The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.

I have to admit, this made me tear up a bit. I'm a sentimental old fool.

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

Special Issue Call for Papers: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’ www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-f... Please send a 500–700-word abstract and a 100–200 word biography in one document to [email protected] by 13 April 2026. Final articles will be 6,000- 9,000 words.

Yes, the ebook version is available elsewhere including the @subpress.bsky.social website: subterraneanpress.com/constituent-...

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Craftivism: A red hat becomes a quiet form of protest in Minnesota www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part 1: Journals rb.gy/uh5a60

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Anime merchandising and consumption: Character perfume as a case study By Hengrui Luo doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Japanese male idols and the production and circulation of value By Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Tumblr’s combative interactions, in-action and assemblage in anime fandom posts By Indira Neill Hoch doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Finding charm through charms: Utilizing library specializations, Hogwarts houses and Big Five Traits to spell out librarian self-identity, By Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Randa Lopez Morgan, Danica Kulibert & Laura Perry doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Articles include: Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki By Justin Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande (2020) By Sarah Breyfogle doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024) By Maria K. Alberto doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William Mccarthy (2024) By Rebecca Williams doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, Kaitlyn Tiffany (2022) By Deniz Yilmaz doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

New conspiracy theory just dropped: What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?

SIG members, don't forget that our event with @alfredmartin.bsky.social is a week from today. Al will be talking about his new book, FANDOM FOR US, BY US. Please register here to get the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/fandomforus

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Obviously not the most important thing here, but the fascist right's misreading of American cinema continues apace.

Holographic images of Trump have gone up in Los Angeles and it’s pretty cool.

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: A court of theories and world-building: The expansion of Sarah J. Maas’s fictional worlds through fandom culture By Victoria Henry-LeMaster doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now with Book Reviews: Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, Rukmini Pande (2018) By Bethan Jones doi.org/10.1386/jfs_... Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction: Pocket Publics, Anne Kustritz (2023) By Julia Neugarten doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: Beyond reality: Queer effects of fan service in Thai boys’ love cultures By Dania Shaikh doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: Complex correlates of celebrity worship: Authenticity, conspiratorial ideation, narcissism and realness by Lawrence Locker Jr., Joshua L. Williams, Caitlin Davis & Jenna Lajoie doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Fandom Studies 13.1 is out now! 🖖 Articles include: Textual poachers and the civic imagination: A qualitative study of the fan reception of Disney’s Mulan (1998) on Pinterest By Chenglong Zhou doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

I was going to be excited no matter which poem won the Hugo, because I was and am excited about there *being* a poetry Hugo. But I'm extra excited because I have loved the poem since before it was published. Officially best. Hats off, @swantower.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the single most talented, prescient, hilarious, and underappreciated satirists this country ever produced. a man who actually called it like he saw it youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Yes! I did this one & it was wonderful. Planning to reprise in a fall class s25bbb.ryancordell.org/pages/assign...

Goddamn it, Gillen.

Academia has a lot of problems, and the cost of accessing research is certainly one of them. I also think @thetransfemininereview.com is doing important and lovely work. However, a lot of the arguments in this thread are not fair to people laboring within the academy & I want to talk about why. 🧵

Superman and Fantastic Four both seem to be asking the same question: "Can you make a sincere, heartfelt superhero film in 2025?" I'd submit that the answer is "no" and that this is because the genre relies on America having a positive global reputation.

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

I've noticed an uptick in comments/bookmarks on my fics noting the "short" length. Is fandom really moving towards an expectation of 50k+ works? Are shorter works really considered "lesser" nowadays?

Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...

Abstracts and info are up online for The Magical Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture virtual conference on July 24 & 25 www.popcrn.org

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Funny, isn’t this how the West always describe the media in authoritarian states work? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles 4.1 is out now! Including ‘Learning from the social lives of shoes: A cultural approach to sustainability’ by Alexandra Sherlock. Access the issue via discover 👉 intellectdiscover.co... @fashionnatascha.bsky.social

Opinion: Our stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions and our inability to summon the collective will to use the land we have for the things we need. They are distractions from our inability to build anything else.

buttondown.com/charliejane/... I found this really insightful and inspiring. I'm pretty sure the author is @charliejane.bsky.social Thanks to @shinyhexagon.com for suggesting it.