Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (#TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (#TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
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Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Howdy, y’all.
I’m a tenured prof who studies storytelling outside the rules of mass media. This has included never-published manuscripts from during the age of print (1750-1900) & of late has made me a leader in the study of #TTRPG Actual Play.
I’ve learned a lot about friendship along the way.
I’m a tenured prof who studies storytelling outside the rules of mass media. This has included never-published manuscripts from during the age of print (1750-1900) & of late has made me a leader in the study of #TTRPG Actual Play.
I’ve learned a lot about friendship along the way.
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I know Teen Vogue’s heel turn has been pretty hard but if this is true it’s indefensible. Alice Wong was a force and I will miss her voice 💔
The new owners of Teen Vogue have already erased her column.
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
November 15, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I know Teen Vogue’s heel turn has been pretty hard but if this is true it’s indefensible. Alice Wong was a force and I will miss her voice 💔
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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I got to “honored to be your ancestor” and started sobbing. I don’t even know what to say. It’s cliche to say that someone was a light, but Alice was, in both the sense of being a warm glow to find your way home and bright sun to burn the fuck out of the unwary. I hope we can honor her legacy.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I got to “honored to be your ancestor” and started sobbing. I don’t even know what to say. It’s cliche to say that someone was a light, but Alice was, in both the sense of being a warm glow to find your way home and bright sun to burn the fuck out of the unwary. I hope we can honor her legacy.
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An absolute tragic loss in the disability community. Alice was one of the strongest voices we've had, and this world will not be the same without her guidance, especially during these times.
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
An absolute tragic loss in the disability community. Alice was one of the strongest voices we've had, and this world will not be the same without her guidance, especially during these times.
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This just made me cry. I admired Alice so very much, as a writer and as a human being. If we live even a fraction of the life and do even a small measure of the good she did, we will have lived very, very well.
Rest easy, Alice, wherever you are. We’ll do our best to honor your work.
Rest easy, Alice, wherever you are. We’ll do our best to honor your work.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This just made me cry. I admired Alice so very much, as a writer and as a human being. If we live even a fraction of the life and do even a small measure of the good she did, we will have lived very, very well.
Rest easy, Alice, wherever you are. We’ll do our best to honor your work.
Rest easy, Alice, wherever you are. We’ll do our best to honor your work.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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This is devastating. Alice was such a brilliant, creative, and thoughtful writer, journalist, and advocate. I last saw her in 2020 at a small conference at Smith College; a light has gone out, but I know she took pleasure in getting us all to shine ours with pride.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is devastating. Alice was such a brilliant, creative, and thoughtful writer, journalist, and advocate. I last saw her in 2020 at a small conference at Smith College; a light has gone out, but I know she took pleasure in getting us all to shine ours with pride.
Reposted by Dr. Emily Friedman
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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PaxU tip: if you plan on taking SEPTA around, download the Transit app.
You can use your phone to pay on busses.
You can use your phone to pay on busses.
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
PaxU tip: if you plan on taking SEPTA around, download the Transit app.
You can use your phone to pay on busses.
You can use your phone to pay on busses.
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First review of Living in a DAISY Age is in! Amazing. I also did not anticipate all of the feelings I'd have after seeing the first response.
(Also, can't lie--I breathed a sigh of relief. haha)
From Publisher's Weekly.
Scan the QR code or follow the links below to preorder the book! Out 1/27/26
(Also, can't lie--I breathed a sigh of relief. haha)
From Publisher's Weekly.
Scan the QR code or follow the links below to preorder the book! Out 1/27/26
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
First review of Living in a DAISY Age is in! Amazing. I also did not anticipate all of the feelings I'd have after seeing the first response.
(Also, can't lie--I breathed a sigh of relief. haha)
From Publisher's Weekly.
Scan the QR code or follow the links below to preorder the book! Out 1/27/26
(Also, can't lie--I breathed a sigh of relief. haha)
From Publisher's Weekly.
Scan the QR code or follow the links below to preorder the book! Out 1/27/26
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I literally preached on this just last week; the ONE time in the Gospel we see Jesus get righteously angry is when he sees people exploiting faith for monetary gain. (When you posit "WWJD" you must recall that "flip over the tables" is one option.)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I literally preached on this just last week; the ONE time in the Gospel we see Jesus get righteously angry is when he sees people exploiting faith for monetary gain. (When you posit "WWJD" you must recall that "flip over the tables" is one option.)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.
Co-signing.
What do I HAVE to pick up at PAX UNPLUGGED?
I am especially interested in zines out of people’s bags and the most grungy DIY stuff people have.
I am especially interested in zines out of people’s bags and the most grungy DIY stuff people have.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Co-signing.
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What do I HAVE to pick up at PAX UNPLUGGED?
I am especially interested in zines out of people’s bags and the most grungy DIY stuff people have.
I am especially interested in zines out of people’s bags and the most grungy DIY stuff people have.
