Benjamin Strassfeld

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

@whitstrub So sorry for your loss, Whit. It was great to read about your mom, and I love how long she kept up the __ days since "mission accomplished." Hope you and everyone in your family is coping as best you can.

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

Fuck @RepMoulton and every other Democrat who is going to respond to Trump winning by embracing transphobia and doing even less to defend trans rights

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

@AdvInCensorship What a fun idea for an assignment, and it would be the literary version of the famous Life magazine photo which manages to violate 10 Production Code guidelines in one image!

[Dr. Heather Ann Thompson @hthompsn]

And update: we recently won in the law suit filed against Department of Corrections NY too! This book can now be read by the men still in Attica today
#NoBannedBooks

https://t.co/Bm6GDOeH2C

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

@LeeAndreson Thanks so much! The chapter 5 title was suggested by a friend of mine, and it's honestly maybe my favorite thing about the book. Hope you're well!

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

Thanks so much!

[Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd]

2023 represented a pretty totalizing defeat for the Humanities. And we still have no collective plan except for striving for individuated stardom and fighting over scraps.

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

I'm so grateful to so many people for helping to make this happen, and I'll say more about that in the weeks ahead. For now though, the book is almost out - go preorder it now! (4/)
https://t.co/WF2gvtTZcN

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

I had plans to do more to promote my book here before this site became a hellscape, but regardless, my book is coming out in just a few weeks! Incredibly proud of it, and feels utterly surreal that it will be out in the world soon. Go preorder it now! (1/)
https://t.co/mH4qcQ9j3U

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

Even if you're not an academic though, the book is still readable and interesting! It's all about the history of how Detroit banned movies, comic books, adult entertainment, and lots of other fun stuff! It's jargon-free and a PhD is definitely not required to understand it (3/)

[Dr. Jessie Male 🍉 @ProfJMale]

An element of academia which continues to floor me is that three people in a department can teach the same amount of classes, but one person makes 100k+, another makes 45k, and another makes 18k...and students have zero awareness of this difference.

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

Thanks so much Whit! And as I recall, I think you may have been the one to first point me in the direction of this Hickey article which I absolutely love.

[whit strub @whitstrub]

^^ rare historian to cite it is @bstrassfeld in another excellent article that situates antiporn politics in concrete materialism of race and real estate--this is worth reading now, upcoming book later this year will be too!

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

the episode ends with the show deploying the "slippery slope" argument against censorship when the town tries to ban Michelangelo's David. Florida in 2023 somehow managing to turn a silly joke in The Simpsons into reality

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

This is literally the premise of a Simpsons episode! Marge leads a censorship campaign (inspired by Terry Rakolta's campaign against Married with Children) against Itchy & Scratchy and.... (1/) https://t.co/fhk6uwkHT0

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

Thanks!

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

@jikaplan Sorry to say, but it's just you

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

@jikaplan Oh we going for a cool million now!

[Benjamin Strassfeld @bstrassfeld]

From one of the more bonkers Congressional hearings ever

[psychotronica @psychotronica_]

🗓️ ON THIS DAY IN 1993

Sen. Joe Lieberman forces the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Video Game Violence to watch him play Mortal Kombat
💀sound on💀