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Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️‍🌈
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social
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Writer & dance film scholar. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (9/25, Bloomsbury): https://shorturl.at/yyHZP. Shirley Jackson finalist. Rev ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. http://www.addietsai.com
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Please see me present on the Trump dance as part of Critical Humor Studies Association’s virtual symposium, “Humor and the Right.” I’m up first with Session 2 at 2:15 ET/11:15 PT Friday, November 14.

QR code to register below which includes program, linked here: drive.google.com/file/d/17Hmj...
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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The last time I saw Jubi Arriola-Headley he bowed at my feet & showered me with love. We didn’t see each other often but we had such a tender connection. I was honored to publish his kilt essay at @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social. I’m not ready to accept he’s gone. A tremendous kind fierce spirit.
Addie and Jubi at AWP.
October 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Did a little homage to Diane Keaton over at my fashion remakes IG (@ addiewearshistory)
BW photo of Addie in a suit with two fake flowers at her mouth in a bowler hat Diane Keaton in a patterned suit with two peonies at her mouth in a bowler hat.
October 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Exciting news is that my first talk for the monograph tomorrow, hosted by William & Mary's GSWS program, is a hybrid event! Link is below.

Noon ET / 11 am Central / 9 PT: cwm.zoom.us/j/83020140530
A flyer with summary blurb info of Addie Tsai's Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture, Wednesday 9/24, 12-1 pm (ET) at William & Mary: in Boswell 314. A GSWS Colloquia Event. The flyer also includes Addie's headshot and the cover of her book.
September 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Got my author copies for my third book (!!!) and debut monograph, STRAIGHT WHITE MEN CAN’T DANCE: AMERICAN MASCULINITY IN FILM AND POPULAR CULTURE, published by Bloomsbury Academic! So much more stunning than I was expected! At bookstores near you Thursday the 18th. More info below.
The cover, with colorful illustrations of (mostly) white men from American film - Matthew Perry, Steve Carell, Alfonso Ribiera, and Jon Heder, at the bottom of a black background. The back cover with summary copy in white and orange text. The spine which is color blocked in orange, gray, blue, and pink, with the title and author name in white text.
September 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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23,201, trying to get to 30k by September…even with a stomachache in bed I’m trekking along 🙏🏼 #wip
August 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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reckoning w cultural & linguistic displacement, mythology, migration, & empire

- mixed Taiwanese rep
- abandoning yt mother
- longing to share father birth tongue
- twin rep
- connecting to ancestors thru food
- finding one's history via 228, Rape of Nanjing, Patty Chang, & karaoke

#Queerpit #PM
A young yt woman breastfeeds twins. A teen girl in glasses, a green shirt, bangles, and a buddha necklace poses while singing. A close-up of an Asian adult's face, showing freckles, eyelashes, and upper lip. A family snapshot of a Chinese father and three children - twins, and an older boy. They all lean over the railing. The twins wear pigtails and matching white t-shirts and shorts with animal faces at the knees, and red socks. The boy wears a blue vest, light colored shirt, and dark pants. The father has tinted glasses and wears all black.
August 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I still haven’t recovered that I can count Jesse Dittmar among my “fans” (who, me? 🫣🥰) & am honored & grateful to be part of the community of beyond wondrous spirits he’s captured. ✨ Here are a couple new author photos plus joyous traces of our time together around the corner from Wash Sq Park. 🥰😍
A headshot of Addie in a black and floral jacket, gold watch, gold necklaces, and green earrings. Addie in a black dress and floral and black bolero looking off into the distance. Her hand is tucked behind her lapel. Addie in a black dress. The image is in black and white. Addie in a full shot wearing black dress and floral and black bolero and black heels with a single curved strap. Their feet are crossed at the ankles.
July 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Please come hang with us on Zoomie Friday at 8 ET! Info in Alt Text. Reading brand new poems! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/stanzas-in....
ID: flier in orange, light blue ombré, and white. A drawing of a n95 baby blue mask at center. White text: Stanzas in the pandemonium: writing & accessibility together during COVID. FRIDAY March 28, 2025, 5pm PST/ 8pm EST. Orange text to left - Readers: Addie Tsai SA Smythe River 瑩瑩 Dandelion joselia Rebekah Hughes Kay Ulanday Barrett Navy text: features will share poems & panel with COVID awareness, disabled & sick wonder, & marvelous queer resistance within & beyond the literary. Bottom with circle headshots of writers ranging in size, race, gender, ability, hair style, skin tone.
March 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I won't be at AWP. But, my dearest Ronaldo Wilson & I put together this panel on writers working w image, which came out of a silly & serious collab we created together. My presence will be in the room *somehow*, remains to be seen! I promise you'll get a kick out of it.
Writers and/as Artists Seizing the Image How do writers working at the margins of race, gender, and sexuality seize the possibilities of the image in verbal language through visual art? This panel negotiates the interplay between drawing, collage, video, and graphic art against the usual means of writing: story, metaphor, and plot. This panel presents five writers who practice visual art to resist conscripted identities to present radical possibilities of the imagined across verbal and visual language via the image, icon, and picture. Thursday, March 27, 1:45, Room 518, Level Two
March 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Skipping physical AWP this year, come hang with us online and see me read new poems I’m excited about? March 28, 8 pm.

