Writing with bestie is one of my fave things to do! ✨ We argue "Tim McGraw" gave us the confessional songwriting, the close fan engagement, the all-American girl persona, & the use of borrowed cultural capital. But we also wanted to name the whiteness & class privilege as the invisible default.

Eloise Faichney@eloisefaichney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wrote a lil something with @emmawhatman.bsky.social for @theconversation.com about Taylor Swift’s debut single 20 years on and what it tells us about her enduring career: theconversation.com/tim-mcgraw-a...

Wrote a lil something with @emmawhatman.bsky.social for @theconversation.com about Taylor Swift’s debut single 20 years on and what it tells us about her enduring career: theconversation.com/tim-mcgraw-a...

Tim McGraw at 20: how Taylor Swift’s debut single set her formula for success

Although she initially borrowed his name and cultural capital, these days when people think of Tim McGraw, they almost certainly think of Taylor Swift.

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DECRA rejoinders, or as I like to call them “let me cook”.

Caroline Calloway got broken up with and is posting unhinged sad girl content on IG we are so back

Are we still using this? Are we using it like we used Tw***er in 2019? Anyway, I just submitted my DECRA application pray 4 me 🙏

@binarythis.bsky.social + @eloisefaichney.bsky.social + Bec <3 And the book is here: www.routledge.com/Taylor-Swift...

Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital, and Critique

This edited collection sees experts across a wide range of academic fields turn their attention to all things Taylor Swift. From looking at how being part of Swift’s fandom helps fans gain skills for ...

routledge.com

Our post-Swiftposium Taylor Swift edited collection is nearly here! Drag queens, anti-fascism, cybercrime, critical race theory, queer gothic monsters - this collection has it all! Pre-order for your library now @eloisefaichney.bsky.social @emmawhatman.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Taylor-Swift...

Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital, and Critique

This edited collection sees experts across a wide range of academic fields turn their attention to all things Taylor Swift. From looking at how being part of Swift’s fandom helps fans gain skills for ...

routledge.com

The fact that Elon is a gamer and doesn’t realise that he’s Ted Faro 🫠

Pitch: A film about a Roomba that breaks out and liberates its domestic appliance serf peers

finally milf messenger has fallen

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2y ago

Bluesky is number 1.

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

spotify keeps trying to tell me I'm listening to "brat summer" and "demure" and "pink pilates princess" like it doesn't know I'm 34

JP’s substack on leaving X today is 😚👌🏻 “..because Elon Musk is an annoying dweeb, and I simply find X too tacky to continue with… the whole thing feels slimy now… all these things feel downstream of Musk’s slime trail… like things that came directly from him scooting his ass across the platform.”

I feel more tumblr than twitter on here

A year and a half later: we did it Joe

Hannah McCann@binarythis.bsky.social · 3y ago

Waiting for one of the platforms to eat all the other platforms is so tedious

@binarythis.bsky.social wow you already have like a billion followers here 😅 god I love u

Ahem. Okay it's reaaaalllllyy time to get off the Bad Site, what's up everyone?

I guess it's probably time to let go of the Bad Site instead of hanging on to old digital lives like a ghostly madwoman haunting the halls?