Danielle Fuentes Morgan

@dfmorgan.bsky.social

Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies. Little Black girl from Durham.

“Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart." For @dfmorgan.bsky.social, this encapsulates MSCL for many viewers: “a single perfect season — that was foundational in our understanding of self.” post45.org/2025/05/intr...

Introduction - Post45

It was the summer of 2006 and I'd just met a guy and couldn’t stop daydreaming about him. He was good looking with piercing blue eyes and dark hair. He was quiet and cool. Beyond those details, I didn...

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Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.

Contemporaries at Post45@atpost45.bsky.social · last yr.

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

“If we wait for it to work itself out, it will never be worked out! Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The writers on Saved by the Bell had a lot of wild idea they wanted us to accept, but the wildest was probably when they acted like if Zack and Slater fought that it’d be pretty even with Zack coming out ahead.

Radicalized against mansplaining as a child when I watched Batman Returns and that lady said “He’s like a frog that became a prince!”and that guy said back “No, he’s more like a penguin!” about literally The Penguin.