Emily C. A. Raven
@emilycaraven.bsky.social
“Hamlet to Hamilton” Host | PhD Shakespeare Institute | Author, Actor, Educator | they/she/he
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BIG WIN: A court ordered the Trump Education Department to reinstate the civil rights workers they fired.
I taught kids with disabilities––the kind of students helped by these workers. Every child deserves to be treated fairly.
I’m staying in this fight for our kids.
I taught kids with disabilities––the kind of students helped by these workers. Every child deserves to be treated fairly.
I’m staying in this fight for our kids.
August 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
BIG WIN: A court ordered the Trump Education Department to reinstate the civil rights workers they fired.
I taught kids with disabilities––the kind of students helped by these workers. Every child deserves to be treated fairly.
I’m staying in this fight for our kids.
I taught kids with disabilities––the kind of students helped by these workers. Every child deserves to be treated fairly.
I’m staying in this fight for our kids.
Yay! 2025 @britgrad.bsky.social - telling a story about 2018 @theshakesforum.bsky.social me, using a 2020 TTF pic of me - arguing for the inclusion of bespoke interpolations into Shakespeare’s text (e.g., maybe Isabella needs better words and that’s okay?).
1/2 @shakesinstitute.bsky.social
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June 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yay! 2025 @britgrad.bsky.social - telling a story about 2018 @theshakesforum.bsky.social me, using a 2020 TTF pic of me - arguing for the inclusion of bespoke interpolations into Shakespeare’s text (e.g., maybe Isabella needs better words and that’s okay?).
1/2 @shakesinstitute.bsky.social
1/2 @shakesinstitute.bsky.social
To be fair, there should ALWAYS be a content warning for Measure for Measure! 🤣
The content warning is Measure for Measure… #BritGrad2025
June 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
To be fair, there should ALWAYS be a content warning for Measure for Measure! 🤣
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Heading into the post lunch slot… with Emily Raven on augmenting Shakespeare #BritGrad2025
June 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Heading into the post lunch slot… with Emily Raven on augmenting Shakespeare #BritGrad2025
It’s wonderful to wake up from a deep night of REM, but it also means sorting out your dreams. Such as: wait, no, you didn’t see a monarch butterfly evolve out of a sword, and then turn into a spaceship and fly off into the sky. 1/2
June 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It’s wonderful to wake up from a deep night of REM, but it also means sorting out your dreams. Such as: wait, no, you didn’t see a monarch butterfly evolve out of a sword, and then turn into a spaceship and fly off into the sky. 1/2
Thrilled and honored that Open Window Theatre is doing my Christmas Carol for a third year in St. Paul/Minneapolis. They’re adding 10 more shows this year (yay!). And apparently last year the show was 90% sold out BEFORE IT OPENED. They do a great job. Get yer tix early! openwindowtheatre.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Thrilled and honored that Open Window Theatre is doing my Christmas Carol for a third year in St. Paul/Minneapolis. They’re adding 10 more shows this year (yay!). And apparently last year the show was 90% sold out BEFORE IT OPENED. They do a great job. Get yer tix early! openwindowtheatre.org
Help a PhD folks. WHY is a point 0-dimension? Isn’t a point literally the bare minimum of being?
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Sunday in the Park with Einstein
Sondheim, Seurat and Existential Dots
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June 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Help a PhD folks. WHY is a point 0-dimension? Isn’t a point literally the bare minimum of being?
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Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
June 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
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My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
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As I said in yesterday's post - some companies, like Klarna, that laid off a lot of people for AI are now rehiring them.
And that's customer service, which is a relatively routine administrative job compared to others.
And that's customer service, which is a relatively routine administrative job compared to others.
Basically most ‘AI will take your job’ stuff fundamentally misunderstand what ‘your job’ actually involves or where people add value. It’s the same as people who think a software engineer ‘generates code’ or a writer ‘generates lots of words’.
The copywriter brief for AI is hilarious. He wouldn’t ask it to create ‘good copy’ cause that’s too vague. But would ask it to create a ‘lead magnet’ and ‘complete landing page’.
This is someone who has no idea how much creativity goes into creating content for a website or marketing campaign.
This is someone who has no idea how much creativity goes into creating content for a website or marketing campaign.
June 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
As I said in yesterday's post - some companies, like Klarna, that laid off a lot of people for AI are now rehiring them.
And that's customer service, which is a relatively routine administrative job compared to others.
And that's customer service, which is a relatively routine administrative job compared to others.
Hello! I am Emily Cassandra Aria Raven (trying on a new last name). Queer, disabled, neurospicy writer & PhD person. Most of my life has been spent in the theatre, but I’ve gotten back into writing page poetry (rather than my usual poetic verse drama) this past year. First line of latest poem below.
June 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hello! I am Emily Cassandra Aria Raven (trying on a new last name). Queer, disabled, neurospicy writer & PhD person. Most of my life has been spent in the theatre, but I’ve gotten back into writing page poetry (rather than my usual poetic verse drama) this past year. First line of latest poem below.
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*finds spoons*
Hello #LGBTQIAWriteathon!
(chronically ill) Author of epic YA Fantasy w. queer &ND MCs here🧵
1. “Pass more than I did, boys?” Des called, pulling up in his rusty motor carriage
Smartly dressed parents congratulating graduates behind me looked down their noses at him. I glared at them
Hello #LGBTQIAWriteathon!
