Charlie O'Malley
@charlesomalley.bsky.social
writer, dramaturg, queer historian, scorpio, dad, union member
books: toward a just pedagogy of performance (2023); shakespeare's margaret (2026)
current project: theatre for a new age: queer performance in 1970s san francisco
cwbomalley.com
books: toward a just pedagogy of performance (2023); shakespeare's margaret (2026)
current project: theatre for a new age: queer performance in 1970s san francisco
cwbomalley.com
the oscar nominations make me really miss old twitter. those were they days.
January 22, 2026 at 2:03 PM
the oscar nominations make me really miss old twitter. those were they days.
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Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, the book i wrote with my co-conspirator / husband @scottwstern.bsky.social, is coming out 2 june 2026 from @wwnorton.com!
take a look at the book page linked below and place those preorders!
we're traveling in june to promote the book; hope to see some of you on the road 😎
take a look at the book page linked below and place those preorders!
we're traveling in june to promote the book; hope to see some of you on the road 😎
January 17, 2026 at 9:39 PM
SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, the book i wrote with my co-conspirator / husband @scottwstern.bsky.social, is coming out 2 june 2026 from @wwnorton.com!
take a look at the book page linked below and place those preorders!
we're traveling in june to promote the book; hope to see some of you on the road 😎
take a look at the book page linked below and place those preorders!
we're traveling in june to promote the book; hope to see some of you on the road 😎
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Y'all, @charlesomalley.bsky.social and my book, SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, comes out on June 2!!!
Please please please consider preordering - it honestly makes a huge difference!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Please please please consider preordering - it honestly makes a huge difference!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
January 17, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Y'all, @charlesomalley.bsky.social and my book, SHAKESPEARE'S MARGARET, comes out on June 2!!!
Please please please consider preordering - it honestly makes a huge difference!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Please please please consider preordering - it honestly makes a huge difference!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
in non-the-world-is-terrible news, i am finally reading @markharris.bsky.social's pictures at a revolution, which is fabulous, provocative, and just inspiring. sometimes you intend to read something for a long time, & when you finally do, it exceeds your expectations. more of those books, please!
January 9, 2026 at 5:59 PM
in non-the-world-is-terrible news, i am finally reading @markharris.bsky.social's pictures at a revolution, which is fabulous, provocative, and just inspiring. sometimes you intend to read something for a long time, & when you finally do, it exceeds your expectations. more of those books, please!
from @scottwstern.bsky.social !!
International environmental law has floundered in the face of the global climate crisis and cannot hold our worst actors to account. @scottwstern.bsky.social traces the problems back to the 1972 UN Conference that put us on this trajectory.
Earth, Bound | Scott W. Stern
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 marked the birth of international environmental law. It was moribund from the start.
thebaffler.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
from @scottwstern.bsky.social !!
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International environmental law has floundered in the face of the global climate crisis and cannot hold our worst actors to account. @scottwstern.bsky.social traces the problems back to the 1972 UN Conference that put us on this trajectory.
Earth, Bound | Scott W. Stern
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 marked the birth of international environmental law. It was moribund from the start.
thebaffler.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
International environmental law has floundered in the face of the global climate crisis and cannot hold our worst actors to account. @scottwstern.bsky.social traces the problems back to the 1972 UN Conference that put us on this trajectory.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate
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We have a new website! It's a monster eating buildings! Hopefully it's friendly! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
(scroll down and check out the "Oakland in Books" feature! we have fun.)
(scroll down and check out the "Oakland in Books" feature! we have fun.)
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We have a new website! It's a monster eating buildings! Hopefully it's friendly! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
(scroll down and check out the "Oakland in Books" feature! we have fun.)
(scroll down and check out the "Oakland in Books" feature! we have fun.)
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
new from scott, on @triofrancos.bsky.social's EXTRACTION!
Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com, wherein I review EXTRACTION (@wwnorton.com), a dazzling new book by @triofrancos.bsky.social.
I argue that it is "by far the most clear-eyed of mining’s many recent chronicles." www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
I argue that it is "by far the most clear-eyed of mining’s many recent chronicles." www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
The Costs of the Green Transition
A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
new from scott, on @triofrancos.bsky.social's EXTRACTION!
check out scott's latest in @nybooks.com -- reviewing a history of a women's prison in indiana written by those currently incarcerated there. beautifully written and devastating.
in the oct. 9 print edition!
in the oct. 9 print edition!
