I’m thrilled to be part of this edited collection, Radical Children’s Film and Television, edited by Noel Brown. In my chapter, “F is for Friends, G is for Gay: Bert, Ernie and the Radical Potential of Childhood’s Queer Friendships,” I argue that queer love and loving friendships model each other.
I’m so grateful for a wide-ranging and stimulating conversation I had with Justin Vickers, which became this wonderful essay. We talked about childhood studies, opera, children’s voices and participation, and so much more—all things that sit at the heart of why I care about music and childhood.
I’m so grateful for a wide-ranging and stimulating conversation I had with Justin Vickers, which became this wonderful essay. We talked about childhood studies, opera, children’s voices and participation, and so much more—all things that sit at the heart of why I care about music and childhood.
I went to pick up some prescriptions and came back ready for Easter.
The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."
For me to use in the kids’ rights and activism unit in my childhood studies course this semester.
This story from Quakertown is wild: high school students staged an anti-ICE walkout, and the local police chief, out of uniform and without identifying himself, attacked a teenage girl, put her in a chokehold, and had her arrested. whyy.org/articles/buc...
My newest favorite thing. It plays the Westminster Chimes on the quarter hour, just like Mama’s old clock on the mantel. Maybe it will keep me on task today!
Exciting news about the 2026 convention of the International Wizard of Oz Club! We'll be meeting in November in collaboration with the steampunk convention TeslaCon. (Tesla as in Nikola!).
Watch www.ozclub.org for updates about programming and registration.
What's the best work on Queer Theory and Childhood Studies since 2024?
Thanks, I need to hear this!
The good news? We’re winning universal childcare faster than anyone expected. The bad news? Ms. Rachel and I have to find some new song inspiration…
It’s going to be good!
I love this—thank you for sharing!
I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.
I endorse this!
I don't have the stomach to watch, but from what I hear, the President's remarks on autism were as ignorant and harmful as I would expect.
Ignore them. Listen to autistic and neurodivergent people and learn from them instead.
This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.
I want to be magic too🧙
Secondarily but also importantly, the kids AROUND those little trans kids *also* saw her get on a stage and do that, and it’s going to influence how they see the trans kids around them. It a world where every 4th famous person is saying they’re not important at best and evil at worst, it matters.
For me to read later.
Finally, I can see where I'm going!
system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended
Call for Papers
Angela Lansbury at 100: Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy
Date: 9th and 10th October 2025
Location: The Exchange, University of Birmingham
Hosted by: Laura Milburn and James Rhodes
angelalansbury100.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed
What makes everything so challenging is I’m a different person every day. (And yet somehow so predictably the same.)
A photograph of the Cave of Hands
Another photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall
Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul
Ryan Bunch in a No Kings T shirt.
