Kellen Hoxworth
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo.
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Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
My profile pic is over a decade old.
Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
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My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
An idea for a website that allows faculty to write back to student evals to respond to their harsh criticism and rejection.
It is called BonnieRaittMyProfessor.
It is called BonnieRaittMyProfessor.
February 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
An idea for a website that allows faculty to write back to student evals to respond to their harsh criticism and rejection.
It is called BonnieRaittMyProfessor.
It is called BonnieRaittMyProfessor.
Season 5 of The Wire has now been rewritten with McNulty using AI to fabricate a serial killer that the local newspaper uses AI to “report” on.
There is no Dickensian moral quandary anymore because everyone agrees that “AI is inevitable.”
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
There is no Dickensian moral quandary anymore because everyone agrees that “AI is inevitable.”
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Season 5 of The Wire has now been rewritten with McNulty using AI to fabricate a serial killer that the local newspaper uses AI to “report” on.
There is no Dickensian moral quandary anymore because everyone agrees that “AI is inevitable.”
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
There is no Dickensian moral quandary anymore because everyone agrees that “AI is inevitable.”
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Somewhere, my Buffalo-born and -raised two-year-old picked up the phrase “morning tea.” So now every first meal of the day is definitely *not* breakfast anymore.
February 15, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Somewhere, my Buffalo-born and -raised two-year-old picked up the phrase “morning tea.” So now every first meal of the day is definitely *not* breakfast anymore.
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Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2
February 14, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2
(whispers conspiratorially):
“Jump the shark” caught on as a popular expression not because everyone watched the same episode of TV but because as a locution it closely resembles and replaces “jump the track,” which relied on a dated locomotive metaphor instead of a TV reference.
“Jump the shark” caught on as a popular expression not because everyone watched the same episode of TV but because as a locution it closely resembles and replaces “jump the track,” which relied on a dated locomotive metaphor instead of a TV reference.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
(whispers conspiratorially):
“Jump the shark” caught on as a popular expression not because everyone watched the same episode of TV but because as a locution it closely resembles and replaces “jump the track,” which relied on a dated locomotive metaphor instead of a TV reference.
“Jump the shark” caught on as a popular expression not because everyone watched the same episode of TV but because as a locution it closely resembles and replaces “jump the track,” which relied on a dated locomotive metaphor instead of a TV reference.
Reposted by Kellen Hoxworth
MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
They are tools of mass sousveillance.
Saying it doesn’t make it so. www.theverge.com/tech/876866/...
February 11, 2026 at 11:56 AM
They are tools of mass sousveillance.
February 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
This is a good omen for the Seattle Seahawks.
Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!
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Columbia River region, Washington or Oregon Owl Effigy Bowl, Pre-contact](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreiaxaulktswucukcuss752nhzy6sfm3e4zorpkweasatu6daarqd5a@jpeg)
February 8, 2026 at 9:50 PM
This is a good omen for the Seattle Seahawks.
“The censorious left wants to tell you which pedophiles you can seek patronage from. It’s cancel culture to ask journalists not to serve at the whims of petty sex tyrants!”
i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
“The censorious left wants to tell you which pedophiles you can seek patronage from. It’s cancel culture to ask journalists not to serve at the whims of petty sex tyrants!”
“This is how men behave” (citation needed).
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
“This is how men behave” (citation needed).
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
Last night, I did an interview with the Context of White Supremacy podcast where we discussed my book, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance. We got deep into the book and the complex, global history of racialized performance. Check it out:
The C.O.W.S. w/ Dr. Kellen Hoxworth: Minstrels Shows & The Global Culture of White Supremacy 🎭
Podcast Episode · The C.O.W.S. · 02/01/2026 · 1 sec
podcasts.apple.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Last night, I did an interview with the Context of White Supremacy podcast where we discussed my book, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance. We got deep into the book and the complex, global history of racialized performance. Check it out:
New tagline for @ifbookspod.bsky.social
Venn diagram of ‘social science airport book author’ and ‘epstein files’ getting more crowded
February 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
New tagline for @ifbookspod.bsky.social
I picked these five because they are in general *not* what I research and write about now, but also because in oblique and indefinite ways they had some formative influence on my thinking.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Introduction to Human Evolution
2. Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
3. Old English Literature: Beowulf
4. Human Use of the Earth
5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Development
1. Introduction to Human Evolution
2. Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
3. Old English Literature: Beowulf
4. Human Use of the Earth
5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Development
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
January 31, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I picked these five because they are in general *not* what I research and write about now, but also because in oblique and indefinite ways they had some formative influence on my thinking.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Introduction to Human Evolution
2. Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
3. Old English Literature: Beowulf
4. Human Use of the Earth
5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Development
1. Introduction to Human Evolution
2. Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
3. Old English Literature: Beowulf
4. Human Use of the Earth
5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Development
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Introduction to Human Evolution
2. Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
3. Old English Literature: Beowulf
4. Human Use of the Earth
5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Development
1. Introduction to Human Evolution
2. Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
3. Old English Literature: Beowulf
4. Human Use of the Earth
5. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Identity Development
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Congratulations to third-year theatre and performance PhD student Teya Juarez on the publication of her article, “Fat Suits and Fat Futures: Ob*sity Drag in The Whale,” in the latest issue of the Journal of American Drama & Theatre.
www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/fat-sui...
www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/fat-sui...
January 28, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Congratulations to third-year theatre and performance PhD student Teya Juarez on the publication of her article, “Fat Suits and Fat Futures: Ob*sity Drag in The Whale,” in the latest issue of the Journal of American Drama & Theatre.
www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/fat-sui...
www.thesegalcenter.org/jadt/fat-sui...
For those who still think that higher education is some hoity-toity ivory tower:
When it snows outside, in Buffalo, NY, it snows a little bit inside my campus office.
When it snows outside, in Buffalo, NY, it snows a little bit inside my campus office.
January 28, 2026 at 4:01 PM
For those who still think that higher education is some hoity-toity ivory tower:
When it snows outside, in Buffalo, NY, it snows a little bit inside my campus office.
When it snows outside, in Buffalo, NY, it snows a little bit inside my campus office.
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My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
John Roberts has no peace that citizens and subjects of the United States are bound to respect.
John Roberts is worse than Roger fucking Taney.
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 PM
John Roberts has no peace that citizens and subjects of the United States are bound to respect.
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Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
January 24, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
Reposted by Kellen Hoxworth
Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry.
It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.
It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry.
It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.
It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
January 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.