Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️‍🌈
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social
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Writer & dance film scholar. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (9/25, Bloomsbury): https://shorturl.at/yyHZP. Shirley Jackson finalist. Rev ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. http://www.addietsai.com
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this is how it feels to wear high rise pants
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Curious if academic folks have read any scholarly articles looking at race on tv you could link me? Looking for specific pieces you found illuminating. If it's Asian-focused, even better. I've been grumpy about a mixed Asian girl trope for long enough & I finally just need to write about it! 😂😭
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Show me your favorite author websites, please? Can also shout out your own! Looking for minimalist, clean look 👀
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Exciting news is that my first talk for the monograph tomorrow, hosted by William & Mary's GSWS program, is a hybrid event! Link is below.

Noon ET / 11 am Central / 9 PT: cwm.zoom.us/j/83020140530
A flyer with summary blurb info of Addie Tsai's Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture, Wednesday 9/24, 12-1 pm (ET) at William & Mary: in Boswell 314. A GSWS Colloquia Event. The flyer also includes Addie's headshot and the cover of her book.
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My first event for my debut monograph, Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture, is on Wednesday at William & Mary! (It'll be hybrid, will share a link soon.) Meanwhile, here's a sneak peek at the video I plan to open with:

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Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture (a montage)
A compilation video of some of the dances I analyze in Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2025). Featuring:…
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Yeah I’m speaking to a specific trope…but he is written about in the book.
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Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze
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By revealing how dance in American popular media reifies & problematizes gendered & racialized economies, this book demonstrates how the image of the buffoonish white male dancer operates as a smokescreen for the more violent manipulative forces of the reigning figure of white supremacy.
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This history resurfaces in one of the exceptions to the trope: when white men use the hip currency of blackness to affirm their (dancing) masculinity through theft and positionality.
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Tsai establishes how ethnic mimicry within American popular media, even that of white masculinity, is produced and reiterated from the 19th-century theatrical practice of blackface minstrelsy.
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During the height of homophobic hysteria in response to the AIDS epidemic, dance began to be used as a marker to scrutinize white men's position within homosexuality & masculinity. Therefore, white men could misperform good dancing to more securely sit within hegemonic masculinity.
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Addie Tsai traces this reiterative moving image of vaudevillian buffoonery in film, television, & video from the mid-1980s to present-day.
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Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture investigates a trope proliferating throughout popular American media over the last half-century: that straight white men can't dance.
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Got my author copies for my third book (!!!) and debut monograph, STRAIGHT WHITE MEN CAN’T DANCE: AMERICAN MASCULINITY IN FILM AND POPULAR CULTURE, published by Bloomsbury Academic! So much more stunning than I was expected! At bookstores near you Thursday the 18th. More info below.
The cover, with colorful illustrations of (mostly) white men from American film - Matthew Perry, Steve Carell, Alfonso Ribiera, and Jon Heder, at the bottom of a black background. The back cover with summary copy in white and orange text. The spine which is color blocked in orange, gray, blue, and pink, with the title and author name in white text.
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BREAKING: The Trump administration wants the last four digits of every voter’s Social Security number.

It's part of a sweeping project led by election deniers to compile a federal voting database. trib.al/P3WCWc9
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Just got my flu + covid vaccinations for this season! If you're in Maryland, you can still get them! Keep yourself and your loved ones safe!
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It is absolutely wild that the person in charge of health in America has be roundly condemned and labeled as dangerous by:
- Former CDC directors
- Former Surgeons General
- Multiple medical professional societies
- Health professionals across multiple platforms
And still holds his position.
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People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
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Got my Covid and flu vax scheduled for Monday! Pretty happy, considering I live in TX. Yay for Costco!
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🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US.

Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
Map of COVID vaccine availability by state
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