Associate Lecturer of world histories and cultures • PhD in American Studies • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3mz7lmq3f2k2yWe did this again tonight and ran into another couple from our complex doing the same thing. @americanstudier.bsky.social and I are trendsetters, what can I say? 💁‍♀️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Nov 2026 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz7lmq3f2k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3mz76qnhqbs2fHappy Halloween from Goblin Biscuits! 🎃🎃🎃31 Oct 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz76qnhqbs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3mz76qnhqbs2fHappy Halloween from Goblin Biscuits! 🎃🎃🎃31 Oct 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz76qnhqbs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3mz5dixrda225I just finished the longest month since my PhD 😭 I finished so many things and hosted things and taught things and wrote so many god damn things and was so damn charismatic for much of it and now I get to sleep 😭 enjoy Halloween, you spooky bitches, I'm sleeping until November 😭31 Oct 2026 03:18 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz5dixrda225https://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3mz42tcprkc2sWe talked about Charles Chesnutts's short story "Mars Jeems's Nightmare" (1899), Sinners (2025), & The Crucible (1953) in my Witches class today and a student said looking at these three was "inspiring that regular people could fight white supremacy and theocratic governments." 🔥 Cultural studies 🔥30 Oct 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz42tcprkc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3mz2n47w5fk2h10 ballot measures (9 state, 1 local) is too many ballot measures in one election, especially when they're worded in complicated ways.30 Oct 2026 01:32 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz2n47w5fk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3myvdxrso4k2sThis Halloweek, I watched Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), a film about a woman's totally fair and logical suspicions of her piece of shit husband whose horrid, selfish, inconsiderate behavior she has to accept because at least he's not the worst of her fears. So it's also an Election Day review. https://blackwhiteandread.com/cary-grant-and-the-case-of-white-mens-audacious-lack-of-shame/27 Oct 2026 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3myvdxrso4k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3myvdxrso4k2sThis Halloweek, I watched Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), a film about a woman's totally fair and logical suspicions of her piece of shit husband whose horrid, selfish, inconsiderate behavior she has to accept because at least he's not the worst of her fears. So it's also an Election Day review. https://blackwhiteandread.com/cary-grant-and-the-case-of-white-mens-audacious-lack-of-shame/27 Oct 2026 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3myvdxrso4k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/gvaughnjoy.bsky.social/post/3myskge7ups23I don't even give my students my consent to put assignment prompts I've written into AI models. I would sooner never publish peer-reviewed again than allow a company, that clearly isn't run by people smart enough to understand logical consequences of stupid ass actions, do that with my RESEARCH. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Oct 2026 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:35iahin7lem65423qfmbps3u/app.bsky.feed.post/3myskge7ups23