valerie gritsch
@valderie.bsky.social
loud disabled academic who’s obsessed with her dog. MA in celebrity & fan studies, currently a MLIS student. creator of spottedhounddesign. suffering mets and destiel fan. she/her.
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valerie gritsch
@valderie.bsky.social
· Oct 3
“Something Happened on the Day He Died”: How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton
Following the death of David Bowie on January 10, 2016, his hometown of Brixton, South London, has become a pilgrimage and tourist destination for fans. On the 11th of January, the world discovered Bo...
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Might as well share my MA thesis on this platform, too!
I’m so proud of ‘“Something Happened on the Day He Died”: How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton.’ It won an award from my department⚡️
Click through to read/download for free from CUNY academic works.
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I’m so proud of ‘“Something Happened on the Day He Died”: How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton.’ It won an award from my department⚡️
Click through to read/download for free from CUNY academic works.
academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3546/
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Theodore Roosevelt would’ve HATED this guy. HATED him.
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Theodore Roosevelt would’ve HATED this guy. HATED him.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
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🐅 📚 Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
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Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
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Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
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November 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
🐅 📚 Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
amzn.to/4ogIOVj
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
amzn.to/4pfWoco
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
amzn.to/47HQdrv
Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
amzn.to/43SFubB
amzn.to/4ogIOVj
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
amzn.to/4pfWoco
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
amzn.to/47HQdrv
Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
amzn.to/43SFubB
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Alice's work at Teen Vogue:
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)
Her last post was about being laid off from Teen Vogue. Terrible.
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Alice's work at Teen Vogue:
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)
www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
(I saw a post going around—that I can't reply to—saying her column has been deleted, but I found her words via this page.)
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Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...
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Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"
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Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!
Crying at the comic con over the loss of Alice Wong. Please look up her work. It was so important.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Crying at the comic con over the loss of Alice Wong. Please look up her work. It was so important.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
The smile I make at you when you are Edgar fucking Wright
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The smile I make at you when you are Edgar fucking Wright
everyone go see the running man holy shit
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
everyone go see the running man holy shit
My therapist: how do you know all these people
Me:
Me:
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My therapist: how do you know all these people
Me:
Me:
Taskmaster pirates are my favorite since the Beatles outfits
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Taskmaster pirates are my favorite since the Beatles outfits
Med changes are kicking my ass but hopefully that’s a good sign
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Med changes are kicking my ass but hopefully that’s a good sign
Meg Donnelly 💎 was a star tonight in Moulin Rouge
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Meg Donnelly 💎 was a star tonight in Moulin Rouge
Drake Rodgers and Danneel Ackles are here to support Meg Donnelly!
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Drake Rodgers and Danneel Ackles are here to support Meg Donnelly!
Please look at my fear 🤣🤣
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Please look at my fear 🤣🤣
read a letter of recommendation one of my professors wrote and now im sobbing lmao
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
read a letter of recommendation one of my professors wrote and now im sobbing lmao
Jeff Bebe himself! Underdog! It’s Jason Lee!
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Jeff Bebe himself! Underdog! It’s Jason Lee!
You’re the shit and I’m knee deep in it
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
You’re the shit and I’m knee deep in it
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Rock and roll is alive, and it lives in your local public library! Prince themed library cards at Hennepin County libraries! This is not a drill! While supplies last!
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rock and roll is alive, and it lives in your local public library! Prince themed library cards at Hennepin County libraries! This is not a drill! While supplies last!
Misha sat on me. Then he made me cry.
November 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Misha sat on me. Then he made me cry.
The light of my life, @timothyomundson.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The light of my life, @timothyomundson.bsky.social