Kellen Hoxworth
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY.
Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
Author of “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.
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It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
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This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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one thing that's nice about canceling your New York Times sub is every week you get at least one or two stories shared on here that make you say, "yeah, it rocks that I did that, I only wish I could do it again." highly recommend you cancel yours if you haven't already
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
one thing that's nice about canceling your New York Times sub is every week you get at least one or two stories shared on here that make you say, "yeah, it rocks that I did that, I only wish I could do it again." highly recommend you cancel yours if you haven't already
New higher ed agenda:
Learn to code switch.
Learn to code switch.
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New higher ed agenda:
Learn to code switch.
Learn to code switch.
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Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
Sounds like the price of rent is going to stabilize all on its own then, huh?
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sounds like the price of rent is going to stabilize all on its own then, huh?
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Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:
Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:
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"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/
The neo-Luddites have the easiest arguments:
We entrusted book sales to Amazon, and now literacy is plummeting;
We entrusted our everyday purchases to online vendors, and now our personal data is currency;
We entrusted our social lives to social media, and now social alienation is skyrocketing.
We entrusted book sales to Amazon, and now literacy is plummeting;
We entrusted our everyday purchases to online vendors, and now our personal data is currency;
We entrusted our social lives to social media, and now social alienation is skyrocketing.
November 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The neo-Luddites have the easiest arguments:
We entrusted book sales to Amazon, and now literacy is plummeting;
We entrusted our everyday purchases to online vendors, and now our personal data is currency;
We entrusted our social lives to social media, and now social alienation is skyrocketing.
We entrusted book sales to Amazon, and now literacy is plummeting;
We entrusted our everyday purchases to online vendors, and now our personal data is currency;
We entrusted our social lives to social media, and now social alienation is skyrocketing.
I recently rewatched the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There, and it is beyond funny that the Timothée Chalamet movie focuses entirely on the period of Dylan’s life that Todd Haynes found so uninteresting that he almost skips it entirely.
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I recently rewatched the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There, and it is beyond funny that the Timothée Chalamet movie focuses entirely on the period of Dylan’s life that Todd Haynes found so uninteresting that he almost skips it entirely.
For those who want to join me in millennial uncoolness, here’s the playlist:
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
For those who want to join me in millennial uncoolness, here’s the playlist:
Being middle aged is realizing that you’ve spent the last six years listening to the same playlist of music that was popular background music in restaurants in 2019.
October 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Being middle aged is realizing that you’ve spent the last six years listening to the same playlist of music that was popular background music in restaurants in 2019.
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Currently in a faculty meeting and everyone else is brainstorming through ChatGPT. Again, we are COOKED
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Currently in a faculty meeting and everyone else is brainstorming through ChatGPT. Again, we are COOKED
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From the July 1936 issue of Esquire.
October 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
From the July 1936 issue of Esquire.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
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The fact that some prominent Democrats defend a Maine Senate primary candidate’s Nazi tattoo while he isn’t even leading in polls, but not defend a NYC mayor primary winner from false smears even as he’s leading general election polls says a lot.
That doesn’t seem driven by voter preference.
That doesn’t seem driven by voter preference.
October 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The fact that some prominent Democrats defend a Maine Senate primary candidate’s Nazi tattoo while he isn’t even leading in polls, but not defend a NYC mayor primary winner from false smears even as he’s leading general election polls says a lot.
That doesn’t seem driven by voter preference.
That doesn’t seem driven by voter preference.
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This makes a good argument for how REAL reading requires moving beyond "excerpts" and focusing on the organic relation of part to whole: "We need whole texts—novels, plays, or poems—to care about literature." slate.com/life/2025/10...
There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
slate.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This makes a good argument for how REAL reading requires moving beyond "excerpts" and focusing on the organic relation of part to whole: "We need whole texts—novels, plays, or poems—to care about literature." slate.com/life/2025/10...
I can’t believe we’re really going to have more than a week of debate about “stigmatizing” a political candidate who literally branded himself with Nazi stigmata.
A stigma is a mark of shame on the body that marks someone as outside a group. No one stigmatized him! He literally did it to himself.
A stigma is a mark of shame on the body that marks someone as outside a group. No one stigmatized him! He literally did it to himself.
CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I can’t believe we’re really going to have more than a week of debate about “stigmatizing” a political candidate who literally branded himself with Nazi stigmata.
A stigma is a mark of shame on the body that marks someone as outside a group. No one stigmatized him! He literally did it to himself.
A stigma is a mark of shame on the body that marks someone as outside a group. No one stigmatized him! He literally did it to himself.
Kreon: We are a nation of laws! Are you against law and order!?
Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start.
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
October 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Kreon: We are a nation of laws! Are you against law and order!?
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For no reason I’m thinking about how I published an article in 2020 about how fantasy sports was turning sports into a neoliberal hellscape of casino capitalism that was hollowing out sports as a potential site of imagining the social and doing politics.
Now to open today’s newspaper…
Now to open today’s newspaper…
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
For no reason I’m thinking about how I published an article in 2020 about how fantasy sports was turning sports into a neoliberal hellscape of casino capitalism that was hollowing out sports as a potential site of imagining the social and doing politics.
Now to open today’s newspaper…
Now to open today’s newspaper…
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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It really cannot be overstated how much Nazism is throughly interwoven in contemporary US politics (to say nothing of the history of US politics).
The two party system is great because it offers you the choice of either avowed Nazis or secret (or best-case-scenario-former) Nazis.
Plus, we have primaries that allow you to choose between secret (or best-case-scenario-former) Nazis and people who will stand idly by while Nazis do Nazi stuff.
Plus, we have primaries that allow you to choose between secret (or best-case-scenario-former) Nazis and people who will stand idly by while Nazis do Nazi stuff.
October 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It really cannot be overstated how much Nazism is throughly interwoven in contemporary US politics (to say nothing of the history of US politics).