Patrick McKelvey
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
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- What if Jane Dont’s snatch game is beloved character actress Margo Martindale
- Omg read the room!
- Was delighted to find Review # 10 of "Disability Works" in Lateral! csalateral.org/reviews/disa...
- Watching a Ryan Murphy first responder show with a more rigorous critique of AI than a sizeable portion of humanities scholars.
- Pittsburgh opening a sapphic coffee shop after I move away is hateful
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- Reposted by Patrick McKelveyOne of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." to.pbs.org/3LRVzZd
- Me when two Billy goats kiss: ok bleated rivalry
- Reposted by Patrick McKelveyBREAKING: The Border Patrol's Greg Bovino has been ousted from his role of "Commander at Large"—and Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski could be next to lose their jobs, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Review # 9 of "Disability Works" is out now in Theatre Survey! Grateful for Alexis Riley's careful, enthusiastic, and insightful reading! doi-org.proxy.library.nd.edu/10.../tsu.20...
- Reposted by Patrick McKelveyICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:
- Reposted by Patrick McKelveyIs Cory Booker really “not sure” what he’s going to do about the 🧊 bill? #NJ, can we all please just call him and tell him what he needs to do. www.booker.senate.gov/contact
- We just watched a horror movie with the thesis: heterosexuality is so pathological, if you’re not careful, the couple form could become a single middle aged lesbian
- Reposted by Patrick McKelveyIf you have any firsthand video of today’s shooting, please please submit here so the Hennepin County Attorneys Office can review it hennepinprosecutor.evidence.com/axon/communi...
- Reposted by Patrick McKelveyICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.
- The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- [Bernie Sanders meme]: I am once again asking for a Judging Amy reboot.
- Rose Nylund:
- Reposted by Patrick McKelveyYes in thunder. My syllabus statement:
- Jane Dont's drag dares to ask the question: what if Jinkx Monsoon was Julie Klausner?
- Alison Bechdel using ChaptGPT to "draw"? More like "YIKES to watch out for" amirite? vtdigger.org/2026/01/14/v...
- “where have all the cowboys gone?” But about organic raspberries sourced from a company with ethical labor practices. Watch this space.
- Not only does planet fitness not have towel service they make you rub mud on the treadmill when you’re done
- I'm not saying DD Fuego should have been safe, but I AM saying I'm sad we won't see her Mamie Gummer on Snatch Game
- Not gay as in happy queer as in power walking to the new Ragtime cast recording
- I am at a straight person’s birthday party and someone on the dance floor was talking about their new washer and dryer
- the perfect media object: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Cd...
- Writing about AIDS and employment discrimination and Scrivener does not recognize the word “precarious” or the word “serostatus”
- Titus AND Ronicus? In this economy?
- Scene: Morning drive to NHC [song on radio ends] Radio host: I hate to say it Paula, but I have no idea where all the cowboys have gone! But you know what I do know? Where all the hubcaps have gone. The side of the road!
- Shelby, our 12 year old whippet, has never noticed a screen in her life (not a phone, not a TV, not a laptop, even if one dad was FaceTiming the other and she clearly heard the virtual dad). Drag Race UK Season 7 Snatch Game? Watched the episode in full. Didn't blink.
- not to be homophobic against cooking utensils but sometimes spatulas are to effete to function
- I can't stop thinking about "Griffin in Summer," a very funny and smart and sweet account of queer childhood and the melodrama of heterosexual realism. www.imdb.com/title/tt2856...
- It wasn’t long ago that people assumed that without Butch O’Hare, Femme O’Hare was invisible. Makes you think.
- This season of Drag Race is wild. Six queens are from Florida and two queens have health insurance.
- Mariska Hargitay in Oh, Mary!
- Heated Rivalry but for dressage
- I’m working on a comprehensive cultural history of the figure of the gelato lesbian. Any examples besides Roman Holiday?
- We are watching a hallmark Christmas movie directed by Andrew Lawrence about how Matthew Lawrence and Joey Lawrence want to sleep with the same advertising executive. Joey Lawrence just said: as my grandma says, the more the merrier.
- Rope is a Christmas movie
- Me whenever I see two men not talking: this is just like Heated Rivalry
- Sister Act is a Christmas movie
- Reposted by Patrick McKelveyI’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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- Brown. Thinking of you all—check in if you can
- When an airline offers to check your carry on for free….like ok but why are you so obsessed with me?
- If you know anything about eight year old me, you know that I was OBSESSED with Dixie Carter's cabaret night at the Clinton White House. Cannot believe I came across this again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktow...
- “Ever tried. Ever pailed. No matter. Try Again. Pail again. Pail better.”-Samuel Buckett
- I told the barista my name and he responded: “that has a similar vowel set to my former coworker”???
- keeping my marriage alive by instructing my partner to "email me about it so its in my workflow" when he asks me for something
- you: PhDs in the humanities should teach entrepreneurship me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
- My favorite thing about researching vocational rehabilitation in the early 1990s is the consensus that teaching PWAs how to use Word Perfect renders the welfare state superfluous
- Queer coming of age comedy set at a boarding school for ambulances where a student realizes they are an ambulette
- Is it homophobic when Anthony says we should play with the dogs and I say I am and he says no that’s cuddling
- If there were an Emmy for Diet Coke Verisimilitude, The Beast In Me would NOT win
- Some more good news! I just found out “Disability Works” received the Midwest Modern Language Association Book Award!
- Second chapter of “Supporting Actors: AIDS, Infrastructure, Performance”—-drafted!
- Rigatoni Collette
