Cassidy Smith
@smithcassv.bsky.social
Lover of penguins, books and worrying too much. PhD at University of Glasgow researching the construction of victimhood in user-generated true crime narratives (she/her)
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1/ We're delighted to be welcoming @profkarenboyle.bsky.social for our next SCS seminar, taking place on Wednesday, 5th November, from 3.30 to 5.00pm in Room 432, St Andrews Building. Please do join us if you can...
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
1/ We're delighted to be welcoming @profkarenboyle.bsky.social for our next SCS seminar, taking place on Wednesday, 5th November, from 3.30 to 5.00pm in Room 432, St Andrews Building. Please do join us if you can...
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In the past few decades, monsters have gone from menaces to misfits. Why do we feel the need to humanize them?
How Monsters Went from Menacing to Misunderstood
For most of human history, monsters were repugnant aberrations, breaches of the natural and moral order. What’s behind our relentless urge to humanize them?
www.newyorker.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
In the past few decades, monsters have gone from menaces to misfits. Why do we feel the need to humanize them?
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On Tuesday we launched the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies! Thank you to everyone who came to the launch event & my fellow co-directors. It was a great evening & the first of what Iam sure will be many fantastic GLINTS events.
October 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
On Tuesday we launched the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies! Thank you to everyone who came to the launch event & my fellow co-directors. It was a great evening & the first of what Iam sure will be many fantastic GLINTS events.
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We are thrilled to introduce the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network this #AceWeek! The network is based at @clsrleeds.bsky.social in the UK and brings together researchers who are working on #asexuality and #aromanticism.
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We are thrilled to introduce the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network this #AceWeek! The network is based at @clsrleeds.bsky.social in the UK and brings together researchers who are working on #asexuality and #aromanticism.
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com
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Great afternoon on campus with our fortnightly seminar listening to very insightful and generous fourth year PhD presentations, followed by a school-wide PGR social & quiz organised by the reps to welcome our new School of Social and Political Science PhD cohort!
October 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Great afternoon on campus with our fortnightly seminar listening to very insightful and generous fourth year PhD presentations, followed by a school-wide PGR social & quiz organised by the reps to welcome our new School of Social and Political Science PhD cohort!
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Ryan Murphy spent a decade making queer television. Then came Monster: The Ed Gein Story. My article on Medium dives into the series' individualistic portrayal of gender-based violence and discusses how even “progressive” storytellers can echo reactionary rhetoric: medium.com/@cassidy.smi...
From Pride to Pathology: What Netflix’s Monster Says About Masculinity Today
How Ryan Murphy’s latest true crime series turns queer difference into danger, and what it reveals about contemporary ideas of male power.
medium.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Ryan Murphy spent a decade making queer television. Then came Monster: The Ed Gein Story. My article on Medium dives into the series' individualistic portrayal of gender-based violence and discusses how even “progressive” storytellers can echo reactionary rhetoric: medium.com/@cassidy.smi...
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Sunday’s theft at the Louvre has reignited urgent questions about how, and why, museums protect their collections. Emerging forms of art crime demand an ethical reckoning: a willingness to ask whether these objects should still be here at all.
The Louvre Heist Was a Colonial Wake-Up Call
The stunning theft reveals more than a failure of security: It lays bare how austerity, neglect, and unresolved colonial legacies continue to haunt the museum.
hyperallergic.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sunday’s theft at the Louvre has reignited urgent questions about how, and why, museums protect their collections. Emerging forms of art crime demand an ethical reckoning: a willingness to ask whether these objects should still be here at all.
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The screening of El rojo mas puro, followed by a panel discussion was a fantastic way to close Thinking Cinema, Thinking Latin America. Thanks to @cinemaattic.bsky.social for collaborating. Congrats to @irepiedrahita.bsky.social, Antonio and Emilia for a great event
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The screening of El rojo mas puro, followed by a panel discussion was a fantastic way to close Thinking Cinema, Thinking Latin America. Thanks to @cinemaattic.bsky.social for collaborating. Congrats to @irepiedrahita.bsky.social, Antonio and Emilia for a great event
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New in Crime, Media, Culture: in-depth interviews with co-victims reveal how true-crime fandom + algorithms can retraumatize families (rumors, doxxing, speculation). More rigor, less spectacle.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#criminology #truecrime #crime #psychology #research
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#criminology #truecrime #crime #psychology #research
“What an invasion, an immense invasion”: Examining the adverse effects of true crime media on co-victims - Kelli S. Boling, Danielle C. Slakoff, 2025
Through in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 people who identify as co-victims (friends/family members of missing people, victims, and/or perpetrators) spotl...
journals.sagepub.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
New in Crime, Media, Culture: in-depth interviews with co-victims reveal how true-crime fandom + algorithms can retraumatize families (rumors, doxxing, speculation). More rigor, less spectacle.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#criminology #truecrime #crime #psychology #research
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#criminology #truecrime #crime #psychology #research
Ryan Murphy spent a decade making queer television. Then came Monster: The Ed Gein Story. My article on Medium dives into the series' individualistic portrayal of gender-based violence and discusses how even “progressive” storytellers can echo reactionary rhetoric: medium.com/@cassidy.smi...
From Pride to Pathology: What Netflix’s Monster Says About Masculinity Today
How Ryan Murphy’s latest true crime series turns queer difference into danger, and what it reveals about contemporary ideas of male power.
medium.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Ryan Murphy spent a decade making queer television. Then came Monster: The Ed Gein Story. My article on Medium dives into the series' individualistic portrayal of gender-based violence and discusses how even “progressive” storytellers can echo reactionary rhetoric: medium.com/@cassidy.smi...