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Wendy Allison Lee

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Not the novelist or the other Wendy A. Lee. Opinions my own (because, of course, they are?).

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Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s been a hard week and I nearly missed that this was finally out. I wrote “Victorian Studies and the American State” 5 years ago and have been discussing it with some of you for a decade. Surreal to see, and grateful to be in the good company of @jakeromanow.bsky.social and brilliant respondents
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Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2
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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I asked the students in HIST 111: Histories of Technology to send me a photo of their preferred in-class writing instrument, do a deep dive re: its materials, manufacture & tell me where they got it, what it feels like to write with+++ Their responses have been a HUGE pleasure to read!
An image of a Muji mechanical pencil on a dark wood surfaceA black mechanical pencil and eraser on a piece of lined paper with some writing on it.Several images of a Muji mechanical pencil from different anglesA hand holding a grey Bic pen with a black cap in a classroom (chairs in the background)
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Princeton is hiring some early-career fellows/visiting scholars in African American Studies networks.h-net.org/jobs/69306/p...
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Princeton University - Postdoctoral Research Associate in African American Studies | H-Net
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Clark With Me In Hell @justinofclark.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Emma Thompson is all of us.
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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It's official: MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND has a cover! I love how the yellow feels like a run over hazard sign, and the mixtape is perhaps my personal 90s icon. As for those sexy statues? You'll have to read it to find out...
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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Attn: @dem8z.bsky.social, you are part of today's Out of the Archives post!
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
brown alums sign and share standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...
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Brown must reject Trump’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence” – Stand Strong Brown
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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Joan Wallach Scott 4eva!
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Sometimes y’all really do test me.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The critique that police aren’t workers hasn’t been helpful to abolition. It’s not about welcoming carceral industries in the labor movement. It’s about dealing with how the economy, public sector jobs, and budgets are entangled with carcerality. And organizing for a new public with different work.
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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy Birthday to The Women! The film was released September 1, 1939.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
John Wood Jr. giving us an always useful reminder that advocates for bipartisanship, depolarization, etc. are almost always just opposed to you having any ideas which they don't agree with.
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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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
counterpoint criticism is the art of animating crap.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.
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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
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James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Thank you @dem8z.bsky.social
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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I felt I needed to learn more about AI (even though the subject bores me profoundly), and this was a great place to start. Recommend highly! A few quick thoughts… 1/
Cover of Karen Hao’s Empire of AI
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
OMG it is not useful. I say that because it does not work, from my perspective as a teacher & scholar. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I never thought there'd be a worse freshman-year assignment than me being required to read a Thomas Friedman book for an international relations class but this is it
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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I love the cover art as homage to Clueless and am totally looking forward to reading this book.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/06/2025
Tangential I guess but the beginningof my next book is about why we need science and poetry to help us understand metaphors or else we are politically fucked and this guy is proving my point 😭
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Corey McEleney @cmceleney.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.
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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
My So-Called Life at 30! Edited by the amazing @dfmorgan.bsky.social and with an essay by one of my favorite practitioners of the art of overanalysis @cmceleney.bsky.social
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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 27/05/2025
Just out--I wrote a piece for the New Yorker explaining how the effects of Trump's anti-trans attacks go far beyond trans communities. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government
By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety.
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The way I am obsessed with this opening paragraph, seared into my academic consciousness forever for its unique combination of discursiveness and economy, and for its declarative nature and originality; the way nothing would be the same. Criticism is life. A+
Screenshot to the opening paragraph of Sianne Ngai’s “Our Aesthetic Categories”: HIs Book makes a simple argument about the zany, the interest-ing, and the cute: that these three aesthetic categories, for all their marginality to aesthetic theory and to genealogies of postmod-ernism, are the ones in our current repertoire best suited for grasping how aesthetic experience has been transformed by the hypercommodified, information-saturated, performance-driven conditions of late capitalism.
