Reb v. Wade

@rsl318

queer disabled activist-scholar formerly known as 'the abortion musicologist' // teacher, writer, PhD candidate, peer counselor // fieldwork in the Southeast, writing in NYC, repro justice activism everywhere // she & they

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Reb v. Wade@rsl318· 21d

all i have to do is make it thru the rest of this summer course i'm teaching... 😬

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Reb v. Wade@rsl318· 21d

got to visit my former neighbor today!!!

reb smiles and pets a dark brown miniature horse named Darleigh

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· 24d

i guess this peer-reviewed academic journal does not adhere to @newyorker.com house style :(

screenshot of comment on word doc:
Associate Editor
9:19 AM Jun 20
Replace: "ë" with "e"

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· 29d

every now & then, particularly during times of horrific catastrophes (or at least, more catastrophes that usual), i check out the fox news homepage to see how they're covering these catastrophes... & frequently they aren't rly talking about them at all? plenty of gender-ideology-fear-mongering tho!

Fox news homepage
top story: School deans give stunning answers when grilled in tense hearing on men giving birth
(accompanied by photo w/ caption 'THIS IS RIDICULOUS')
other top stories:
"Hero pilot vows 'courage can be contagious' as he faces devastating diagnosis"
"US launches new strikes on Iran as naval blockade set to resume, CENTCOM says"
"Conservative rebellion crumbles as Johnson wins key floor vote after weeks of chaos"

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Jul 13

feeling targeted by the automated survey that popped up after i impulse-bought a new jumpsuit

prompt: "How would you describe your current chapter in life?"
[blank text box next to a button that says "Submit"]

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Jul 9

ugh, i feel sick (also this article was written by a woman)

It is a question on which the left and right have largely diverged: In recent months, Democrats have sought to expel problematic men swiftly, while Republicans in the era of Trump have often batted back accusations and stood by their men. There are notable exceptions in both directions, but the different approaches have cost Democrats talent and energy, and allowed some of the nation’s most powerful conservative figures to flourish.

from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/us/politics/democrats-republicans-sexual-assault-politicians.html?emc=edit_nn_20260709&nl=the-morning&segment_id=222815

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Jul 8

speaking of whom

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asks Sen. Mitch McConnell to give a public update on his condition

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Jul 5

anyway i usually forget to photographically document my time w/ these wonderful supportive friends but i've remembered a couple of times this summer and look at this happy lil redhead!!!

Reb and two friends, one of whom is holding an adorable one-year-old baby, smiling in the Atlanta sunshine

Reb and Yao smiling & sitting on a stone bench at Storm King art center

Reb and a bunch of dykes at the NYC Dyke March

Reb and two femmes holding back laughter outside the best gay bar in Lexington, KY

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Jun 26

the only bad part of my newfound itinerant lifestyle is the limited access to my books 😫 (but luckily i'll be making regular trips to the storage unit!!!)

two photos of floor to ceiling bookshelves: in the first one, there are beautiful wonderful books lined up on the shelves, and in the second one, all of the books have been packed away in michelob ultra and miller lite boxes :/

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Jun 24

on the four-year (oof... i'm tired y'all 😔) anniversary of Dobbs, here's a reminder to be gay & fund abortion donationsforabortions.com

Reb at the beach wearing a t-shirt that says "be gay fund abortion"

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Jun 8

ok i legitimately did not realize that the second photo was taken at the British Library until I WENT THERE TODAY, nor did i realize that they have a handwritten draft of 'Mrs. Dalloway' and now i can't stop crying!!!!!

smiling Reb sits on a bench shaped like a book

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Jun 6

usually when i cry in museums it's because i'm moved by beautiful art but this evening it's because i miss my Granny

Granny ("big Rebecca") and toddler Reb ("little Rebecca") sitting on a sofa, both smiling and both with blonde hair and bangs

Granny ca. mid 2000s, w/ blonde curly hair and denim jacket, sitting on a bench shaped like a giant book

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· May 30

update, one year later: chatGPT still directly quoting my work, at least now citing an essay i wrote (good!), but attributing it to a scholar who is... decidedly not me (infuriating!!!)

Q: what is sonic patriarchy

ChatGPT answer:
Sonic patriarchy is a concept used in feminist sound studies to describe how power and gender inequality can be expressed through sound, listening, and control of auditory space. It is often described as an aural counterpart to the "male gaze"—focusing on who gets heard, who is expected to listen, and whose voices are treated as authoritative.

