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Kerry Reid (she/her)

@kerryreid.bsky.social

Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader. Usual disclaimer that all opinions are my own alone. . .

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Kerry Reid (she/her)@kerryreid.bsky.social · 17h ago

It's sold out through this weekend's closing performances, but I enjoyed Tania Richard's "Black Girl From a White Suburb" at @americanblues.bsky.social. Here's my @chicagoreader.com review. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Black Girl From a White Suburb traces Tania Richard’s ‘double consciousness’ - Chicago Reader

The writer and performer's childhood in Western Springs and later adventures in theater resonate in this intimate and warm solo show.

chicagoreader.com

Ben Prunty@benprunty.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton "What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3d ago

This behavior in Silicon Valley AI circles very effectively shuts most women (and anyone else who’s not cool with group sex events with your colleagues) out of access to some of the most prestigious and well-paying tech and policy jobs on the planet today.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3d ago

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce @itsannpierce 20h I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology. I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again. This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…
Kerry Reid (she/her)@kerryreid.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have a small slice of rage reserved for people (esp men) who either refused to vote or voted 3rd party even if their actions aided and abetted an adjudicated rapist. I see their posts about Cornell today and think, "You're in that group chat too, hoss."

Kerry Reid (she/her)@kerryreid.bsky.social · 6d ago

The last time I saw Johnny Galecki onstage was 25 years ago. It was a delight to see him as Tennessee Williams in "Kowalski" at Lookingglass Theatre. Here's my RECOMMENDED @chicagoreader.com review! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Kowalski explores and explodes the myths of Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando - Chicago Reader

The author and the star of A Streetcar Named Desire connect over one tumultuous evening in Gregg Ostrin's play, now at Lookingglass Theatre.

chicagoreader.com

pTessodactyl@tessential.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm less annoyed with what Mamdani is doing than with people who were like "Dems need to FIGHT" now saying we actually need subtle political manoeuvring and the more flattering to Trump it is the better.