All, I recently became aware of this book set entitled WOMAN: IN ALL AGES AND IN ALL COUNTRIES (1907). Grandiose indeed. And of course, none of its 10 volumes was written by a woman.
25.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
All, I recently became aware of this book set entitled WOMAN: IN ALL AGES AND IN ALL COUNTRIES (1907). Grandiose indeed. And of course, none of its 10 volumes was written by a woman.
25.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
in the annals of university genders...
23.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally! crocuses
22.02.2026 11:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You can now pre-order *Cisgender: Disorienting a Category* (out in July) for $20 from Duke UP with a 30% off! Code: E26CGNDR.
Really grateful, too, for these amazing blurbs from Susan Stryker and C. Riley Snorton!
dukeupress.edu/cisgender
Enjoyed this blog post by Sarah Tyson and Andrew Dilts: blog.apaonline.org/2026/02/04/i...
07.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm excited to teach a "Nonhuman Philosophies" grad course this fall. I'd actually like to focus it not only on the nonhuman, but the nonanimal. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's new *Theory of Water* is one I'm thinking about including. Would welcome other ideas!
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2533-t...
Look who is reading this book with me! (Or teaching me?)
Del McWhorter, Unbecoming Persons (2025), pictured with stink bug.
The ice is falling. I’m shoveling our place. And the 92 year old neighbor’s. And another neighbor walks up and hands me a steaming loaf of fresh baked bread. How to even comprehend that I am alive for this. For now. Today. And how quickly, and cruelly, those todays can be taken.
25.01.2026 23:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proofs for *Cisgender: Disorienting a Category*! Almost done!
25.01.2026 16:47 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Once, I was on-campus interviewing. We were walking to a restaurant & I was trying to be engaging in conversation (& avoid other people on the sidewalk). & BAM! I hit a parking meter in the face, while my limbs wrapped it in an awkward embrace. This was a great intro to me. #on-campus-memories
21.01.2026 14:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So overwhelmed by the current moment. Wondering when we're just all in the streets until something changes. But also knowing that each of us has to know and use our gifts to the hilt. Teaching and writing the stories that can free us is part of that for me.
20.01.2026 15:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In 2023, Elon Musk banned the words cis and cisgender from Twitter. That's when I started writing this book. What could be so powerful, dangerous, & unsettling about these words? Where did they come from? And how might we reimagine them today?
Available for preorder: www.amazon.com/Cisgender-Di...
Honored to make some "Best of 2025" lists this month! Huge thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for giving *How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University* a home.
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In January, I start teaching a grad seminar on disability justice. I'd welcome word of any favorite pieces/books you might have!
[image of a stack of books in disability studies--books I'm thinking with, though not necessarily teaching]
In which a blue butterfly erases my to-do list …
04.12.2025 15:07 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can't believe my twin and I spent almost a year like this!
28.11.2025 10:04 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This happens to me almost every day!
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American University was founded as a Methodist institution and maintains ties to this day. Digging into that history, I found this lovely invitation by the chaplain in 1962: "No Office Hours. Come When Unexpected." Home and office addresses were then given.
20.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exactly the sort of thing you want to find in the archives …
18.11.2025 19:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really excited to be sharing work on Cornell's own trans histories tonight! As part of trans awareness week.
11.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Whenever I make up a word (we need more for the things I think about), copyeditors say, "Hey. That's not a word. Use a dictionary word." I want to reply: "Hey. How do you think words got in the dictionary?!" What is this regime where we can't publish new words? Where did it come from? whywhywhy
04.11.2025 11:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I definitely do this.
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No but really... all you writers, how DO you make yourself sit still for these copy edits on a full manuscript? I'm already a heavily distractible person, but I become a literal dandelion tuft in the breeze with these.
30.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
deargod I love writing, but I do not love copy editing. calling on this blewitt to give me strength today.
17.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A giant cyclops puffball guttating this morning…
22.09.2025 20:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s drizzling and an older woman, with dyed red hair but deep grey roots, stands leaning against her weed wacker in a blue raincoat. She tenderly snips the tiniest edges of her sidewalk, while her bare feet turn slowly green with the cuttings. Her stance infinite.
17.09.2025 20:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
.... but also what if I get buried alive by email?
16.09.2025 19:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In my experience, pedigree rarely corresponds to actual insightfulness. I think Lorde would agree.
06.09.2025 17:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Also learned a lot and felt a lot with this book recently. Thanks to a friend for the recommendation! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/695816...
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