Dr. Vaughn Joy
@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • 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/her
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Dr. Vaughn Joy
@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!
Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
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Life is so fucking hard, and if you're just doing it, just getting up and living a day and going to bed to do it again the next day, I'm so fucking proud of you, and I hope you're proud of yourself too. I hope you get a moment to smile and feel like you today, if even for a second.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Life is so fucking hard, and if you're just doing it, just getting up and living a day and going to bed to do it again the next day, I'm so fucking proud of you, and I hope you're proud of yourself too. I hope you get a moment to smile and feel like you today, if even for a second.
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PS. @lollardfish.bsky.social, @thomaszimmer.bsky.social, @sarahebond.bsky.social, & @kevinmkruse.bsky.social, as folks who also left Substack & are helping making the case for alternative sites & public scholarship, we'd love if y'all could help spread the word about ours!
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November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
PS. @lollardfish.bsky.social, @thomaszimmer.bsky.social, @sarahebond.bsky.social, & @kevinmkruse.bsky.social, as folks who also left Substack & are helping making the case for alternative sites & public scholarship, we'd love if y'all could help spread the word about ours!
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November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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In these fraught times, we need spaces & communities of our own, that we can make what we want & use to support each other & our work. &, yes, to avoid Nazis as much as possible. That's why we left Substack, & why @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social worked so hard on our new website. So+🗃️
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November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In these fraught times, we need spaces & communities of our own, that we can make what we want & use to support each other & our work. &, yes, to avoid Nazis as much as possible. That's why we left Substack, & why @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social worked so hard on our new website. So+🗃️
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Starting with today's post, on two important lessons about veterans & America that we can draw from Alfred F. Young's wonderful book *The Shoemaker & the Tea Party* & its Revolutionary War veteran subject, George Robert Twelves Hewes!
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November 10, 2025: Veterans’ Stories: The Shoemaker and the Tea Party – Black and White and Read All Over
[For Veterans Day, I’ll be AmericanStudying five examples of texts that can help us remember and engage with veterans’ experiences from five of our defining wars. Leading up to a weekend post on 21st ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Starting with today's post, on two important lessons about veterans & America that we can draw from Alfred F. Young's wonderful book *The Shoemaker & the Tea Party* & its Revolutionary War veteran subject, George Robert Twelves Hewes!
blackwhiteandread.com/november-10-...
blackwhiteandread.com/november-10-...
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Veterans' Day is first & foremost an occasion to commemorate the millions of Americans, past & present, who have served & sacrificed as part of our armed forces. A list that includes both of my grandfathers, my wife's grandfather, & I know many folks with whom I'm connected on this site as well. +
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Veterans' Day is first & foremost an occasion to commemorate the millions of Americans, past & present, who have served & sacrificed as part of our armed forces. A list that includes both of my grandfathers, my wife's grandfather, & I know many folks with whom I'm connected on this site as well. +
Life is so fucking hard, and if you're just doing it, just getting up and living a day and going to bed to do it again the next day, I'm so fucking proud of you, and I hope you're proud of yourself too. I hope you get a moment to smile and feel like you today, if even for a second.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Life is so fucking hard, and if you're just doing it, just getting up and living a day and going to bed to do it again the next day, I'm so fucking proud of you, and I hope you're proud of yourself too. I hope you get a moment to smile and feel like you today, if even for a second.
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I reviewed The Godfather Part II (1974) this week and am actively nervous to share it because it's a comparative study.
Be cool, everyone just be cool and know that I'm sorry.
Here's my latest:
The Godfather 2½: Simba's Pride
Be cool, everyone just be cool and know that I'm sorry.
Here's my latest:
The Godfather 2½: Simba's Pride
The Godfather 2 1/2: Simba's Pride – Black and White and Read All Over
A Comparative Approach to The Godfather Part II (1974) Poster for The Godfather Part II (1974) via IMDb The Godfather Part II (1974) - Comparative Everybody’s gotta promise right now to be real cool. ...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I reviewed The Godfather Part II (1974) this week and am actively nervous to share it because it's a comparative study.
Be cool, everyone just be cool and know that I'm sorry.
