Cait Mckinney
caitmckinney.bsky.social
Cait Mckinney
@caitmckinney.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at SFU Communication Studies working on queer media history.
The part of my job that is putting comments on student papers explaining the etymology of “seminal” and “disseminate.”
December 18, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Apply to our 4S open panel on “Machine Desires: Sexual Technologies, Sexual Reverberations”. Seattle, Washington, September 3 – 7

Apps due January 31: 4sonline.org/meeting.php

Pls share
December 18, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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I feel like the absolutely absence of posts about holding space for defying gravity on this site is mind blowing and unacceptable
November 23, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Today is the official publication day for my new book, I Know You Are, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman from @UMinnPress. You can pick up a copy here or read the ebook for free: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791828... Get 40% with code MN91270
July 2, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Happy pub day to two incredible Forerunners! Shenila Khoja-Moolji's The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood and Cait McKinney's I Know You Are, but What Am I? @skhojamoolji.bsky.social @caitmckinney.bsky.social
July 2, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Coffee and pencils, today let’s think with
@caitmckinney.bsky.social who writes: “.. there is delight, learning, and even repair available through the act of looking back at how Pee-wee used to look forward, at play and in relation with all his beautiful machines.”
upress.umn.edu/book-division/
May 31, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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"If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present."
Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
November 16, 2023 at 4:53 PM
Completing the marketing “author questionnaire” for a book is by far the most shame-inducing task involved in this job, other than the job market. “Who will be interested in this book?” NO ONE? My friends…? Please stop looking at me.
November 14, 2023 at 7:20 PM
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Anna Anthropy has put Dys4ia back online. For those who don't know, Dys4ia is considered critical to the indie games canon of the 2010s, getting a level of recognition, and notoriety for the maker, that ultimately caused her to try & erase it from history. Dev notes here:

w.itch.io/dys4ia/devlo...
November 13, 2023 at 2:57 PM
This is gonna be a must read for media and disability studies, and health communication. Can’t wait.
November 13, 2023 at 10:52 PM