This is because the zany, the interesting, and the cute index—and are thus each in a historically concrete way about—the system's most socially binding processes: production, in the case of zaniness (an aesthetic about performing as not just artful play but affective labor); circulation, in the case of the interesting (an aesthetic about difference in the form of information and the pathways of its movement and exchange); and consump-tion, in the case of the cute (an aesthetic disclosing the surprisingly wide spectrum of feelings, ranging from tenderness to aggression, that we harbor toward ostensibly subordinate and unthreatening commodities). As sensuous, affective reflections of the ways in which contemporary subjects work, exchange, and consume (and as the cute and the zany in particular will show, in ways significantly mediated by gender, sexuality, and class), the commodity aesthetic of cuteness, the discursive aesthetic of the interesting, and the performative aesthetic of zaniness help us get at some of the most important social dynamics underlying life in late capitalist society today. No other aesthetic categories in our current repertoire speak to these everyday practices of production, circulation, and consumption in the same direct way.”
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Please read my essay in TIME, which @science.org did not do carefully before publishing this assertion. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Wendy Allison Lee @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@cinementalist.bsky.social on The White Lotus is great: "what a sneer it is. In this one expression, we see the premise of the show in the promise of a lip. This sneer is also key to understanding the show’s farcical approach to class politics." I also love the turn to the question of genre.
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M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska @mjrp.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
fascinated by these hamfisted historical comparisons--this is what happens when you get your infomration as content without analysis
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Betsy More @betsymore.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Tired: universal healthcare, affordable housing, parental leave, accessible childcare Wired: Nazi birthing medals
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Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning (Gift Article)
Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
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What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
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Ryan Ken @ryankenacts.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Interesting how the party who spent years telling everyone that learning American history is “too woke” is citing the most obscure 19th century laws to justify its actions.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This will be up on YouTube at some point after and I'll post a transcript to my newsletter
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Come see me this Monday! Ignore the strangeness of me smiling next to a headline about my own immiseration by an ascendant fascist movement!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
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URGENT: Save the NEH
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Writing about how I'm tired of publishing crisis narratives, on the one hand, and a tendency to celebrate public-facing trendy hits instead of, you know, scholarly books, on the other, and lo and behold Brian, my grumpy kin in "that thing you hate is fine actually," has said all the good stuff here.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
So a wannabe DOGEr at Brown Univ from the conservative student paper took the univ org chart and ran it through an AI aglo to determine which jobs were "BS" in his estimation and then emailed those employees/admins asking them what tasks they do and to justify their jobs. bloat.brownspectator.com
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Bloat@Brown
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
the avocado i tried to eat too early
chalomet red carpet
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differences @differences.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
Poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique." White and yellow text on black background. Logos in the bottom corners indicate that the event is sponsored by differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and the Pembroke Center at Brown University.Poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique." White and yellow text on black background.  The description reads: "Ecocriticism has been seduced by metaphors of entanglement. Four critics challenge the increasingly dominant logic of relationality to think the climate crisis without displacing the social and racial antagonisms that found it." Below this description is a list of participants: Lynne Huffer (Emory), Axelle Karera (Emory), Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo (Brown), and Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York), with Elizabeth A. Wilson (Emory) moderating. The event will take place on March 7th from 2pm to 6pm at Brown University in Pembroke Hall 305.
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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thurs., Feb. 13 at 4:00 p.m., Professor of French and Francophone Studies Thangam Ravindranathan will deliver the annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman '77, P'06 '09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies, entitled “Unearthly Literature: Re-reading Nathalie Sarraute.” More: buff.ly/3WhHu9p
 The annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman '77, P'06 '09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Unearthly Literature: Re-reading Nathalie Sarraute. Thangam Ravindranathan, Prof. of French and Francophone Studies.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305
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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Seats avail in GNSS 1962D: Visual Art and Black Feminist Theory. This course will closely analyze black feminist theory alongside a wide-ranging survey of significant painting, sculpture, performance, photography, & installation art made by black women. buff.ly/4aywf1a
GNSS 1962D Visual Art and Black Feminist Theory. Thursday. 4-6:30 p.m. Instructor Patricia Ekpo.
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