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Lisa Hirsch
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Music writer (SF Classical Voice, SF Chronicle, Opera). Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.
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lisairontongue.bsky.social
Weirdly, yeah.
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
I'm curious! Pointers/links?
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
Weird how many people read him as disparaging women.
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
Is there evidence he raped children?
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
The Harvard Crimson has a few words about him too:

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
That was 20 years ago. Here are some letters to the NY Times about the resulting uproar, including one from me.
www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/o...
Opinion | What It Takes to Lead at Harvard (6 Letters) (Published 2005)
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
I would also add that hiring Eun Sun Kim was a boss move.
November 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
I can't read your whole newsletter until I write up some of my thoughts on this past weekend's concerts, but 100% agreement with your comments on Matthew Shilvock. He and his team also have an astonishing success rate in commissioning new operas.
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
Bi.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
Another good one, Gabe!
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
T-shirt I bought at a Potlatch auction in the 90s.
Yellow-gold short sleeved t-shirt with a circular collage. The collage is printed in black and includes an elephant or mastodon skeleton, water lilies, a pond, a woman in a diaphanous nightgown, and an assortment of megaflora.
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
Maybe that should be a paper in the thread.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
lisairontongue.bsky.social
Oh um she's the lead author of the paper in your thread - Dr. Donna Odierna.
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM