Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier

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I am currently boring myself writing about 1950s US and TV and queer activism thinking everyone knows all of this, then remembering no, they don’t, I have just been teaching and writing about this for over a decade of my life

Lol someone on Threads just said nobody in Nobody Wants This has a “real job”, a show about a … rabbi

Just rewatching Nobody Wants This 3x07 because I love to suffer

The only way Bavaria is really like Texas is that most of you seem incapable of seeing both states with any nuance and ignore the diversity and complexity that exists in either

Oh no what a loss. He always seemed like such a kind soul. RIP.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

Pretty much all the "what can you do with our AI product" ads are like this: "Normal people—you guys are idiots—you need our words machine to burp out three words to describe your daughter, right?"

I’m working on my book; writing about Vito Russo and his papers at the New York Public library. I wish I was back in the slightly-too-cold reading room, thinking about the queer lives that all ended too soon and the legacy they leave behind, and maybe that’s part of why I avoided this for so long.

In München lädt man nicht Lars Eidinger sondern Senta Berger ein

Most of the entertainment industry is connected by people who did improv. Today’s example: Seth Rogen and Nathan Fielder played together in their high school’s improv team.

Ok genuine question: is Lula actually a *good* option or just not Bolsonaro jr??

Lol das is so wie zu sagen in Deutschland gäbe es da auch nur Volker Depkat selber. Ich wäre auch den deutschen Medien zutiefst verbunden würden sie mal irgendwen anders als die üblichen 3 Verdächtigen zu den USA befragen. Vielleicht sogar auch mal eine Frau oder so.

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And then we found a country on it

I have an article appearing in the coming year that traces the origins of technological progressivism to Christian eschatological thought and its attendant racialization in 1218 England when badges in the shape of the Ten Commandments were imposed on Jews. Here’s the conclusion to my article.

Nothing triggers white men more than when women, particularly women of color are funnier than them and with the MAGA crowd the bar for that is… very low.

Everything is better than using AI even accidentally so here are upcoming shows

bröther may i have some Joyce Carol Öats

Es is einfach top dass sämtliche Jobnewsletter im Kultur und Erwachsenenbildungsbereich mir jede Woche nur noch Praktika, Volontariate und Elternzeitvertretungen schicken

They’re opening the Jim Henson creature shop for tours on the weekend and I’m still afraid to cross the US border rn but

50 of my favorite songs

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