Ryan Poll

headline screenshot. Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so / Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.

I have gotten in hot water for using the term "failed state" to describe the US as there are historical conditions that have to be met for the term to be accurate, so let's just say we're in the on-deck circle

'Anora', (Sex) Work, and the Fantasies of Genre » PopMatters Sean Baker's Anora illustrates how sex work – a working-class job – is a dance between creativity and commerce, art and artifice.

As Anora suggests, sex work is labor and a genre. To be profitable, sex workers must act in established genres, performing (male) fantasies of female attention, sexuality, and desire, wrapped in an aura of authenticity.”

www.popmatters.com/anora-sex-wo...

'Anora', (Sex) Work, and the Fantasies of Genre » PopMatters Sean Baker's Anora illustrates how sex work – a working-class job – is a dance between creativity and commerce, art and artifice.

My latest article on the movie that swept the Oscars.

www.popmatters.com/anora-sex-wo...

cover of Shane Denson's monograph on Bride of Frankenstein, featuring two images of the Bride and one of Frankenstein('s monster) in different shades of green, orange, and grey.

Forthcoming later this year from @leverpress.bsky.social, the first book in our film|minutes series, this one on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social. services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/B/Brid...

You're not only going to want the book, you're going to want to read alongside the movie!

He unifies with a chainsaw.

49% of Troy was like "they tried to kill us yesterday" but 51 were chanting HORSE! HORSE! really loud

Of course it was the playbook all along, despite the multiple lies of innocence/ignorance. This is a really important website to bookmark and follow:

www.project2025.observer

“There is no such thing as autonomy… there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence” -Wendell Berry

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
Mary Oliver, “Yes! No!”

okay, the second starter pack i want to create is folks attending + presenting + advertising panels at #SBLAAR24.

like this skeet if, and only if, that’s you. we’ll get a good running commentary going in anticipation of and during the conference!

please reskeet to signal boost.

I’m so excited to go to my first American Academy of Religion conference!

Just joined!

Hi!

If you’re at MMLA today, I’m presenting today at 11:00:

“The Black Church: A Sanctuary of Radical Politics in Modern African American Literature”

11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D