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Becka Bee
@beckab.bsky.social
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Moving incrementally in many directions at once. She/her. BSc, BFA, MEd. Cinema/Media Studies PhD in progress. Soccer mom, artist, neurodivergent, queer.
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NBD just kicking around Ottawa for a few days, seeing my students get their super-talented minds blown, chatting with folks I’ve only known for a minute*, and marvelling at the reminder that animation is always about possibility.

*A minute is all it takes to know in my bones these are my people. 🥰
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Me taking notes like this in meetings nowadays: ADHD? Or (peri-)menopause brain fog?
A small hot pink post-it note is stuck to a blank lined page of a notebook. The post-it note has “K Will” written at the top of it in pencil. Each of the two letter Ls in “will” has a cursive-style looped upper half, and a straight horizontal bottom stroke, as if the bottom half were a printed capital L.
September 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Absolutely fantastic panel on embodied animation and ideas of embodiment with excellent presentations by Katerina Athanasopoulou, and Yangqi Liang
Giorgos Nikopoulos. Bonus points for all the practice-based research involved . #sas36 💅🏻👋🏻🎭
Artist-researcher Yanqi Liang stands at a lectern on the right, next to a slide from her presentation that featured frames from her animation. The frames are each drawn and/or embroidered, showing drawn images of a pair of women’s hands in various poses with bergamot. In the foreground are the backs of two audience members sitting in the front row. Dr. Katerina Athanasopoulou stands to the right next to her title slide of her presentation, “Sustaining Animation Through the Animator’s Body.” The slide features a photographic image of a computer screen with an abstracted hand in the centre. The backs of two audience members sitting in the front row can be seen in the foreground. Giorgos Nikopoulos is standing on the stage of the lecture hall, wearing a theatrical mask. He is striking a pose with both arms out in front of him, resting his weight on his back leg, as if preparing to fight. His presentation slide shows photos illustrating other masks and Jacques Lecoq’s method of mask acting. The backs of two audience members sitting in the front row can be seen in the foreground.
July 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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back on my bullshit #londoneye
July 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Academy award-winner Michaël Dudok de Wit just gave us some kind of mental restorative yoga animation master class and my brain hasn’t felt this great in ages. #sas36
De Wit (who has light skin, glasses, white hair and beard, blue button-down shirt, and suspenders and dark pants) stands in front of a projection of his first PowerPoint slide for his talk, Animation and Ecological Awareness. The slide has a detailed illustration of a tree. De Wit is holding a soft red cube containing a microphone. He is looking in the direction of the camera.
July 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Do I always look like I’m rage-eating when it’s pastry?
Two close-up images of me, a white-haired middle-aged woman seriously chomping on a pain au chocolat in London in one photo and a Cornish pasty in Bristol in the other. Text box between the photo reads, “Currently in the UK, eating crispy doughy things.”
July 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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First #sas36 panel: Bad Animation (= So Good) @aurelievpetit.bsky.social @ghahahan.bsky.social and Jacqueline Ristola
Grace Han in front of the screen showing a slide explaining Gen AI machine learning basics. 3 Panelists sit to the left of the screen that shows an advert for an upcoming talk they are doing while they address questions at the Q&A
July 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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When the Q&A gets too interesting and overlaps with a really necessary SIG meeting sometimes that means a two-banana lunch. #sas36
POV wide-angle shot of a long meeting table where all seats are occupied and everyone seems to have a reasonable-looking lunch. But there are just two banana peels at the table directly in front of you.
July 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Hi London! I’m in you to do some research and have some animation academic fun. Please be nice to me; I still get all the pence denominations mixed up.
July 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Damn straight I’m watching @nsl.ca !
April 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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March 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Almost forgot how sweet (and so very 90s indie) _But I’m a Cheerleader_ is.
Movie still from But I’m a Cheerleader where Natasha Lyonne, wearing pink, is flanked by two boys in blue. They are sitting in a circle outside near some trees. She is clapping her hands, looking non-plussed into the camera as another character outside of the frame says “My mother got married in pants,” as the root cause for their queerness.
February 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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January 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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January 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A screen grab of Bruce Willis in Die Hard crawling through elevator pulleys with a machine gun and the caption, “Nothing says ‘Christmas’ like this complex examination of every single facet of patriarchal systems being scrutinized, sent up, and ultimately celebrated.”
December 22, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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#filmstudies #experimentalanimation #phdlife
November 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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Baby’s first #SCMS! Excited to present my reflections on my friend and mentor, experimental animation practices and transformative learning in Chicago next spring!

Who’s all going?
#SCMS25
Screen grab of an acceptance letter that reads: “Dear Becka Barker, On behalf of the 2025 Conference Program Committee for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, I am pleased to inform you that your proposal was accepted. Congratulations! Title: ‘After What is Good’: Affinity Groups, Transformative Learning, and the Work of Helen Hill Presenter(s): Becka Barker”
November 25, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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I love Marta’s mom. #nwsl
Close-up of spectators watching the NWSL final, wearing scarves cheering for the Orlando Pride. In the centre is an older smiling Brazilian woman, also wearing a parka and toque.
November 24, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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Mixed feelings about how late our growing season is going here in Nova Scotia: huge gratitude for all my raspberries, tomatoes and purple tomatillos ( #foodsky what do I do with tomatillos other than salsa??). Enjoying my quick-pickled jalapeños. But yikes this warmth is confusing plants!
A small ceramic bowl of about 25 raspberries, a pint box full of purple tomatillos and another pint box half-full of Roma and cherry tomatoes, all on a green tea towel on a kitchen counter, shot from overhead. A large jar of green pickled jalepeño peppers on a grey counter top, looking slightly up. Stove top with red and turquoise cooking vessels in the background.
November 20, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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Enjoying these folks dunking on Adorno’s idea of what’s worthwhile to pursue outside of work, spending time in my happy place, processing some #Kodak3378. Been doing this for 25 yrs & still not sure if it fits generally-accepted definitions of “career.”
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November 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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November 16, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Show me a picture in your phone that has your energy: not a selfie.
A pepperoni/Gorgonzola pizza on an outdoor cafe table, shot from above, is centered in the frame. A masculine hand with the middle finger extended hovers over the pizza from the right of the frame.
July 9, 2023 at 3:58 PM
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Good morning from the rose bush by my house who is currently making up for being a total jerk 50/52 weeks/year.
July 7, 2023 at 12:21 PM
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What to do with leftover mozzarella sticks in the freezer: successful stuffed crust experiment!
July 3, 2023 at 10:21 PM
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Purple Cow users looks like we got some issues today:
July 3, 2023 at 3:54 PM