And Warner Bros took our clearly fair use video essay down again. I'm going to fight them on it, but it may take a while *sigh*

Director, performer and scholar Leslie Hill joins the Theatre & Dance faculty this fall as Department Chair and Professor of Theatre. muhlenberg.edu/news/2024/thea…

In #TWC42 , Francesca Coppa's 'Vidding: A History' is reviewed by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard. Though he notes some weaknesses, such as the lack of music analysis, he recommends the monograph to those interested in fan history, fan vids, and fan editing! Read here: bit.ly/3UtfiP1

This is absolutely the ad I’ll be showing my son to explain to him how the world of devices he was born into is trying to rob him of everything valuable in life. This is like an ad for The Anxious Generation.

Meeting Diane Seuss was one of the great privileges of MacDowell. Her writing profoundly shaped my own and I don’t thank her enough for teaching me implicitly how to not just look at my wounds but to tickle and distort them before they start to scar.

“There is no origin. The photos on the page look weird. The hands are disfigured. There is no image credit.”

Heat Death of the Internet
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Because every American should be able to turn on the tap and drink clean, safe water.

We are excited to announce the first-ever winners of the ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! University of London Press UBC Press RavenSpace

Meet the winners: bit.ly/3UohA22

#CheckItOut ! University of Michigan Press has a survey that users of Open Access books are prompted to take when they first open an OA book. Analysis of 8,325 responses led to 5 books being selected for investingating the benefits of OA publishing: blogs.lib.umich.edu/tiny-studies/h…

There's clearly something special about Muhlenberg College, where both Francesca Coppa and Jeff Pooley | @[email protected] are faculty members. That's a lot of innovative publishing coming out of a small liberal arts college in Allentown, PA.

ACLS Open Access Book Prize Multimodal finalist Francesca Coppa shares her experience publishing 'Vidding: A History' (@UofMPress) open access: bit.ly/3JcVz0T

#openaccess Fulcrum Michigan Publishing

ACLS Open Access Book Prize finalists A.D. Carson and Francesca Coppa shared why they published their books 'i used to love to dream' and 'Vidding: A History' as #OpenAccess in the latest ACLS newsletter! Read more here: mailchi.mp/22437b9d1081/f…

Trevor Griffiths one of the great stage & television playwrights of the 1970s and 1980s has died. Has anyone (other than Brecht) blended political dialectic with theatrical magic better? If he'd only written COMEDIANS he'd be one of the greats, but he wrote so much more. RIP

Happy spring! 🌸

Interrupting our #TWC 42 coverage with a reminder: The #TWC Fans of Color Research Prize deadline is 1 month way!! More details here: bit.ly/3UjuTSX

In our ACLS #OpenAccess Book Prize newsletter, read a Q&A with finalists Mytheli Sreenivas ('Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India') & Hwisang Cho ('The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea'). Both are published @uwapress & supported TOME

Pedro Pascal Reveals Just How Important Buffy the Vampire Slayer Was to His Career dlvr.it/T4GRCd

Yes, the Emperor is a Dark Lord of the Sith, builds Death Stars to blow up planets, and killed all of the Jedi, but Yoda is OLD, walks with a CANE and TALKS FUNNY.

Who do YOU trust to run the Galaxy?

because we’re here on earth to fart around

Cyndi Lauper and Laura Dern 👑