ANNOUNCING: volume 2.1 of the International Journal of Disney Studies! MEET our excellent new editor, INDULGE in intersections with public speaking, CHERISH old fairy tales, KINDLE you knowledge of female violence, ENJOY the wild frontier, YEARN for more here: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

I talk about the American frontier in this issue! Check it out!

Nick Lantz, our Poet of The Week 💙

Nick Lantz, our Poet of the Week 💙

CFP: Disney Culture & Society Research Network Fourth Annual Conference @disnet.bsky.social “Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew”: Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney 10th-12th September 2026 Online dis-net.org/conference/

Truly thrilling for my 12-yo self to watch this film and get my spouse to watch it for the first time!! His summary: “it was a ton of fun!”

At my conference papers, I force people to join secret societies!

Spotted at #pcaaca2026 !! Book and book-chapter-book side by side at the Palgrave table. Yay for Animal Fashions in the world! @pcaaca.bsky.social

It was a rad panel and I was happy to talk SEA!

Trump sharing an image of actor Fess Parker as "historical" probably because he can only conceptualize Parker's Disney representation of Crockett. Anyhoo, I have an article coming out very soon on Buffalo Bill, Fess Parker, and Disney's idea of the frontier. @ijdisneystudies.bsky.social

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...

How wonderful!! I’d love to hear @smittermeier.bsky.social keynote on Star Trek!!

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!

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...

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.

Oh wow

Students using AI is definitely the thing that is going to break me. Not even failing grades work as a deterrent.

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 nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

I’m 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 hours…that’s my civil liberty. ‪ @sarapayan.bsky.social‬ reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:

"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

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.

Asked @nicklantz.bsky.social to watch the opening of 11 movies for me. He questioned the task, thinking of only two possibilities: 1) I’m doing work or 2) I’m the embodiment of a monster from The Phantom Tollbooth 🤣

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

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.

You pray that this was a joke that went over like a fart in church. Otherwise, we are cooked.

It me.

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

@pcaaca.bsky.social conference totes really do make rad beach bags

Just a couple of fans wishing everyone a happy May the Fourth

Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs

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!

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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Overheard at #PCA2025: “to be clear, when I’m in Galaxy’s Edge, I don’t walk up to kids and call them ‘child fascists!’.” @pcaaca.bsky.social

Disney Studies VII elaborated on Monsters Inc. as a 90s corporate parable, Disney commitment to making money in spite of/through racism , and the performativity as community building in Star Wars for light and dark - @vplphd.bsky.social

Watched Stop Making Sense on the plane to gear up for PCA. Then hopped in a cab with another attendee heading to the conference! Excited to get going! @pcaaca.bsky.social #disneystudies

Not one of these EOs listed in this letter is valid. Notably, no statutory language is listed. The President’s agenda is not a statutory reason for termination. It really is just straight up lying and people should start just suing the government in the Court of Claims.

I’ve had a deep and abiding love for Val Kilmer. It started with Real Genius and Willow and never stopped. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?

It seem insane for a US Senator to say we've all been subjected to "a relentless bombardment of Marxist propaganda." But what he means by this is 1) there was a Burger King ad with an interracial couple and 2) Star Wars Episodes VII-IX had a female lead.

We can't fathom what chaos closing DoE will do for college funding. If the fed stops offering loans, & money is instead given to states, 1) it's going to be a processing nightmare (more than last year's FAFSA), 2) governors will funnel it to charter schools. Universities will close.

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona defined apartheid theatre and global theatre in the late twentieth century. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Imogen Says Nothing. One final time, remounted for KCACTF R6!