Danielle K Nelson

Todd Haynes’s “Mildred Pierce”: A Discussion A web-exclusive debate about Todd Haynes’s miniseries Mildred Pierce between Amber Jacobs and Rob White, covering questions of desire, labor, economics, psychoanalysis, and feminism.

my current obsession: todd haynes’ mildred pierce filmquarterly.org/2012/02/23/t...

first semester of 4-4 while teaching 8:30am classes… it was a journey.

turned in grades today and finished my first year at this new job as assistant prof…

the portable feminist reader edited by roxane gay

so excited to read ‘the portable feminist reader’ for course prep! @roxanegay.bsky.social

YouTube video by CRITERION Gena Rowlands in A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE

never not thinking about this scene from ‘woman under the influence’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj4v...

read this over 10 years ago so revisiting it now has been an experience. in any case, if anyone has any similar recommendations, let me know!

when i say “love it,” i mean that i’m obsessed with janet malcolm’s book in a way that goes beyond loving and hating it (i’m a plathie, so obviously i have issues with how she writes about plath) but it’s just so good in a completely bonkers way.

cover of the silent woman by janet malcolm

this book is so unhinged and brilliant. i forgot how much i loved it.

Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time. The judge gave the U.S. until April 23 to respond.

No one should be deported to a prison in another country without due process.

i am SUCH a fan of this film (it's just delightful?) but also as a figure skater, i love how they did the hockey & ice skating animation!

watched the film 'inside out' for one of my classes and had my 1st year students read this wonderful essay from one of my grad profs online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

URGENT: Save the NEH

I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

facebook people you may know showing me my old analyst from 2015

be gentle with yourself and definitely celebrate! it's such a huge achievement!!!

today in this would only happen at an arts school: student let me know they were on voice rest for an important audition so they would not be able to talk during discussion

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

Thank you @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

i just want you all to know that i thought i had forgotten my teaching copy of 'the bluest eye' at home and panicked only to find it later that night in my bag.

when we're talking about the power of narrative, i'm constantly drawing connections to art's fundamental capacity to move us and how it's absolutely essential to understand the way language works across mediums and genres

for our upcoming peer review, i compared it to how you get constant critique and feedback in acting classes or film where you take the constructive criticism back to the drawing board where one is constantly leaving one's ego at the door in order to improve their craft

when i gave students a difficult theory reading for this week, i explained how it's similar to how in dance you get challenging choreography that seems impossibly complex at the time and you break it down and practice. you sit with the difficulty.

so much of teaching at an arts school is me translating every aspect of what we're doing in the humanities to its equivalent function in the school of dance, film, design + production, drama etc.

The triumphant final days of the skaters killed in D.C. crash This is the story of a week of joy and hope for young skaters chasing their dreams -- before a tragic end.

In light of some of the post #LegacyOnIce conversations happening right now, let’s remember the stories and the human beings whom we lost in the DC plane crash. I don’t want us as a community to lose the plot

www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

hope you’re feeling better!!

to the lighthouse is my favorite novel. team sylvia here. this is a big red flag.

pages from heather clark’s ‘red comet’ biography on plath about a man’s opinion on virginia woolf and to the lighthouse.

pages from heather clark’s ‘red comet’ biography on plath about a man’s opinion on virginia woolf and to the lighthouse.

crying over sylvia plath getting the ick because this man did not like woolf and to the lighthouse. honestly this is grounds for divorce imo.

“none of this is normal”

… an evergreen thought to throw to the blue skies before you quickly close the app out of overwhelm and anxiety.

he loves to say “phenomenal… just phenomenal.” also he’s obsessed with alysa liu!! [as we all are]

watch the video. governor mills is the one being threatened!

FDA Scientists Say They Were Told to Stop Using the Words ‘Woman’ and ‘Disabled’ A White House spokesperson told Reuters that the circulating list of banned words was an error.

i am so tired. www.thedailybeast.com/fda-scientis...