Examples that scholars discuss include:

Catcalling, whistles, and unwanted verbal comments in public spaces.
Men dominating conversations or speaking over others ("mansplaining" is sometimes cited as an example).
Social assumptions that deeper or male voices sound more authoritative, while women's voices are dismissed as "shrill" or "emotional."
Control of shared sound environments, such as someone imposing their music, speech, or noise on others without regard for consent.

The term has been developed by scholars such as Jenny Gunn, who argues that "sonic patriarchy" refers to the gendered domination of a sound world and the control of gendered bodies through sound.

In simple terms, the idea is that power isn't only exercised through what people see (the male gaze) but also through what people hear, who is allowed to speak, whose speech carries authority, and who is forced to listen.

If you encountered the phrase in a specific article, book, or social media post, I can explain how it's being used in that particular context.

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· May 30

some summer reading: Atlanta, New York, and London

a stack of books:
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
The Tempest
A Room of One's Own
Transit
Voyage in the Dark
Beyond Black
Always Crashing in the Same Car
The Lonely City
X
Invisible Man
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· May 19

since i'm about to box up all my books for a move (final destination TBD 😬), i thought i'd post a photo of the books i love so much that i've read them btwn 5-20x each

a stack of worn, well-loved books:
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Citizen - Claudia Rankine
If Not, Winter (fragments of Sappho) - Anne Carson
The White Book - Han Kang
Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion
Cassandra at the Wedding - Dorothy Baker
Delta Wedding - Eudora Welty
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro
Holy the Firm - Annie Dillard
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Apr 29

i've been working so hard on this project & for so long (these photos are taken almost exactly 10 years apart) i'm sincerely honored to have my activist-scholarship funded at a time when research funding is being slashed right & left

2016: Reb wears a neon green "clinic escort volunteer" vest while standing in front of an antiabortion protester outside an abortion clinic in NYC

2026: Reb wears a neon pink "pro-choice clinic escort vest" while taking a bathroom selfie at an abortion clinic in the southeast US

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Apr 9

here it is: - my third peer-reviewed journal article - proof that I can write about something other than sound/music - proof that I can't write about anything unrelated to abortion - an essay I wrote 3 (!) years ago & am nervous (but kinda proud?) to see finally floating around out in the world

cover of the journal "American Studies"
WITH AMERICAN STUDIES INTERNATIONAL
VOLUME 64 ISSUE 1-2
SPRING-SUMMER 2025

table of contents, including "front matter" by the editors and "Ableism and Abortion: The Exceptionalization of Fetal Disability in "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice" Pregnancy Narratives" by Rebecca Lentjes

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Mar 25

this week i get to fulfill my middle school dream of becoming Rory Gilmore (i got invited to give a colloquium talk at Yale)

YALE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
GUEST SERIES 2025-26
REBECCA LENTJES
Ultra/Sound:
The Antiabortion
Weaponization of Sonic Vitalism

MARCH 26,4 PM
WLH 207
This talk examines how the United States antiabortion movement wields obstetric technology, such as ultrasound and fetal cardiac activity tests, as a tool for subjugating pregnant people. Through a process I term sonic vitalism, the antiabortion movement successfully politicizes and weaponizes acoustic technology, lending credibility to the fiction of fetal personhood and then broadcasting it in the medical, legal, and sociocultural spheres. Antiabortion sonic vitalism engenders not only a discursive construction of the fetus-as-person, but also a lived reality in which pregnant people are literally denied healthcare every day.
This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale.

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Mar 18

huge thanks to whichever of y'all music nerds made this site for planning the perfect commute

Fuß und Reu
Find a score for your trip.

morgan library → dimenna center

Options:
Transit
Driving
Walking (selected)
Cycling

Go!

morgan library to dimenna center

1.3 mi

20 mins

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331 – Complete
exact
20 min

Arnold Schoenberg
Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
exact
20 min

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 24

also is it weird that lately i've been really wanting to get this image tattooed onto my body

black and white image of éliane radigue standing amidst rows of seats in an empty theater

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 23

Last saved celebrity pic is your therapist

David Bowie wearing a fab black-and-white striped blazer and smoking a cigarette

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 22

have started transcribing some of the eight hours of field recordings i took this past weekend at the abortion clinic, and i feel this 90-second clip really sums up the overall ominous/distressing vibe

