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muppethair.bsky.social
DJ Ralston 🏳️‍⚧️(he/him)
@muppethair.bsky.social
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Trans Man. Geriatric Millennial. Joyful Chaos Muppet. Hophead. Professional Potty Mouth. #ADHD #DoctoralCandidate
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Drawing seems to feel much like writing these days #Blocked #DissertationStruggles #ArtStruggles
Hand drawn illustration. I’m the upper right corner is a line drawing of a human head with a brain inside the top of the head and a series of light bulbs above the head with text above it that says “when I don’t have time to draw” starting in the upper left hand corner is a line drawn pencil that angles at a 45* angle towards a piece of paper that reads “I never know what to draw when I have the time or give myself the time to draw - it is like my mind goes blank “ in the lower left hand corner is another line drawing of a human head with a brain inside the top of the head and a series of question marks above the head with text next to it that says “when I do have the time to draw”
January 28, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Book launch day! How do you meme? Critical memetic literacies in english education with the chapter @sandravanderbilt.bsky.social and I co-authored is officially available! Grateful for this opportunity to work, write, and learn with Sandra. #academicsky #bookchapter #criticalliteracies
DJ a white trans man with a blonde Mohawk wearing a black kn95 mask and Sandra a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a white mask look at the camera holding a small poster in front of them. On the left hand side of the poster is a picture of a book cover that reads - critical memetic literacies in English education: how do you meme. On the right side of the poster text that reads - young people reading and writing the world through meme curation, creation and critical conversation
December 2, 2023 at 11:22 AM
muppethair.bsky.social
Zoey was very insistent on helping me while I worked on my dissertation today. I hope she realizes that dissertations are solo pursuits so she can’t be second author. I’ll be sure to thank her in my acknowledgments though #AcademicSky #DissertationLife #PhdSky @phdvoice.bsky.social
A brownish-grey Weimaraner, positioned in the lower left hand portion of the frame, lays facing away with just her shoulders and top of her head pictured on the left of a lap desk, which holds an open laptop displaying a white screen with text and a large book splayed open infringing onto the lap desk that’s positioned in the right-hand corner of the frame.
November 11, 2023 at 11:44 PM
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Heading home from work trip number 5 in the last 6 weeks - one more work trip next week and then finally a break from work travel. #WorkTravel #WorkTravelIsOverrated #HomeBound
DJ’s hand holding a cup of to-go coffee with a black lid, resting on a their leg in the foreground, with a light blue roller suitcase and a grey backpack sitting next to it with a yellow hip pack resting on top of the two bags in the background.
October 24, 2023 at 1:29 PM
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Doubling up on this post - posting this drawing, an interpretive rendering of me post-top surgery done with grey scale copic markers for portfolio day and as a reflection as tomorrow marks six months since I had top surgery #Trans #TransMasc #PostTopSurgery #ArtPortfolio #QueerArt #QueerArtist
Lined notebook page with hand drawn image in grey tones of a white, shirtless trans man showing his top surgery scars.
October 10, 2023 at 10:50 PM
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Fancy poster about our upcoming Journal of Curriculum Theorizing conference presentation - all about young people and crucial memetic literacy. #academicsky
Gradient blue poster with yellow text that reads 43rd annual Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Conference. Lower left of the poster black text reads: Presentation Title: Oh! My teacher’s hip!: Memetic curricula in young people’s multiple physical and virtual worlds. In lower right corner of the poster, two round photos sit side by side, one with a white woman, with cropped shoulder-length, curly, brown hair wearing a green blouse and black jacket smiling at the camera, underneath her photo it reads Sandra Vanderbilt, George Washington University. In the second round photo, a white trans man, with a blonde Mohawk, wearing round, brown glasses, and a grey collared shirt smiles at the camera. Under his photo it reads DJ Ralston, George Washington University.
October 7, 2023 at 4:20 PM
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First cool fall Saturday morning means my dissertation-writing outfit is a hoodie and dinosaur long johns (sneakers b/c have wicked case PF & need the support) #dissertationsky #academicsky #phdsky #dissertationlife #qualitativeresearch
DJ a white, trans man, wearing a green hoodie, white long John’s with multi-colored dinosaurs on them, orange and black sneakers and a navy blue ball cap that says George Washington University on it stands facing the camera smiling.
October 7, 2023 at 2:56 PM
muppethair.bsky.social
This is awesome - I do something similar - though I tend to do abstract - your pointillism is phenomenal.
White paper adorned with black ink in style of zen doodles drawn free hand
October 7, 2023 at 12:42 PM
muppethair.bsky.social
Good morning from the inflatable hot tub on the back deck - it is good to be home. #Sunrise #HotTubCoffee
Alt Text: Still green and full tree line with sky of pretty orange, pink, and blue hues as the sun rises in the East.
Still green and full tree line with sky of pretty orange, pink, and blue hues as the sun rises in the East.
October 5, 2023 at 11:32 AM
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Mondays amirite? #Mondays #CapitalistHellscape #MondayMeme #Muppets

Alt -Meme - The muppets Bert and Ernie smiling at the camera. Text at the top of the meme reads:
“Monday is brought to you by” text at the bottom of the meme reads “the letters f… and..u”
Meme - The muppets Bert and Ernie smiling at the camera. Text at the top of the meme reads: “Monday is brought to you by” text at the bottom of the meme reads “the letters f… and..u”
October 2, 2023 at 12:18 PM
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Just a doodle representing both an encapsulation of my general feeling and a reminder to be patient with myself as I juggle my way through the dissertation process & my full-time time job. #DissertationStruggles #Academia #Working #DoctoralCandidate #ADHDBrain
Splayed open notebook with silhouette of human head with black and white brain inside labeled da dissertation brain on left hand page with a line running to a and picture of several legos bricks in a box connected by curving lines on right hand page. Underneath the box with the legos is a Straight line with end caps that has text above that reads “what we think it looks like” and underneath that line another line with a big messy nest in the middle with text that reads “what it really looks like”
October 1, 2023 at 11:39 PM