ALT 773 - Working under Fire: Precarity, Censorship, and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Classroom Sunday, 12 January 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Salon 19 (1st Floor) Description We are, yet again, living in a historical moment where what we teach and how we teach are flashpoints for larger cultural and political divisions in the United States. This group of nineteenth-century Americanist scholars discusses censorship, repression, employment precarity, burnout, and institutional stress in their professional lives and research.

ALT Presider Kathryn Walkiewicz U of California, San Diego Speaker Jesse Alemán U of New Mexico, Albuquerque Ben Bascom Ball State U Xine Yao University C London Oliver Baker Penn State U, University Park

ALT In addition to these actions please attend and support as many panels related to Palestine as possible (list via QR code)

ALT Crips for eSIMs for Gaza QR code I shared this at MLA24 — they’ve now raised almost $2 million Canadian! Thank you Jane, Leah, Alice

ALT Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters Thursday, 9 January 2025 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Chart C (Riverside Complex) Description Panelists discuss pedagogical methods for teaching Phillis Wheatley (Peters) to students and teachers in London and the US North, South, and Midwest. Scholars draw on their experience to describe how they make her life, poems, and letters visible and legible to a variety of audiences and to reflect on the institutional and educational structures that delimit teaching her.

ALT Presider Sam Plasencia Colby C Speaker Xine Yao University C London Tara Bynum U of Iowa Donald Holmes U of Pittsburgh Drea Brown Texas State U Brigitte Fielder U of Wisconsin, Madison Sarah Ruffing Robbins Texas Christian U

ALT Join us to protest the suppression of the BDS resolution at MLA convention New Orleans Jan 9-12

ALT Thursday 5:15 Hilton Churchill B1 (2nd floor) Flyweight at panel on “Humanities funding, visibility, and the future of research” chaired by executive director Paula Krebs

ALT Colorful array of books including The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature in purple and black with a progress pride flag in the background

ALT First page of Xine Yao’s essay Gender Variance Before Trans. Happy to share pdf if you message me!

ALT @xineyaophd.bsky.social handle screencap

ALT ASA panel abstract Nov 16 at 12 in Baltimore Hilton, Ruth first floor

ALT This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to Harriet A. Jacobs’s autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Fagan Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674035836

ALT 559 - What Do We Think We’re Doing? Saturday, 6 January 2024 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Loews - Washington A (3rd Floor) Description Nineteenth-century American studies addresses representation and erasure, race and racism, gender and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, complicity and dissent. Contributors address the state and stakes of our field in our current moment, discussing an array of topics, including long COVID, trans histories and trans antagonism, Black girlhood, periodization, peace and violence, and historicism. Presider W Kathryn Walkiewicz U of California, San Diego Speaker C Peter M. Coviello U of Illinois, Chicago D Eagan Dean Rutgers U, New Brunswick E D. Berton Emerson Whitworth U F Duncan F. Faherty Graduate Center, City U of New York W Nazera Wright U of Kentucky Y Xine Yao University C, London Session Information Forum: American - LLC 19th-Century American Program: Forum Sessions Subject: American Literature - Before 1900

ALT Rethinking the Rest Cure: A Long COVID Crip of Colour Perspective Xine Yao ‘The Yellow Wallpaper is a work of literary fiction that explores the contours of femininity and insanity. This exhibition seeks to use the language of the decorative to reconcile blackness, gender, and a beautiful and terrible past.’ Image: exhibition poster for Kehinde Wiley’s Yellow Wallpaper at William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow View from my flat through a window based in Walthamstow

ALT Enduring long covid 1) low dose naltrexone, which is not officially licensed in many countries in the low dose format, but has been used to treat many chronic conditions for decades. See https://ldnresearchtrust.org for more information and how to source it in your area of the world 2) antihistamines. Try different ones. 3) scheduling multiple rests of 20-30 minutes throughout the day. COMPLETE rest: no mental or physical activity. Rest before you think you need to rest. Even listening to music can be too much. 4) post-exertional malaise is real – don’t let anyone pressure you to overextend any mental or physical activity, especially exercise Image Rei’s half fragmented head from End of Evangelion

ALT Crips for eSIMs for Gaza https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/ #ceasefirenow Now matyred Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer’s instagram post of an Emily Dickinson poem There is a pain — so utter — It swallows substance up — Then covers the Abyss with Trance — So Memory can step Around — across — opon [sic] it — As One within a Swoon — Goes safely — where an open eye — Would drop Him — Bone by Bone —

ALT MLA program 507 - Crip of Color Critique Saturday, 6 January 2024 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Join Now Virtual Session 6 January, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Description Panelists theorize how crip of color analytics explore writers’ engagement with disability from a racial, queer, and trans liberation and justice perspective. What intersectional modes of disability analysis, creative expression, and justice emerge through these methodologies? Presider K Stephen P. Knadler Spelman C Speaker d Rachel da Silveira Gorman York U K Jina Kim Smith C O Sarah Orsak U of Virginia T Lou Tam Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. W Jess Waggoner U of Wisconsin, Madison Y Xine Yao University C, London Respondent S Sami Schalk U of Wisconsin, Madison Session Information Forum: TC Disability Studies Program: Forum Sessions Subject: American Literature - General Session: Crip of Color Critique

ALT Please support Crips for eSims for Gaza QR Code. Liberation for All. Watermelon background https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/