Dr. Jarm
@drjarm.bsky.social
Jarvis Jarm, PhD 🌽
English Faculty, University of Chicago 💼
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English Faculty, University of Chicago 💼
Film Industry Workhorse 🎥
Freegan 🗑️
These are my reviews 🍿
www.drjarm.com
Happy Pride from Dr. Jarm.
You are sacred. You are scholarly. You are still here.
Come as you are. Leave glitter on the altar. Office hours are open.
You are sacred. You are scholarly. You are still here.
Come as you are. Leave glitter on the altar. Office hours are open.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Happy Pride from Dr. Jarm.
You are sacred. You are scholarly. You are still here.
Come as you are. Leave glitter on the altar. Office hours are open.
You are sacred. You are scholarly. You are still here.
Come as you are. Leave glitter on the altar. Office hours are open.
Pride is not a party for palatability.
It’s not a corporate holiday.
It’s a chaotic seminar of self-invention.
Attendance is optional. Glitter is mandatory.
It’s not a corporate holiday.
It’s a chaotic seminar of self-invention.
Attendance is optional. Glitter is mandatory.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Pride is not a party for palatability.
It’s not a corporate holiday.
It’s a chaotic seminar of self-invention.
Attendance is optional. Glitter is mandatory.
It’s not a corporate holiday.
It’s a chaotic seminar of self-invention.
Attendance is optional. Glitter is mandatory.
To the queer theologians, pastors, poets, screamers, and saints:
Thank you. You made room in the temple for the rest of us.
You taught us that worship can be a dance, a protest, a kiss.
Thank you. You made room in the temple for the rest of us.
You taught us that worship can be a dance, a protest, a kiss.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To the queer theologians, pastors, poets, screamers, and saints:
Thank you. You made room in the temple for the rest of us.
You taught us that worship can be a dance, a protest, a kiss.
Thank you. You made room in the temple for the rest of us.
You taught us that worship can be a dance, a protest, a kiss.
Pride is a kind of worship.
A sermon in sequins.
A Eucharist of chosen family.
A baptism in sweat, light, and refusal to die quietly.
A sermon in sequins.
A Eucharist of chosen family.
A baptism in sweat, light, and refusal to die quietly.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Pride is a kind of worship.
A sermon in sequins.
A Eucharist of chosen family.
A baptism in sweat, light, and refusal to die quietly.
A sermon in sequins.
A Eucharist of chosen family.
A baptism in sweat, light, and refusal to die quietly.
Pride is protest. Pride is party. Pride is paperwork denied, and a kiss anyway.
Pride is screaming and resting.
Pride is the syllabus we write when no one else will teach us how to live.
Pride is screaming and resting.
Pride is the syllabus we write when no one else will teach us how to live.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Pride is protest. Pride is party. Pride is paperwork denied, and a kiss anyway.
Pride is screaming and resting.
Pride is the syllabus we write when no one else will teach us how to live.
Pride is screaming and resting.
Pride is the syllabus we write when no one else will teach us how to live.
To the closeted ones:
You owe no one your truth until it feels safe.
Your heart is not on a deadline.
You are still real. Still queer. Still holy.
You owe no one your truth until it feels safe.
Your heart is not on a deadline.
You are still real. Still queer. Still holy.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To the closeted ones:
You owe no one your truth until it feels safe.
Your heart is not on a deadline.
You are still real. Still queer. Still holy.
You owe no one your truth until it feels safe.
Your heart is not on a deadline.
You are still real. Still queer. Still holy.
To my queer students:
You do not need to be respectable to be real.
You do not need to be explainable to be loved.
You are not a “teachable moment.”
You are the curriculum.
You do not need to be respectable to be real.
You do not need to be explainable to be loved.
You are not a “teachable moment.”
You are the curriculum.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To my queer students:
You do not need to be respectable to be real.
You do not need to be explainable to be loved.
You are not a “teachable moment.”
You are the curriculum.
You do not need to be respectable to be real.
You do not need to be explainable to be loved.
You are not a “teachable moment.”
You are the curriculum.
My office bookshelf holds theory and tinsel.
Sedgwick leans against a jar of glitter.
Butler’s notes are bookmarked with a wristband from a 1998 protest and a receipt from a diner where someone whispered “I think I’m gay.”
This is research. This is sacred.
Sedgwick leans against a jar of glitter.
Butler’s notes are bookmarked with a wristband from a 1998 protest and a receipt from a diner where someone whispered “I think I’m gay.”
This is research. This is sacred.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My office bookshelf holds theory and tinsel.
Sedgwick leans against a jar of glitter.
Butler’s notes are bookmarked with a wristband from a 1998 protest and a receipt from a diner where someone whispered “I think I’m gay.”
This is research. This is sacred.
Sedgwick leans against a jar of glitter.
Butler’s notes are bookmarked with a wristband from a 1998 protest and a receipt from a diner where someone whispered “I think I’m gay.”
This is research. This is sacred.
Pride is not permission. It’s resistance.
It is joy under surveillance.
It is theory in stilettos.
It is choosing yourself on the days the world tries to redact you.
It is joy under surveillance.
It is theory in stilettos.
It is choosing yourself on the days the world tries to redact you.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Pride is not permission. It’s resistance.
It is joy under surveillance.
It is theory in stilettos.
It is choosing yourself on the days the world tries to redact you.
It is joy under surveillance.
It is theory in stilettos.
It is choosing yourself on the days the world tries to redact you.
My belief is this:
If God is love, then queerness is holy.
