monica b pearl

teacher reader expat/immigrant newyorker in manchester uk No longer on X; Find me at:

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

@Christina5004 @joiedevivre9 Started with Ghost Dance (1986) and read each one as it came out. Then wrote about The Art Lover in my book on AIDS fiction. Just love Maso.

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

@JoyceCarolOates Like the letter addressed to: "Mark Twain. God knows where." And the sender eventually receiving this response from him: "He did."

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

@IneluctableQuak Yes to Carole Maso -

[Talat @talatyaqoob]

Here’s you standing in front of a lectern with the words that are now a fascist slogan…spare me your shock.

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

@DrWillN @actupny @TheLoveTankCIC @benvyle So proud.

[Sexuality Summer School @SSS_Manchester]

TODAY!

‘Intellectual and Other Intimacies’: @heathklove and Christina Lupton in conversation with @mbpearl, chaired by Jackie Stacey

Venue:
Ellen Wilkinson Building, Seminar Room C1.18, The University of Manchester, M15 6JA

No booking required

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

Today!

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

Excited to be in discussion this Monday with fellow @actupny veteran @gagliostro and HIV/AIDS activist and actor @NathanielJHall. Part of @SSS_Manchester; this year's theme: Queer Friendship.
A few tickets for the film at @HOME_mcr still available.
https://t.co/0G82sipnS7

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

Tomorrow!

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

Such a privilege to get to introduce our keynote speaker @Teagan_Bradway - and also get to ramble for 20 minutes or so about everything I think about QUEER FRIENDSHIP - this year's @SSS_Manchester theme.
This Monday, all welcome! @anthonyburgess

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

Such a privilege to get to introduce our keynote speaker @Teagan_Bradway - and also get to ramble for 20 minutes or so about everything I think about QUEER FRIENDSHIP - this year's @SSS_Manchester theme.
This Monday, all welcome! @anthonyburgess

[Sexuality Summer School @SSS_Manchester]

We are thrilled to invite you to the opening plenary lecture by Teagan Bradway and Monica Pearl. This is a free event and we welcome everyone to join us.

Check out the SSS website for more details: https://t.co/It6k8ZKJBb

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

Excited to be in discussion this Monday with fellow @actupny veteran @gagliostro and HIV/AIDS activist and actor @NathanielJHall. Part of @SSS_Manchester; this year's theme: Queer Friendship.
A few tickets for the film at @HOME_mcr still available.
https://t.co/0G82sipnS7

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

@mcrleftaction full support

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

"But did my students, I worried, understand that these lessons weren’t taught for the sake of memorizing history, or even for the purpose of honoring elders, but to give them skill sets and playbooks that could be acted upon for their own pressing causes?"

Beautiful essay.

[Hannah Gold @hannahpgold]

wrote a sort of drash about Passover, Columbia, and what the student activists understand about escalation and liberation. up at @thebafflermag, with photos by @drhannahryan https://t.co/NrGGIBW5LF

[Sexuality Summer School @SSS_Manchester]

The next exciting Sexuality Summer School event also features our set text for SSS 2024: Revolutionary Acts! We're very lucky to be joined by @jasebyjason who will be speaking to @jessf_white - join us! @BlackwellsMcr
#SSS2024 #queerstudies #revolutionaryacts #booklaunch

[Hannah Gold @hannahpgold]

ICYMI: on Douglas Crimp’s “Mourning and Militancy,” Robert Glück’s About Ed, and teaching a unit on grief during a genocide. up at @thebafflermag https://t.co/3tDIWSRfQ3

[sarah schulman @sarahschulman3]

RIP Joan Gibbs, co-founder Dykes Against Racism Everywhere, ACT UP Lawyer, Center for Constitutional Rights, kind person, community treasure. https://t.co/DzQ6JNc24s

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

"May Kathy’s memory be a blessing, and may it feed a revolution."
@hannahpgold's beautiful remembrance of my comrade - and ACT UP's only out Trans member, back in the day - Kathy Ottersten.
https://t.co/Q3FYRSBp8E

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

@hannahpgold @MsHafsaQureshi this is the essay I mentioned on Needle Exchange - it's important and beautiful.

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

https://t.co/80DPNuwmU6
For World AIDS Day I re-post this stunning and moving essay by @hannahpgold. "Bold Fury: The Overdose Crisis and ACT UP's Needle Exchange Legacy"

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

@dogfanhan See the ACT UP Oral History Project (free online) for granular details about AIDS activism (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)
https://t.co/aTYXl3Xf4m
Watch the film United in Anger: the History of ACT UP/New York.
Read Sarah Schulman, Let the Record Show

[sarah schulman @sarahschulman3]

My piece on understanding the war on Gaza, in today's New York Magazine
https://t.co/YT4FB6sYlK

[monica b pearl @mbpearl]

@HoldenMcshay Criterion Channel right now - all of them!