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Ryan Bunch

@ryanbunch.bsky.social

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.

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Quakertown parents want answers as Bucks DA investigates police confrontation Videos show officers confronting student protesters in the Pennsylvania town, which the Bucks NAACP said β€œraised serious questions.”

This story from Quakertown is wild: high school students staged an anti-ICE walkout, and the local police chief, out of uniform and without identifying himself, attacked a teenage girl, put her in a chokehold, and had her arrested. whyy.org/articles/buc...

21.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My newest favorite thing. It plays the Westminster Chimes on the quarter hour, just like Mama’s old clock on the mantel. Maybe it will keep me on task today!

21.02.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2026 Oz Club Convention News; Join Us at TeslaCon - International Wizard of Oz Club Exciting news! Oz the National Convention will join TeslaCon, an annual Steampunk convention, for 2026. Choosing Oz as their theme, they were looking to work together with the Oz community. […]

Exciting news about the 2026 convention of the International Wizard of Oz Club! We'll be meeting in November in collaboration with the steampunk convention TeslaCon. (Tesla as in Nikola!).

Watch www.ozclub.org for updates about programming and registration.

20.02.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's the best work on Queer Theory and Childhood Studies since 2024?

18.02.2026 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, I need to hear this!

28.01.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The good news? We’re winning universal childcare faster than anyone expected. The bad news? Ms. Rachel and I have to find some new song inspiration…

18.01.2026 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5758    πŸ” 761    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 68

It’s going to be good!

15.01.2026 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love thisβ€”thank you for sharing!

18.11.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging β€œthe world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

02.10.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1731    πŸ” 517    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 31

I endorse this!

26.09.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't have the stomach to watch, but from what I hear, the President's remarks on autism were as ignorant and harmful as I would expect.

Ignore them. Listen to autistic and neurodivergent people and learn from them instead.

23.09.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.

22.09.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4869    πŸ” 1251    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 41

I want to be magic tooπŸ§™

19.09.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Secondarily but also importantly, the kids AROUND those little trans kids *also* saw her get on a stage and do that, and it’s going to influence how they see the trans kids around them. It a world where every 4th famous person is saying they’re not important at best and evil at worst, it matters.

08.09.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 455    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

For me to read later.

02.09.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, I can see where I'm going!

01.09.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended

16.07.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4043    πŸ” 1226    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 12
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Angela Lansbury at 100 Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy

Call for Papers

Angela Lansbury at 100: Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy

Date: 9th and 10th October 2025

Location: The Exchange, University of Birmingham

Hosted by: Laura Milburn and James Rhodes

angelalansbury100.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

16.07.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed

13.07.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10561    πŸ” 1686    πŸ’¬ 271    πŸ“Œ 76

What makes everything so challenging is I’m a different person every day. (And yet somehow so predictably the same.)

10.07.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A photograph of the Cave of Hands

A photograph of the Cave of Hands

Another photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall

Another photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall

Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul

03.07.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4236    πŸ” 1186    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 39
Ryan Bunch in a No Kings T shirt.

Ryan Bunch in a No Kings T shirt.

14.06.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rolling down the hill.

06.06.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agenda for today:

1. Sleep through breakfast
2. Roll down a hill
3. Snacks
4. Oz
5. Sing β€œOver the Rainbow”
6. Lunch
7. Be queer
8. More Oz, singing, and snacks
9. Dinner
10. Have a meeting
11. Check in with friends
12. Stay up too late

06.06.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was always a good kid. Now I enjoy being a bad adult.

29.05.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Why don't you read the books you already own before buying new books" why don't you eat all the food in the house before going shopping? That's what you sound like. That's how crazy you sound right now

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Does anyone know if trans people are running into problems applying for Global Entry?

17.03.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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