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lrdougherty.bsky.social
Theatre & performance scholar. Professor. Director. East coast volume in the mid-west. Baseball forever. she/her
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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No, I prefer to shop at places that have less of that sundown town vibe.

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I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

submitted 18 days ago • 74 comments

For class discussion.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Disappeared for thoughts expressed in an OpEd. In the school paper. We need to openly talk w our colleagues about plans to protect all of our students.

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Uzo forever. Oh she’s so great. And the ever delightful Randall Park! Imagine HOW delightful this must be to make thinking about the White House right now pleasurable. With my favorite moral of any story: shut up and listen to smart black women.

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Have I Already Watched This British Murder Show Or Is It Just Starring Nicola Walker: the title of my sabbatical.

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I know the Kennedy Center fight seems a sideshow. But the performing arts are one of the most unionized sectors of the US economy. This is a front in the regime's war on labor.

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Colman Domingo is a magic person. I will watch him work in anything. But Sing Sing. Sing Sing.

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Libraries, the arts, universities. A free press. Thought as radical political act. Critical, free thinking. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/18/m...

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We resist through our own passions for the world we choose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Janelle Monae makes my tongue swell. Holy what. Electric.

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“nuestra sangre tiene los resistentes negros convertidos en esclavos por ustedes.”

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

This goes hard

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I ordered from Ezri! I’m so taken by trans kids knowing strangers showed up to support them, even for cookies. I hope they all feel any small amount of support.

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It really is sad how true and evergreen this is.

submitted 135 days ago • 10 comments

I am not seeing enough Dave Parker sledgehammer coverage. He swung a SLEDGEHAMMER in the on deck circle. Seared into my memory. I gotta have a sledgehammer in cooperstown. #mlb

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Insomnia and my dog is downstairs. Torture reigns this night.

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One of the best things ever written about how the Super Bowl has long been used to reinforce the U.S. war machine abcnews.go.com/Sports/whitn...

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Winter Glossary. Acedia: a melancholic sluggishness of mind/body Clinomania: a desire to stay in bed Apricity: the warmth of the sun on a cold day Latibulize: to retire into a den, or hole, & lie dormant for the winter Abibliophobia: the fear of running out of reading material

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I find Colman Domingo so mesmerizing I almost didn’t hate Mister. Of COURSE I hated Mister. But almost.

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Choreography leads the aesthetic in The Color Purple. The way it crafts the silhouette, the shape of the tone of the storytelling! Thinking about scope of music video to full length musical… & I lovelovelove Marcus Gardley as playwright. Would love to hear/read about the writing of the screenplay.

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Waiting for my flight to Boston. I love tiny terminal 2 at msp. LOVE. However, there is NARY A DECORATION to be seen! I want garland on pillars! Trees! Wreaths! I want Home for the Holidays piped in on repeat! I miss very few things about the South. But the poinsettia tree at CLT was a delight!

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The ACKNOWLEDGMENTS? Congressional inquiry? For a…cliche? Did she say “done is better than good” too? And by uttering it she stole unoriginal thought? How black women suffer any of us for any single moment I have no damn idea.

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