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On...Bringing Tiny Violins to Knife Fights

It's a crazy time to be a Taylor Swift fan + scholar (because, yes, that's a real thing). One of the things that fascinates me the most about pop culture isn't the texts themselves. Don't get me wrong -- I love Taylor's music and Disney movies and the Percy Jackson books. But in addition to the texts, there's also all these conversations around them -- the narratives that get circulated, the perspectives that get amplified, and what those reveal about us, as a society, in an

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On...Bringing Tiny Violins to Knife Fights

It's a crazy time to be a Taylor Swift fan + scholar (because, yes, that's a real thing). One of the things that fascinates me the most about pop culture isn't the texts themselves. Don't get me wrong -- I love Taylor's music and Disney movies and the Percy Jackson books. But in addition to the texts, there's also all these conversations around them -- the narratives that get circulated, the perspectives that get amplified, and what those reveal about us, as a society, in an

Feb 57 min read

On...Heartbreak [as] The National Anthem

First Wednesday Words of the year, because bronchitis (or something) has thrown me for a loop. Whatever it is, it's lingering, which has made anything beyond essential "must-do" tasks trifficult to complete. Case-in-point: I have lost all motivation for exercise, so in an effort to stay moving when all I want to do is hibernate, I set myself the task of listening to the entire back-catalog of Switched On Pop . I've listened to a few episodes here and there -- mainly the ones

Jan 215 min read