Our 10/9 issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Charlotte Brontë, @harikunzru.bsky.social on Adolescence, @scottwstern.bsky.social on women’s prisons, Dorothy Sue Cobble on home work, Joshua Hammer on Prigozhin & the Wagner Group, and much more.
October 9, 2025 Issue
Table of Contents
buff.ly
September 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
check out scott's latest in @nybooks.com -- reviewing a history of a women's prison in indiana written by those currently incarcerated there. beautifully written and devastating.
in the oct. 9 print edition!
in the oct. 9 print edition!
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This afternoon, I’m retracing the steps of a Curtain playgoer from the early 1610s, a young domestic servant. On 13th May, he came here to see the Duke of York’s men and then headed back to his mistress’s house in St Bartholomew’s hospital. #CurrainBook
September 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This afternoon, I’m retracing the steps of a Curtain playgoer from the early 1610s, a young domestic servant. On 13th May, he came here to see the Duke of York’s men and then headed back to his mistress’s house in St Bartholomew’s hospital. #CurrainBook
omg my microsoft word just autocorrected "governor" to "gov'ner" no idea how that happened but thrilled nonetheless
September 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
omg my microsoft word just autocorrected "governor" to "gov'ner" no idea how that happened but thrilled nonetheless
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Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.
basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.
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#OtD 10 Sep 1962 white supremacists attempted to assassinate Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi. While staying with her friend Mary Tucker, racists drove by, firing 16 shots at her, all of which missed. Learn more about Jim Crow: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
September 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#OtD 10 Sep 1962 white supremacists attempted to assassinate Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi. While staying with her friend Mary Tucker, racists drove by, firing 16 shots at her, all of which missed. Learn more about Jim Crow: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Humanities are the antidote to the empire’s greatest weapon: ignorance. They expose how history is weaponized to justify conquest, and how culture is polished to erase resistance. When you attack the humanities, you attack the very tools people use to unlearn oppression.
September 8, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Humanities are the antidote to the empire’s greatest weapon: ignorance. They expose how history is weaponized to justify conquest, and how culture is polished to erase resistance. When you attack the humanities, you attack the very tools people use to unlearn oppression.
scott's book gets a rave in the new york times !!
Beyond thrilled to receive a glowing review in today's @nytimes.com!!! THERE IS A DEEP BROODING IN ARKANSAS is a "powerful new history"!
An enormous thanks to @alexiscoe.bsky.social for her deep engagement with my work! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
An enormous thanks to @alexiscoe.bsky.social for her deep engagement with my work! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
Is the Supreme Court the Best Way to Get Justice?
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
scott's book gets a rave in the new york times !!
new review from @scottwstern.bsky.social !!
Check out my latest in @newrepublic.com - a review of "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion" by @goblemark.bsky.social!
The review asks why this one particular special effect resonates - and concludes it's because "our world is, obviously, ending" newrepublic.com/article/1962...
The review asks why this one particular special effect resonates - and concludes it's because "our world is, obviously, ending" newrepublic.com/article/1962...
How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect
The turbulent late ‘60s saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers (and literary artists) engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.
newrepublic.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
new review from @scottwstern.bsky.social !!
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It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
Why We're Launching Bay Area Current
Because workers deserve everything.
bayareacurrent.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It’s a BAD DAY for the Bay’s tech and real estate oligarchs, and a VERY GOOD DAY for those of us who pay rent, work shifts, jump the turnstile, argue with the CalFresh guy, and wait forever for the god damn bus. Why? Because
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
@bayareacurrent
has arrived. 😈
bayareacurrent.com/why-were-lau...
giving my 10 month old eye drops just as he's perfecting the word dada -- heartbreaking
May 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
giving my 10 month old eye drops just as he's perfecting the word dada -- heartbreaking
Rest in peace Justice David Souter, the only correct vote in NEA v. Finley, a disastrous decision for art and speech.
Karen Finley claimed that after the decision came down and all those represented in the case were devastated, she received a bouquet of flowers from "An Anonymous Souter". Legend.
Karen Finley claimed that after the decision came down and all those represented in the case were devastated, she received a bouquet of flowers from "An Anonymous Souter". Legend.
May 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Rest in peace Justice David Souter, the only correct vote in NEA v. Finley, a disastrous decision for art and speech.
Karen Finley claimed that after the decision came down and all those represented in the case were devastated, she received a bouquet of flowers from "An Anonymous Souter". Legend.
Karen Finley claimed that after the decision came down and all those represented in the case were devastated, she received a bouquet of flowers from "An Anonymous Souter". Legend.