Steven Fino

Discovered a book that sounds like it would be the perfect thing to cite in my dissertation, and the only places that seem to have any record of its existence is a dissertation from 1962 and a used bookstore in Scotland.

Had a very dumb idea for a poster and decided I needed to make it

Lady Macbeth is greatly enjoying getting to play with the paper as I type up my dissertation revisions

A black cat lying on a piece of paper

A white cat sitting on a piece of paper

My Cat 🤝 My Boyfriend's Cat
Not letting my write my dissertation

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

A mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries includes works by Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein, and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson. pen.org/magic-tree-h... #bannedbooks #censorship

The Cass Review is fraud science

Big fan of when students include a request for the recipe of the cookies I bake for them when they ask for me to go over a draft they've written

Accidentally sent multiple emails to students while having "Steven Financial" as my last name due to autocorrect. A student responded calling that my "Econ Proffsona"

Tony Awards Eligibility Decided for OPERATION MINCEMEAT, REDWOOD and More The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today to confirm the eligibility status of eight Broadway productions for the 2024-2025 season. Learn more here!

Apparently Oscar Wilde could theoretically win a Tony Award this year as the co-author of the current production of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Maybe uncancel the four-site longitudinal study of adolescents receiving gender-affirming medical care that you cancelled?

Firefighters attempt to extinguish the blaze engulfing the building that housed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Each year on March 25 we commemorate the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. This tragic event took the lives of 146 mostly young, immigrant women workers in 1911.

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.

The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument web page, removing the “T” in references to LGBTQ+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

Protests Erupt At Stonewall After Trump Removes Trans People From Monument Website At least one reporter counted the attendees of the protest to number over 1,000 people.

1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website.

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Three panels from The Ultimates #11 with the dialogue: "They say it's about justice. They say it's about the law. It's now about any of that shit." "So what's it all about?" "It's about power, man."

Teaching Foucault's Discipline and Punish next week and genuinely considering just handing my students the latest issue of @denizcamp.bsky.social 's The Ultimates to help them understand what Foucault is talking about.

I am incredibly tempted to include the tweet "don't call it a traditional marriage if it doesn't even secure an alliance between rival fiefdoms" in my dissertation but horrified by the thought of my committee chair seeing me cite someone who called themself "Helena Bottom Farter"

One of my favorite things about teaching literature is when a student comes up to talk to me about a book they’re excited about. Always love seeing students passionate about something

As someone studying queer literature at Temple University, quite cool to hear that someone so important to the creation of queer historical archives is an alumnus

The US Dept. of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has dismissed 11 complaints and six allegations related to book bans, saying it was ending "Biden’s book ban hoax."

PEN America counted over 10,000 instances of school book bans in the 2023-24 school year, nearly 3X the number in the previous year.

The best example I have for explaining to students that sexuality is a social construct is to bring up the concept of straight men who are attracted to femboys, and the response from my students is always fun to see. All five stages of grief are represented

Trump criminalizes trans people to uproarious applause

YouTube video by Julia Serano Debunking Myths About Trans People & Restrooms (& other “sexual predator” tropes)

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YouTube video by Julia Serano Debunking Myths About Trans People & Restrooms (& other “sexual predator” tropes)

today the House passed a Trans Sports ban, and they will likely forward a federal Trans Bathroom Ban soon. my latest essay is a deep-dive into research studies that debunk such such legislation & chronicle the long history of smearing marginalized groups as "sexual predators":
youtu.be/nK41ePuOmzY

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I am a very serious instructor who teaches very serious classes

this is a really good breakdown if you want to know the role your Dem senator played in throwing trans kids under the bus with their NDAA vote yesterday:

Ended my Queer British Literature class with a Queer Icon Tournament to decide which of the historical figures deserves a reputation as a Queer Icon. After a thorough debate, the champion was revealed as Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), the tragically forgotten utopian socialist and gay rights activist