Sydney Heifler
@sydneyheifler.bsky.social
I research comics and make them
Post-War Historian
Ignatz Nominated 2024
Graphic Medicine Award Nominee 2023
Comics Studies Society 2020 Article Prize
Ph.D. Student in History at OSU
MSt, Women’s Studies from Oxford
pronouns she/they 🏳️🌈🖤
Post-War Historian
Ignatz Nominated 2024
Graphic Medicine Award Nominee 2023
Comics Studies Society 2020 Article Prize
Ph.D. Student in History at OSU
MSt, Women’s Studies from Oxford
pronouns she/they 🏳️🌈🖤
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Sydney Heifler
@sydneyheifler.bsky.social
· Nov 12
i haven’t been on here in forever. hi everyone! as a reminder i’m a historian of gender, romance, sexuality, and race in post-war era. i specialize in romance #comics and African American romance magazines.
this year i finished my fourth and fifth comics! fourth one is about surgery recovery after assault, fifth details being disabled while completing comprehensive exams. #graphicmedicine is so important to my healing and i hope my work resonates with others.
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
this year i finished my fourth and fifth comics! fourth one is about surgery recovery after assault, fifth details being disabled while completing comprehensive exams. #graphicmedicine is so important to my healing and i hope my work resonates with others.
back on bluesky. reminder i research #romancecomics and #postwar history, focusing on themes of race, gender, and sexuality.
Romance comics, dangerous girls, and the importance of fathers
This article aims to demonstrate that throughout the 1950s, popular teenage romance comics reflected dominant discourses concerning the teenage girl, her sexuality and mental health, and her relati...
www.tandfonline.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
back on bluesky. reminder i research #romancecomics and #postwar history, focusing on themes of race, gender, and sexuality.
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Reading some Toth romance comics for. . . reasons
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reading some Toth romance comics for. . . reasons
i’m going to be in the car with my mom for three hours pretty soon and i’m going to get to the bottom of why she wanted us to have a giant earthworm farm in our apartment in los angeles circa 1994.
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
i’m going to be in the car with my mom for three hours pretty soon and i’m going to get to the bottom of why she wanted us to have a giant earthworm farm in our apartment in los angeles circa 1994.
Reposted by Sydney Heifler
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
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hey if a country sells a person to another country for imprisonment and slave labor I don’t think we should call it deportation
July 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
hey if a country sells a person to another country for imprisonment and slave labor I don’t think we should call it deportation
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When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
www.newyorker.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
“to sydney, who is almost as cute as gladys”
found this preparing for one of my Trina panels for SDCC. it will be my first comic con without her! i couldn’t go last year because i had a blood clot post surgery.
miss you and love you, Trina 💕💕💕
found this preparing for one of my Trina panels for SDCC. it will be my first comic con without her! i couldn’t go last year because i had a blood clot post surgery.
miss you and love you, Trina 💕💕💕
July 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“to sydney, who is almost as cute as gladys”
found this preparing for one of my Trina panels for SDCC. it will be my first comic con without her! i couldn’t go last year because i had a blood clot post surgery.
miss you and love you, Trina 💕💕💕
found this preparing for one of my Trina panels for SDCC. it will be my first comic con without her! i couldn’t go last year because i had a blood clot post surgery.
miss you and love you, Trina 💕💕💕
there is an absolutely wasted guy at the airport applebees. he’s a regular and everyone is very excited to see him.
July 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
there is an absolutely wasted guy at the airport applebees. he’s a regular and everyone is very excited to see him.
sometimes going shopping really makes you feel your disability and also your childhood body dysmorphia.
July 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
sometimes going shopping really makes you feel your disability and also your childhood body dysmorphia.
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are you at Comic-Con next week? come join me, @kmunson.bsky.social @sydneyheifler.bsky.social @shaenon.bsky.social and others as we discuss Trina Robbins's many wonderful, landmark books spotlighting comics and cartooning's greatest women artists.
comiccon2025.sched.com/event/271Z8/...
comiccon2025.sched.com/event/271Z8/...
July 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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pinching myself that i’m moderating this panel at #SDCC
so much love for Trina on this panel.
part of the #ComicsArtConference track.
Remembering Trina Robbins and Her Underground Comix
Room 26AB | Friday 2:30
Featuring Steve Leiaoloha, Lee Marrs, Willy Mendes, and Bruce Simon.
so much love for Trina on this panel.
part of the #ComicsArtConference track.
Remembering Trina Robbins and Her Underground Comix
Room 26AB | Friday 2:30
Featuring Steve Leiaoloha, Lee Marrs, Willy Mendes, and Bruce Simon.
July 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
pinching myself that i’m moderating this panel at #SDCC
so much love for Trina on this panel.
part of the #ComicsArtConference track.
