Matthew J. Phillips

Lapsed Academic // Writer & Editor // Madonna of the Glaciers // pronouns: he/him

[Matthew J. Phillips @MJPhillips]

Retreating back into the placid waters of my Twitter hiatus.

A reminder: I won’t be checking messages or mentions on Twitter. If you’d like to discuss my work as an indexer and editor, it’s best to reach me via email. Hope to work with you soon!
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@mikers86 The transphobia to homophobia to racism pipeline is alive and well

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Saw someone refer to drag as “womanface.” Lmao the straights are PRESSED and desperate for June to be over

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I’m sorry for not responding to everyone who has said such nice things about my indexing work while I’ve been away from Twitter. Just know I see and appreciate you 🥲

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Love this story by @jabartles on microaggressions and the narcissism of space travel. It’s a quick read!!
https://t.co/5IlDvfyK7x

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I’ve been listening to him talk about this project for a decade, so trust me when I say—it’s brilliant and deserving of all the accolades!

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Congrats to my husband, whose first book received honorable mention by LASA as one of the best books in the humanities published last year! 🥳🥳

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@d_kenealy Thank you for the kind words, Dan!

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@jlsmilges 💕

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@AJP_PhD Ty!!

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As always, thank you to the authors who trust me enough to have such a small part in bringing their books out into the world. Creating an index is such an inconsequential part of the publishing process but one I get a lot of joy from 🥺🥺

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While his book was published last year, I think @watsonry makes an important case for the role that documentary media plays in unfolding contemporary crises and deserves mention!
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I’ve had the pleasure of working on the indexes for several exciting new academic books that are coming out this year, and I can’t wait to share them with you when they’re available! In the meantime, I wanted to highlight a few that I’ve worked on that are out now:

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In her book on Du Bois’s literary writing, Erika Williams examines examples of “cross-caste romance,” or relations across difference. She makes the case for Du Bois’s neglected short fiction and also for the formal ends of queer-of-color critique: https://t.co/EbrqejL9B0

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@mikers86 I’m not really here!! 👻

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Had the pleasure to work on the index for @sjbranson1’s amazing translation of Guy Hocquenghem’s *Gay Liberation after May 68*, which is now available. Get yourself a copy! https://t.co/iUPAmj9y90

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Save 30% on #NewBook "Gay Liberation after May ′68" written by Guy Hocquenghem, translated by Scott Branson @sjbranson1, detailing the rise of the militant gay liberation movement alongside the women’s movement & other revolutionary organizing. #LGBTQBooks
https://t.co/qelGwMBQEm

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Just a reminder: I’m not regularly checking Twitter. If you have a book in the social sciences or humanities in need of an index, then I would love to work with you!! Contact information is on my website: https://t.co/gXdQfxDaVH

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Scott’s made an important text in the history of queer theory and leftist thought available to English audiences for the first time ever! Highly recommend it for anyone thinking about the arc of liberation and alternatives to identity-based politics.