs and live in monasteries with no wifi, so here is some advice from someone with a terminal case of internet brain www.shesabeast.co/how-to-read-...

The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?

This is a FASCINATING read about the pelvic floor that's well worth taking your time with! Great reporting from @caseyjohnston.bsky.social

thank you!! <3

I hope that literally everyone reads this

ALSO: pelvic floor PT here, and a lot of times Pilates is one of the worst things you can do for your pelvic floor in re: pain.

THANK YOUIUUU

I would love to!

I have and had all the possession and functionality of a pelvic floor that a person can dream of! but apparently, that doesn't prevent problems, because command and control and strength are not the same as good health (much, MUCH to my dismay)

The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?

for folks replying to this piece I wrote "mm that's why you should really do pilates"--I've lifted weights for 11 years. I can play my pelvic floor like Mozart played a piano. It could defeat three men in single combat. I labored in birth less than 20 minutes. Still, STILL: sudden, debilitating pain

Heyyyy that’s so awesome for you AND her!

I know, I wrote it

I won’t get into my business but I will say that I have told men in my life for years that they need yoga and pilates more than we do. I say it doubly hard to Black men. Folks don’t listen.

thank you Kate!!!

thank you for saying it so i don't have to....

christine thank you!!!

This is a great piece. I have had five endometriosis surgeries and a c-section. Pelvic floor PT is a godsend.

Four nonfiction books I really enjoyed reading this year:

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social's The Originalism Trap
@leahlitman.bsky.social's Lawless
@caseyjohnston.bsky.social's A Physical Education
@hofrench.bsky.social's Born in Blackness

wow adam thank you, i'm so flattered you read!! 😩🙇

thank you lizzie!!