Kim Gauthier (she/her/elle)

Techbro speedrun instructions:

1. Find an industry where people make a living wage
2. Put a stop to that

Here's a fresh look at my new graphic memoir, IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI!

For the first time, I'll share the full story of my 68 years in the closet, my decision to come out and join the fight for LGBTQ rights, and how that moment changed everything.

Learn more: ow.ly/rEO750VEuxt

An image of Charles Darwin with his quote "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.".

The Brain Raccoons are stomping around and saying mean things and I feel exactly like this Charles Darwin quote.

Go see 1536 because I can’t!

Yes! Let's shine. Don't let the bastards get you down!

Publishing this month, Joan of Arc by Deborah McGrady traces contemporary and later reception of Joan of Arc, examining how cultural beliefs and conventions have shaped her story. Discover more of our newest books ➡️ buff.ly/YOwy3nL

I just spend much too long puzzling over “don’t they always?”, then remembered there are more French beyond Alice and Katherine. 😆

I’m curious, though: is the French used in the rest of the production the same odd/stilted one used by Alice and Katherine? Who’s the translator?

Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says xAI faces calls to deny permits to power gas turbines at supercomputer facility.

Grok servers are basically poisoning the people near them in Memphis because they haven’t fitted required pollution control filters that are in use in every other gas turbine in the area - he believes he’s above the law

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

A research on Madonna's fans I am a scholar conducting a research on Madonna and her fans. I happen to also be a fan of Madonna. This form will only take a few minutes and will help me understand who fans of Madonna are.

Hello fans of #Madonna, I am doing a research on your community. Could you please answer this form and spread it ;-) docs.google.com/forms/d/11ei... cc @fanstudies.bsky.social @gerfans.bsky.social

9 Weeks. So they want to keep her on life support for another 27+ weeks?

This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.

Burn it down and salt the earth

last thing for the day before I log OFF but i keep thinking about the (bad) argument that genAI is good for disabled people, but ime true accommodations for disability are external. I don't need a tool to make me go faster; I need a society that gives me space to go slower.

NYU strongly denounces the choice by a student at the Gallatin School’s graduation today—one of over 20 school graduation ceremonies across our campus—to misuse his role as student speaker to express his personal and one-sided political views. “He lied about the speech he was going to deliver and violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules. The University is withholding his diploma while we pursue disciplinary actions. “NYU is deeply sorry that the audience was subjected to these remarks and that this moment was stolen by someone who abused a privilege that was conferred upon him.”

A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine.

In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”

It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”

My feeling about any corporations using AI in place of creative work by human beings is the executives and promoters and enablers who foisted this on us should be driven out and never work in those industries again.

Visas revoked, records terminated for more students at U of M, MSU Mankato University staff ran a status check and found that the Department of Homeland Security had terminated the students' records without notifying the university.

International students are seeing their records terminated and visas revoked across Minnesota: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Basically: ICE deletes the record in SEVIS, and then uses that deletion as a basis to claim the student's visa should be terminated and the student deported.

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says " our secret " Alt: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says " our secret "

I was right!

(But I can’t tell you what I was right about before April 9th.)

The cover for Jennifer L. Morgan’s book Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. In a rich combination of blacks and browns, the bottom left portion of the cover has a tall lighter brown triangle background. The author’s name is in small all caps at the bottom, all in the triangle. Higher up, the title appears in red all caps, partially in the triangle, and the subtitle appears in smaller white type just below it, again partially in the triangle. A line of three spaced asterisks beginning near the top runs down to the title, centered; below the subtitle, a line of three more runs down to the author’s name, again centered; a single asterisk appears below the author’s name, again centered. The bulk of the cover is a detail from the stunning oil on canvas, likely from the 1580s, “Portrait of an African Woman Holding a Clock,” attributed to Annibale Carracci. The title woman looks directly at us in a three-quarters view; she is dressed in period European fashion with a thin white shawl over a dark dress. She also wears a beaded necklace, an earring, and a silver circlet in her hair. The title clock is in the foreground and looks like a small imperial tower worked in carved gold, with the clock face on one side turned toward us.

February’s too short, so each day in March, a C21 book on Black histories. The reason Jennifer L. Morgan’s Reckoning with Slavery won such praise? It is *that* good. Early enslaved women’s lives, capitalism, the Middle Passage: required reading on so many issues. www.dukeupress.edu/reckoning-wi...

Je profite de la journée internationale de la visibilité transgenre pour vous recommander ''Les Genres Fluides'' du médiéviste Clovis Maillet.

Cet ouvrage sur la fluidité de genre au Moyen Âge s'était attiré la moquerie de la droite française, spécialement de MBC qui ne l'avait évidemment pas lu.

Caught sight of a lone campaign poster on my way back from the airport and really hoped it was a remnant of the last one.

I leave the country for less than a week and elections are called?

Can I not leave you lot unsupervised for a few days?!?!

#canada

Absolutely spectacular! Hilarious and then moving and then hilarious again. An absolute highlight of a fantastic #Shax2025.

Miles Grier’s “I want to get to the thing I don’t know so I won’t be bored by my talk” is a perfect motto for this conference for me. #Shax2025 #RSA2025

Friends, does anyone have access to Shakespeare Studies 52 and would be willing to send me a pdf of my article? They published my NextGenPlen paper on "personation" from two years ago and I'm keen to relive those glory days! #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 #RSA2025

I ran over to the book exhibit, and I’m too embarrassed to sneak into one of those tiny seminar rooms mid-way through, so instead I’m doing… nothing.

That’s a good use of my time for sure. #shax2025

Screenshot of bingo card based on conference behavior. Full-text available at Google Doc link in post.

Between me, @ehxlibris.bsky.social, and @undomielise.bsky.social, we have created our own #RSA2025 and #Shax2025 bingo after discussing it during dinner. Download and enjoy!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you're at #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 and interested in writing a Performance Review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, please feel free to come and find me over the next few days and say hello. Really happy to work with both experienced and first-time reviewers at any stage of their academic career ✍️🎭🙂

The Shakespeare Media Archive

For any of the #Shax2025 & #RSA2025 folks who might find this useful, here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...

The SAA hotel is definitely weird: it currently has no lobby because of renovations. It will look really nice once it’s finished, but right now there’s no bar and no space to people watch and meet people. ☹️

Damn it, I keep getting the hashtag wrong!

It’s #shax2025

Got through airport security and customs, so can now officially say I’m on my way to #saa2025!

(If there’s nothing wrong with the plane, which is always a ? because… Air Canada.)