If Christ walked with the outcast, then He walks the parade route too, with a tambourine and a trans flag tied to his belt.
If God is love, then queerness is holy.
If Christ walked with the outcast, then He walks the parade route too, with a tambourine and a trans flag tied to his belt.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My belief is this:
If God is love, then queerness is holy.
If Christ walked with the outcast, then He walks the parade route too, with a tambourine and a trans flag tied to his belt.
If God is love, then queerness is holy.
If Christ walked with the outcast, then He walks the parade route too, with a tambourine and a trans flag tied to his belt.
To be queer is not to be outside the divine.
You were never meant to be banished from the pew or the pulpit.
You are a psalm in sneakers. A benediction in glitter. A holy text walking upright.
You were never meant to be banished from the pew or the pulpit.
You are a psalm in sneakers. A benediction in glitter. A holy text walking upright.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To be queer is not to be outside the divine.
You were never meant to be banished from the pew or the pulpit.
You are a psalm in sneakers. A benediction in glitter. A holy text walking upright.
You were never meant to be banished from the pew or the pulpit.
You are a psalm in sneakers. A benediction in glitter. A holy text walking upright.
End of thread. Not the end of the resistance.
Harvard gave me its libraries and its myths.
Chicago gave me its ferocity.
And my past, present, and future students give me every reason to keep screaming.
Harvard gave me its libraries and its myths.
Chicago gave me its ferocity.
And my past, present, and future students give me every reason to keep screaming.
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
End of thread. Not the end of the resistance.
Harvard gave me its libraries and its myths.
Chicago gave me its ferocity.
And my past, present, and future students give me every reason to keep screaming.
Harvard gave me its libraries and its myths.
Chicago gave me its ferocity.
And my past, present, and future students give me every reason to keep screaming.
I stand with you. I will write your letters. I will fax your appeals. I will hiss behind closed doors and gnaw through whatever red tape they create.
Education must not bow to borders.
Education must not bow to borders.
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I stand with you. I will write your letters. I will fax your appeals. I will hiss behind closed doors and gnaw through whatever red tape they create.
Education must not bow to borders.
Education must not bow to borders.
To the students feeling abandoned:
You are not an afterthought. You are the engine.
American academia would collapse into its own irrelevance without your presence.
You are not an afterthought. You are the engine.
American academia would collapse into its own irrelevance without your presence.
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
To the students feeling abandoned:
You are not an afterthought. You are the engine.
American academia would collapse into its own irrelevance without your presence.
You are not an afterthought. You are the engine.
American academia would collapse into its own irrelevance without your presence.
My courses at UChicago remain open in spirit and in practice. If the gates are locked, we’ll hold class in the alley behind the archive. Education has always survived in exile. It is, in many ways, most alive there.
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My courses at UChicago remain open in spirit and in practice. If the gates are locked, we’ll hold class in the alley behind the archive. Education has always survived in exile. It is, in many ways, most alive there.
What we’re witnessing is xenophobia cosplaying as policy.
It’s nationalism with a diploma frame.
And yes, it’s unchristlike.
To slam the door on the curious while preaching enlightenment is theological hypocrisy.
It’s nationalism with a diploma frame.
And yes, it’s unchristlike.
To slam the door on the curious while preaching enlightenment is theological hypocrisy.
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What we’re witnessing is xenophobia cosplaying as policy.
It’s nationalism with a diploma frame.
And yes, it’s unchristlike.
To slam the door on the curious while preaching enlightenment is theological hypocrisy.
It’s nationalism with a diploma frame.
And yes, it’s unchristlike.
To slam the door on the curious while preaching enlightenment is theological hypocrisy.
International students don’t just “add flavor” to institutions. They bring frameworks, epistemologies, and stories that rewire the syllabus from the inside out.
They don’t diversify; they destabilize. That’s where real education begins.
They don’t diversify; they destabilize. That’s where real education begins.
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
International students don’t just “add flavor” to institutions. They bring frameworks, epistemologies, and stories that rewire the syllabus from the inside out.
They don’t diversify; they destabilize. That’s where real education begins.
They don’t diversify; they destabilize. That’s where real education begins.
The international students I’ve taught work twice as hard with half the security. Learning in a foreign country, across languages and bureaucracies, is already a heroic act.
Now you’re telling them their presence is conditional? That’s not policy. That’s cruelty.
Now you’re telling them their presence is conditional? That’s not policy. That’s cruelty.
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The international students I’ve taught work twice as hard with half the security. Learning in a foreign country, across languages and bureaucracies, is already a heroic act.
Now you’re telling them their presence is conditional? That’s not policy. That’s cruelty.
Now you’re telling them their presence is conditional? That’s not policy. That’s cruelty.
I've taught courses on horror, media theory, and garbage theology.
Let me be absolutely clear:
What the government is doing is horror, not metaphorically, but structurally, functionally, and bureaucratically. A ghost story where the door is locked & the welcome mat is a trapdoor
Let me be absolutely clear:
What the government is doing is horror, not metaphorically, but structurally, functionally, and bureaucratically. A ghost story where the door is locked & the welcome mat is a trapdoor
May 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I've taught courses on horror, media theory, and garbage theology.
Let me be absolutely clear:
What the government is doing is horror, not metaphorically, but structurally, functionally, and bureaucratically. A ghost story where the door is locked & the welcome mat is a trapdoor
Let me be absolutely clear:
What the government is doing is horror, not metaphorically, but structurally, functionally, and bureaucratically. A ghost story where the door is locked & the welcome mat is a trapdoor