Uncritical Fabulation
Ordinary NotesLots of white fabulists. Tons of them. Look at them all.
Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Melvilleans and 19th-centuryists!!! My girl @hesterblum.bsky.social has a podcast coming out with @robdelaney.bsky.social about the best book of all time (side eye 😒 to Middlemarch Mafia) the ineffable oceanic spirituo-textual cry to heaven that is Moby Dick. exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick
Everyday terror.
Ashton PittmanI wish everyone approached the Nolan Wells story with the care Duvalier Malone does. Care for truth. Care for the grieving family. Care for the grieving friends. Care for the history of mistreatment that informs Black Mississippians distrust of the system. It's all the above.
Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies is starting the editorial process to go into second edition! Thanks to NYU Press for its support and the collective for their commitment. And to our contributors and the folks who show up to our talkbacks to tell us what is and is not working in the book.
"Banks and organized labor are the only exceptions, each registering seven points above their historical lows." Unions now! Thank god for @uupinfo.bsky.social. Some good points here are how hard people are hitting the university, the strange difference in historical comparison (2015 vs 1979?)
Mark CopelovitchI look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...