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Questions for Lily Alexandre

Glad to see the positive response to the last talk with CJ. Tomorrow I’ll be speaking with yet ANOTHER video essayist, Lily Alexandre. Though, I won’t be able to publish this one until May because I’m busy with some other things rn…

But I’m taking questions for our chat tomorrow, so let me know what you wanna know below👇

Peer Review w/ CJ the X

This third edition of Peer Review takes a philosophical turn with CJ the X. I had lots of fun discussing art, philosophy, and reality with CJ. We occupy two different corners of philosophy and it was fun to see both of them applied to a similar problem. Hope you enjoy, and let me know what you think in...

Audience questions for CJ the X!

Hello ! Tomorrow I will be talking to CJ the X for the next installment of Digital Dialects.

If you have any burning questions for them, post a comment below and I'll try to fit it into our conversation :)!

Edit: our convo was rescheduled to this weekend so you have time to ask more questions :)!

Peer Review w/ Rowan Ellis

And now, the second installment of Peer Review, this time joined by Rowan Ellis! You should be able to listen to this one on a podcast app since it's just audio using the RSS feed.

In this edition we talk about queer stuff, structuring video essays, managing the video essay life alongside other p...

Welcome to the Patreon!

Guide to the Patreon:

Exclusive Content;

You'll find Patreon exclusive content in my Collections.

The Patreon Exclusives Collection compiles ALL the exclusive videos and vlogs about various topics including Barbie, Good Omens, academia, and more!

The Peer Review Collection - a podcast series where I talk to other online creators a...

Questions for Rowan Ellis? (and updates)

Hey all! So I will be speaking with Rowan Ellis tomorrow for another installment of "Digital Dialects"... do you have any questions for her you're burning to ask? Comment below!

As for the next video, I'm working on the script for it. It's part an argument for letting trans kids transition and part a deconstruction of the notion of biological sex (I think??). Expect that in early May. 2024-04-02 16:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Peer Review w/ The Leftist Cooks

Introducing Peer Review, a Patreon exclusive series where I will be having super casual conversations with video essayists on YouTube, as a way of documenting this cool space that we have all built together!

Think of these as digital ethnographic interviews where we also talk shit :)

For the first edition, I've brought on the Leftist Cooks. They are incredible creators in the leftis...

Submit questions for semi secret project

I will be talking with the Leftist Cooks tomorrow for a new Patreon exclusive thing I wanna do.

They are amazing video essayists, which you can find here:

https://youtube.com/@TheLeftistCooks?si=Jr1HDJrmSuBPGzJS

I’ve done quote reads for them before and they’ve read for me so m...

Audience survey!!!

I'm going to send this out later/tomorrow but wanted to see what y'all think first. It's a super quick survey about what content my audience would like to see. Feel free to make suggestions for the survey before I send it to the public :)

https://forms.gle/CtV4u6EWWNevvP288

i'll be editing the survey as I re...

Patreon Exclusive VLOG!

So I had a crazy Saturday as I was giving a keynote address at the Western Mass Queer Conference AND my band was playing a gig at this same conference... It was a wild ride! Things happened, tragedies occurred, laughs were laughed, so I thought it'd be fun to publish a cute short vlog about it. LMK if you'd like more content like this on the 'Treon in the future!

Also did you like the new...

Fuck it, here's the video a week early

Happy saturday patrons!

back on my "the self doesn't exist" grind

some more BTS O_O More like BS!

choose yourself :x

happy valentines day!

BTS - Hannah Montana

Did some minor filming last night... here's some stills from the intro :P :)

Well... (upd8)

Yeah. It's going well... I guess... 

I'm in the beginning stages of writing the script... well, I've outlined the whole script, have all the research done, now I just have to write it. I'm planning some whacky stuff for the new video so be prepared. It's on Hannah Montana and how we live in a society, etc. I expect an upload in late Feb or early March...

I...

Updates and ruminations

Hi. So I've been enjoying some time "off" with my family which is to say passively reading books over the course of the holidays and watching 3 seasons of Hannah Montana. The chance that the next video will be about Hannah Montana is almost certain. But as always... Will it REALLY be about Hannah Montana? Or is it about subjectivity in late capitalism? I DONT KNOW!!!! I wish I could turn the le...

Happy Holidays!

Hope you’ve all had a wonderful holiday. I’ve been taking it easy but passively reading stuff that might be interesting for the next video. It may or may not be about Hannah Montana 0.0

I’ll be mostly spending time with my family, but soon after I’ll send some thank you notes to some wonderful folks. Hope everyone is having a restful and joyful time :) and happy new year!! Looking...

Patreon Exclusive: Why a humanities degree isn't a death sentence

hey yall, so here's a very "rough and off the cuff" sort of video about why I think getting a humanities/social science degree is not only cool and based, but practical and fulfilling... it's something that's been on my mind and thought it was worth capturing and sharing...

i think when outlining a bit of what i wanted to say i was thinking of the humanities/STEM binary, so i focus a lot ...

Will unpublish the $1 tier soon... also exclusive content soon...

Hello all, I have been thinking about this a while... based on a changing financial situation, I think I'm going to unpublish the $1 tier, making the lowest tier the $2 tier. FIRST, if you are CURRENTLY a $1 Patron, you can stay a $1 Patron as long as you choose. Unpublishing means that no NEW Patrons can become $1 Patrons. I am doing this for a few reasons... 

1. my...

Hello and thank you again!

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoyed the new Swift video... It took me out spiritually and emotionally lol. You can even hear it in my voice. But I'm satisfied with how it turned out, and the response has been amazing! I thought Swifties would've murdered me but they have been very kind and receptive actually!! I think I will take a short break after this... I often say this but then I get autisticall...

Hi and Thanks.

HI! I see there a good amount of new people here :) Thank you all very much for supporting queer creators, I couldn't be able to make content without you all!!!!!

All the new people you may notice some bonus content in here--a Good Omens video and Barbie video, both from the summer! Plz enjoy :D

In the meantime, I am grinding my way through this Taylor Swift video asf so that it com...

EXCLUSIVE: the first 15 minutes of the Taylor Swift video

Here's the first draft of the first 20 (more like 15) minutes of the Taylor Swift video, just for YOU! The first 20 minutes frontload a bit of the more theoretical stuff, but there's a lot more Taylore stuff later in the video. It's looking like the video will end up being 2 hours and 20 minutes.

NOTE: there's a cut in the video at the ground news sponsorship since the ad...

Taylor Swift video bibliography

Because I HATE myself, I don't usually compile the script's bibliography into document format until the end, so I thought I'd share... can you guess what the video's about?

Eric Hobsbawm, 1962, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848, p. 261

Miriam Rahali, 2021, On the genealogy of the American millennial ideal: a celebrity case study of neoliberal feminism in the 2...