Citizen of West Philly, musicologist at @UDelaware, organizing at @wpcns. Writing a book about Philadelphia’s relationship with history. Find me on b’sky!
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29 May 2024
Slightly cringey, but I’ve started a “professional” instagram to chronicle my current book project. You may follow along if you are inclined. instagram.com/philipmgentry
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5 Nov 2024
Amazing that the Inquirer refuses to acknowledge @sixtysixwards even in this context. 🙄
5 Nov 2024
Democrats in Philly say they think overall turnout poised to overtake 2020 in the city. (This is largely based on promising but *anecdotal* reports as of midday). inquirer.com/politics/electi…
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5 Nov 2024
Okay, but how is it that Iowa and New Hampshire seem to get so many material benefits from being early primary voting states, and yet all we get is harassed to death by earnest blue state canvassers every four years.
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Just noticed the AT&T building next to the south street bridge has incoming-hurricane-style flood barriers up; do they know something we don’t? 😬
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4 Nov 2024
Are we doing Trump/Rage Against the Machine discourse again? online.ucpress.edu/jpms/arti…
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4 Nov 2024
Speaking of churches and center city and the election, Saint Mark’s (16th and Locust) is keeping its space open for the public from 9 to 6 tomorrow; I am going to be one of the volunteers there for a chunk of the day. saintmarksphiladelphia.org
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4 Nov 2024
As always, morning prayer at 9, daily mass at 12:10, and evening prayer at 5:30. Chances are you need all three tomorrow.
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4 Nov 2024
I understand that these omnipresent ads are supposed to make you think voting by non-citizens is an actual problem, but I really think it has the opposite effect—reminding Republicans that normal laws on the subject already exist.
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4 Nov 2024
Mind you, I personally think non-citizens should be allowed to vote—they pay taxes too!—but, they very much can’t currently.
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It’s not an uncommon move, but one of the depressing things about this piece is its unacknowledged sense of what constitutes a “movement,” and thus ends up comparing the suffrage and Civil Rights movements with…presidential elections. nytimes.com/2024/11/02/magaz…
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3 Nov 2024
Voting for a presidential candidate is not the same thing as fighting for an issue. building solidarity across lines of race and gender as an organizer is different from a candidate trying to appeal to different demographics of people who mostly don’t care about politics.
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3 Nov 2024
I say “depressing” because of course imagining “presidential elections” as the main space for political work in the 21st century is, well, depressing.
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1 Nov 2024
Excited for this Curtis Opera presentation of Poppea presented simultaneously with George Lewis’s The Comet, based on a short story by Du Bois. Apparently they do the two operas simultaneously on a stage that slowly rotates between two audiences.
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2 Nov 2024
And then at the end they all come together to sing a quarter version of Pur ti miro. Very cute.
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2 Nov 2024
I’d estimate the audience was 50% musicologists, 50% Fancy Classical Music Administrators and Donors
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1 Nov 2024
As a Christian, I'm always curious when someone starts a thread implying a Christian rationale for voting for Trump, but it always ends up being a vote out of spite, which to be fair is famously the missing third Great Commandment--love God, love your neighbor, and be spiteful.
1 Nov 2024
I'm a theologically conservative Christian and a registered Democrat (Philly has closed primaries for local elections)
In 2012, I voted for Romney
In 2016, I voted for Clinton
In 2020, I left it blank
This year, I voted for Trump
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"Theologically conservative" is one of those insidious phrases wielded as if it means something (it very much doesn't, certainly not when it comes to "who to vote for president"), when it really is just a mask from behind which to air grievance and resentment.
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I get to be snippy about this because I happen to be a member of one of the most actually-theologically-conservative churches in center city, it’s just that the brains of people like Bobby have been so destroyed by secularism that they think GOP culture war issues are “theology.”
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1 Nov 2024
I’m not saying I want Harris to try and get his support or something like that, but am sometimes struck by the insane cowardice of George W. Bush.
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31 Oct 2024
I present to you my 8yo’s Halloween costume: Tatum, from Scream. (The girl who gets trapped in the dog door.)
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