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Jo Giardini

Jo Giardini

@downevent.bsky.social

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bibliophile in um, meadville gender studies prof at allegheny college, writing on the clinical history of gender, political economy of sexuality, experimental poetics short forays on ephemeral literatures on IG: mimeodrome

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Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Jun 7

Sandwiched between two men on the Montréal metro, one reading ‘The Prince,’ the other Camille Paglia.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Apr 28

Joshua Clover—the start of much to reread

My Life in the New Millennium
It was true that the more I hated people the more I loved cats.
Then people started to surprise me.
Often this involved fire or Coca-Cola
bottles with petrol which amounts to the same thing.
Once fire is the form of the spectacle the problem becomes how to set fire to fire.
Some friends were prepared to help with this which Michael Jackson having died and then Whitney Houston was the new pop music. Without an understanding of the world system and the underlying truth of land as the place of politics and the sea as the space of commerce it is hard to integrate that other
most important fact of our era. Pirates. My friends and pirates and cats —it comes down to comrades known and elsewhere.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Apr 28

Rest in peace, Joshua. I vividly recall our first conversations, in the midst of the 2012 student strike in Montreal—his uncompromising intelligence, comradeliness, commitment to the real movements of our times, his poetics, all impressed me then, and on every encounter since.

Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Apr 28

Devastated to learn of the tragic and untimely passing of Joshua Clover. His revolutionary intelligence and conviction (and great sense of humor) will be missed.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2016/07/the-...

The Modality of Necessity: On Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot

www.unemployednegativity.com

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 18

"Man eats hearty meal, imperilling his sustained fast."

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 18

In what possible world is this 'imperilling' the cease-fire, rather than simply breaking it without apology?

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 15

Did we somehow never talk about 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept'?

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UAW @uaw.org · Mar 14

🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 14

Yes, signed this when it was circulating! Was just wondering if, as due dates for panel submissions arrive, people are working to re-publicize this, and put pressure on those who are moving to participate…

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 14

Sending power to Sterne, and all those near him. The speech he gave is accessible on his blog, here: superbon.net/2011/11/14/t...

Text of my speech from today’s amazing demonstration (pardon some of the odd punctuation–it’s for timing) – Super Bon!

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 14

Through the next months he would continue to be outspoken, even at the most conservative of universities in Quebec. I’m grateful for his powerful scholarship, and I’ll always think of it as an extension of a commitment to the public, contestatory work of thinking in common.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 14

who were gearing up for the monumental strike of 2012, and insisted that police presence on university campuses must not be normalized. It was a powerful speech of solidarity, in support of a vision of the university as a space against privation and privatization, in support of a more just world.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 14

I’ll always remember a speech Sterne gave in November 2011, after riot police had indiscriminately assaulted people in McGill and the adjacent Milton Parc neighbourhood. He affirmed the ongoing fight by public unions in Quebec for fair compensation, spoke in support of student activists…

Rob @robarcand.bsky.social · Mar 13

Earlier today, a group of students received word that Jonathan Sterne entered hospice care yesterday following his ongoing battle with cancer. I think there's a few of his colleagues and former students that follow me on here (he's also currently my phd advisor), more info will be coming soon

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 14

I can’t imagine participating in the MLA conference in Toronto next year, and I’m curious if anyone has been organizing a more formal response—a statement from members who will continue to refuse engagement after the stifling of the statement on Gaza and scholasticide last year?

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Mar 6

Congrats David!

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Feb 21

So so good! Didn’t realize that there’s been a vinyl release.

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Pinko Magazine @pinko.online · Feb 19

Baltimore! Join us this Saturday for a conversation on the new @haymarketbooks.org edition of After Accountability at @redemmas.org, starting at 6 PM! We'll be joined by @estebanitos.bsky.social @genderhorizon.com @maxfox.bsky.social and Stevie Wilson to discuss withfriends.co/event/227083...

After Accountability launch at Red Emma's with Stevie Wilson, Peter Hardie, and Esteban Kelly
February 22, 2025 6:00-7:30 PM
Red Emma's 3128 Greenmount Ave.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Feb 18

And somehow that's the best of the three pages?

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Feb 13

I teach a couple chapters from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'As We Have Always Done': '7. The Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples’ Bodies' & '8. Indigenous Queer Normativity' to help make this connection.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ah! So looking forward!

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Jan 29

If you need any other club members…

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Jan 29

(feeling devastated, today, and trying to find strength in these words which have been close)

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Jan 29

Collective liberation is entwined with the freedom of children, and their abilities to grasp towards new worlds. I've been so grateful to learn this anew in conversation with @lalouverouge.bsky.social. I can't think of something more vital than making sure that trans children continue to flourish.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Jan 29

And today, in a different class, we discussed this passage from Jan Morris' 'Conundrum,' envisioning (with an unfortunate orientalist framing) a version of identity which emphasizes its relationality, its ability to travel.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Jan 29

Last week I taught John D'Emilio's 'Capitalism and Gay Identity,' and lingered with my class on this late paragraph—affirming the necessity of allowing children the ability to explore their own futures, to live lives beyond the identities which they're told are available to them.

Jo Giardini @downevent.bsky.social · Jan 18

Anyway—as someone who’s also at a SLAC with a generalist bent, if we ever end up at the same conference I’d be excited to talk, and combat cliquishness!