Sandra Graham
sjgraham.bsky.social
Sandra Graham
@sjgraham.bsky.social
Ethnomusicologist, nature lover, explorer.
My sister wrote a brilliant book on how a fiction writer can keep story moving, drawing on her long careers as dancer, dance critic, and novelist. It's REALLY good! Hardcover and Kindle available now, PB releasing on October 7. Perfect gift for your favorite writer (even if it's YOU!).
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I canceled Hulu Live and DisneyPlus, and am boycotting ABC shows, because Disney/ABC is colluding with Trump to strip away our First Amendment rights to free speech. FIGHT BACK! #BoycottDisneyABC
September 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The only good thing to possibly come out of the horrendous, embarrassing, beyond belief (words obviously fail) encounter between Zelenskyy and the Criminal-in-Chief is a flurry of donations to Ukraine's war efforts. u24.gov.ua
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
u24.gov.ua
February 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
More in the annals of digital blackface. wapo.st/40eoOIB
Opinion | I talked to Meta’s Black AI character. Here’s what she told me.
Is this the new era of digital blackface?
wapo.st
January 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"A fascinating artifact of the Mangione affair is the emergence ...of the health-insurance murder ballad. (One of the most popular uses “deny, depose, defend” as a refrain.) This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads...."
Luigi Mangione and the Making of a Modern Antihero
The support for the alleged shooter is rooted in an American tradition of exalting the outlaw.
www.newyorker.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!
December 5, 2024 at 1:58 PM
When asked type type of musical her wanted to write, SS replied, "theme and variation." Schoch: “not, then, a story to be told, but a perspective to be taken.” Looking forward to reading this book!
When Stephen Sondheim Transformed Theater, and Theatergoers, Forever (Gift Article)
An incisive new book, “How Sondheim Can Change Your Life,” examines the extraordinary career of the master of the musical.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:54 PM