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The Kids of Conspiracy Stories: The Spectacle of Victimhood from Blood Libel to The X-Files
New video! Why do conspiracy stories -- past and present, allegedly true or overtly fictional -- always seem to have helpless and holy kids in them? Check out this discussion to unpack the spectacle of the sacred child martyr.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q6Q... #childhoodstudies
03.11.2025 19:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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NIMONA: The Queer Child Shapeshifter, Part 1
New video about one of my favorite topics, #Nimona! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSdw... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies
12.10.2025 17:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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Good Nature, Bad Nurture: Frankenstein, Dark Water, and The Sixth Sense
I keep forgetting I have this account. Too many years off of the Other App! Anyway, new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHSb... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #frankenstein #darkwater #thesixthsense
29.09.2025 17:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Eugenics in Old Hollywood ... and Today
New video up! Come for the weird old movies, stay for the condemnation of RFK Jr. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhFg...
#childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #disabilitystudies #publicscholarship #Freaks1932 #TheBlackStork
31.08.2025 16:56 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Devils, Darkness, and White Supremacy
Forgot to post about last week's video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=efrf.... Want to know why the phrase "childhood innocence" makes your friendly neighborhood Childhood Studies scholar grind their teeth? Look no further! #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #publicscholarship #TheOmen #AttacktheBlock
22.08.2025 22:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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The Monsters of Adultism: Boogeymen, The Trunchbull, and President Snow
New video essay! Interested in learning about #adultism through monsters? This video is for you!
#childhoodstudies #monsterstudies #publicscholarship #Matilda #TheHungerGames
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpxE...
04.08.2025 19:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Currently writing about the Trunchbull from Matilda as a monster. What other not-technically-nonhuman-but-definitely-still-a-monster characters from children's media can you think of? #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies
24.07.2025 17:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Bogeyman - Wikipedia
Doing research for my next video and having a very fun time on the "cultural variants" section of Wikipedia's bogeyman page. World peace could possibly be achieved by appealing to humanity's collective love of freaking out our kids. #monsterstudies #childhoodstudies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman
22.07.2025 22:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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Monsters 102: Monster, Victim, Hero ... and Child
Ever wonder what we can learn about childhood from monster stories? Wonder no more! Or, actually, wonder a lot more after diving into the topic with me on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEfO... #childhoodstudies #monsterstudies
21.07.2025 01:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Historian of science, art & ideas.
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science, Reactor.
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Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine. Research on stardom, film history, childhood and media.
โฎ๏ธ Hippie at heart โฎ๏ธ
Childrenโs Rights & Childhood Studies Lecturer
UCL London
Research: Violence in the lives of marginalised children | Sociology | Homelessness | Poverty | Street Children | Youth Justice | Voice | Participation | Human Rights.
writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education
dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine
https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com
Anthropology of Childhood and Youth Special Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association
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I scream, you scream, we all scream because monsters are awesome! www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu
The Journal of Gods and Monsters is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that seeks to explore the connections between the sacred and the monstrous. Find us at https://godsandmonsters-ojs-txstate.tdl.org/godsandmonsters/
Childhood studies. Children's music, media, and literature. Musical theater. Author of Oz and the Musical: Performing the American FairyTale (Oxford Univ Press). President of the International Wizard of Oz Club.
Professor of Childhood & Gender Studies @Mdx | critical posthumanities | affect studies | (eco/ trans incl.) feminist | in pursuit of worldly justice
Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob
Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
Researching imagined childhood as a social technology of governance and the everyday militarization of childrenโs lives; International Relations; Critical Security Studies. Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University. marshallbeier.com
she/her | Pinay ๐ต๐ญ | totallt inept w/ copyeditimg, fact-checking, proofing my stuff, ugh
Petroculture, Climate Justice Education, Childhood and Childrenโs Lit, Critical Filipino Studies, Comics/Komiks
Asso. Prof. of Childhood Studies
Film History | Toys | Media Archaeology
www.meredithabak.com
https://ninthletter.com/journal/volume-21-issue-01/
Professor of Childhood Studies, Cardiff University. Specialises in creative coproduction with children, young people, teachers and policy makers in the field of gender and sexuality education. Recent collaborative research: https://bit.ly/4fUKuQt
Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies, Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY), University of Sussex. Views my own. Latest book Thinking Through Family - #openaccess chapters https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
a new community to bring girlhood studies scholars together // come join us!
girlhoodstudiescollective.com
they/them | doctoral student in childhood studies at rutgers | co-founder of studying queer & trans childhoods ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
assist. prof | co-founder of the Girlhood Studies Collective | thinks at the intersection of age, gender, and (night)time | she/her