It feels so good to be done with the semester. I loved teaching, but I am so glad that the first time is over. I’m already immersing myself in prep for the fall—yeah, the course starts in late August, but I have ideas about things I’d like to do differently fresh in my mind.
One thing I’d like to do better this fall is provide visual examples of poor information/media literacy. I’ve been bookmarking tweets for my Fall 2025 class under the category “AI images that fooled me” in hopes to foster a reasonable discussion of how, well, AI images can fool even your most intrepid librarians. Some examples: this cool guy and this cute kitty, both AI generated. And to discuss media literacy this fall, I’ve saved what’s possibly the most media illiterate tweet of all time (featuring an AI generated image to boot). My goal isn’t to get political, but to point out how misreading a piece of media can have disastrous results.
Oh, what’s that? I have some fresh literary work out:
“gender as hag” with new words {press} — purchase issue here
“not dead, stunned.” with Plork Press — read anthology here
“the most wanted person (please please please please please) with Querencia Press — purchase anthology here
This is my first time working with nw{p} and Querencia—brooklyn and Emily (respectively) have both been lovely editors to work with. And this is my second Plork appearance, but with a different lead editor this time (shoutout Bree!).
And in case you missed it, I curated, edited, and published the 5th issue of underscore_magazine earlier this May, featuring the work of 20 creatives. Explore the issue here. I am literally so proud of this issue, and I cannot believe this is my fifth (technically sixth) publication cycle. When I started this magazine in February 2023, I never thought I’d get this far, or get to publish so much excellent work. I’m promoting individual contributors’ work on underscore_magazine’s Twitter and Instagram, so be on the lookout for those promo posts, too.
I’m a little late on this recap because I was on vacation/celebrating turning 25. Yeah, I know, I’m an oldhead.
It’s June. Happy Pride! May this month bring you queer joy. And stay well, friends.
These are such great examples of AI-generated images and how troublingly good they’ve gotten. Thank you for sharing!