Sylvie Thode @sylviethode
PhD candidate @UCBEnglish @UAW_4811 // working on HIV/AIDS history, poetics, queer theory // asst editor @Critical_Times_ Joined June 2014-
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"Our protest might still touch the future, but not the days before. We call this politics." -- Samera Esmeir (@JustAttuned), "The Days Before." Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/08/21/the…
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"Can we build a potent left statism in conjunction with decentralized democratic projects? An anti-Leninist Leninism perhaps?" NEW from Wendy Brown: "After Liberal Democracy," an essay published on the Critical Times blog. ctjournal.org/2025/05/15/aft…
matt rogers wearing a boichik bagels shirt in the new las culturistas episode ... biggest day for berkeley gays since spotify wrapped 2023??
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NYU Langone is withdrawing care for trans patients under the age of 19. This is the letter I wrote to their director.
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If you’ll be at MLA anyhow, I’m happy to be in convo w brilliant people on two afternoon RTs: Thurs, on Helen Vendler’s legacy, convened by @sylviethode; Friday, on Poetry as Object of Lit Crit, convened by @kjavadizadeh. See pics for details.
falling 😤 faintly 😤😤 faintly 😤 falling
odyssey this, iliad that, when will we return to the true hero of greek myth: the mighty sphinx? (this is the greatest day of my life I want one so badly)
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James Merrill, on dying, and on living.
putting together a Barbara Johnson reading group for next semester
taught Anne Carson while wearing my New York Liberty shirt this morning ... approaching peak levels of self parody!!
I have yet to teach in a berkeley classroom with enough chairs for all my students
I have yet to teach in a berkeley classroom with enough chairs for all my students
took a few tries but i have finally defeated the "stereotypical new yorker" allegations
Stately, plump Felled Coconut came from the context, bearing a bowl on which what had been lay unburdened
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If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in nature? In the horizon line—the lightning-harrowed bough—the canyon's pink striation—the pupil of the goat
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