www.eventbrite.com/e/stanzas-in...
ID: flier in orange, light blue ombré, and white. A drawing of a n95 baby blue mask at center. White text: Stanzas in the pandemonium: writing & accessibility together during COVID. FRIDAY March 28, 2025, 5pm PST/ 8pm EST. Orange text to left - Readers: Addie Tsai SA Smythe River 瑩瑩 Dandelion joselia Rebekah Hughes Kay Ulanday Barrett Navy text: features will share poems & panel with COVID awareness, disabled & sick wonder, & marvelous queer resistance within & beyond the literary. Bottom with circle headshots of writers ranging in size, race, gender, ability, hair style, skin tone.
March 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Photos I’d use as album covers. (No, I can’t play guitar. 😂)
A double exposure of Addie’s face and wallpaper of birds. Addie as a child wearing a red shirt and red baseball cap. Their arms are extended and they’re holding their hands in fists. Addie in her mid-twenties, in her apartment, holding an acoustic guitar, with very long hair. A self portrait of Addie holding a camera to their face, in darkness.
March 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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New foodventure: very simple Filipinx chicken noodle soup. It’s so wild, and amazing, to very unexpectedly be a person that cooks now, something I’ve wanted to be able to do my whole life. I’m not fancy but I’m really fulfilled by this new practice in my life. 🥰🙏🏼
Chicken soup, udon, and shredded chicken in a white bowl with an orange ceramic spoon and chopsticks.
March 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Really thoughtful reflection of whiteness in Daniel C Blight’s The Image of Whiteness, through an intro essay and interviews with thinkers like Claudia Rankine, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, George Yancy, and others.
Cover with the title in white type over a portrait of three white people in a domestic interior.
March 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Me: Why do students keep saying I dress in monochromatic outfits?

Also me: blue striped joggers, white dress shirt with blue stripes, blue striped tie, blue blazer, blue eyeshadow, blue oxfords. 😂 💙 #ootd
Closeup in blue blazer, blue striped tie, white shirt with blue grid lines. Sitting in a chair wearing blue striped joggers, blue oxfords, blue socks with goats, brown watch with blue face, blue blazer, white shirt with blue grid lines.
March 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Enjoying Glossolalia, Marlon Hacla translated by Kristine Ong Muslim, in a cafe on a Saturday morning. Any Filipine poet reviewers want to review it for @anmlymag.bsky.social?
March 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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February 27. Jalen Ngonda. Inspired by his dad’s jazz, hip hop, soul, and classical records, his music is considered “golden soul,” and is a blend of classic and contemporary soul sounds. #BlackHistoryMonth
February 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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February 26. Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. Portrait painter from the Harlem Renaissance. #BlackHistoryMonth
February 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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February 25. Roberta Flack. Truly no voice like hers. Here’s a clip from a live version of “First Time I Ever Saw Your Face.” Wishing her ease on her journey. ✨ RIP #BlackHistoryMonth
February 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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February 24. Ease into your final week of February with Martin Puryear. #BlackHistoryMonth
A wooden sculpture. A round wooden sculpture made of long pieces with a point. A bird like wooden sculpture. A large wooden wheel.
February 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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February 23. Kaitlyn Sardin. She blends Irish dance with hip hop, dancehall, and other genres. Here she is dancing to Charli XCX, video courtesy of Jack Morr. Love these transitions and fire. #BlackHistoryMonth
February 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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February 22. Nick Cave. Sculptor, dancer, and performance artist. Check out his Amalgams and Graphts. I love the attention to body, pose, dimension. #BlackHistoryMonth
A sculpture of a human figure with trees and birds coming out of his neck. A sculpture on the ground of two figures - one is lying sideways and the other perpendicular on its stomach. Between them are sculpted flora. Needlepoint of a masculine face surrounded by flowers. A sculpture of a figure sitting down with branches and birds coming out of the head.
February 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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February 21. Get a little pick me up from BruceGlen, aka twin designers Bruce and Glen Proctor known for their vibrant bold colors. #BlackHistoryMonth
Bruce and Glen Proctor in blue and pink suits. They both have died pink hair. Two Black models in colorful makeup and clothing. A Black male model in a track suit. The pants are in light and medium blue and the jacket also has the same blues but with triangles of yellow, pink and red at the center. Two Black models on a runway. They both wear colorful tube tops with dresses that have cut outs at the chest. One model is in a purple and blue dress and the other wears a black dress.
February 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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February 20. Oumi Janta, Senegalese jam skater who went viral while we were all home in the early days of COVID. Jam skating is a mix of dancing, skating, and gymnastics, influenced by roller disco in the 60s and 70s. I could watch her groove forever. #BlackHistoryMonth
February 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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February 19. Carrie Mae Weems. A gift to see her work when I was in London for Unwieldy Creatures tour. Her Kitchen Table Series remains a favorite. Included are her images & a remake from a daily photo series I did in 2021, where I remade images of art that impacted me. #BlackHistoryMonth
A grid of Carrie Mae Weems’s Kitchen Table Series. A series of images of Black women and girls around a wooden kitchen table. A Black woman leans her back against a wooden kitchen table. Her right hand holds her hair with her arm bent. An Asian person leans back over a round table in the same position as Weems in the preceding image.There is a curtain behind them.
February 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM