This past weekend was the annual conference of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), which took place in Arlington, Virginia. I’ve been attending ASTR on and off since 2008, so it was amazing to present my first plenary, “Inculcating Racist Fun: Kicking Mules and Anti-blackness Across Genres and Generations,” as part of the “Playhouses as Publics” plenary #4 gathering. It was all the more meaningful that a fellow presenter was my former boss, and another was my former classmate and co-author.