Why is Tim Walz getting so much attention in electoral coverage? Dr. Lisa Corrigan explains Walz's political and affective appeals and discusses the gender/race dynamics of his pick as VP. clioandthecontemporary.com/2024/09/04/bey…

The fact that the only one he got “wrong” was bush vs gore just tells me his predictions have actually has been correct every time lol

It’s because we need a third season and then All Stars Holland so Keta Minaj can finally have the crown she so rightfully deserves after that tomfoolery on season 2

A great privilege to share my co-author, Sarah Marshall and I’s work this morning at the Intl Trans Studies Conference. Grateful for our chair Zein Murib and the audience we had for a 9:30am Saturday panel 🥹🥰 USF Department of Communication Center for Applied Transgender Studies

Counterpoint: calling the GOP weird is a way to redraw the boundaries of normativity so that what's stigmatized is not transness but transphobia, not reproductive healthcare but patriarchal overreach, not multiracial democracy but white nationalism. When they go low we go to war.

Carl Jung, the factors of happiness

Our baby is OUT! I'm very proud of this Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media', co-edited with Yener Bayramoğlu & Radhika Gajjala. It includes our Introduction, 7 empirical articles and 5 forum pieces! They are all amazing! academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3

Congratulations to Camille Ruiz Mangual! Her article, “‘De eso no se habla’: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor,” was published in Critical Studies in Media Communication. Read the article here: rb.gy/2uy2oc

In Appalachia, our cultural foods have evolved in the way that they have because our ancestors were poor and starving. Poor, white southerners ate foods that were cheap and calorically-dense. This is why we now eat biscuits and gravy, grits, and local vegetables cooked in

The pandemic should have led to universal health care, paid sick leave, upgraded ventilation in millions of buildings, massive investment in preventive healthcare and ongoing vaccination campaigns. Instead we got $1200 and the impending criminalization of masking.

TODAY! The Grad Student Committee_NCA_ASJD PhD application workshop! If you didn’t have the chance to sign up yet, please do so or reach out via Twitter to get the link before we begin at 2pm EST

Seeing a sex scene and not making it everyone else’s problem

This might be the first statement I’ve seen like this.

I come home on teaching nights & sit with myself in silence. Just… quiet. I have NO WORDS until the next day.

Ahhh yes the fall semester is in full swing as I have been 5-10 minutes late to everything since Thursday 🫠🙃

Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there’s no such thing as a politically neutral education, a politically neutral curriculum, or a politically neutral pedagogy.