Dustin Friedman
@dustinfriedman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Aesthete and queer humanist. Author of *Before Queer Theory* and co-editor of *Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s*. He/him/his 🏳️🌈🐻👨❤️👨
“Call Me By Her Name” drag race acting challenge when? Each queen has to cry on command in front of a fireplace. Surprise: they all do amazing. No one goes home. Lip sync for the win.
April 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
“Call Me By Her Name” drag race acting challenge when? Each queen has to cry on command in front of a fireplace. Surprise: they all do amazing. No one goes home. Lip sync for the win.
Mickey 17 is not good.
March 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Mickey 17 is not good.
“We as gay people get to choose our eating disorders.”
January 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“We as gay people get to choose our eating disorders.”
I think my issue was that the guy was not believably hot enough for her to risk it all. I understand that she’s getting something else from him, but he’s a rat face (which ok I can go for sometimes), but you’re going to go for that twerp when you’re getting railed by Antonio Banderas on the regs??
Despite lack of engagement this will likely become a Babygirl hot take account.
Spoiler warning, I guess??
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
December 28, 2024 at 4:24 AM
I think my issue was that the guy was not believably hot enough for her to risk it all. I understand that she’s getting something else from him, but he’s a rat face (which ok I can go for sometimes), but you’re going to go for that twerp when you’re getting railed by Antonio Banderas on the regs??
Despite me not really liking the movie.
Despite lack of engagement this will likely become a Babygirl hot take account.
Spoiler warning, I guess??
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
December 28, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Despite me not really liking the movie.
Despite lack of engagement this will likely become a Babygirl hot take account.
Spoiler warning, I guess??
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
December 27, 2024 at 5:03 AM
Despite lack of engagement this will likely become a Babygirl hot take account.
Spoiler warning, I guess??
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
December 26, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Spoiler warning, I guess??
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
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kate bush running past sisyphus
December 23, 2024 at 4:13 AM
kate bush running past sisyphus
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Fordham UP's spring catalogue is out! I'm glad to see my forthcoming monograph there!
You can preorder Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law & Postcolonial Style from all good bookstores, including indies, B&N, & Am**on.
Now we just need the press to get on Bluesky :)
issuu.com/fordhamup/do...
You can preorder Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law & Postcolonial Style from all good bookstores, including indies, B&N, & Am**on.
Now we just need the press to get on Bluesky :)
issuu.com/fordhamup/do...
Spring 2025 Catalog
issuu.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Fordham UP's spring catalogue is out! I'm glad to see my forthcoming monograph there!
You can preorder Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law & Postcolonial Style from all good bookstores, including indies, B&N, & Am**on.
Now we just need the press to get on Bluesky :)
issuu.com/fordhamup/do...
You can preorder Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law & Postcolonial Style from all good bookstores, including indies, B&N, & Am**on.
Now we just need the press to get on Bluesky :)
issuu.com/fordhamup/do...
Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”
December 7, 2024 at 4:42 AM
Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”
A big fat meh.
December 7, 2024 at 3:57 AM
A big fat meh.
Drag name: Vera Similitude.
(Courtesy of my husband)
(Courtesy of my husband)
December 7, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Drag name: Vera Similitude.
(Courtesy of my husband)
(Courtesy of my husband)
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
After 42 years, I think I’m finally ready to come out as shallow.
November 23, 2024 at 3:45 PM
After 42 years, I think I’m finally ready to come out as shallow.
Ok see I read this very differently.
November 21, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Ok see I read this very differently.
Now is the brat winter of our discontent.
November 21, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Now is the brat winter of our discontent.
I have a student interested in investigating the concept of the weird. Not the horror/sci fi genre, per se, but rather the disposition/descriptor more generally. Any leads would be appreciated!
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
I have a student interested in investigating the concept of the weird. Not the horror/sci fi genre, per se, but rather the disposition/descriptor more generally. Any leads would be appreciated!
How to get access to block lists? I think I would find them helpful but still not quite sure how they work.
November 19, 2024 at 4:56 PM
How to get access to block lists? I think I would find them helpful but still not quite sure how they work.
Witches of Eastwick ride at Disneyland when??
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Witches of Eastwick ride at Disneyland when??
So, what’s Avital Ronell up to these days?
November 15, 2024 at 11:10 PM
So, what’s Avital Ronell up to these days?
Remembering the political science professor on Twitter who a little over a year ago was certain--certain!--that the next president would be Ron DeSantis.
October 7, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Remembering the political science professor on Twitter who a little over a year ago was certain--certain!--that the next president would be Ron DeSantis.
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Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
Tenure-Track Professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature
The Department of English seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The tenure-track professor will be responsibl...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
September 27, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
September 17, 2024 at 3:51 PM
10000000000% here for Pre-Raphaelite coded Chappell Roan.
oh my goddddddddddd
September 12, 2024 at 3:05 AM
10000000000% here for Pre-Raphaelite coded Chappell Roan.