PhD candidate in history at the University of Adelaide, looking at non-profits in New York artistic communities during the initial AIDS crisis (she/they)
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The staff at the NYPL for the Performing Arts is outstanding, every single time. Going above and beyond is just what they do.
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me researching: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!
me arranging that research into coherent prose: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
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(about to ruin boys night) has anyone else noticed this 80s-themed bar is doing nothing to acknowledge the AIDs crisis
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Found in a Journal of Epidemiology from 1990:
Poppers were once thought to be a cause of AIDS, but the theory was dropped—use was correlated but not a cause.
The paper then jokes that, by that logic, Levi 501s and the Judy at Carnegie Hall album would be risk factors for AIDS
Caitlin Merlin retweeted
I need everyone, esp in academia, to watch this clip and understand what @mayaywind is saying when she says that Israeli universities are deeply complicit in the Gaza genocide. Hebrew Uni is helping define targets. Tel Aviv Uni is developing arguments against human rights.
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"In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy" but they are "a central pillar of Israel's regime of oppression against Palestinians," says @mayaywind, author of "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom."
Caitlin Merlin retweeted
saw this in whole foods and started crying ❤️ this is exactly what keith would have wanted
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this thread is perfectly right. use-value has no place in deciding what gets taught at a university and that’s good. literature can’t save the world and thinking it can leads to a warped sense of what makes good literature. “urgent” is not necessarily praise
Caitlin Merlin retweeted
The AHA has released a public statement voicing our dismay about the proposed cuts to History, and the humanities and social sciences more broadly, at the Australian Catholic University. @ACUmedia
You can view our statement here: tinyurl.com/bdhpwtr9
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HIV activists will convene at the U.S. Capitol today for a press conference to #SaveHIVFunding and denounce proposed cuts to HIV budgets both nationally and abroad.
poz.com/article/action-alert… #HIVbudgetcuts #HIVawareness #PrEP4All #USCHA #PEPFAR
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big day for annoying people (dramaturgs and juilliard students)
Hours to access the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive are now extended to our morning opening! You can now view theatre productions from 10:30 AM until the Library closes. nypl.org/locations/lpa/theat…
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Absolutely incredible authors' note:
ALT Screenshot that reads: "AUTHORS’ NOTE The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first three authors should be regarded as joint first authors. The order of co-first authors provided here was decided through a mushroom picking competition around the Sognsvann lake, Oslo, Norway. Co-first authors can prioritise their names when adding this paper's reference to their résumés."
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Jerry Mitchell is the recipient of this year’s Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award in honor of his many contributions in support of @BCEFA, including the creation of Broadway Bares which has raised which has raised over $25M to date. #TonyAwards2023
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@CaitlinMerlin replied with this screenshot after i said i was happy that my experience of the met gala this year is them sending me the important photos while we sit on video call all day. this sums us up well i'd say
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The gay man who wrote this cover story from 1981 is still alive at 91 years old. Yesterday I talked to him on the phone for 20 minutes. It does give me a tiny bit of comfort, knowing that paper has always been trash.
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very disappointed that in a season with multiple nonbinary actors in major roles on Broadway, the Tony committee still didn’t move to nongendered acting categories. This leaves no comfortable space for the nonbinary actors, and forces them to be submitted under actor or actress.
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The blatant ableism of this email about the new ABLE Faculty HDR Conference saying "We expect all ABLE HDRs resident in Adelaide to attend the conference" directly followed by "Unfortunately, this event cannot be offered in a hybrid format so remote attendance is not possible"😒