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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 11h

I’m told (okay Nicola Sturgeon on IG said so) Icelanders give books on Xmas Eve & everyone spends the evening reading…!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18h

Finishing up my end-of-semester reading treat (RF Kuang's Babel) before moving on to the door-stopper Derek Jarman bio (you know it's big when it comes with a sewn-in bookmark).

RF Kuang's novel BABEL: An Arcane History on top of Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography on a clear plastic table with a colorful rug as background.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 20h

My reading notes piece on multimodal Derek Jarman...
www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-note...

Multimodal Derek Jarman — Lisa Diedrich

My title “Multimodal Derek Jarman” foregrounds Jarman’s diverse, multimodal practices of art and politics, which I have immersed myself in over the past month. It also intentionally echoes the phrase ...

www.lisadiedrich.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 20h

Fave present. This has been a year of reading & thinking with Derek Jarman.

Tony Peake's Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography
Two blurbs on cover: "The definitive biography." Neil Tennant
"Monumentally well-researched." The Times
Forword: Olivia Laing
Afterword: Jon Savage
Black and white photo of Jarman at his canonization ceremony by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 1991. He is wearing a gorgeous glittery robe & sitting on a throne made of drift wood & other found objects on the beach at Dungeness.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo on Christmas Eve 2025: "While a distorted economy leads us to treat human beings as mere merchandise, God becomes like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God

Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.

www.reuters.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Outrageous.
(But gotta love the annotation.) #IllnessPolitics

Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 1d

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely this. But also they are targeting people who are especially vulnerable in the current political climate: QTBIPOC graduate students, lecturers, adjuncts. It’s appalling what universities have allowed to happen. Hoping this grad student is able to go to another uni where she is supported.

honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

“continuation vehicles” propping up “deal activity” = late stage American empire

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

"continuation vehicles" is to private equity firms what buying on margin was for 1920s stockbrokers

Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Oh we are so cooked

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

"continuation vehicles" is to private equity firms what buying on margin was for 1920s stockbrokers

Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Oh we are so cooked

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Private equity firms have been struggling to deliver on their core business model of taking on debt, buying companies and selling them for a profit. Several years of high interest rates have made it too expensive for many would-be buyers to purchase companies with debt, and private equity firms are contending with a backlog of more than 31,000 unsold companies, a record amount. Deal activity picked up toward the end of this year, but not enough to make a significant dent in the backlog.
Continuation vehicles are providing a short-term solution by allowing firms to sell the companies to themselves, book a paper gain and wait for interest rates to improve.

Private equity firms have been turning to this strategy more frequently. The dollar value of continuation vehicles across the industry is expected to total $100 billion or more by the end of 2025, up from about $35 billion in 2019, according to the investment bank Evercore.
Private equity is one of the biggest parts of the global economy, with more than $7 trillion in investors' money, and some of those investors are getting increasingly worried that strategies like continuation vehicles are putting off a painful reckoning.

Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 1d

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!

A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”

cnn.it

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

feels so good!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Amanda Fortini: "Rosenkrantz might most accurately be called an artist working in the medium of human speech. She treats language as a found object."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Profile of Linda Rosencrantz in NYT Style Mag. "She hoped to illuminate—through the public act of talking about what usually remains private—the quotidian texture of people’s lives, demystifying the elusive reality of how they spend their days." 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/t...

The Writer Who Turned Gossip Into Art

www.nytimes.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Interview with Ben Whishaw & director Ira Sachs on the art of documenting queerness. Sachs says, "I think once you develop a curiosity in something, you follow paths." www.attitude.co.uk/culture/ben-...

Peter Hujar’s Day: Ben Whishaw, Ira Sachs on LGBTQ history and the art of documenting queerness (EXCLUSIVE)

Attitude catches up with film star Ben about the irrepressible pull of reality TV and "the day that changed my life," as he sits down with his latest director to discuss photography, memory and the pr...

www.attitude.co.uk

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”

cnn.it

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

Saw the film PETER HUJAR’S DAY with Ben Whishaw as Hujar & Rebecca Hall as Rosenkrantz. The film more than the book really captures the intimacy between Hujar & Rosenkrantz as they, together, document a day in his life. Now 50 years later, it’s poignant to have this record of a friendship.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Aug 24

PETER HUJAR’S DAY, which is a transcript of a recording of an exchange between Hujar & Linda Rosenkrantz about everything he fid on the say before, December 18, 1974, is so engaging & hilarious, especially his description of a photoshoot with an incredibly self-absorbed Allen Ginsburg.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

Hunger striker Amu Gib: "And it’s that habit [of resistance not compliance] which reminds us that we always have choices, we always have our imaginations. This keeps us alive. There is no rhyme or reason to our imprisonment. But when you decide to take action despite being in prison, you’re free."

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 6d

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg protesting the travesty that is the UK’s government’s criminalization of opposition to genocide. There has been very little coverage of the Palestine Action prisoners who have been hunger striking.

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

“The image of a Board sneering at the community it is meant to serve is everpresent, both with Ryan’s resignation and his replacement.” Sneering is exactly the right word for the contemptuous way the Board has treated the UVA community. This alum is appalled.
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

EDITORIAL: An eleventh-hour presidential appointment and a community left in the dark

Furthermore, it is hard to ignore that the unanimous vote elevating Beardsley to the University’s top role was undertaken by a Board that is seemingly not legally constituted.

www.cavalierdaily.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

90% of my TL is people sharing youtube links to the 60 Minutes episode Bari tried to bury. #BariEffect

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

The Bari effect: when you try to bury a US program critical of Trump’s policies & it becomes a global hit.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

Sunbathing on the terrace in December.

Self-satisfied tuxedo tabby cat soaking up the sun on the terrace of her fancy cat condo with shadows, including her perfect ears, on the wall behind her.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

Such a powerful statement even as the state does everything to disappear this resistance: "our hunger strike is a way of declaring that the state can’t stop you even when it has you in prison, that we are not going to give up the focus & the responsibility to people, whatever conditions we’re in."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

Hunger striker Amu Gib: "And it’s that habit [of resistance not compliance] which reminds us that we always have choices, we always have our imaginations. This keeps us alive. There is no rhyme or reason to our imprisonment. But when you decide to take action despite being in prison, you’re free."

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 6d

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib

Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib

www.theguardian.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4d

Since folks are talking on here about the temporality of research & writing. This book has been in the works for many years. The editors first brought the contributors together at Stockholm U in 2018. I began thinking & writing about spaces of creativity & care in Almodóvar’s work in 2016.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4d

Vibes are shifting, baby. Ezra says so.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

KLEIN: “.. cruelty as the dominant culture repulses most people. .. Closed and cruel are on their way out. What comes next, I suspect, will present itself as open, friendly and assertively moral.”

@ezraklein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

KLEIN: “.. cruelty as the dominant culture repulses most people. .. Closed and cruel are on their way out. What comes next, I suspect, will present itself as open, friendly and assertively moral.”

@ezraklein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4d

Also: why do we have a system that values the latest tools & the people who hype them vs the folks doing transformative student-centered pedagogy?

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4d

I wish we pushed for research on the political economy of academia more. It's what takes us beyond "oh why did this one person cite a fake journal article?" into "why do we have a system that rewards people who do not engage with prior research and simply churn out pubs?"

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