In the latest issue of "Iperstoria" I got the chance to review one of the most transformative works I read in my academic life. I cannot overstate how much I recommend Sarah Ensor's Queer Lasting. You can read my humble thoughts (and badly concealed fangirling) at iperstoria.it/article/view...
Very proud to share this brand new special issue on American Narratives and Video Games I co-edited with Francesca Razzi for American, British and Canadian Studies. You have 12 delightful open access contributions to enjoy 👾🎮
reference-global.com/issue/ABCSJ/...
Deep in final exams and term papers, and while I may have criticized AI in the past for siphoning off whole water tables and sucking up every penny needed for the energy transition, I will admit they’ve done a great job at making it totally fucking impossible to evaluate students
Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report #Climate
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
📢Registrations are open for our upcoming event at the Italian Institute of Culture [IN ITALIANO]!
Marco Caracciolo, @tinanovels.bsky.social, and I will talk about imaginary games, speculative fiction, and climate imaginaries in the wake of my latest novel :)
iicvalletta.esteri.it/it/gli_event...
Very much looking forward to this! I have *questions* 😄
Had lots of fun last night at my book talk in Ghent #paardvantroje.
Next up: another book talk at NOI Libreria in Milan on Friday the 30th with @tinanovels.bsky.social
This one is going to be in Italian :) Join us at 19:00!
>> www.eventbrite.it/e/scrivere-f... <<
Revoking admissions for a group that makes up 30% of the student body.
All because you dont want Black people to attend or Black history to be taught.
My God.
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
theonion.com/woman-r...
At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
🤣😶
Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
A Caroll diagram consisting of four rectangles arranged in a square. The Y axis is labelled MOVE and split into FAST and SLOW. The X axis is labelled THINGS and split into BREAK and FIX Top left image: (Move Fast and Break Things) Tech Bro Bottom left image: (Move slow and break things) Runaway Steamroller Top right image: (Move fast and fix things) Emergency Plumber Bottom left image: (Move slow and fix things) Grandpa with a toolbox
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
You don’t say ….
Look what I got in the mail! @gua-le-ni.com's latest book What We Owe the Dead - highly entertaining and equally thought-provoking! Stefano and I will be chatting about it in Milan at the end of May; in the meantime you can get your copy on @freeklomme.bsky.social's website!
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
The only piece of actual wisdom I have ever learned about US politics is "Never believe something is too stupid to happen."
lmao this made me cry real tears because it is legitimately what every day feels like right now
my work is like “hey can you make a slideshow to explain this bill?” and “oops looks like the EPA no longer exists”
It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.
Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once
Had the pleasure to get an advance copy, and I very much recommend reading @gua-le-ni.com's dystopian detective novel What We Owe the Dead (rad title!) when it's available next month!
Preorders at www.setmargins.press/books/what-w...
The CfP for the AISNA conference is out!
Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West
11-13 Sept 2025, Bergamo (Italy)
Stefano Franceschini and I are co-chairing a panel on the Speculative Turn of the Frontier Myth. Send us your proposals by Feb 28!
www.aisna.net/call-for-pap...
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