First of all, many good things have come through this Fall that have me counting my proverbial blessings. I got to spend a weekend in my old stomping grounds (at CUNY and NYU) for two panels in two days about The Reality of Race in SF/Fantasy & Gaming and Visuality & Postcolonial Print Cultures, respectively.
I’m not saying my presentation on Black Panther was 🔥🔥🔥 but…
But now Winter is here, and that means… what? Stay in cold places? Retreat to warm places? Both? OK.
Not sure about this TripHappy tool, but if you like it, I love it.
One exciting task ahead is reading essays for the GLQ Caucus of the MLA‘s Crompton-Noll Award for the best essay in LGBTQ Studies! It’s kind of a lot, owing to the fact that the prize was not awarded last year and we’re making up for it by evaluating two years’ worth of eligible submissions this time around, but it’s for a good cause. Plus, I will be totally up-to-date on all the LGBTQ lingo from (checks publication date) two years ago. Work.
Also: if you haven’t already, get into the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies! Not get into it like you should feel pressed to submit something for publication, although you should, but get into it, i.e., read these informative, eye-opening works of criticism and commentary. I’m currently really feeling this roundtable from a while back titled “Proliferating Cripistemologies.”
The contributors include Lennard Davis, David Serlin, Emma Kivisild, Jennifer Nash, Jack Halberstam, Margaret Price, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Jasbir Puar, Susan Schweik, Jennifer James, Lisa Duggan, and Carrie Sandahl. In addition, I want to shoutout Sami Schalk, whose book Bodyminds Reimagined is the business.
My colleagues who are scholars with disabilities and disability studies scholars are doing the work. It resonates with a lot of the effort toward decolonizing epistemologies and ontologies that I know I need to take up right now… post-tenure, I’m getting out of my interdisciplinary comfort zone and into this new “mid-career thoughtful person” look. Lately, at Radcliffe, I’ve been thinking about what I can do as a scholar, professional, and citizen who can’t do everything but can do some things that others may not.
Wait–I just realized I left another city off that map. Gotta go!