joshua falek

Please share and submit to this new section I'm editing from Lateral, called Aporias, we're looking for short essays from emerging scholars to write about contemporary or historic controversies or lacunae within cultural studies or related fields #aporias" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">csalateral.org/upcoming/#apor…

@AntiClimaco woah! this looks so good

Syllabus for my Scenes of Subjection seminar, which is maybe the best I have ever done, if anyone cares

@dee_of_e Are you sure you’re not meeting at a curling club?

Normal name for my school’s faculty meet and greet

Tomorrow, I will be speaking at Princeton English as part of their trans colloquium! Please come out if you’re in the area! english.princeton.edu/events/gender-…

@snackowska 😂

when Mark Carney said "spend less, invest more" he was talking about libidinal investments

Get ready!!!

The John Hope Franklin Research Center at @DukeU is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3 blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/202…

@pmteed youtu.be/CMffYsGkzU4?si…

As always, Aporias is accepting rolling submissions of short essays (3,000-7,000 words) by junior scholars about any issue in cultural studies. Email or dm me, or see the lateral website below for more information on how to submit to Aporias. #aporias" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">csalateral.org/upcoming/#apor…

Second, there is Rouzbeh Shadpey’s “Negative Evidence.” Shadpey demonstrates the challenge that fatigue poses to theory, evincing how fatigue is the very cut, the negativity that separates body and psyche. csalateral.org/section/aporia…

Excited to share two excellent new Aporias articles in @LateralJournal! First there’s Kevin Rigby Jr.’s “What Does Black Protest Appear to Be?,” which considers the intelligibility of Black protest. Rigby puts into tension rupture and representation. csalateral.org/section/aporia…

How do trans people in the Caribbean imagine the end of the world? And what might we learn when this imagination of apocalypse takes place through the violence of climate catastrophe? 🌊 🌀 My essay on this question has been published today in GLQ. Feel free to DM me for a copy!

@tapji I know I know! It’s on my list.

@snackowska or, you, but five years ago.

most academic advice is useful for someone who isn’t you

@emolahh finally

starting 2026 off gay, will let you know if anything changes

@tapji Keep this prompt away from @/pmteed

@tapji We are waiting!!

@tapji Their incredible loss!!

“In this essay, I argue that the rhetoric behind “not in my name” actually mobilizes the same gesture as the popular Zionist move to innocence.” dead ass one of the best things i read this year. let’s keep saying the quiet parts out loud. highlight ALL the haints.

Stick around after that for "After After Trans Studies: Performing to End the World" at 4:45 PM, which I'll be chairing!

Excited to be presenting some new work at the American Studies Association conference this week. Catch me talking about trans political violence on Friday at 3:00 PM on the panel, "Trans Studies Under Trump 2.0."