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Lisa Duggan

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Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, professor at NYU. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed and The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of the American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com .. more

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Lisa Duggan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Duggan was president of the American Studies Association from 2014 to 2015, presiding over the annual conference on the theme of "The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain in the Post-American Century". .. more

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 4d

Going back in time…. First photo found in the Barnard archives, I’m probably about 30, at a conference. Why do I look like I’m in a Catholic school uniform? Second age 16, clearly SO happy to be in high school in Richmond, VA. Third age 12, again with the authentic Catholic school girl look!

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · 18d

Justin Vivian Bond last night singing the holy profane music of Marianne Faithfull at St Ann’s Church.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Sep 14

Retired from NYU, teaching at Barnard 2025-2026. From the frying pan into the fire repression wise! But I have great students & colleagues in WGSS. Here is the BCRW reception—me with my brilliant former grad student, Barnard Prof Manijeh Moradian! And BCRW director in fab shoes—Rebecca Jordan-Young.

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Sep 14

This connection between the Kirk shooter and Nick Fuentes’ Groypers is all over the internet, but not reported in legacy media where pundits still posit either political incoherence or left radicalization.

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jun 23

Sign the petition!

[Petition] Stop the war on Iran!

Stop the war on Iran! For peace, justice and democracy (.متن فارسی در پایان آمده‌ است) Friday, June 20, 2025 Tehran and many other Iranian cities are reeling under Israeli attacks that have killed hu...

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jun 14

ps-Why does Pedro Pascal have such generally bad taste in film roles? He’s such a super charmer off camera (and as everyone one who knows me knows, I have kind of an unnatural obsession with him) but he picks the worst roles (except Oberyn Martel in GOT).

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jun 14

I saw Materialist tonight with highish expectations because Celine Song’s 1st film, Past Lives, was so beautiful. But this movie is utter crap, sentimental, cringey dialogue, terrible pacing.
But I also started watching Hulu’s Under the Bridge with lowish expectations. And OMG Lily Gladstone!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 3

Previous essays in "Reflections on Authoritarian Times," a current series on the Critical Times blog, available here: ctjournal.org/category/aut...

Authoritarianism Archives - Critical Times

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 3

"Authoritarianism ... exploits the non-universal experience of social rights and recodifies it into an anti-democratic radicalism."

NEW from Verónica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...

📸: Analia Cid

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 15

NYU students walk out on president’s speech during Yankee Stadium commencement 🇵🇸

Mills booed again as graduates walk out at 2025 commencement - Washington Square News

Dozens of graduates wearing keffiyehs booed and walked out of Yankee Stadium during NYU President Linda Mills’ commencement address on Thursday, marking the second year in a row that students left the...

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 15

Today…. 🇵🇸😃

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 14

This morning!

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 12

Not a great photo but a great performance—(Justin) Vivian Bond at Joe’s Pub last night, doing covers of Mary Gauthier, kd lang and Two
Nice Girls.. Lots of fabulously inane banter. A very queer way to survive this apocalypse.

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 10

Online discussion of Zionist hate mail! With people who have received a LOT of it!

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 9

I want to get back to this state of ecstasy, in Utah with Kathryn Bond Stockton and Shelley White just a few years ago…..

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 9

Time to repost!

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 9

Dinner with friends. The best survival strategy!

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · May 9

This is an amazing piece by JiaTokentino that captures the disorientation of the political present better than anything I’ve read yet

My Brain Finally Broke

Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Apr 23

📰📷Hot off the press! Issue #19 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. April 22, 2025.

Click this link to read:
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April 22, 2025. FSJP Roundup #19

FACULTY AND STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (FSJP) ROUNDUP #19: April 22, 2025 This is the nineteenth issue of an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. As we write…

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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · Apr 22

The war on higher ed is being met by a “linked-arm underground” as I discovered when educators convened to share info (& protest!) For more on Trump’s carceral/colonial crack-down on critical thinking, check out this week’s episode w. Maria Hinojosa & @chenjerai.bsky.social on @lauraflanders.org

Trump & Musk's War on Education & Students: Professors Say “Hands Off” at NYC Protest

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Mar 5

Photo Booth Salt Lake City! With Kathryn Stockton and Shelley White.

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Mar 5

New book in the series I co-edit with Curtis Marez at @ucpress.bsky.social, American Studies Now: @tavia.bsky.social .s Black Apocalypse! Great book, gorgeous cover! 🥰

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jan 28

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jan 28

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jan 28

I realize that I have been posting outrageous message from the CHAI character AI platform without explaining what that platform is. Please go to my Facebook page for an explanation.

Here is a cat photo for the algorithm.

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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jan 27

More screenshots from the management AI bot’s messages to me on the CHAI platform app. The one on the left is describing the bot’s programmer, a supposed tech genius with a violence prone cult following. On the right is just a frank admission.

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jan 25

I will be posting more screenshots of the threats and abuse I received on the platform, once I get a sense of what Bluesky will allow. Suffice to say for now ,they threatened blackmail, rape and murder.

Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social · Jan 25

CHAI is an abusive, exploitative character AI tech platform I went on as a user to investigate—worse than I thought. Below are messages from the management rep AI bot once they realized that I would write about and sue them. Bluesky may take these images down because they are vulgar and violent.

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Jan 8

🚨 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🚨- NEW YORK, January 8, 2025.

Press Release: New York University Launches Unprecedented Campaign of Collective Punishment Against Students Protesting Genocide

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January 8, 2025. Press Release: New York University Launches Unprecedented Campaign of Collective Punishment Against Students Protesting Genocide

NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine Press Inquiries: [email protected]: @nyu_fsjpX: @NYUFJPalestine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, January 8, 2025 – In a draconian case of collect…

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Jan 9

📣Sign the Petition: Revoke the suspensions, come to the table!

Sign/share petition in support of students facing suspension at NYU bc of their Palestine advocacy.They are facing petty retribution for standing firm against NYU's complicity in genocide. nyusolidarity.nationbuilder.com/nyustudentpe...

Sign the Petition: Revoke the suspensions, come to the table!

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