OUTSIDE CLINIC: WHITE MALE PROTESTER (30s/40s?) PREACHES WITH MEGAPHONE OVER THE SOUNDS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN.
"[God] has already begun the judgment. If you see the book of Romans, homosexuality IS a judgment. And I wonder what [?] will be like in 50 years! Assuming we'll all be alive by that point, I guess we might get to see it. I wonder what will happen in 50 years, when we have a massive population decline? Because we're killing 3500 babies every single day with this method. Ugh, it's so sad. And so sick. Innocent children who have done nothing wrong don't deserve death."

[preaching becomes indistinguishable as Reb walks up stairs to clinic]

REB ENTERS CLINIC
[News playing on television near the clinic door (which is propped open). You can still hear protester preaching in the background but his words are mostly indistinguishable due to the rain and the TV.]
"...another deadly strike on alleged drug trafficking boat in the Pacific... Defense officials say three people were killed in that strike. Overall, 137 people have been killed in the Trump administration's ongoing operation to target alleged drug boats."
[booming crash of thunder]
News report continues. "Newly released footage..."

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 17

happy year of the horse, btw have i told y'all that i've been living across the street from a miniature horse for the past three years

rotund dark brown miniature horse stands in the grass next to a sidewalk being pet by a white redhead femme person who is wearing sunglasses and a t-shirt that says "men have made a lot of bad art"

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 13

somehow i missed the news that the CDC's page on sexual violence statistics, after being removed by the trump administration, was restored with a disclaimer that "this page does not reflect reality"

screenshot from CDC website:

National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)

Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website to its version as of 12:00 AM on January 29, 2025. Information on this page may be modified and/or removed in the future subject to the terms of the court’s order and implemented consistent with applicable law. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from truth. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes. This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.

What to know
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) is an ongoing survey that collects the most current and comprehensive national- and state-level data on intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking victimization in the United States. CDC developed NISVS to collect data on these important public health problems and enhance violence prevention efforts.

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 9

they aren't waiting till tomorrow

fox news front page w/ headline "Bad Buffy halftime show ripped for language barrier, suspected political message" next to an image of Bad Bunny's halftime show w/ the caption "AN ABOMINATION"

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 8

family group chat is goin bananas 🏀

screenshot of texts:
Jack: Fuck dook go heels

me: PA AND I BOTH YELLED
didn’t have the lead the entire game, incredible
wait aren’t u at a wedding lol

Jack: There’s a guy at this wedding I met who had it on his phone during dinner, we’re going crazy

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 8

i'm not even a huge basketball fan but: my mom's side of the family all went to Auburn, my dad went to UNC (& overlapped w/ Michael Jordan!), and i'm now at UK, so this is a pretttttyyyyy stressful day

4pm Alabama @ Auburn
6:30pm Duke @ UNC
8:30pm Tennessee @ Kentucky

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 7

ok my best friend sent me a voice note response to this and now i'm crying

transcription of voice note: "Hey, I can totally understand how you might feel like that, but may I make a counter point which is what you did this year is Survive You made it through you got through this year even though I know it's probably one of your hardest and made it to 2026 despite everything and with a hell of a lot of work and effort and heartache and strength on your part so I'm really proud of you for that. I hope you are too, and you have so much of your life to make all the academic accomplishments. I know you will, but above all you made it through the year. A lot of people could not do that. I love you"

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 3

forgot to post a couple days ago, on the anniversary of the tragic plane crash that killed 67 people and that within eight minutes the entire Republican party had blamed on "DEI"

screenshot of Brandon Friedman skeet:
"J.D. Vance uses DEI to cover for a potentially white male pilot being at fault: "When you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means, on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in
government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there."
who was quote-skeeting Adam Schwarz:
"Hesgeth and Vance use the Washington D.C. airliner-helicopter crash to make anti-diversity, equity and inclusion points, suggesting it was to blame for the collision.
The Vice President didn't even open his remarks by referencing the victims or families - just straight into anti-DEI points."

Reb v. Wade@rsl318· Feb 3

(belated grammy's post) MARTHA STEWART SAID FUCK ICE AND HER BESTIE BILLIE EILISH ALSO SAID FUCK ICE