“AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy”

defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Always thrilled to be able to talk about AIDS activism in the Australian lesbian press.

Do not miss the powerful & poignant show David Wojnarowicz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York at the Leslie-Lohman Museum. After returning from France, Wojnarowicz created the "photo-performance" series in 1978-79, documenting NYC before the onslaught of AIDS & gentrification.

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The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

These cuts are targeted and political - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

@qtrg.bsky.social is celebrating 5 years of conferences in 2025 with the theme Queer Temporalities. Exploring the possibilities of queer lives unbeholden to normative narratives of time, memory, success, love, happiness, and family.

Here's a great piece on Nonsense today from @nataliesqrl.bsky.social that looks at the fascism involved in controlling who gets hormones
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/hormones-a...

Bottoms or tops, we all hate cops
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

uh oh! It's the internet's darling
@brocklesnitch.bsky.social, with one of the best arguments about "wokeness in comedy" I've read - namely that hack comedians who are obsessed with it are just bad at their job.
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...

Happy new year! My resolution for 2025 is to wrangle my terrifying notes app, which has taken over my life. New article in @australia.theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm not at all surprised that men are more likely to submit book proposals to university presses, but these disparities are quite shocking. Is this press & field specific? Also wondering about the breakdown in terms of reviewing manuscripts. Who's doing the service work?

Nan Goldin at the opening of This Will Not End Well in Berlin: “The ICC is talking about genocide. The UN is talking about genocide. Even the Pope is talking about genocide. Yet we’re not supposed to talk about this as genocide. Are you afraid to hear this, Germany?”
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

💊Call for Papers💊
Queer Pharma: Experimentations in Bodies, Substances, Affects

An anthropological workshop exploring queer/experimental perspectives on pharmaceuticals @hdilger.bsky.social

Keynote by Kane Race
Deadline for submissions: Nov 24, 2024
www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/f...

I've moved over here, hello! I research and write about lesbian studies, HIV and AIDS, PrEP, LGBTQ-inclusive sex education, and higher education! 🌈🎓

Being on here at the moment is like a huge party where people you know and like keep turning up