I went to pick up some prescriptions and came back ready for Easter.
@ryanbunch
Childhood studies. Children's music, media, and literature. Musical theater. Author of Oz and the Musical: Performing the American FairyTale (Oxford Univ Press). President of the International Wizard of Oz Club.
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 kidsβ 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 Mamaβs 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? Weβre winning universal childcare faster than anyone expected. The bad news? Ms. Rachel and I have to find some new song inspirationβ¦
Itβs going to be good!
I love thisβthank you for sharing!
I canβt begin to tell you how damaging βthe world isnβt fair, get used to itβ line has been to every childβs 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 tooπ§
Secondarily but also importantly, the kids AROUND those little trans kids *also* saw her get on a stage and do that, and itβs going to influence how they see the trans kids around them. It a world where every 4th famous person is saying theyβre 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 arenβt confident of their ability to succeed
What makes everything so challenging is Iβm 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.
Rolling down the hill.
Agenda for today:
1. Sleep through breakfast
2. Roll down a hill
3. Snacks
4. Oz
5. Sing βOver the Rainbowβ
6. Lunch
7. Be queer
8. More Oz, singing, and snacks
9. Dinner
10. Have a meeting
11. Check in with friends
12. Stay up too late
I was always a good kid. Now I enjoy being a bad adult.
"Why don't you read the books you already own before buying new books" why don't you eat all the food in the house before going shopping? That's what you sound like. That's how crazy you sound right now