Michael Tristano Jr.

@mtrist2.bsky.social

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director of cultural studies & associate professor @ Towson｜radical queerness, brownness, & performance｜generally a curmudgeon｜he/him/his｜Baltimore

Screen shot of a PDF for a call for papers for a stream called "Dirt/y Affects: Against Clean Living"
Tweet that reads: Another warehouse fire has broken out this time in Compton, California. This is the 7th warehouse fire in the past week alone. 🔥” with a video of a news report of the a warehouse fire
Blue tortie cat sitting in front of a computer on a desk.
A post from a comm studies fb page that reads: Hi, all. I hope this does not come across as cranky, but I just filled out the NCA Reviewer/Chair/Respondent Application form online and want to make an observation. This year's form contains the message: "Please note that most units require reviewers, chairs, and respondents to be current NCA members. We encourage you to check your membership status in the subscriptions tab of your NCA Account to ensure eligibility." Aside from the fact that I'm almost certain I've previously reviewed for NCA in years when I've not been a member, this seems overly limiting to me. It's no skin off my back if I don't review this year--l have about 5,000 other service-related things I can do with my time instead--but I would respectfully encourage NCA leaders at all levels to think through what the intention of this policy is and whether it's truly necessary. I understand divisions want reviewers who are knowledgeable about the subject matter they're reviewing, but I question whether current membership in NCA is truly the best way to authenticate this.
back of a sedan that’s has 3 large plush bunnies riding in the back seat and fake bunny years attached to the outside of the windows of the car
Screen shot of a tweet from Melissa lozada-Olivia that reads “"you will be left behind if you dont start using AI in your writing" where are you all going ... i don't want to join you i don't want to be there.”
Cover of La Bouche’s, Be My Lover
New baby tree freshly planted in a plot next a sidewalk
still from Veep with a teleprompter that says “FUTURE WHATEVER”
blue and pink yip yip Muppets staring at the phone with meme text that reads "yip yip yip yip yip uh-huh uh-huh"
Title page for the article The Space of In-Betweenness: Engaging Incommensurability as an Intercultural Heuristic
Cover of the book Drag Vistas and Visions: Drag in a Changing Scene Vol 3
A basket with Thai chilies, Serrano, lemon drop chilies, habaneros, baby tomatoes with an eggplant sitting next to it.
photo of the security camera of the Handala being intercepted by the iof
A Bari Weiss tweet which reads: “The price of flour shows the growing hunger crisis in Gaza. Important from @AmitSegal in @TheFP:” and links to: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-price-of-flour-shows-the-hunger-crisis-in-gaza-israel-war-hamas
Monstera potted in an orange and blue pot and also a peak at the rest of my living room which has more plants and is very cute
New Monstera Deliciosa sitting on a porch on a sunny day
The back of a brown van with a bumper sticker that reads “I want my ex-wife back” with the american flag in the background. Also fake bullet hole decals.
Sweaty man with dark curly hair standing with a paisley yellow shirt wearing glasses with the coliseum in the backdrop
Screen shot of a scruff chat with a message that says “I only wanted to say that you look like god”
Box of kid cuisine bug safari chicken breast nugget frozen meal
Computer with a word document open that reads “how to start writing this chapter?”, above the computer on the wall is a print of Molotov cocktail with words that say “kill the cop in your head”
Half of a man’s face with glasses and a beard and black hair laying on the couch, a blue tortie cat sitting on the top of the couch cushion
Winnie the Pooh squinting at a piece of paper
3 bag growing containers with small tomato plants.
A black and white Baltimore Beat newspaper box at dusk with a long live Palestine sticker on the side.
Michael sitting at his desk wearing a red stripped shirt, a keffiyeh, and classes and extra curly hair
Trophy displaying “ feminist scholar of the year presented to Michael Tristano Jr. for banal precarity: performing queer of color lives in contemporary times, 2025 presented by the organization for feminist research on gender and communication”
A street at dusk including an amber colored planter with the words “Zionism kills end the genocide” on the side in white chalk
The beginning paragraph of the chapter "queer failures in the gender communication and sexual communication classroom" written by Michaela Frischherz and Michael Tristano
The abstract and beginning of the essay "Laboring toward a critical methodpraxis of care." The abstract reads: In this essay, we propose care as a methodpraxis that guides our labor within and beyond academic endeavors. We do so by elaborating on three areas we find fundamental to our praxis of care: failure, mess, and critical reflexivity. For each section, we illuminate the theory with examples from pedagogy, research, and community, as three facets we see as pivotal to our work as university laborers. We propose an understanding of care as an onto-epistemological project of performance that necessitates a series of individual and collective commitments that enable us to put into motion alternative modes of being and relating.
Blue tortie cat laying on her back, sleeping with her tongue out
A tabby cat and a blue tortie cat share a cat bed on the floor
Jarra in a trench coat from men in black 2
blue torti cat curled up on the couch with her rear feet under a blanket
Graffiti reading “fuck the idf free Gaza deny. defend. depose.
A person pull a cake out of the oven which says "I don't want to end this year on bad terms with anyone. APOLOGIZE TO ME"
Michael at a protest for a free and liberated Palestine wearing a keffiyeh and mask.