Notes
I made a new t-shirt/merch design: Stick a Fork in Me - I’m PhDone.
Two true things about my brother @MicahHirsh: he’s an animator and he’s autistic. For Autism Acceptance Month, I’m going to share some of my favorites of his work. #CelebrateDifference
Yesterday, I told Dr. Katie Rose Guest Pryal that she should take the good idea she couldn’t do now and do it later. Today, I made DO IT LATER merch.
Registration for #FanLIS2022 is open! If you’re interested in fan studies in library and information science (#FanLIS), be sure to check out this free, virtual symposium. I’ll be talking about how cosplayers find, evaluate, use, create, and share information!
Hello world. Please mark the wonderfulness of my spouse who, when my kid wanted to go find the neighbors & play after we’d been out all day with people who aren’t in our household, agreed to go outside with him. Get you a life partner who understands when you need to introvert.
🎭🎵 Spending my Tues night building an audition repertoire, as one does.
- The Party’s Over
- A Trip to the Library
- Another Hundred People
- Astonishing
- Schroeder
- Let It Go
- Worst Pies in London
- Last Midnight
- Everybody Loves Louis
- I’m Going Back
& 2 opera
🔖 Read How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow.
A couple key quotes:
Start acting like every idea you come across or come up with has the potential for brilliance, and that potential is more likely to be realized.
…don’t pursue goals; instead create systems that encourage attractors to emerge on their own.
🍿🎭🎵 Watched Anything Goes.
Sutton Foster is my hero. Wish I could get to NYC to see her in The Music Man. Everybody in this production was great. I need to watch more musicals because they always make me so happy.
I appreciate the implication from Star Trek: Picard that our timeline is the horrible timeline Q created. 🖖🏻📺
Finished reading: “So What Are You Going to Do with That?" by Susan Basalla 📚
This pandemy has not lessened my misanthropy. Today I got very annoyed that another family was in the Museum of Life and Science bathroom (a large bathroom with many, many stalls) at the same time as me. What effrontery!
🔖🎭 Read Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater (Catapult) by Lindsey Trout Hughes.
This resonated with me more than anything else I’ve read recently.
“I wanted not abandonment but expansion.”
🔖🎵 Read “The Queerest of the Queer”: Listening to Garbage in the Nineties (Catapult) by Niko Stratis.
I enjoy Garbage so much and I appreciate this meditation on what Shirley Manson signifies about gender.
🔖 Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. (HuffPost) by Emily McCombs
A good read; not nearly as dramatic as the headline makes it sound.
🔖♿ Read Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith.
Excellent column illuminating the challenges in and importance of recognizing disability as a spectrum of experiences.
📝 The programme for #FanLIS 2022 is live! I’ll be sharing my dissertation research on Friday, May 20. I’ll let you know when registration opens. If you are interested in fandom, libraries, and information science, check it out!
🔖📚 Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth
The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I love Osworth’s discussion of how it marks gender and symbolizes vulnerability. I want a world where masculinity embraces vulnerability.
🔖 Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Can’t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote
🔖 Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen
CW: Racism, rape
A beautiful meditation on one person’s relationship with the Tarot. My practice has fallen aside lately.