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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 · 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 · 18/03/2025

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

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

And today, in a different class, we discussed this passage from Jan Morris' 'Conundrum,' envisioning (with an unfortunate orientalist framing) a version of identity which emphasizes its relationality, its ability to travel.

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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.