Tressie McMillan Cottom

tressiemcphd.bsky.social

17 September 2026 14:05

Anyway, to my colleagues in politically maligned but in-demand disciplines, I know it is hard to be this hot. All the weird dudes hate us and the other girlies want to be us. Stay hot, anyway. Stay hot, my friends.

Tim Carmody

tcarmody.bsky.social

16 September 2026 11:39

I don't know if I trust you if you read all these musicians pulling out of Ed Sheeran's tour first and foremost as an act of "solidarity with Macklemore" or even "opposing censorship of artists" instead of profound solidarity w/the people of Palestine. All the statements seem quite clear about this

Julia Carrie Wong

joolia.bsky.social

16 September 2026 11:39

one of the keys to my recovery from my nervous breakdown was figuring out which parts of myself I needed to learn how to ignore bc they are crazy and trying to kill me. kinda feel that a similar problem is going on vis our societal nervous breakdown insofar as the wrong voices are being listened to

Julia Carrie Wong

joolia.bsky.social

16 September 2026 11:39

As a person who has had a nervous breakdown, I feel moderately qualified to say that we are having a societal nervous breakdown

Tim Carmody

tcarmody.bsky.social

16 September 2026 11:39

It's so easy to turn a public argument about one specific, very substantial, very nuts-and-bolts, life-and-death topic into a second- or third-order argument about discursive effects. Next people will be arguing that it's wrong to "cancel" Sheeran like that has anything to do with what's happening