Jennifer Marie

Jennifer Brown, aspiring scholar, lover of speculative fiction, current MA student and FWS instructor at Boston College, ze/zir or they/them

[simon ferocious @kerishma]

are we just gonna sit here & not talk about academic conferences that require an annual membership to submit, a separate annual membership to present, AND a conference registration fee? I'm over here like boo boo the fool paying over $200 as a grad student to give a 15 min paper

[Dr. Jessie Male 🍉 @ProfJMale]

I truly don't understand why professors won't post their PowerPoints and other materials for students. They are useful if a student is absent, for exam prep, and for returning to key concepts. Just...post them. Me—I use Google Presentations and save them all in one shared folder.

[Jennifer Marie @JenniferBrownMA]

Me and my high pitched anxiety voice : if u have to call me something gendered, call me a boy
One student: a...boy??

[Jennifer Marie @JenniferBrownMA]

Made the gender thing a bigger deal this semester to see if that means I get misgendered less. Jury's out but wow were the confused overall.

[jules ☾⭐︎ @_astrosynthesis]

why must Venom (2018) be judged as "good" or "bad"? is it not enough for us to simply bear witness to the loving, sexy union of a man on the edge and the alien borrowing his body for crunchy midnight snacks?

[Logan Rie Webster @LoganRieWebster]

If you want recent books about time traveling lesbians, this article has you covered. It also makes several good points about female, queer, and poc erasure in history.

[Micah-Jade Stanback, Ph.D @girlwitlocs]

Serious question to white scholars (who aren’t already doing this work): Instead writing about BIPOC, esp since more BIPOC are entering academic spaces, have y’all ever thought about unpacking whiteness?

[Jennifer Marie @JenniferBrownMA]

@laurawritesit SAME. I found out from some kids at summer camp when I was 10 or 11. It was awful. I just...really wanted to believe

[Jennifer Marie @JenniferBrownMA]

@ThatEricAlper Train, I think

[Mayette Foster @MayetteFoster]

That book you’re scared to write?

WRITE IT.

That tweet you’re scared to write?

DON’T WRITE IT.

[Jennifer Marie @JenniferBrownMA]

@saguynes Aw that sounded really cool! But you know you best

[Samira Nadkarni @SamiraNadkarni]

Moderated a student panel on LGBTQIA identities today and I'm glad I got to say "community is everything, knowing your histories is everything, survival and/or happiness is everything, so show up and do the work" over and over in all the ways I know how to articulate this.

[Jennifer Marie @JenniferBrownMA]

@Ada_Palmer Absolutely!

[Dr. Virginia L. Conn, Swoletariat Apologist @VirginiaLConn]

My first issue as Associate Editor! Feeling very proud and misty-eyed over this brilliant collection of work

[Jennifer Marie @JenniferBrownMA]

@saguynes Me with Supernatural in 08/09: 4-5 eps a night, but more if I could get away with it

[Jennifer Marie @JenniferBrownMA]

@sarahmgawronski My kids didn't know how to use commas AT ALL. consistently. But it was apparently unheard of that I set aside some time to teach them commas so...idk?

[ruby 🐊 @roobeekeane]

Sleeping 8 hours a night:
- boring
- predictable
- smug

Sleeping either 3 or 14 hours a night:
- can time travel with 68% accuracy
- ability to speak forbidden languages
- speed of an eagle, face of a naked mole rat

[they/them causing jayhem @jaythenerdkid]

the single best thing I have done for my mental health in the last decade is learn how to see my friends' successes as causes for celebration and not signs that I'm failing or falling behind. I feel like a one-person cheer squad every single day and it is the absolute best.