Kimberly Hirsh

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!

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.

Today’s the day it’s best to ignore the internet, so byeeee.

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.

I have brain fog today. I do not know why I have brain fog today. I’m going to blame hormones. 🧠🌫

🎭🎵 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 One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email.

🔖 Read The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps.

🔖 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.

I appreciate the implication from Star Trek: Picard that our timeline is the horrible timeline Q created. 🖖🏻📺

🍿🎭🎵 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.

🔖🎵 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 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.”

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!

Finished reading: “So What Are You Going to Do with That?" by Susan Basalla 📚

🔖📚 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.

📝 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 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.

🔖 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 twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman.

A beautiful, heartbreaking short story told in the form of a text adventure.

🔖 Read The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal

It breaks my heart when adults won’t figure out how to work with the kids in their lives who don’t conform.

🔖 Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) by Chiara di Lello

I have renewed and revitalized respect for sociologists after trying to quickly understand the sociology of space. Your theories seem impenetrable and yet you continue to build on them.

🔖 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.

🔖 Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Can’t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote