Animal Fashions
This book examines material artifacts that inhabit the intersection between fashion, colonialism and biological specimen collection
Tell your academic libraries and wealthy friends they simply must get this book!
It took 3+ years, multiple panels at @pcaaca.bsky.social, and lots of hours in SHSU's library to bring this collection together!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
20.01.2026 03:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
How wonderful!! Iβd love to hear @smittermeier.bsky.social keynote on Star Trek!!
26.11.2025 23:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
So grateful for Angela Pinholster, Jenny Kokai @jkokai.bsky.social, Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social, Tamarah Tucker Gonzalez, and Priscilla Hobbs @mythinginaction.bsky.social zooming into my Disney Performance class. It heightened our discussions and broadened their understanding!
24.11.2025 02:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Parenting a Trans Kid in Trumpβs America
Podcast Episode Β· The Daily Β· 11/21/2025 Β· 44m
In other news, I recommend today's Daily Podcast, about the parents of a trans girl who just had to flee Tennessee for Connecticut in order to protect her. The parents are both Southerners and ministers, and had idea what "trans" was until they had to learn.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
21.11.2025 23:39 β π 327 π 67 π¬ 8 π 5
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
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13.11.2025 02:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
They were too engrossed by your German cats to probably notice your German look π
12.11.2025 04:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Oh wow
19.10.2025 18:13 β π 17798 π 4873 π¬ 395 π 234
Students using AI is definitely the thing that is going to break me. Not even failing grades work as a deterrent.
06.10.2025 16:14 β π 1056 π 63 π¬ 52 π 13
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nationβs research capacity. and for what, exactly?
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Rick Steves Talks Travel, Cannabis and Freedom
The celebrated PBS television hostβs plant advocacy is legendary as is his take on the current state of international cannabis.
Iβm a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hoursβ¦thatβs my civil liberty. βͺ
@sarapayan.bsky.social⬠reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:
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a man with long hair and a beard drinks from a bottle
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard drinks from a bottle
"From Animation to a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Fashion, Fantasy and Science Fiction" is taking off at light speed momentarily! So grab your Blue Milk and join us for this amazing panel! #DisNet2025
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Yeah it is!
24.06.2025 17:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Robin Hood and Little John!
24.06.2025 13:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
19.06.2025 17:51 β π 7845 π 2350 π¬ 122 π 120
Asked @nicklantz.bsky.social to watch the opening of 11 movies for me. He questioned the task, thinking of only two possibilities: 1) Iβm doing work or 2) Iβm the embodiment of a monster from The Phantom Tollbooth π€£
17.06.2025 19:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Strong storms likely to hit the Houston region Thursday morning: Stage 2 flood alert for areas west of I-45
In brief: Our confidence is increasing in the likelihood of heavy rain across the Houston metro area on Thursday morning, perhaps around sunrise or a few hours later. Flash flooding is possible in β¦
Our confidence is increasing in the likelihood of heavy rain across the Houston metro area on Thursday morning, perhaps around sunrise or a few hours later. Flash flooding is possible in the strongest storms. Parts of the region are elevated to Stage 2 flood alert.
#houwx #housky
11.06.2025 23:23 β π 18 π 8 π¬ 0 π 3
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
08.06.2025 17:10 β π 18628 π 3780 π¬ 278 π 136
You pray that this was a joke that went over like a fart in church. Otherwise, we are cooked.
02.06.2025 21:39 β π 49 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0
It me.
27.05.2025 03:03 β π 47 π 3 π¬ 4 π 0
the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education β and especially its expansion for certain americans β was a mistake that must be rolled back
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@pcaaca.bsky.social conference totes really do make rad beach bags
16.05.2025 19:06 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Just a couple of fans wishing everyone a happy May the Fourth
05.05.2025 04:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Movies youβve watched more than six times using gifs
26.04.2025 19:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a cartoon character with a white beard and a red hat
ALT: a cartoon character with a white beard and a red hat
As @nicklantz.bsky.social and I prepare for celebrating 20 years of marriage in Hawaii, we think our #PCA2025 and #PCA2024 tote bags are perfect for beach bags!
20.04.2025 22:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And that perhaps your original post highlights that other gender experiences are worth noting and no commentary is necessary!
19.04.2025 21:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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19.04.2025 20:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I got one last panel in this morning before taking off!
What a great #PCA2025 and thanks again to @smittermeier.bsky.social , @pcbryan.bsky.social , and all the #DisneyStudies folks for a lovely conference.
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Exactly!
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Bloomsbury scholar | teaching at CUNY | PhD, University of Michigan | JD, Harvard Law School | Co-Editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives (September 2025)
PhD in Comp Lit, MA in History. Fairy tales, material culture, (fast) fashion, gender, childrenβs literature. Special interest in fairy godmothers and American Girl brand.
Historian of the American South, Indigenous history, and tourism. Author of Aggression & Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South.
Pop culture (esp. Disney, horror, pop music, and cryptozoology), writing, reading, empowering others through education and training.
Pittsburgh archivist and historian of 19th c. US. Author - From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania & the Worldβs Columbian Exposition. | zachbrodt.wordpress.com
Dissecting the dresses, scrutinizing the suits, and considering the clothes that deck out your favorite Disney characters!
Senior lecturer in English Literature, Film and Media
Lover of Archives
Beckett, Burgess, Ballard, Ken Russell, Kubrick, Beatles, Bowie, Mogwai The Fall, Guided By Voices. Hip Priest, Evertonian, Jaws nut, 007 fan, Charlton Athletic.
prof @WCUPAEnglish β’ @WCUYouthLit β’ authorβ’ '22 Newbery Committee β’ Disney & #Barbie studies β’ opinions my own
American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
PNW Values, SoCal groove. Xennial. Popular Culture Thinker. He/Him π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ #blm
English professor at Illinois State University focusing on Victorian Studies, Children's & Young Adult Literature, Visual Culture, Comics & graphic novels, Literary Fairy Tales, and Lewis Carroll. http://ghostofthetalkingcricket.squarespace.com
The USCL Native American Studies Center houses the world's largest collection of Catawba pottery, along with art, artifacts, and archives from other South Carolina tribes.
Intellect is a fiercely independent academic publisher for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia. Research includes postcolonialism, U.S. empire, popular culture, & adaptation studies. She/her/hers.
Founding Partner of Zenith Research. Spreadsheets help me relax. Views are my own.
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Sociologist by birth, weird-ass human by training⦠Researching religious discrimination | nontheism | microaggressions & pop culture. Coming soon chapter on Father Brown & nontheism
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Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics.
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PhD
Fairy tales, myth, motherhood, gender, adaptations, and more!