Jenn Billinson

Hi, I’m Jenn. I’m a media studies prof and I teach and research social media and digital culture and ALSO popular music and emotion because my ADHD extends to my research agenda. Anti-racist. Queer. Believe in liberation for all. Mom to the worst-behaved reactive dog in the world.

Today is World IVF Day, and I want to share with you our daughter’s first ever photo💜 This was our one and only embryo, and we are going to meet her in September. This process is heartbreaking and impossibly beautiful and hopeful. I want everyone to have the access and choices that we did.

In which Stevie discovers the drive-thru ice-cream place and knows she’s getting a pup cup

At least everything is also now SUPER expensive!

You know the Pitt/ER lawsuit has no legs when you see the very different approaches to helicopter safety.

“Chaos and Uncertainty, All The Time” is a bold economic strategy

Good morning to Wisconsin, Cory Booker, and all the 80s babies who had crushes on Madmartigan

The other day I was teaching about music as torture and showed images from Abu Ghraib. My students-too young or not born at the time-were shocked that this happened. A reminder that one day we will all have to answer for the atrocities of our fellow Americans who were “just following orders.”

This April the fools are really self-identifying early aren’t they

I fear they will take this as a challenge.

Wow, Midwest-what a fun, sexy time for you!

This is it

For all of us who teach digital culture/media and tech and have to stand in front of a classroom of undergrads and refer to an important political player as “Big Balls,” we pray.

These guys 100% have another signal group chat about the original group chat

I was taught not to discuss specifics of students grades over email because it could violate privacy, make me the Secretary of Defense.

Good.

4 of my articles were pirated, and 2 written by my (deceased) grandpa, who was an MD.

The Dunkin guy looks like he’s running from the US and honestly that’s fair

I have a theory that “The Giver” was automatically downloaded directly into the head of every queer lady, much like the U2 album and our iPhones, because why can I not stop singing it for the love of god

The Weather Channel app gets it

You complained last Monday that the time change was kicking your ass, I’m here complaining a whole week later that the time change is STILL kicking my ass. We are not the same (unless we are in which case can we cry together about this?)

A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For the record I only want it back for sleeping purposes, I’m not trying to experience MORE of The Terrors.

I want. The hour. Back.

Give us hell, Canada. We’re a) rooting for you and b) already in it.

I have never been more motivated to speak less English. This may as well be a partnership with Duolingo, because I’m coming back for you baby. trib.al/DbCxdTh

I still have hope. It might be the delusion talking. But I do and I’m clinging to it.

SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

So the photos in the Facebook AI slop posts are definitely getting better, but the back stories are not.

OMG!

RFK Jr. wants to overly simplify the root causes of chronic disease. He ignores complex relationships with social determinants of health like access to healthcare, education, and being paid a living wage. Republicans don’t want to talk about these things because they’re “woke”.

Why are we being punished, Rochester?? Isn’t all this snow bad enough?!

For the past month I have been allergic to feeding my body nutritious food. The more processed the better. This is how I fight MAHA.

Ah, Boston, historically known for backing down from bullies who threaten. 🍿

I know nothing about him but he’s got the hair for the job, and his name sounds like pizza. That’s good enough logic for the average voter.

Authoritarians in countries backsliding away from democracy learned not to cancel elections. Instead, they abuse state power to give themselves unfair advantages in elections, then cite their “victory” as a source of legitimacy. US is not really at risk of no elections. The risk is unfair ones.

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

“The Post Malone Oreos are really good” is one of the weirder sentences I’ve said lately for sure.

Reyes goes off. "You cannot tell me that transgender people are not being discriminated against." Of the Stonewall website deletion, Reyes says, "We are literally erasing their contributions to modern society. ... It screams animus."