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!

Dr Rebecca Williams@augustaquarius.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New issue of International Journal of Disney Studies - Volume 2, Issue 1, 2026 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @ijdisneystudies.bsky.social intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

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!”

Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD@pcbryan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Disney Studies VIII / Musicals, Stage and Film IV is bringing us to a close for the day. Special thanks to our Robert Osbourne for the evening Emily Hamilton-Honey (@hermioneclone.bsky.social) introducing our film and the fortuitousness of the moment. @pcaaca.bsky.social #DisneyStudies #PCAACA2026

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

Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD@pcbryan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Overheard at #PCAACA2026: "We cross the scorching deserts, martini in our hands. / We ski the polar ice caps, in tuxedo looking grand. / We are reckless, brave, and loyal, and valiant to the end. / If you come in here a stranger, you will exit as a friend." (We may be a cult now.)

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!

Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD@pcbryan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Secondly: Vicky Lantz (@vplphd.bsky.social) unpacks the Society of Explorers and Adventurers (SEA), and how it plays upon colonial aesthetics that undermines critiques by making the attendees feeling belonging, avoiding thornier questions about pretty much the whole thing. #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

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...

Animal Fashions

This book examines material artifacts that inhabit the intersection between fashion, colonialism and biological specimen collection

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

Florent Favard@flofavard.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#CFP Red Alert! We are organizing an international #symposium on #StarTrek in September 2026 in Paris, for the 60th anniversary of the franchise. 🖖 We are pleased to announce that Dr. @smittermeier.bsky.social will deliver the keynote address of the symposium!

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...

Parenting a Trans Kid in Trump’s America

Podcast Episode · The Daily · 11/21/2025 · 44m

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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?

Michael Lowry@michaelrlowry.bsky.social · last yr.

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

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:

Rick Steves Talks Travel, Cannabis and Freedom

The celebrated PBS television host’s plant advocacy is legendary as is his take on the current state of international cannabis.

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"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

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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.

davidpham5@davidpham5.bsky.social · last yr.

@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.

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

Strong storms likely to hit the Houston region Thursday morning: Stage 2 flood alert for areas west of I-45

In brief: 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 …

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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.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.

The head of FEMA reportedly said during a briefing that he wasn't aware the U.S. had a hurricane season, leaving staffers "baffled" and "confused"

It me.

Space City Weather@spacecitywx.bsky.social · last yr.

Anyone want a radar update? Yeah? Ok. Here you go. Severe t’storm watch til 5A. Storms move through Houston 12-3ish. Gusty winds and lightning. And heavy rain.

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

Katrina Miller@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · last yr.

an overwhelming percentage of cuts at the NSF are to STEM education. experts see it as part of a broader attack on DEI, as well as on education as a whole. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...

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

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

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Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD@pcbryan.bsky.social · last yr.

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