It’s a great day when I get to teach “The Ski Lodge” episode of Frasier, written by the brilliant @joekeenan.bsky.social, in my television studies course!
rachel corbman
@rachelcorbman.bsky.social
assistant professor @ Arizona State University, studying histories of feminist, queer, trans, and disability activism, proud co-parent of four cats and a spaniel
from a taped conversation at Amber Hollibaugh's apartment, after reading a bad article by straight sexologists: Someone (joking): "Amber, you have any Demerol?" Amber Hollibaugh: "I have some frozen peas."
I need you all to know that the Berkeley Public Library has solicited submissions for a new mascot, and you can now vote for the contestants and I'm losing my mind. berkeleypublic-library.github.io/Fiber-Mascot...
Fiber Mascot Contest — Berkeley Public Library
berkeleypublic-library.github.io
"Sick Work" by Emily Lim Rogers shows the unpaid labor it takes to be recognized as sick in the US through a historical and ethnographic account of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Read the introduction now for free. buff.ly/ojkBeeB
the directions for my third year review specify that I do not need to include any metrics for conference presentations, but the very concept of conference presentation metrics is funny to me. It’d just be like: I created 96 slides for my 15 minute presentation. People laughed at 87% of my jokes.
I have been excited for years about this book, it is going to be revelatory and field defining, I cannot WAIT
rachel corbman@rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 4mo agomy book has blurbs! and they are written by!! 1) the author of my top ten favorite lesbian novels & an eminent thinker of people fighting about things 2) the author of the best new book on the feminist 1970s and 1980s Thank you, Sarah! Thank you, @durba.bsky.social!
Queer & / or Feminist Archives in the 2020s survey forms.gle/v4VkJ9mW8StC... I am working on a book chapter for a book provisionally titled Transnational Queer & Feminist Archives. In the chapter, I examine how people navigate complex 2020s demands, stressors, and restrictions. 📚 📜 Please share!
Queer & / or Feminist Archives in the 2020s
My name is Jenna Freedman, and I'm the founder and former Director of the Barnard Zine Library and an adjunct lecturer at the Queens College School of Information Studies. I am working on a book chapt...
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An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
Cannot wait for @rachelcorbman.bsky.social’s Conferencing on the Edge is out in the world! Congratulations on this fabulous book 🔥🔥🔥
rachel corbman@rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 4mo agomy book has blurbs! and they are written by!! 1) the author of my top ten favorite lesbian novels & an eminent thinker of people fighting about things 2) the author of the best new book on the feminist 1970s and 1980s Thank you, Sarah! Thank you, @durba.bsky.social!
my book has blurbs! and they are written by!! 1) the author of my top ten favorite lesbian novels & an eminent thinker of people fighting about things 2) the author of the best new book on the feminist 1970s and 1980s Thank you, Sarah! Thank you, @durba.bsky.social!
I’m just afraid that now I won’t get to hear what religion everyone’s mayor and bagels are anymore.
Susan Strange on women’s studies: “and as for women’s studies, I think that women should study.”
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)
was searching for something sciencey in the nyt archives and found a form of eugenics i'd never even heard of www.nytimes.com/1927/03/27/a...
Artie keeps rubbing her little face on Molly Crabapple’s history of the Jewish bund. She assumes that that is what people mean about it being a useable past.
Jed left me with four children between the ages of 4-9
Derek is a brilliant scholar and I am lucky to have him as a colleague in DAAS.
AAUP@aaup.org · 6mo agoThe AAUP & @aft.org stand in solidarity with UM Faculty Senate Chair Derek Peterson. Right-wing attacks on his commencement speech are a direct threat to academic freedom. University leaders must stop apologizing to political agitators & start defending their faculty & protected speech. 👇
@pmckelveyphd.bsky.social and I volunteer to write an episode that weaves together all these plotlines and also it ends with Snowball cuddling with Sister Peg, neither of whom died
rachel corbman@rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 6mo agoI can’t believe that SVU brought back Henry (rip Snowball!) TWO times and yet there has been NO follow up on 1) the intersex twins, 2) the trans kids who stole hormones from a warehouse, 3) LesBeReal
I can’t believe that SVU brought back Henry (rip Snowball!) TWO times and yet there has been NO follow up on 1) the intersex twins, 2) the trans kids who stole hormones from a warehouse, 3) LesBeReal
Considering developing a freshman seminar on JonBenet Ramsey. Anyone else have experience with this? Would love to see your syllabus!
when someone is named Trish you KNOW they're going to have a good gender
If you're the time of a Derby winner, and I'm a toy balloon that's fated soon to pop, then who's flying the plane?
It’s just mind blowing that this is a world anyone wants to live in.