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What do I HAVE to pick up at PAX UNPLUGGED?
I am especially interested in zines out of people’s bags and the most grungy DIY stuff people have.
I am especially interested in zines out of people’s bags and the most grungy DIY stuff people have.
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Preemptive reminder that US news orgs have academic Rolodex 3-deep on obscure topics, updated daily by world-class fact-checkers.
When they roll out the Shell B.P. Oilman Professor-In-Name-Only from Failson Institute of Foreign Policy as an “expert” on Venezuela, they didn’t get duped.
Itza choice
When they roll out the Shell B.P. Oilman Professor-In-Name-Only from Failson Institute of Foreign Policy as an “expert” on Venezuela, they didn’t get duped.
Itza choice
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Preemptive reminder that US news orgs have academic Rolodex 3-deep on obscure topics, updated daily by world-class fact-checkers.
When they roll out the Shell B.P. Oilman Professor-In-Name-Only from Failson Institute of Foreign Policy as an “expert” on Venezuela, they didn’t get duped.
Itza choice
When they roll out the Shell B.P. Oilman Professor-In-Name-Only from Failson Institute of Foreign Policy as an “expert” on Venezuela, they didn’t get duped.
Itza choice
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Did you know that, by sharing your joy about people I don’t even know getting to hang out, you have made my night feel brighter and more joyful? Now you do!
Every bit counts.
Every bit counts.
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Did you know that, by sharing your joy about people I don’t even know getting to hang out, you have made my night feel brighter and more joyful? Now you do!
Every bit counts.
Every bit counts.
It’s a broken, burning world, with so many griefs, but I confess it makes me so happy to know that two of the Romanticists I adore most as thinkers will be together soon, holding space together, in a community of such thinkers. A rare moment.
There’s so many paradoxes bound up in this, I know.
There’s so many paradoxes bound up in this, I know.
Excited to be at the “Dulles Airport is sending me flight updates” stage of conference organising!!
We’re looking forward to welcoming @profchander.bsky.social to the RSAA/DNS conference next week ❤️
We’re looking forward to welcoming @profchander.bsky.social to the RSAA/DNS conference next week ❤️
So pleased to announce our 1st keynote for the joint 18C & Romantic studies conference that we're hosting in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, this November....Manu Samriti Chander (Georgetown)! @profchander.bsky.social
More details about the conference here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
More details about the conference here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It’s a broken, burning world, with so many griefs, but I confess it makes me so happy to know that two of the Romanticists I adore most as thinkers will be together soon, holding space together, in a community of such thinkers. A rare moment.
There’s so many paradoxes bound up in this, I know.
There’s so many paradoxes bound up in this, I know.
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For anyone who wants some joyful culture in their lives, Great Performances on PBS is showing the Delacorte’s production of Twelfth Night with Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, and more tonight at 9/8 Central.
Hooray for public television!!!
Hooray for public television!!!
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
For anyone who wants some joyful culture in their lives, Great Performances on PBS is showing the Delacorte’s production of Twelfth Night with Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, and more tonight at 9/8 Central.
Hooray for public television!!!
Hooray for public television!!!
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FYI: BEFORE YOU PLAN OR ANNOUNCE AN EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH SPECIAL COLLECTIONS...
Contact special collections with important questions like, "Hey want to do this?"
"Is this something we can do?"
"Are you interested in collaborating?"
Contact special collections with important questions like, "Hey want to do this?"
"Is this something we can do?"
"Are you interested in collaborating?"
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
FYI: BEFORE YOU PLAN OR ANNOUNCE AN EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH SPECIAL COLLECTIONS...
Contact special collections with important questions like, "Hey want to do this?"
"Is this something we can do?"
"Are you interested in collaborating?"
Contact special collections with important questions like, "Hey want to do this?"
"Is this something we can do?"
"Are you interested in collaborating?"
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this is lovely bc in many fields 90% of the job is telling students every conception they had of a topic is wrong. in my experience for ppl who look like stereotypical authoritative professors to students this lands as “whoa I learned something new” & the rest of us get “pretty sure that’s wrong”
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
this is lovely bc in many fields 90% of the job is telling students every conception they had of a topic is wrong. in my experience for ppl who look like stereotypical authoritative professors to students this lands as “whoa I learned something new” & the rest of us get “pretty sure that’s wrong”
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My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
Everything is clean (car, house, chapter, clothing) and I am taking a nap before doing final assembly of PDF to kick out the door.
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Everything is clean (car, house, chapter, clothing) and I am taking a nap before doing final assembly of PDF to kick out the door.
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Because international student enrollment is so often used as a cudgel in discussions about immigration, this is a good time to remind people that international students aren't taking up spaces for US students at state schools, they are paying full tuition that FUNDS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR US STUDENTS.
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Because international student enrollment is so often used as a cudgel in discussions about immigration, this is a good time to remind people that international students aren't taking up spaces for US students at state schools, they are paying full tuition that FUNDS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR US STUDENTS.