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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck

A photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

FYI for those who may have agreed to review ACLS applications (and perhaps might want to now...not).

Applicants may use AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT to write their application. However, it is the responsibility of the named applicant to ensure that all content in their proposal is factual and that they have properly acknowledged and referenced all sources. As the applicant, you are responsible for any errors, omissions, hallucinations, or acts of plagiarism in your application. We encourage you to indicate in your application where and how you used AI assistance for full transparency.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/08/2026

Doug Wilson disapproves of women’s suffrage, wants to outlaw gay marriage, and forbids women from leading at his church. And he’s Pete Hegseth’s spiritual advisor.

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Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.

Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thrilled to receive ATHE's 2026 Outstanding Article Award for this piece! (This is the first writing toward what I hope to be book 3, a history of the performance cultures surrounding service dogs in the 20th-21st century US) doi.org/10.1353/tj.2...

title page for my article announcing that it received the ATHE Outstanding Article Award this year.

The article is titled:

"Honest Work done by Honest Dogs": Canine Unemployment, Interspecies Rehabilitation, and Disability Performance

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Disability Works turns 2 today, somehow! Help celebrate by 1) Asking your library to buy a copy 2) Purchasing your own copy directly from NYU Press for 30% off with discount code NYUP30 3) Rate it on Amazon/Goodreads As always, I'm happy to do virtual class visits! nyupress.org/978147982487...

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Disability Works

Winner, 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Book AwardWinner, 2025 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book AwardFinalist, 2025 Barnard Hewitt Aw...

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ASAP/Review @asapjournal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Check out Gabriel Chazan's review of Provoking Religion: "Ultimately, the strongest argument of the book is that the historian of American culture ignores the significance of Christianity...for an exclusive focus on queer history or politics at their peril." asapjournal.com/review/queer...

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Queer Religious Forms: Review of Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion - ASAP/Review

Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars brings forward a significant counternarrative of the role of religion in American art during the 1980s and 1990s. This period is freq...

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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?

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Delighted to share that *Provoking Religion* got Honorable Mention for this year's Best Book Award from the British Association of American Studies. This book was a decade in the making, and it's lovely to hear it is being received well!

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Excited to share that *Provoking Religion* won the Popular Culture Association's 2026 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies!

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Review #11 of "Disability Works" is out in Theatre Journal! What a pleasure to be ready by Tony McCaffrey! dx.doi.org/10.1353/tj.2...

I found Disability Works to be a generous book, generous in its invitation to the reader/scholar to take up the valuable archival and theoretical research on display here and to intervene in the rehabilitation paradigm, to go beyond it. I believe it is an innovative and vital contribution to a number of different fields and will prove invaluable to scholars of theatre and performance studies and critical disability studies, and indeed it should appeal to anyone interested in the complex relationalities that emerge at the intersection of disability, art, and labor. It is a deeply necessary book in the contemporary moment and offers hope for speculative futures.

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

With many thanks to the amazing @mpgphd.bsky.social, a new site is born... www.anthonypetro.org

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ANTHONY PETRO

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense. Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever. I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Humbled and thrilled about this upcoming roundtable on *Provoking Religion* at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin -- the provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center!

Flier for roundtable discussion on Provoking Religion at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin!
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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

As of twenty-nine minutes ago, I get to publicly share that "Disability Works" won the South Atlantic MLA Book Award!

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Thrilled that my Theatre Journal essay on guide dogs and rehabilitation performance cultures is the subject of the first segment on the latest episode of On TAP! Many thanks for the hosts for taking the time to read and discuss this weird essay. www.ontappod.com

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On Tap: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

This podcast looks at topics of current interest to professors and graduate students in the academic field of theatre and performance studies, including new ideas, theories, scholarly methodologies, t...

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This podcast series by Lynne Gerber and her team about a San Francisco church facing the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s is simply stunning. Check it out!

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When We All Get To Heaven

A queer church faces AIDS in 1980s and '90s San Francisco.

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts

Truvy the whippet approaches catching a ball while her sister ignores her

Truvy looks very snoopy like as she runs toward a ball still far above her

Truvy waits for the ball to fall closer to her snoot

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!

Book award announcement described in post

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

How have I only now discovered TJ's Chile Crackers. Wow.

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday (Sept. 6), celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling shunned and crediting Pope Francis with the change.

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LGBTQ+ Catholics make Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome and celebrate a new sense of acceptance

"Brothers and sisters, I say this with emotion: It is time to restore dignity to everyone, especially to those who have been denied it," Bishop Franceseco Savino said at a Mass for the pilgrims.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Notre Dame is running a search for the next Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism (associate or full). Candidates will be expected to direct and teach courses for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy. Applications due by Oct 15! apply.interfolio.com/170389

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

“We need to talk about Truvy.”

Shelby the white whippet sprawled on the carpet but looking VERY stern

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A decade ago today, Shelby bravely battled a tree branch at Amory park in Brookline

Shelby, a white whippet, holding a fairly large tree branch in her mouth.

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Very grateful to chat about *Provoking Religion* with Clayton Jarrard for the New Books Network! Now available on their site as well as Spotify and Apple podcasts. newbooksnetwork.com/provoking-re...

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Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

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Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Today in floral drag... Blackberry lily, which is actually Iris domestica (so I have learned!)

Close up of a Blackberry lily, a red and orange flower, in full bloom

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Happy to share that "Disability Works" has been shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association's David Bradby Monograph Prize. Congrats to this stellar group of finalists!

'Broderick Chow, Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024. Lianna Mark, Theatres of Autofiction. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. (NY: New York University Press, 2024). Brahma Prakash, Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India. (Delhi: LeftWord, 2023). Ben Spatz, Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024).' .

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Review #4 of Disability Works is out in Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy! "a thoughtful, nuanced, and deeply archival analysis of the intersecting histories of labor, theatre, and disability...Every scholar concerned with even loosely connected topics should have a copy on their bookshelf."

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My partner is forcing me to listen to dance remixes of "I've Written a Letter to Daddy." How did it come to this?

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

ND American Studies is hiring! We have two searches this year:

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

“Disability Works” turns 1 today! I’d like to celebrate by making sure it finds its way into the hands of even more readers. You can help by: 1) Requesting your library purchase a copy (link in bio) 2) Let me know if you assign it (I can zoom in!) #disability #academicsky #historysky #booksky

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

These poppies were from a few weeks ago but I still think about them.

Two bright red poppies against a background of green foliage

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Now that we have a real garden, I feel compelled to post flower pics. Blueskiers, beware.

Three white/soft yellow lilies in a purple vase sitting on a window sill.

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

You might not know this, but the 13th anniversary is the Hoosier anniversary! Ever glad that @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social trained from Providence to Boston those many years ago to meet me at a bookstore.

Patrick and Anthony posing together outside with nerdy frames and content smiles

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