Abi Mason

From Boston, then Penn State, now at UVM starting the MA Greek and Latin.

[Abi Mason @abidrmason]

Come see the Tantalids 4/13-14! I’ve been working with @theoctopiehole and Jeannette Chien on this mash-up of the Agamemnon and Thyestes! (poster designed by me)

[v ness: psappho sang the blues + #FreePalestine @theoctopiehole]

working with leslyn hall this school year to design a quilt for agamemnon’s homecoming has been a dream. we’d been trying to figure out how to translate the murex dyes into contemporary textile standards and came up with a peacock tail quilt pattern (plus the Hera/Cly parallel)

[Abi Mason @abidrmason]

@anseiler17 @ClassicsAtUCLA Congrats (again), I’m so happy for you!

[Abi Mason @abidrmason]

@BelovedOfOizys Congratulations!

[Abi Mason @abidrmason]

@JakeNabel Thank you!

[Abi Mason @abidrmason]

It’s been amazing two years with these folks, but I’m glad we’re done and have an MA to show for it.

[v ness: psappho sang the blues + #FreePalestine @theoctopiehole]

so fucking glad that i never have to do this ceremony again, but eternally grateful that my final time was with such fantastic humans: Sunshine Alvarez de Silva and Abi Mason (and of course, Ana Maria Ribero with us in spirit from Brazil)

[National Students for Justice in Palestine @NationalSJP]

*Antarctica has entered the chat?!?* 😲

[v ness: psappho sang the blues + #FreePalestine @theoctopiehole]

Extremely proud of the UVM students for being the first Vermont campus to establish an encampment, particularly after three Palestinian students from Brown were shot here while wearing keffiyehs back in November.

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

Harvard has launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment

[National Students for Justice in Palestine @NationalSJP]

Incredible video from @HarvardPSC

Just yesterday, Harvard University placed the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) under suspension. Less than 24 hours later, students launched a Gaza solidarity encampment.

THE MORE THEY TRY TO SILENCE US THE LOUDER WE WILL BE

[Abi Mason @abidrmason]

@AntiquityAlex θρᾷς σεκούτωρ προβοκάτωρ μυρμίλλων(?) ἐσσεδάριος ῥητιάριος. Let me know if this is not what you needed!

[National Students for Justice in Palestine @NationalSJP]

Today at 7 pm, students from three Boston-area schools—MIT, Emerson, and Tufts—launched encampments to demand that their instituons cut ties from genocide

WE ARE MOBILIZED, UNIFIED, AND DETERMINED. WE WILL SEIZE CONTROL OF OUR CAMPUSES UNTIL PALESTINE IS FREE!

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

After more than 100 students from Barnard College and Columbia University were arrested at an encampment calling for the school to divest from Israel amid the country's deadly assault on Gaza, similar encampments have begun across the United States.

[James @exhaustdata]

You have to fuck up on a truly historic level to get the NYPD to say “even we think these were meaningless arrests.” They love meaningless arrests!

[v ness: psappho sang the blues + #FreePalestine @theoctopiehole]

Limitless love to my chorus and all of the endless lyrical jokes that we made trying to memorize these songs, it was truly such an honor to compose for you all. You'll always be my dear oldheads! From L-R, Drew McCormick, Alexis Lindsay, Will Todt, Tina Rodina & Gideon Lieberman.

[v ness: psappho sang the blues + #FreePalestine @theoctopiehole]

Tantalids Stasimon 2:

[strophe] 🎶Who could think up such a name
For a woman ripe to blame
By old Zeus we make this claim (and the Twain!)
Sing along to our refrain
For that bitch who's on our brain:
Helen, the hell to ships and men
Helen, the hell leaves cities broken...🎶

[Abi Mason @abidrmason]

@BelovedOfOizys I said that but also immediately started googling, and I found a youtube video of one scene and a link to purchase a video on demand! https://t.co/EeooXpFXFI https://t.co/WDEpFre7u1

[Abi Mason @abidrmason]

@BelovedOfOizys Please share this if you find it!!!

[v ness: psappho sang the blues + #FreePalestine @theoctopiehole]

🎶Sing now in Hades
Underground ladies
Sword-sharpened paid fees
From that sad
limp
sack
of my husband 🎶

Alex Seiler (who’s heading off to @ClassicsAtUCLA this fall) has been utterly killing it as Clytemnestra (which has long been one of their dream roles) 🦚🗡🩸

[v ness: psappho sang the blues + #FreePalestine @theoctopiehole]

Gearing up for our final runs before we open tomorrow afternoon--come see @ClassicsUvm's production of "Tantalids" directed by @entropyre, produced by @abidrmason, with the musical design by yours truly. Sat 2pm/7pm, Sun 2pm @ Main Street Landing

[v ness: psappho sang the blues + #FreePalestine @theoctopiehole]

We're ramping up at @ClassicsUvm for our spring horrorshow of Tantalids (trans. @entropyre @abidrmason & myself). As thousands flood into Vermont this weekend for the eclipse on Monday, stick around til next weekend to see the heavens reverse over the House of Atreus!