Alison Laurence
@dinostalgia.bsky.social
Cultural historian of extinction at work on DINOSTALGIA, a book about how dinosaurs became cultural artifacts, consumer goods, and spokes-creatures for consumption | Instructor @ UC Santa Cruz | Editor @ Contingent Magazine
https://www.alisonlaurence.com
https://www.alisonlaurence.com
We're interested in fictional and speculative spaces, too! And we're defining our terms, both "dinosaur" and "park,” most generously. All long-extinct animals are welcome.
October 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We're interested in fictional and speculative spaces, too! And we're defining our terms, both "dinosaur" and "park,” most generously. All long-extinct animals are welcome.
Here's an example of what we're after: the WPA Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, seen as a way to cash in on tourists that the stony faces of former U.S. presidents—then being carved into the sacred Six Grandfathers on Oceti Sakowin lands—would draw to the Black Hills. livingnewdeal.org/sites/dinosa...
October 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here's an example of what we're after: the WPA Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, seen as a way to cash in on tourists that the stony faces of former U.S. presidents—then being carved into the sacred Six Grandfathers on Oceti Sakowin lands—would draw to the Black Hills. livingnewdeal.org/sites/dinosa...
That legitimately sent a shiver down my spine. Is this praxis?
October 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
That legitimately sent a shiver down my spine. Is this praxis?
You know, I think I was channeling someone... or something... else when I typed up that line.
October 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
You know, I think I was channeling someone... or something... else when I typed up that line.
And here's the "Monsters" CFP in meme form...
Credit for the original painting: comic book artist Johnny Craig
Credit for the original painting: comic book artist Johnny Craig
October 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
And here's the "Monsters" CFP in meme form...
Credit for the original painting: comic book artist Johnny Craig
Credit for the original painting: comic book artist Johnny Craig
Allowing my typo to remain (though it PAINS me to do so) because it cuts right to the heart of it, doesn't it? Fiends are friends too.
October 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Allowing my typo to remain (though it PAINS me to do so) because it cuts right to the heart of it, doesn't it? Fiends are friends too.
It's monster time!
elmo from sesame street is surrounded by cookies falling around him
Alt: A fluffy blue muppet called Cookie Monster dances ecstatically under a cataract of chocolate chip confections. He's trying (but failing?) to catch the cookies in his mouth.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It's monster time!