Remembering Trina Robbins and Her Underground Comix
Room 26AB | Friday 2:30
Featuring Steve Leiaoloha, Lee Marrs, Willy Mendes, and Bruce Simon.
so much love for Trina on this panel.
part of the #ComicsArtConference track.
Remembering Trina Robbins and Her Underground Comix
Room 26AB | Friday 2:30
Featuring Steve Leiaoloha, Lee Marrs, Willy Mendes, and Bruce Simon.
are you going to comic con? please consider going to my two panels, both honoring the late feminist icon, Trina Robbins. i love Trina and miss her dearly and i’m thankful to get to honor her legacy at this year’s comic con.
graphic gives panel information (also in post below)
graphic gives panel information (also in post below)
July 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
are you going to comic con? please consider going to my two panels, both honoring the late feminist icon, Trina Robbins. i love Trina and miss her dearly and i’m thankful to get to honor her legacy at this year’s comic con.
graphic gives panel information (also in post below)
graphic gives panel information (also in post below)
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SDCC panel: I'll be covering Trina Robbins's history/herstory books with @kmunson.bsky.social, Lee Marrs, @mchldooley.bsky.social, @sydneyheifler.bsky.social, Peter Maresca, and Bruce Simon!
July 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
SDCC panel: I'll be covering Trina Robbins's history/herstory books with @kmunson.bsky.social, Lee Marrs, @mchldooley.bsky.social, @sydneyheifler.bsky.social, Peter Maresca, and Bruce Simon!
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Sierra Phillips tells the story of Grace Wisher, the Black girl who helped stitch the Star-Spangled Banner.
#BlackHistory #AmericanHistory
#BlackHistory #AmericanHistory
Grace Wisher: The Black Girl Who Helped Stitch the Star-Spangled Banner | Origins
Grace Wisher, a free-born Black girl from Baltimore, Maryland, helped stitch the Star-Spangled Banner during the six-year apprenticeship she began with white flag-maker Mary Pickersgill around 1810.
origins.osu.edu
July 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Sierra Phillips tells the story of Grace Wisher, the Black girl who helped stitch the Star-Spangled Banner.
#BlackHistory #AmericanHistory
#BlackHistory #AmericanHistory
hey, for my birthday vote for ian and me in this competition and repost! i forgot i entered it while suffering insomnia!
Vote for Sydney And Ian as America's Favorite Couple!
One couple will appear in an advertorial in Variety and take home $20,000.
americasfavcouple.org
June 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
hey, for my birthday vote for ian and me in this competition and repost! i forgot i entered it while suffering insomnia!
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The Final Countdown!
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus' annual fundraising campaign ends Monday at 11:59 p.m.
We are grateful for the gifts that have been as small as $5 and as large as $525! Every bit helps to keep CXC free, and the majority of our budget goes to artists in one way or another!
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus' annual fundraising campaign ends Monday at 11:59 p.m.
We are grateful for the gifts that have been as small as $5 and as large as $525! Every bit helps to keep CXC free, and the majority of our budget goes to artists in one way or another!
June 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Final Countdown!
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus' annual fundraising campaign ends Monday at 11:59 p.m.
We are grateful for the gifts that have been as small as $5 and as large as $525! Every bit helps to keep CXC free, and the majority of our budget goes to artists in one way or another!
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus' annual fundraising campaign ends Monday at 11:59 p.m.
We are grateful for the gifts that have been as small as $5 and as large as $525! Every bit helps to keep CXC free, and the majority of our budget goes to artists in one way or another!
while moving i am finding all the puzzle pieces my car scattered throughout the house.
June 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
while moving i am finding all the puzzle pieces my car scattered throughout the house.
this is the year i move on from the assault, the injury/surgery, and my sister’s death. new place and only romance comics and my phd to worry about/keep me happy.
June 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
this is the year i move on from the assault, the injury/surgery, and my sister’s death. new place and only romance comics and my phd to worry about/keep me happy.
what’s harder: switching my internet service or my comprehensive exams?
June 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
what’s harder: switching my internet service or my comprehensive exams?
cake update—vegan and gluten free! 🍓🍓🍓
June 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
cake update—vegan and gluten free! 🍓🍓🍓
my therapist today: you have to stop wearing heels, you have to stop wearing platforms.
June 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
my therapist today: you have to stop wearing heels, you have to stop wearing platforms.
some guy came in the bathroom and asked me if i was afraid he was going to rape me. what a time to be absolutely stupid and inhumane at pride. who does that.
June 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
some guy came in the bathroom and asked me if i was afraid he was going to rape me. what a time to be absolutely stupid and inhumane at pride. who does that.
sometimes to get over your comprehensive exams you have to sing tori amos’s leather in front a bunch of strangers.
June 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
sometimes to get over your comprehensive exams you have to sing tori amos’s leather in front a bunch of strangers.