Jennifer Doyle
@fromaleftwing
Sports crank, art writer, teacher. Author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, Sex Objects, Hold It Against Me. ACFC fan.
Félix Guattari, The Three Ecologies. monoskop.org/images/4/44/...
The great Paraguayan goalkeeper Chilavert, painted by artist and former Indian national team player Yolanda de Sousa Kammermeier.
Campus Sex, Campus Security is out of print, so I’ve been buying copies for myself on eBay. Special experience to get a copy really marked up by an engaged reader! (I’m going to write an intro for a second edition.)
BJM position statement on the IOC 2021 policy on inclusion based on 10 principles - a sound and workable policy which the IOC just trashed: bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp...
There are some great books out there about sports and gender - Let Us Play is one of my favorites. Love the collaboration between siblings, one an athlete and the other a journalist.
My sisters are mentoring me as I take on a new writing project (rooted in track).
From opening minutes of the film. This spot has been used in advertisements — for scenes of the 'authentic' game — meaning Brown, immigrant, Latino, Mexican — few spots are more iconic than this section of MacArthur Park.
Wednesday in NYC: Convo about my book Shadow of My Shadow, with Avgi Saketopoulou, at Bureau of General Services—Queer Division! Will leave lots of room for discussion w/ the audience. Join us! www.bgsqd.com/event/shadow...
Reading up on fascism (scroll down, worth the read). www.marxists.org/glossary/ter...
Squeezing in reading before the new quarter starts: Cynthia Carr’s Candy Darling biography. Engrossing, deeply moving.
I’m so jazzed Scientia Sexualis made it into Diva Corp! especially via @karenlofgren.bsky.social’s words about bronze & disgust! If I had to choose betw coverage by New York Crimes & this, I’d 100% have chosen this!!!!
Day 2 of our symposium, today (Sat), 1-4:30. Come be in community. Last night was galvanizing!
Looking for an actual genius who imagined an automotive future freed from petroleum dependency? Let me recommend George Washington Carver.
The George Washington Carver show at the California African American Museum is so good, inspiring, bracing, beautiful. Mix of education and art, which is how he worked. Closes March 2. If you are in LA be sure to go! It’s free!
Scientia Sexualis in the wild at Stories & Books/ Echo Park, and right next to Joe Brainard!
I’ll be at ICA LA walking thru the show w friends at noon. The more the merrier! #ScientiaSexualis #pstart
Hi. Happy Valentine's Day from a stalking victim who hates it. I hate V-Day flowers, cards, chocolates. (Student gave me a card the other day & I couldn't hide the CRINGE.) Didn't realize I wrote a book that had a holiday link, but this one kindof does! www.dukeupress.edu/shadow-of-my...
Tom, 2/12 5pm PST/8pm EST, on zoom: @hrag.bsky.social in convo w/ Tamara Lanier, discussing From These Roots, her book about her struggle w/ Harvard re its ownership/control over images of her great-great-great grandfather Renty Taylor & his daughter Delia. bit.ly/3WXDvz8
Follow this account, it puts a badge on folks who follow Jesse Singal. It’s like magic. For me, makes it easy to ignore esp reposts of 🗑️&🤮. Reliable filter and red flag.
Three day symposium at ICA LA, Feb 28-March 2. Keynotes: Hil Malatino, Riley Snorton. Panels featuring me & Jeanne Vaccaro, Perwana Nzif in convo w artists P Staff, Panteha Abareshi, El Palomar, Oliver Husain & Kerstin Schroedinger. www.theicala.org/en/events/14...