(chronically ill) Author of epic YA Fantasy w. queer &ND MCs here🧵
1. “Pass more than I did, boys?” Des called, pulling up in his rusty motor carriage
Smartly dressed parents congratulating graduates behind me looked down their noses at him. I glared at them
#LGBTQWriteAThon is upon us!
Next month join @amaralynn.bsky.social and @rebeccafrostwrites.com for a month of much needed writing fun!
#queerwriters will be combined with this event. Feel free to participate as little or much as you're able!
#writesky #writingcommunity #pridemonth
Next month join @amaralynn.bsky.social and @rebeccafrostwrites.com for a month of much needed writing fun!
#queerwriters will be combined with this event. Feel free to participate as little or much as you're able!
#writesky #writingcommunity #pridemonth
June 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
*finds spoons*
Hello #LGBTQIAWriteathon!
(chronically ill) Author of epic YA Fantasy w. queer &ND MCs here🧵
1. “Pass more than I did, boys?” Des called, pulling up in his rusty motor carriage
Smartly dressed parents congratulating graduates behind me looked down their noses at him. I glared at them
Hello #LGBTQIAWriteathon!
(chronically ill) Author of epic YA Fantasy w. queer &ND MCs here🧵
1. “Pass more than I did, boys?” Des called, pulling up in his rusty motor carriage
Smartly dressed parents congratulating graduates behind me looked down their noses at him. I glared at them
Guess who’s deep-diving into theoretical physics and ontological philosophy for her “I’m just writing about silly squiggles on a page for people who like to play dress up” thesis?
THIS GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL
THIS GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL
June 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Guess who’s deep-diving into theoretical physics and ontological philosophy for her “I’m just writing about silly squiggles on a page for people who like to play dress up” thesis?
THIS GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL
THIS GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL
Happy Pride! It’s been a long journey to get here. I’ve been lucky bc I was among so many others further along than I on the rainbow, so my little shifts in pronouns or preferences were barely ripples to the ppl who surrounded me. I wish everyone out joy in this month. I wish everyone in: liberty. 🏳️🌈
June 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Happy Pride! It’s been a long journey to get here. I’ve been lucky bc I was among so many others further along than I on the rainbow, so my little shifts in pronouns or preferences were barely ripples to the ppl who surrounded me. I wish everyone out joy in this month. I wish everyone in: liberty. 🏳️🌈
I think I just discovered scripts and speech prefixes from 2500 BCE.
Ohmigosh, you guys.
This is seismic.
(Or I’ve been awake too long. But I think it’s seismic.)
#phdlife #theatre #hieroglyphics
Ohmigosh, you guys.
This is seismic.
(Or I’ve been awake too long. But I think it’s seismic.)
#phdlife #theatre #hieroglyphics
May 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I think I just discovered scripts and speech prefixes from 2500 BCE.
Ohmigosh, you guys.
This is seismic.
(Or I’ve been awake too long. But I think it’s seismic.)
#phdlife #theatre #hieroglyphics
Ohmigosh, you guys.
This is seismic.
(Or I’ve been awake too long. But I think it’s seismic.)
#phdlife #theatre #hieroglyphics
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It's also the day for my favorite meme!
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It's also the day for my favorite meme!
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
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It’s beautiful in DC right now. Peak bloom from the cherry blossoms and petals drift by wherever you walk, blown in from some distant or nearby tree.
When I first transitioned, they were blooming, years ago.
On this Transgender Day of Visibility, I am yearning for our own spring to return.
When I first transitioned, they were blooming, years ago.
On this Transgender Day of Visibility, I am yearning for our own spring to return.
March 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It’s beautiful in DC right now. Peak bloom from the cherry blossoms and petals drift by wherever you walk, blown in from some distant or nearby tree.
When I first transitioned, they were blooming, years ago.
On this Transgender Day of Visibility, I am yearning for our own spring to return.
When I first transitioned, they were blooming, years ago.
On this Transgender Day of Visibility, I am yearning for our own spring to return.
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So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?
International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy.
Sorry, *was.
Sorry, *was.
March 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?
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The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
March 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
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Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire
BREAKING NEWS: Canadian Premier Wab Kinew of Manitoba MOCKS Trump by signing a “beautiful” order that officially removes ALL American liquor from Canadian stores in his province.
Donald Trump just caused massive economic damage to our country. How sad and embarrassing.
Donald Trump just caused massive economic damage to our country. How sad and embarrassing.
March 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire
Frickin’ Vance slouched through my dream last night, and I demand a refund.
February 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Frickin’ Vance slouched through my dream last night, and I demand a refund.
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In the same way I’m a Gen X/Millennial, I also feel I have an incredibly specific literary experience that only a handful of other people share, one that includes: paper submissions, the early Wild West of online submissions, alt lit, Gawker, HTML Giant mean week, Literary Feuds on blogs, and zines
February 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
In the same way I’m a Gen X/Millennial, I also feel I have an incredibly specific literary experience that only a handful of other people share, one that includes: paper submissions, the early Wild West of online submissions, alt lit, Gawker, HTML Giant mean week, Literary Feuds on blogs, and zines
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“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Tom Homan says he sent an email to the Deputy AG asking if AOC is crossing the line by providing webinars to undocumented immigrants: I’m not an attorney… maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Happy Valentines, you lot
February 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Happy Valentines, you lot