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Jo Giardini

@downevent.bsky.social

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bibliophile in um, meadville gender studies prof at allegheny college, writing on the clinical history of gender, political economy of sexuality, experimental poetics short forays on ephemeral literatures on IG: mimeodrome

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Sandwiched between two men on the Montréal metro, one reading ‘The Prince,’ the other Camille Paglia.

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Joshua Clover—the start of much to reread

My Life in the New Millennium
It was true that the more I hated people the more I loved cats.
Then people started to surprise me.
Often this involved fire or Coca-Cola
bottles with petrol which amounts to the same thing.
Once fire is the form of the spectacle the problem becomes how to set fire to fire.
Some friends were prepared to help with this which Michael Jackson having died and then Whitney Houston was the new pop music. Without an understanding of the world system and the underlying truth of land as the place of politics and the sea as the space of commerce it is hard to integrate that other
most important fact of our era. Pirates. My friends and pirates and cats —it comes down to comrades known and elsewhere.

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Rest in peace, Joshua. I vividly recall our first conversations, in the midst of the 2012 student strike in Montreal—his uncompromising intelligence, comradeliness, commitment to the real movements of our times, his poetics, all impressed me then, and on every encounter since.

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In what possible world is this 'imperilling' the cease-fire, rather than simply breaking it without apology?

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025

🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I’ll always remember a speech Sterne gave in November 2011, after riot police had indiscriminately assaulted people in McGill and the adjacent Milton Parc neighbourhood. He affirmed the ongoing fight by public unions in Quebec for fair compensation, spoke in support of student activists…

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I can’t imagine participating in the MLA conference in Toronto next year, and I’m curious if anyone has been organizing a more formal response—a statement from members who will continue to refuse engagement after the stifling of the statement on Gaza and scholasticide last year?

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Pinko Magazine @pinko.online · 19/02/2025

Baltimore! Join us this Saturday for a conversation on the new @haymarketbooks.org edition of After Accountability at @redemmas.org, starting at 6 PM! We'll be joined by @estebanitos.bsky.social @genderhorizon.com @maxfox.bsky.social and Stevie Wilson to discuss withfriends.co/event/227083...

After Accountability launch at Red Emma's with Stevie Wilson, Peter Hardie, and Esteban Kelly
February 22, 2025 6:00-7:30 PM
Red Emma's 3128 Greenmount Ave.

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Last week I taught John D'Emilio's 'Capitalism and Gay Identity,' and lingered with my class on this late paragraph—affirming the necessity of allowing children the ability to explore their own futures, to live lives beyond the identities which they're told are available to them.

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Semester two at Allegheny College is somehow underway, syllabi are essentially set, and I’m so thrilled by how keen my students are for critical, historical approaches to queer and trans studies.

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Distracting myself from the world today by updating the checklist of fiction by trans/non-binary/two-spirit authors I made last year. Available here for all who are interested: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Trans/Non-Binary/Two Spirit Fiction Bibliography

Trans/Non-Binary/Two-Spirit Fiction Bibliography [Assembled by Jo Aurelio Giardini in February 2024—in progress] Sofia Ajram Coup De Grâce (2024) Charlie Jane Anders Choir Boy (2005) All the Birds ...

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

docs.google.com

Trans/Non-Binary/Two Spirit Fiction Bibliography

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Introduce yourself with 4 movies:

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