dr.joan
@theroguesenna.bsky.social
She/her (but meh about it) Millennial Mom — pop culture ADHPhD&D — griot/lore bard/scholar/artist — queer
will perform for dopamine
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The man in my pfp is my grandpa. Go read about him. Ahmed Joda (1930-2021).
will perform for dopamine
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The man in my pfp is my grandpa. Go read about him. Ahmed Joda (1930-2021).
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If you could’ve voted for Kamala or Hillary and didn’t, kindly unfollow.
Ironically a post I made to try to screen my feed went mini-viral (at least compared to its intended audience).
Things this post is not:
- a statement of my ongoing beliefs
- an opportunity for you to be congratulated on your voting record
- an invitation to argue
- an endorsement of current Dems
Things this post is not:
- a statement of my ongoing beliefs
- an opportunity for you to be congratulated on your voting record
- an invitation to argue
- an endorsement of current Dems
My crazy dog is sitting outside shivering her butt off and still refusing to come inside. I finally picked her up and brought her in and she growled the whole time.
February 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
My crazy dog is sitting outside shivering her butt off and still refusing to come inside. I finally picked her up and brought her in and she growled the whole time.
SOMEONE HIRE ME TO BE A POP CULTURE DRAMATURG, IM BEGGING YOU.
If that someone could be Janelle Monae or Ryan Coogler, that’d be fantastic.
If that someone could be Janelle Monae or Ryan Coogler, that’d be fantastic.
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
SOMEONE HIRE ME TO BE A POP CULTURE DRAMATURG, IM BEGGING YOU.
If that someone could be Janelle Monae or Ryan Coogler, that’d be fantastic.
If that someone could be Janelle Monae or Ryan Coogler, that’d be fantastic.
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I admit to being confused by some of the discourse re: protest on here. Community defense and mutual aid can in fact be forms of protest.
Definition of protest is: "a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something."
Community defense is an objection to something, for ex.
Definition of protest is: "a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something."
Community defense is an objection to something, for ex.
February 8, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I admit to being confused by some of the discourse re: protest on here. Community defense and mutual aid can in fact be forms of protest.
Definition of protest is: "a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something."
Community defense is an objection to something, for ex.
Definition of protest is: "a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something."
Community defense is an objection to something, for ex.
Anyway this clarity brought on by watching videos about Sociopathy in order to learn more about ADHD (both of which are poorly named!)
Makes me great at interdisciplinary work and coming up with connections other people miss, but it makes me absolutely terrible at Lit Reviews because they are impossibly overwhelming. Too many complicated executive decisions and anxiety about getting it wrong.
I think I just realized that one of my biggest challenges as a researcher is bc we’re taught that the process begins with filtering out all but the most relevant information—
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Anyway this clarity brought on by watching videos about Sociopathy in order to learn more about ADHD (both of which are poorly named!)
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Relooted, a game about freeing African artifacts from Western museums and collections, interrogates history through sharply designed heists.
Relooted challenges who gets to own and tell African history
Relooted, a game about freeing African artifacts from Western museums and collections, interrogates history through sharply designed heists. Read our review.
www.avclub.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Relooted, a game about freeing African artifacts from Western museums and collections, interrogates history through sharply designed heists.
Yesterday I really poorly articulated one of my core beliefs from my readings of black feminism — I said “empiricism is bs” and that’s how I feel at my saltiest, but the real takeaway, I feel, is:
The truest knowledge is self-knowledge.
The most valuable knowledge is self-knowledge.
The truest knowledge is self-knowledge.
The most valuable knowledge is self-knowledge.
February 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Yesterday I really poorly articulated one of my core beliefs from my readings of black feminism — I said “empiricism is bs” and that’s how I feel at my saltiest, but the real takeaway, I feel, is:
The truest knowledge is self-knowledge.
The most valuable knowledge is self-knowledge.
The truest knowledge is self-knowledge.
The most valuable knowledge is self-knowledge.