Here's my latest:
The Godfather 2½: Simba's Pride
Be cool, everyone just be cool and know that I'm sorry.
Here's my latest:
The Godfather 2½: Simba's Pride
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NEW EPISODE ALERT! This week on the AWARD-WINNING #HoFCast, @alansiegella.bsky.social comes on to honor America's non-prehistoric cartoon family- The Simpsons! The production, the fandoms, the controversies- PLUS "Naked Gun" (2025) and "King of the Hill" revival reviews!
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youtu.be/f9NtJB-Mg_w?...
Season 2, Episode 8 Mini Trailer- "Eye on Springfield" with Alan Siegel
YouTube video by History on Film Podcast
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW EPISODE ALERT! This week on the AWARD-WINNING #HoFCast, @alansiegella.bsky.social comes on to honor America's non-prehistoric cartoon family- The Simpsons! The production, the fandoms, the controversies- PLUS "Naked Gun" (2025) and "King of the Hill" revival reviews!
youtu.be/f9NtJB-Mg_w?...
youtu.be/f9NtJB-Mg_w?...
I sincerely hope my Senators @warren.senate.gov and @edmarkey.bsky.social are doing everything in their power to prevent their colleagues from voting for this deal. If you need to physically chain yourselves to the doors so they can't vote, so be it, boo. I'll donate to your bail fund.
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I sincerely hope my Senators @warren.senate.gov and @edmarkey.bsky.social are doing everything in their power to prevent their colleagues from voting for this deal. If you need to physically chain yourselves to the doors so they can't vote, so be it, boo. I'll donate to your bail fund.
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Me, looking at Senate Dems right now:
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Me, looking at Senate Dems right now:
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Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
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Important new work from BLACK WHITE AND READ! #booksky
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Important new work from BLACK WHITE AND READ! #booksky
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On Black & White & Read All Over, we have a resources page for academics to find publications to pitch their work to, an announcements page to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, and a page that's literally just pictures of our cat Biscuits because we understand this community's needs.
Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over
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November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
On Black & White & Read All Over, we have a resources page for academics to find publications to pitch their work to, an announcements page to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, and a page that's literally just pictures of our cat Biscuits because we understand this community's needs.
Reposted by Dr. Vaughn Joy
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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As you check out that thread on our new website, make sure to subscribe for free to get all this great public scholarship each week, as well as all the other work, announcements, & resources we’ll be sharing there!
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November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
On Black & White & Read All Over, we have a resources page for academics to find publications to pitch their work to, an announcements page to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, and a page that's literally just pictures of our cat Biscuits because we understand this community's needs.
Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over
blackwhiteandread.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
On Black & White & Read All Over, we have a resources page for academics to find publications to pitch their work to, an announcements page to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, and a page that's literally just pictures of our cat Biscuits because we understand this community's needs.
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Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
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As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.
I am not allowed to buy more books until I read the ones I already own
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I had a dream last night that the first review of my book was a total evisceration in the New York Times and my husband wouldn't let me read it, so I guess we're under 10 days from publication! Wooooo!!!
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I had a dream last night that the first review of my book was a total evisceration in the New York Times and my husband wouldn't let me read it, so I guess we're under 10 days from publication! Wooooo!!!
🫣 I start my Christmas playlists 🫣 in 🫣 September 🫣
I start soft with a switch from film scores to instrumental Christmas while working, then a month or so later I start the Christmas film soundtrack playlist, then I launch into wider Christmas songs with lyrics in November.
I start soft with a switch from film scores to instrumental Christmas while working, then a month or so later I start the Christmas film soundtrack playlist, then I launch into wider Christmas songs with lyrics in November.
Come on man, you can’t blast out the Christmas playlist all day in early November.
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
🫣 I start my Christmas playlists 🫣 in 🫣 September 🫣
I start soft with a switch from film scores to instrumental Christmas while working, then a month or so later I start the Christmas film soundtrack playlist, then I launch into wider Christmas songs with lyrics in November.
I start soft with a switch from film scores to instrumental Christmas while working, then a month or so later I start the Christmas film soundtrack playlist, then I launch into wider Christmas songs with lyrics in November.