Dr. Vaughn Joy

Considering History: 20 Years After Katrina – a Harbinger of the Best and Worst of America | The Saturday Evening Post Much of what happened during and after Hurricane Katrina foretold patterns of events that would unfold over the next 20 years – from police brutality to National Guard occupations to the unexpected ge...

Just about done rewatching Treme with @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, & I love it even more this time around, through the lenses of all that's worst in our moment (foreshadowed by Katrina) & of the best in us that it finds in so much of New Orleans (as do I). 🗃️

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It's truly worth the watch. Full cartoon plays after a brief intro.

LOUDER.

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Chicago has more people than Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North and South Dakota, and Delaware combined. People in Chicago share two senators with 7 million other people in Illinois. Those smaller states have 12 senators all to themselves.

Social Studies teachers talking with students about events in Chicago should make note of the fact that Cook County Illinois is home to more than 5 million people, a population greater than each of 26 states.

The Origins of Everything You Love About Christmas – w/Brian Earl... Welcome back Christmas Cousins!   In this episode, we sit down with the one and only Brian Earl, the legendary host of Christmas Past and author "Of Christmases Long, Long Ago". We unwrap Brian’s own ...

Chad and Seth sit down with Brian from @christmaspast.bsky.social to talk about his new book and more on @christmascousins.bsky.social

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The Frollo stand among us need to take a hard, deep look in the mirror before Portland burns like Paris.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is an excellent film to share with your young ones and a perfect one to help broach difficult conversations of media analysis
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Of course the bigots and fascists don’t want you to study English.

The enemy of fascism is:
Close reading
Clear communication
Questioning the meaning of what you read
Accurate spelling & grammar
Thinking for yourself
Creativity
Understanding the mechanics of argument
Imagination
Enjoyment
Joy

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

And what did everyone do stuck at home during lockdown?
You watched films, played video games, read books.
We relied on the Humanities.

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I've taught English Lit, English Lang & Linguistics, and Media Studies for many years now - all at university level. I have a PhD in linguistics focused upon contemporary media.
Some past students of mine have amazing jobs (writing for Doctor Who, journalists, entrepreneurs, even civil servants)

It's so damn good. God Help the Outcasts is leagues better than any other Disney song in my opinion. I hope you enjoy my take on it!

two sesame street characters elmo and oscar are standing next to each other . Alt: two sesame street characters elmo and zoe are standing next to each other while Elmo Kubrick Stares into the camera and zoe dances nonchalantly at his side

I'm new to driving and my brain doesn't work too good sometimes, especially with reversing, like if I don't think about it, I'm fine, but if I do, zoinks, right? (Yes, I'm 31 with a PhD, but it's not in driving, now is it?)

Anyway, a lady just watched me totally biff straightening out. Just stared.

Poster for the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). From the top of the bell tower, we see between the bells down into Paris blazing in orange. Quasimodo sits on the ledge reaching out for a dove.

This week for the first in my Spooky Season Monster Mash series, I watched a movie with the scariest monster I can think of: Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame in which the monster wraps himself in unjust laws and bible quotes to commit genocide and assault.
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Thank you so much for reading and sharing it!

Also, as we launch our new public scholarship site where this review is posted, please let me know if we can ever share any updates/new releases from your press on our community announcements page! blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/

"Hunchback is one of the most sophisticated films in the Disney filmography for how it makes such huge themes accessible to children including genocide, justice, manipulation, sin, morality vs. legality, racism, allegorical fascism, and obscene abuses of power."

The Social Academic podcast logo, an episode about Public Scholarship with Vaughn Joy, PhD and Ben Railton, PhD to celebrate their new website Black and White and Read All Over

Substack, newsletter, blog, website?

Are you exploring options for what you want to share?

You may find this conversation with @americanstudier.bsky.social and @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social about sharing your public scholarship online helpful for you #AcademicSky

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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

🐆🐆🐆🐆 BABY JAGUAR GOT THEIR ASS AS PROMISED 🐆🐆🐆🐆

This week, I was prompted to review The Hunchback of Notre Dame from a genre perspective and I realized it's probably the film I would most recommend for everyone right now, young and old alike.

Frollo is a genocidal potential rapist who gleefully orders law enforcement to murder innocent civilians

You got that god damn right.

BABY JAGUAR COMIN FOR YOUR ASS, MAHOMES

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

There's never gonna be a social media platform in 2025 that ain't problematic as hell. Doesn't mean there aren't lines where we don't need to leave, of course (as I did w/Twitter, & now am doing w/Substack). But it also means we should support those creating our own alternative platforms, like ...

For now at least, I'm staying here, to try to help support & build & model the best version of community. But the more sites like ours we can help create & share in our ecosystems, the better. Hope you'll do that with ours, & share all of yours (sites, work, all of it) in all ways too, please.

we hope it can be a platform for y'all's work as well. You can start by sending your news of all kinds our way for the Announcements page, please!

blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/

Black & White & Read All Over, the site @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I have created! It'll feature a lot of our own work, from my #ScholarSunday threads to both of our blogs. But ...

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Frollo *stans

Although, I guess we could call the whole ilk and their followers "the Frollo"

The Frollo stand among us need to take a hard, deep look in the mirror before Portland burns like Paris.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is an excellent film to share with your young ones and a perfect one to help broach difficult conversations of media analysis
blackwhiteandread.com/monster-mash...