Kirin Wachter-Grene
@kirinwgrene.bsky.social
Associate Professor @saic_news | African American Lit & Gender/Sexuality Studies | Guest-editor Black Radical Pleasure I & II (The Black Scholar 50.2 & 53.3/4)
https://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/kirin-wachter-grene
https://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/kirin-wachter-grene
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Quote from On Becoming a Leatherwoman by Michele A. Buchanan. Photo by Efrain J. Gonzalez from Buchanan's collection at the LA&M. #LeatherWomen
![Michele is a Black woman with a serious expression and short hair. She is wearing pearls and a floorlength robe or dress with a V-neck and stiff collar. She is sitting on a floral patterned chair next to a candelabra. Text: [When you are no longer willing to be someone else and live someone else's life in return for respectability, when your mind and your body are so changed that both a kiss and a blow can make you vibrate, when you find yourself on the street in plain clothes in a strange city and you see a man or woman dressed in leather and you meet that person's eyes and nod, and that person nods back, then you have become a leatherwoman.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreid7f5s32akk2l25pbtx4kzt36t22ijvfn6v4lbnzmlznhb3c2grli@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Quote from On Becoming a Leatherwoman by Michele A. Buchanan. Photo by Efrain J. Gonzalez from Buchanan's collection at the LA&M. #LeatherWomen
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Quote from The Phenomenology Of Sex, Love, And Intimacy by Susi Ferrarello (2016). Photo from Lashes magazine (1981).
![Close up on person bowing down to lick a heeled boot. Text: [It is often the case that what moves our sexual choices in life is our will more than our cognitive reason; often the two forms of reason are not even capable of communicating with each other. Our cognitive reason cannot always be convinced about the rightness of the decisions made by our sensual will.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreigh4aee3gl3274pa355ndxl6f34bbwalzfl2ldbxfnadtn5n7gm2y@jpeg)
August 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Quote from The Phenomenology Of Sex, Love, And Intimacy by Susi Ferrarello (2016). Photo from Lashes magazine (1981).
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CARAS is excited to announce the 2025 “Classics” history and theory reading group focused on Kink and BDSM. More information at carasresearch.org
August 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
CARAS is excited to announce the 2025 “Classics” history and theory reading group focused on Kink and BDSM. More information at carasresearch.org
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Clip of Mistress Jill Carter's 1996 IMsL fantasy with her wife Vi Johnson, cofounders the Carter/Johnson Leather Library & Collection. Carter was the 1st Black International Ms. Leather. This year she was one of the first living individuals to be inducted into the Leather Hall of Fame. #LeatherWomen
August 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Clip of Mistress Jill Carter's 1996 IMsL fantasy with her wife Vi Johnson, cofounders the Carter/Johnson Leather Library & Collection. Carter was the 1st Black International Ms. Leather. This year she was one of the first living individuals to be inducted into the Leather Hall of Fame. #LeatherWomen
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It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !
Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”
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Episode 21: Samuel Delany
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June 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !
It’s official. I’m tenured. But more meaningful to me is the fact that I was promoted to Associate Professor on the day that my partner-in-crime since grad school, Zach Tavlin, was also promoted to Associate. I aspire to be even a fraction of the writer & thinker you are @zachtavlin.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It’s official. I’m tenured. But more meaningful to me is the fact that I was promoted to Associate Professor on the day that my partner-in-crime since grad school, Zach Tavlin, was also promoted to Associate. I aspire to be even a fraction of the writer & thinker you are @zachtavlin.bsky.social
#Chicago!!! Do not sleep on learning more about poetry from one of the most brilliant minds! @zachtavlin.bsky.social on #EmilyDickinson. @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
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January 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#Chicago!!! Do not sleep on learning more about poetry from one of the most brilliant minds! @zachtavlin.bsky.social on #EmilyDickinson. @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
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The brilliant @kirinwgrene.bsky.social and I talking about my new book, In Defense: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire, at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore! It was a great evening.
December 8, 2024 at 6:24 AM
The brilliant @kirinwgrene.bsky.social and I talking about my new book, In Defense: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire, at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore! It was a great evening.
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This Friday the 29th, we bring you “Samuel R. Delany’s Improbably Communities,” on the author’s sex-worlds & the politics of (often) public sex in his essays and novels. Ed. by Blake Stricklin; ft. work by @kirinwgrene, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, and Christopher Breu!
post45.org/contemporari...
post45.org/contemporari...
Contemporaries - Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
post45.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:43 PM
This Friday the 29th, we bring you “Samuel R. Delany’s Improbably Communities,” on the author’s sex-worlds & the politics of (often) public sex in his essays and novels. Ed. by Blake Stricklin; ft. work by @kirinwgrene, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, and Christopher Breu!
post45.org/contemporari...
post45.org/contemporari...
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🪩🔮It's here! The @atpost45.bsky.social Samuel Delany cluster, edited by @blakestricklin.bsky.social, has dropped!
Featuring work by @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, & @breu.bsky.social, the cluster takes up Delany's writing on sex, community, encounter, and more! 🔮🪩
Featuring work by @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, & @breu.bsky.social, the cluster takes up Delany's writing on sex, community, encounter, and more! 🔮🪩
This Friday the 29th, we bring you “Samuel R. Delany’s Improbably Communities,” on the author’s sex-worlds & the politics of (often) public sex in his essays and novels. Ed. by Blake Stricklin; ft. work by @kirinwgrene, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, and Christopher Breu!
post45.org/contemporari...
post45.org/contemporari...
