Alessandra Occhiolini

Writer, Byronic vampire bat working on disability and care at @GC_CUNY. Tin House ‘20 🦕

[Alessandra Occhiolini @AlessandraOkeyo]

In early 2018, I saw @SaraNAhmed lecture at UC Berkeley on queer use and decided to go to grad school to leave queer graffiti within the institution—now I’m inside leaving queer killjoy feelings everywhere, and the lecture has become a book! Thank you @SaraNAhmed 🌈

[Kamau Wairuri | The Kenyanist @KamauWairuri]

Finally got round to reading @travisclau’s chapter.

He says that “The nature of quality academic scholarship— a series of extended acts of thinking, reading, writing and editing — is antithetical to the current rhythms (or perhaps arrhythmia of contemporary academic life.”

[Zoundy @Zoundyaudio]

#RT @LAReviewofBooks: RT @veryeager: "Kim looks like one of the Lost Boys and seems incredibly obnoxious in the best kind of way."

@AlessandraOkeyo on #ANTM for Avidly's Too Real series

[Alessandra Occhiolini @AlessandraOkeyo]

I wrote about chronic illness, desire, ANTM for @veryeager -- "We are not supermodels forever. We are not young forever. We are not healthy forever. And sometimes these changes bring new ways of wanting that are less scripted and more of our own making."

[Avidly @veryeager]

"But for one moment, she gave me a kind of permission to want again. To want better, weirder, deeper."

@AlessandraOkeyo on surprisingly hot wanting in America's Next Top Model https://t.co/g3fi7C4c9N

[Avidly @veryeager]

"Kim looks like one of the Lost Boys and seems incredibly obnoxious in the best kind of way."

@AlessandraOkeyo on #ANTM for Avidly's Too Real series

[Suburb Septembriseur @primarycatdad]

Need it

[Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social @talilalewis]

What many know as "social model of disability" was called the "socio-political definition of disability".

Developed from/during/with Black Liberation+Black civil rights struggles, it was the reason for the shift to anti-discriminatory laws & "minority" group model of disability.

[Alessandra Occhiolini @AlessandraOkeyo]

Thank you so much for coming! It was a lot of fun on all ends.

[Xinyuan Qiu @Xinyuan_Qiu]

With considerable enjoyment and bliss added by the panel "The Gothic Alternative: Vulnerable and Intimate Imaginations of the Future". Much gratitude to the brilliant presenters @kathleenh42, Ruth
Holmes, Hala Abdulhaq, and @AlessandraOkeyo.

[Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD | 道 🐲🌋 @taoleighgoffe]

“Diversifying” graduate student cohorts without recruiting, retaining, and promoting faculty of color who work on relevant topics who can teach and advise incoming students is unethical.

[Alessandra Occhiolini @AlessandraOkeyo]

Got to talk about the contemporary gothic and disability at #nemla2022 today!

[Alessandra Occhiolini @AlessandraOkeyo]

Took a month or so off of here and plan to be around less! Email me, find me irl, use my website’s terrible contact form, inevitably I shall return ❤️

[Myriam Gurba Serrano @lesbrains]

Didion styled Manson girls. She dressed Linda Kasabian in I. Magnin. She was punk before punk.

[Parul Sehgal @parul_sehgal]

A fifth-generation Californian, she once said: “Don’t you think people are formed by the landscape they grew up in?” She was our landscape. My appraisal of Didion https://t.co/kidiaO9BoC

[Allie Pape @alliepape]

Eve Babitz, patron saint of cynical hedonists with big naturals. May her memory be a blessing.

[Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric]

Farewell, Eve Babitz. Only Hollywood--the town, not the industry-- could have made one like her.