So the super frustrating thing about this is that if I had a research assistant who could write Lit Reviews for me, I could be far more productive.
However, no one will finance a research assistant for a scholar who hasn’t yet proven herself through productivity.
However, no one will finance a research assistant for a scholar who hasn’t yet proven herself through productivity.
Makes me great at interdisciplinary work and coming up with connections other people miss, but it makes me absolutely terrible at Lit Reviews because they are impossibly overwhelming. Too many complicated executive decisions and anxiety about getting it wrong.
I think I just realized that one of my biggest challenges as a researcher is bc we’re taught that the process begins with filtering out all but the most relevant information—
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
So the super frustrating thing about this is that if I had a research assistant who could write Lit Reviews for me, I could be far more productive.
However, no one will finance a research assistant for a scholar who hasn’t yet proven herself through productivity.
However, no one will finance a research assistant for a scholar who hasn’t yet proven herself through productivity.
When I was 13 we just read our smut on livejournal and fanfic.net
I wonder what this hyperpolicing of adolescent sexuality is doing to the human psyche in the long term.
Our society gets rocked by child sex predators and our response is to police the children. 😔
I wonder what this hyperpolicing of adolescent sexuality is doing to the human psyche in the long term.
Our society gets rocked by child sex predators and our response is to police the children. 😔
February 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
When I was 13 we just read our smut on livejournal and fanfic.net
I wonder what this hyperpolicing of adolescent sexuality is doing to the human psyche in the long term.
Our society gets rocked by child sex predators and our response is to police the children. 😔
I wonder what this hyperpolicing of adolescent sexuality is doing to the human psyche in the long term.
Our society gets rocked by child sex predators and our response is to police the children. 😔
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first rule of whistle goblin club is that you just keep talking about giving away whistles
Today the crew of weirdo printers that I call the whistle goblins passed A HALF MILLION whistles printed and shipped. I wrote about how we got there and how you can start printing whistles yourself. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
Whistle Up 2: Rise of the Whistle Goblins | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
first rule of whistle goblin club is that you just keep talking about giving away whistles
Makes me great at interdisciplinary work and coming up with connections other people miss, but it makes me absolutely terrible at Lit Reviews because they are impossibly overwhelming. Too many complicated executive decisions and anxiety about getting it wrong.
I think I just realized that one of my biggest challenges as a researcher is bc we’re taught that the process begins with filtering out all but the most relevant information—
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
February 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Makes me great at interdisciplinary work and coming up with connections other people miss, but it makes me absolutely terrible at Lit Reviews because they are impossibly overwhelming. Too many complicated executive decisions and anxiety about getting it wrong.
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Lace Harding - The World
Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art
[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art
[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
February 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Lace Harding - The World
Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art
[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art
[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
I think I just realized that one of my biggest challenges as a researcher is bc we’re taught that the process begins with filtering out all but the most relevant information—
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
February 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I think I just realized that one of my biggest challenges as a researcher is bc we’re taught that the process begins with filtering out all but the most relevant information—
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
I have ADHD. My brain can find connections between literally anything. That’s just how it works. It’s all relevant.
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We need not tolerate these corporations and their complicity in the inhumane acts now being done by ICE, Border Patrol, and Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.
Together, we’re even more powerful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping
Together, we’re even more powerful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
We need not tolerate these corporations and their complicity in the inhumane acts now being done by ICE, Border Patrol, and Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.
Together, we’re even more powerful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping
Together, we’re even more powerful. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping
only 1 aspect I take issue w & it’s the idea that all German ppl (or all of U.S.) chose those leaders.
Some have been begging others to pay attention & fight back for literal decades now, only to be ignored & victim blamed.
Though I suppose we’d have been the ones in the camps in this example…
Some have been begging others to pay attention & fight back for literal decades now, only to be ignored & victim blamed.
Though I suppose we’d have been the ones in the camps in this example…
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
only 1 aspect I take issue w & it’s the idea that all German ppl (or all of U.S.) chose those leaders.
