Wendy Allison Lee

Emma Thompson is all of us.

It's official: MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND has a cover! I love how the yellow feels like a run over hazard sign, and the mixtape is perhaps my personal 90s icon. As for those sexy statues? You'll have to read it to find out...

Attn: @dem8z.bsky.social, you are part of today's Out of the Archives post!

brown alums sign and share standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...

OMG. It truly is!

Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social: You are the coolest!

Sometimes y’all really do test me.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.

The critique that police aren’t workers hasn’t been helpful to abolition.

It’s not about welcoming carceral industries in the labor movement. It’s about dealing with how the economy, public sector jobs, and budgets are entangled with carcerality. And organizing for a new public with different work.

Happy Birthday to The Women! The film was released September 1, 1939.

John Wood Jr. giving us an always useful reminder that advocates for bipartisanship, depolarization, etc. are almost always just opposed to you having any ideas which they don't agree with.

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

counterpoint

criticism is the art of animating crap.

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).

Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Do you know about their Mother's Day and Father's Day ice cream special? Single scoop cones are 99 cents for everyone!

YouTube video by Democracy Now! James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"

If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.

Thank you @dem8z.bsky.social

Cover of Karen Hao’s Empire of AI

I felt I needed to learn more about AI (even though the subject bores me profoundly), and this was a great place to start. Recommend highly!

A few quick thoughts… 1/

OMG it is not useful. I say that because it does not work, from my perspective as a teacher & scholar. Stop trying to make fetch happen.

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

I never thought there'd be a worse freshman-year assignment than me being required to read a Thomas Friedman book for an international relations class but this is it

Attention @cmceleney.bsky.social

I love the cover art as homage to Clueless and am totally looking forward to reading this book.

Tangential I guess but the beginningof my next book is about why we need science and poetry to help us understand metaphors or else we are politically fucked and this guy is proving my point 😭

Gerald "Gerry" Gates, 1950-2025 A tribute to spending one last month with my Dad

I wrote about watching movies with my Dad.

For notebooks (fancy or not), I like the Uni-ball One Gel Pen .38. www.jetpens.com/Uni-ball-One...

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.