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Kyle Frackman 🇺🇦🇨🇦
@kyfrack.bsky.social
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Univ. of British Columbia Assoc Prof, German & Nordic, queer things, media, book history, disability, cats. Nerd. 🏳️‍🌈 Vancouver 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Join us for an online lecture by Prof. Lori Emerson (@loriemerson.net) on "How to Activate the Potential of Imaginary Networks" in our Ziegler Lecture Series hosted by UBC's @ubc-cenes.bsky.social. Registration info here: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
Close-up photo of a green leaf and its veins
October 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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'ethics, n.: the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation'
Evan D. Morris, PhD is a Professor of Radiology Biomedical Imaging at Yale. He uses medical imaging and mathematical modeling to understand the brain and disease. He also teaches professional ethics to biomedical engineers and scientists, and mentors many students and young faculty. teaches professional ethics
August 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We at UBC will host Andrea Rottmann (Freie Universität Berlin) for this year's Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies. The event will take place in person at UBC and online via Zoom. Please register and share with your networks. Info: ces.ubc.ca/events/event...
A TOBIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN QUEER AND TRANS GERMAN STUDIES From Weimar to Berlin: German Queer Democratic Citizenship in the Postwar Moment by Andrea Rottmann Author of Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970 QUEER LIVES ACROSS THE WALL Buchanan Tower 225 ANDREA ROTTMANN Sep 12th @12-1:30 PM UBC THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Centre for European Studies Faculty of Arts Register for Zoom Link [QR Code] UBC THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Centre for European Studies Faculty of Arts
August 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Speaking of irreverent and not too proper, let me know if you’re in Berlin in the next week or so.
Sign that says “Fries before guys”
June 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Cocktail bar in an old gents WC in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Descending stairwell Sign for letters and WC Newcastle Interior of cocktail. Ar, looking up into skylight
June 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Our dogwoods to cleanse the palette.
Pink dogwood flowers and leaves Pink dogwood flowers and leaves
May 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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At my therapist's office. 🧐
Book cover of "The Pop-up Book of Phobias"
May 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I'm rewatching parts of "Coming Out" for my current book and am struck again by how good Matthias Freihof is in this film, especially in surprisingly subtle ways. This scene in which Philipp addresses his mother (Walfriede Schmitt, just to the right of the camera, to justify living as oneself. #DEFA
Still from the film "Coming Out" with actor Matthias Freihof standing in a park, looking just off camera.
May 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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FaceTime with my mom
Photo of phone screen showing ceiling and ceiling fan
May 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Note on Format The workshop contributors will pre-circulate papers, which participants will read in preparation for the workshop. The sessions will feature a brief contributor introduction to the presentation and will be dedicated to discussion. If you would like to participate, email the organizers to register and receive pre-circulated papers. The conference languages are English and German. Organizers & Contacts Kyle Frackman (University of British Columbia): kyle.frackman@ubc.ca Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia/Erich Auerbach Institute): ervin.malakaj@ubc.ca Sponsorship The Erich Auerbach Institute of the University of Cologne The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
May 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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15:00-15:30 Coffee Break 15:30-16:30 Session 3 “The Gay Flâneur’s Thrill: Mapping Emotions and Pedestrian Mobilities in 1980s Queer West Berlin” Sébastien Tremblay (Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany) “Prelude to a Touch: Cinematic Gazing and Eye F*cking in Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s Heaven Official’s Blessing” Adrienne N Merritt (University of Colorado Boulder) “The Past is Queer: Personal Fan Archives as a Feminist Method to Diversify Queer Media Research” Diana W. Anselmo (Lisbon School of Technology and Architecture) 16:30-17:00 Closing Discussion & Next Steps
May 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 Session 2 “On and Off the Grid: Grindr as a Queer Cultural Technique” Brad Harmon (Johns Hopkins University) “Resisting Environmental Pessimism in Ecomedia: A Queer Ecologies Approach” Rebecca Jordan (Bowdoin College) “Queer Exile Literature: Exploring Networked Narratives through Digital Media” Ben Robbins (University of Innsbruck) “Stil und Stimme: Zeitschrift als queeres Medium” Livia Sutter (Universität Zürich)
May 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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10:00-10:30 Welcome & Introductory Remarks 10:30-12:00 Session 1 “Translucent History: Philipp Gufler’s Queer Media Praxis” Javier Samper Vendrell (University of Pennsylvania) “Theorizing Queer Digital Aesthetics: Escapism, Nostalgia, and Fantasies of Rurality” Cora Butcher-Spellman (Pennsylvania State University) & Liz Schoppelrei (Cornell University) “Parasitic Futurities: Christo-Fascist Temporalities and Queer Bodies” Emil Noah Simon (Ruhr University Bochum) “Reading, Writing, Urning” Kyle Frackman (University of British Columbia)
May 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Coming up June 26 @ the Erich Auerbach Institute / Uni Köln: Queer Media Theories Workshop, hosted by @kyfrack.bsky.social and @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social. Contact us if you would like to participate. Program is available in this thread and docs.google.com/document/d/1....
Queer Media Theories Workshop. Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne, June 26, 2025.
May 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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🇨🇦 politics
Federal leaders' French-language debate rescheduled for Habs game Wednesday's French-language debate will start two hours earlier than planned to accommodate a pivotal Montreal Canadiens game that could mean the team is in the playoffs.
April 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I am a human.
ChatGPT writing carries telltale quirks. Some have observed that AI can use unconventional or stilted vocabulary. The word "delve" has been branded an Al buzzword rarely used by humans but favored by chatbots, according to two 2024 investigations of academic papers.
April 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I'm in trouble.
Some people think Al writing has a tell - the em dash. Writers disagree. Em dashes have been derided as the "ChatGPT hyphen" — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That's not quite true. Today at 1:16 p.m. EDT
April 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Visualizations of how many of Project 2025's goals have been accomplished.
www.project2025.observer
Graphic showing total Project 2025's objectives and completion progress.
April 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A fired federal worker grapples with her vote for Trump Ryleigh Cooper and her husband had been trying to get pregnant. In the voting booth, she thought about Donald Trump's promise to make IVF free. Three months later, she was out of a job and without a plan.
February 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I assume someone has already made the obvious comparison.
February 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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“I, sir, am a lady.”
Image of Blanche from The Golden Girls telling off her sexually harassing professor.
January 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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UBC students studying in the library in 1925. www.reddit.com/r/UBC/commen...
January 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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When did you know?
page from 1983 JC Penney catalog, featuring men's underwear section
January 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social is giving the Robert Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies at UBC
Ben Miller stands at lectern giving a talk in a classroom.
September 13, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Inside the Moravian Church Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Image of one aisle of stacks of an archival collection. Archival boxes and books.
June 14, 2024 at 2:01 AM