Some have been begging others to pay attention & fight back for literal decades now, only to be ignored & victim blamed.
Though I suppose we’d have been the ones in the camps in this example…
Some have been begging others to pay attention & fight back for literal decades now, only to be ignored & victim blamed.
Though I suppose we’d have been the ones in the camps in this example…
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“The arguments that justify adjunct labor can be and are turned around on those who thought their positions were secure, a point adjuncts have been making for decades.”
A Profession, If You Can Keep It
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
contingentmagazine.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
“The arguments that justify adjunct labor can be and are turned around on those who thought their positions were secure, a point adjuncts have been making for decades.”
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"Think about what resonates in the swing areas of North Carolina. College-educated whites told us with their ballots that they wanted the United States to murder fishermen and turn the entire country of Venezuela into our personal gas pump."
Why Is Everyone So Angry? This Is What We Voted for, Right?
I don’t get what everyone on all sides is so angry about. Isn’t this exactly what the country voted for? Do we not remember the affordability cris...
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
"Think about what resonates in the swing areas of North Carolina. College-educated whites told us with their ballots that they wanted the United States to murder fishermen and turn the entire country of Venezuela into our personal gas pump."
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if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this
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In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
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MORE GO KARTS!
Three new gaming kiosks are now brightening paitents days at Children's Hospital of Michigan
Thank you again to the Detroit Tigers and Ninja for making these placements possible 💙
Three new gaming kiosks are now brightening paitents days at Children's Hospital of Michigan
Thank you again to the Detroit Tigers and Ninja for making these placements possible 💙
February 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
MORE GO KARTS!
Three new gaming kiosks are now brightening paitents days at Children's Hospital of Michigan
Thank you again to the Detroit Tigers and Ninja for making these placements possible 💙
Three new gaming kiosks are now brightening paitents days at Children's Hospital of Michigan
Thank you again to the Detroit Tigers and Ninja for making these placements possible 💙
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I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
If your politics don’t have room for nuance then your politics don’t have room for us.
Two things can be true:
(1) Ring cameras are a dangerous surveillance tool & the Super Bowl ad looked like a dystopian nightmare
(2) private, secure, reliable networked doorbell intercoms should be widely available as an accessibility tool bc some of us rely on them due to mobility issues
(1) Ring cameras are a dangerous surveillance tool & the Super Bowl ad looked like a dystopian nightmare
(2) private, secure, reliable networked doorbell intercoms should be widely available as an accessibility tool bc some of us rely on them due to mobility issues
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
If your politics don’t have room for nuance then your politics don’t have room for us.
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"it is clear that AIPAC is again funding super PACs in order to secretly funnel money to its preferred candidates, while also coordinating donors to give to those candidates directly." prospect.org/2026/02/06/a...
AIPAC Coordinates Donors in Illinois House Primaries - The American Prospect
Three Democratic candidates are benefiting from dark-money super PACs, and they share hundreds of donors who have previously given to AIPAC.
prospect.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"it is clear that AIPAC is again funding super PACs in order to secretly funnel money to its preferred candidates, while also coordinating donors to give to those candidates directly." prospect.org/2026/02/06/a...
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Idk dude. This is very surveillance-y. They are using AI ‘in the background’ to test whether you are lying about your age and they are locking you out of certain functions if you refuse to submit to face recognition tech. I think the freak out is legit.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Idk dude. This is very surveillance-y. They are using AI ‘in the background’ to test whether you are lying about your age and they are locking you out of certain functions if you refuse to submit to face recognition tech. I think the freak out is legit.
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Prince and gymnastics?! I'm sat! 10s across the board.
February 9, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Done! This takes just a few minutes to fill out. Please help free Leqaa!
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Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
Tell Congress: Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!
Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman from Paterson, NJ, who courageously protested the genocide in Gaza, has been held in ICE detention for nearly 11 months. The Trump administration and IC...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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