Contemporaries - Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
post45.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:49 PM
🪩🔮It's here! The @atpost45.bsky.social Samuel Delany cluster, edited by @blakestricklin.bsky.social, has dropped!
Featuring work by @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, & @breu.bsky.social, the cluster takes up Delany's writing on sex, community, encounter, and more! 🔮🪩
Featuring work by @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, & @breu.bsky.social, the cluster takes up Delany's writing on sex, community, encounter, and more! 🔮🪩
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Very excited for this—read about Delany's Times Square, & also Phallos, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, The Motion of Light in Water, & more!
Enjoy this cluster & find wonderful & perverse alternatives to/of consumption on Friday, in honor of the Times Square of yore.
Enjoy this cluster & find wonderful & perverse alternatives to/of consumption on Friday, in honor of the Times Square of yore.
🥳🫣 Surprise—there's a brand new CLUSTER COMING TO YOU Friday, on Samuel Delany's Sexual Politics & Paraliterary Style!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
November 29, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Very excited for this—read about Delany's Times Square, & also Phallos, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, The Motion of Light in Water, & more!
Enjoy this cluster & find wonderful & perverse alternatives to/of consumption on Friday, in honor of the Times Square of yore.
Enjoy this cluster & find wonderful & perverse alternatives to/of consumption on Friday, in honor of the Times Square of yore.
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So excited to be part of this with @blakestricklin.bsky.social, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon, and Y Howard! My thanks to Blake and Francisco Robles for putting this together! A celebration of the pornographic writings of the great Samuel R. Delany.
November 29, 2024 at 3:27 AM
So excited to be part of this with @blakestricklin.bsky.social, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, Rebekah Sheldon, and Y Howard! My thanks to Blake and Francisco Robles for putting this together! A celebration of the pornographic writings of the great Samuel R. Delany.
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🥳🫣 Surprise—there's a brand new CLUSTER COMING TO YOU Friday, on Samuel Delany's Sexual Politics & Paraliterary Style!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
November 29, 2024 at 3:19 AM
🥳🫣 Surprise—there's a brand new CLUSTER COMING TO YOU Friday, on Samuel Delany's Sexual Politics & Paraliterary Style!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
Hard copy of The Black Scholar Black Radical Pleasure II just arrived!🔥
February 4, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Hard copy of The Black Scholar Black Radical Pleasure II just arrived!🔥
The Black Scholar just published the second issue of Black Radical Pleasure that I guest edited. Thrilled to share this special double issue 🔥: www.theblackscholar.org/now-availabl...
January 9, 2024 at 8:40 PM
The Black Scholar just published the second issue of Black Radical Pleasure that I guest edited. Thrilled to share this special double issue 🔥: www.theblackscholar.org/now-availabl...
November 29, 2023 at 2:15 PM
I always have far too much fun at The American Studies Association conference.
November 5, 2023 at 9:40 PM
I always have far too much fun at The American Studies Association conference.
Don’t sleep on James Hosking’s beautiful collages, up at Gerber/Hart Library & Archives. Up until March!
October 26, 2023 at 9:09 PM
Don’t sleep on James Hosking’s beautiful collages, up at Gerber/Hart Library & Archives. Up until March!
It was a pleasure to co-organize this great event yesterday. Thank you, Tina Post, for your refreshing scholarship and for your generosity.
October 25, 2023 at 10:53 AM
It was a pleasure to co-organize this great event yesterday. Thank you, Tina Post, for your refreshing scholarship and for your generosity.
Appropriately opening on my birthday and basically my “Sex in Public” class. Cannot wait for this. Alexis Heller is the curator whose work I’m most excited by. #radicalperverts #museumofsex
October 8, 2023 at 10:37 AM
Appropriately opening on my birthday and basically my “Sex in Public” class. Cannot wait for this. Alexis Heller is the curator whose work I’m most excited by. #radicalperverts #museumofsex
Day One: Invisible Man. 15 week slow, deep reading of the novel in context. This is my favorite way to read with students and it is still never enough time for me, or for some of them.
September 5, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Day One: Invisible Man. 15 week slow, deep reading of the novel in context. This is my favorite way to read with students and it is still never enough time for me, or for some of them.
The Whitfield Lovell retrospective “Passages” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art is astonishing.
September 1, 2023 at 11:07 PM
The Whitfield Lovell retrospective “Passages” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art is astonishing.
First day of “Queer Worldmaking,” a studio symposium that’s half history/half installation techniques that I’m co-teaching w/ artist Jade Yumang, starts tomorrow! “A posterior glance at different moments, objects, & spaces might offer us an anticipatory illumination of queerness,” (Muñoz).
August 30, 2023 at 7:49 PM
First day of “Queer Worldmaking,” a studio symposium that’s half history/half installation techniques that I’m co-teaching w/ artist Jade Yumang, starts tomorrow! “A posterior glance at different moments, objects, & spaces might offer us an anticipatory illumination of queerness,” (Muñoz).
Don’t sleep on Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth Century American Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2023) by Zachary Tavlin, the most graceful and talented writer and thinker I know.
August 17, 2023 at 10:53 PM
Don’t sleep on Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth Century American Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2023) by Zachary Tavlin, the most graceful and talented writer and thinker I know.
Will hunt down my people’s food.
August 9, 2023 at 2:11 PM
Will hunt down my people’s food.