The DVD cover of Return of Swamp Thing. Swampy walks toward the camera while cradling Heather Locklear

Movie night with the Sci-fi and Fantasy folks at #pcaaca2026 was an absolute blast. Thanks for putting it on!

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

Got to see my book and my editor live in the wild at #pcaaca2026!

@mcfarland.bsky.social @pcaaca.bsky.social

a man is dancing on a stage with his arms in the air Alt: a man is dancing on a stage with his arms in the air

Disney Studies VI / Musicals Stage & Film III is starting right now! Come join us for a discussion of a fantastic new edited collection on Newsies: hear what our most excellent scholars have to say before you read all about it! #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies @pcaaca.bsky.social

SA...there are scones in the exhibit hall this afternoon at the @pcaaca.bsky.social conference. Many thanks to the sponsors for the coffee and goodies! #pcaaca2026

It’s kinda fun to go to areas so wildly outside my own research. I’m in a Game Studies panel where they’re using theory I would 100% never think to use, and it’s fascinating! #pcaaca2026

Disney Studies V: the fourth iteration of our ongoing WOKE DISNEY roundtable series, where we discuss the year in Disney! Join us for a wide-ranging journey on the nature of this thing that we love/hate (really just want to be better), as we navigate this uncertain future #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Peter Cullen Bryan is examining the role of legacy casting in two case studies - Batman TAS's Gray Ghost and Ducktales (2017) Darkwing Duck(s) - how both series locate the fannish adoration as both an antisocial and prosocial through their respective heroes and villains. #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Conference Day 3: THE PRESENTENING
I’m presenting today at 3pm about RUR, automation, gender, and labor! #whatprofessorswear #pcaaca2026

Rebecca Zellner Grunzke talks us through the multifacted nature of the Hawaiian family structure and the idea of adoption (Hānai is as a system of adoption) - how different categories reflect different frameworks of kinship, as reflected in both versions of Lilo and Stitch #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Disney Studies IV is underway! Join our family to talk about families, and explore the larger cultural undercurrents that Disney taps into to sell us movies and toys! @pcaaca.bsky.social #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Overheard at #PCAACA2026: “have you considered letting the state steal your kids is good, actually?”

How it feels missing #pcaaca2026

Overheard at #PCAACA2026: “Remember that thing you hated? Come listen about it for fifteen minutes!”

Overheard at #PCAACA2026: *deadpan* “You’re gonna get cooties 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

Number four brings us: Steve Clairmont (@stevetclairmont.bsky.social) wonders about the absurdity of a California-themed theme park in California, considering the origins of Disney's California as a disjointed reflection of the other parks into something...fine? #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Overheard at #PCAACA2026: "Commercials [for Disney's California Adventure) in which Goofy is a flat earther and three Disney princesses contemplate relations with a large bear."

Third in line is: Nathaniel Aron considers the blurred parody and authenticity of Disney's Jungle Cruise, and how it plays within the inherent artificiality of the parks, reinforcing the dominant Western views of Africa, veiled by the groaning silliness of the performers. #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

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.)

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

First orders: Colin Halloran (@poetinpinkshoes.bsky.social) considers the expansion of culture into geographies, connecting the Empire of Star Wars into the real-world considerations of how the forces of authoritarianism enact their methods of control. #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Disney Studies III begins presently, delving into the Parks and other Spaces in greater detail, considering the expansion of Disney's empires (both physical and imagined) into infinite spaces. #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

There's little as great about #pcaaca2026 than meeting your mutuals in person, like @hermioneclone.bsky.social !

Number four is Antares Leask, bringing us to Zootopia 2: how the film both progresses and regresses in approaches to the questions of race and policing, with the use of animals as symbols that don't always fit the larger narrative at hand, where aesthetics trump meaning. #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Overheard at #PCAACA2026: "The first film 'solves' racism, only for the sequel to undercut the progress by returning to the status quo."

Third in the order: Audrey Louckx brings us to Bluey, uncovering how DIsney used the veneer of translation to censor elements of the series, focusing on the "lost" episode "Dad Baby," unpacking how Disney undercuts the frameworks of gender/social fluidity through play. #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Priscilla Hobbs-Penn (@mythinginaction.bsky.social) grabs the third rail of Disney: The Song of the South, offering a cultural history of its release and symbolism, considering how the film works and how it falters, as it echoes down through the decades. #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Quinn Peterson considers how Captain America exists within the larger Disney output in the period, locating how Disney aligns masculinity with moral values to questionable ends, resulting in toxic outcomes that value aggression and disrespect because "boys will be boys." #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies

Disney Studies II starts now! Join us as we plumb the Disney identities: gender, family, nationality, and more! The last panel was STANDING ROOM ONLY, so get here early to grab a seat or a space - there is ALWAYS room for one more in Disney Studies! @pcaaca.bsky.social #PCAACA2026 #DisneyStudies