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Steph Brown

@stephbrown.bsky.social

Assistant Prof of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her

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Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ended up venting my frustration in a blog post that updates an article I wrote a decade ago about fat jokes in sitcoms in the absence of fat characters.

Invisible Fat Women + Pop Culture — Dr. Steph Brown

I’m a big fan of up-and-coming director Cooper Raiff’s first two films Shit House and Cha Cha Real Smooth . They’re both small films where the stakes are feelings and some might find a bit too “twe...

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Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hate when a TV show is nuanced and endlessly sympathetic to its characters and their flaws and then just casually tosses off a fat joke. Shows what characters writers don’t see as fully human.

Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · last wk.

Mean film reviews are fun when most of the rest of the reviews are glowing! Gives us some fun discourse. With the collapse of film criticism and the rise of access entertainment journalism where everyone is nice all the time—I say we need *more* overtly critical reviews to keep us on our toes.

Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · last wk.

Hadestown isn’t my favorite musical, but the proshot was excellent - especially after the travesty that was the Merrily proshot. They made such smart decisions about shots, editing, and audience inclusion. Perfect mix of taking advantage of cinematic affordances without overshadowing the staging.

Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hate when a TV show is nuanced and endlessly sympathetic to its characters and their flaws and then just casually tosses off a fat joke. Shows what characters writers don’t see as fully human.

Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve started to try to bring back my old blogging hobby and combine it with my new collage hobby. Here’s one I wrote as a way to work through my thinking on a journal article I’m writing about body positivity in the creator economy.

The Emotional Treachery of Digital Body Positivity — Dr. Steph Brown

Is it anti-feminist to express negative feelings toward your body? Is writing about your own low self-esteem detrimental to the cause of fat liberation? Too often, feminism is collapsed into a set ...

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Aubrey Gordon@yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 3w ago

One of the many ways we've gotten in the wayback machine on conversations about fatness: straight size people think once again that they are the primary targets of anti-fatness. Those objections to the anti-fatness they feel comes wrapped up in profound anti-fatness against plus size people.

Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m in this book about civic engagement and media literacy that my colleagues at Wash Coll put together talking about my digital storytelling class/place-based stories. If you also don’t have access to a decently large library and want a chapter, hit me up! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Media and Information Literacy as Civic Practice | Lessons from the Co

This edited volume offers a resource for instructors who are interested in developing innovative and effective teaching practices at the intersection of

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Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · 3w ago

I know the state of audio funding is dire, but it’s still jarring to hear the kinds of ads podcasts are OK with running. I’d love to enjoy an NPR film review without an ad for a “diet that mimics fasting.”

Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yes. This is so many issues. Another: DEI programs were often bandaids used to avoid doing structural change and they put a lot of the onus on marginalized folks in those orgs to do the work (see Sara Ahmed). When we have to fight the right, it makes it harder to improve or have nuanced convos.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3w ago

At a time when contraceptives could be banned, it can feel like there are only two camps: those who champion birth control and those who criticize it with hopes of making it go away. But there is a third camp: People scrutinizing birth control not to get rid of it, but to make it better.

Doug Sackman@dcsackman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'll say this for AI: it makes me much happier as I read papers written by students with very undeveloped writing skills, and as I put together the comments that I hope they will be able to use to become stronger writers. I'm so, so happy you wrote this yourselves, students!

Steph Brown@stephbrown.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you missed our #SCMS26 workshop on writing in the media studies classroom - you can check out our handout complete with keywords, slides, and assignment shares! Thanks to everyone who came for a wonderful discussion (and sometimes vent session). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Making Writing Matter in the Media Classroom

Making Writing Matter in the Media Studies Classroom SCMS 2026 Workshop leaders: Stephanie Brown, Washington College Peggy Davis, UCLA Lisa Wells Jacobson, Georgia Tech Laurel Westrup, UCLA Vocabula...

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