Dr. Vaughn Joy
@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
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Dr. Vaughn Joy
@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!
Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
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Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
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Big fan of your work. Friends & followers: this is going to be a great keynote to attend:
My FIRST EVER keynote. I've been practicing and everything.
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
Got plans this Saturday? Ho ho hold up, you should check out 'Tis the Season: Christmas in Pop Culture, 1900-2000, a virtual conference feat a keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, a closing panel moderated by @lizwfab.bsky.social, & much more! 🗃️
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November 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Big fan of your work. Friends & followers: this is going to be a great keynote to attend:
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Vaughn is a wonderful historian and speaker, so people should tune in for this!
My FIRST EVER keynote. I've been practicing and everything.
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
Got plans this Saturday? Ho ho hold up, you should check out 'Tis the Season: Christmas in Pop Culture, 1900-2000, a virtual conference feat a keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, a closing panel moderated by @lizwfab.bsky.social, & much more! 🗃️
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November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Vaughn is a wonderful historian and speaker, so people should tune in for this!
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My FIRST EVER keynote. I've been practicing and everything.
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
Got plans this Saturday? Ho ho hold up, you should check out 'Tis the Season: Christmas in Pop Culture, 1900-2000, a virtual conference feat a keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, a closing panel moderated by @lizwfab.bsky.social, & much more! 🗃️
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November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My FIRST EVER keynote. I've been practicing and everything.
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
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Just over 24 hours from now! Gonna be a banger of a keynote, "White Christmas" level (cf. Irving Berlin to his secretary: "I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote"). Be there or risk a lump of coal! 🗃️
My FIRST EVER keynote. I've been practicing and everything.
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
Got plans this Saturday? Ho ho hold up, you should check out 'Tis the Season: Christmas in Pop Culture, 1900-2000, a virtual conference feat a keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, a closing panel moderated by @lizwfab.bsky.social, & much more! 🗃️
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November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just over 24 hours from now! Gonna be a banger of a keynote, "White Christmas" level (cf. Irving Berlin to his secretary: "I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote"). Be there or risk a lump of coal! 🗃️
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So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon.
The rest of us will live in a society.
The rest of us will live in a society.
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon.
The rest of us will live in a society.
The rest of us will live in a society.
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The modern conservative panic is fueled by juvenile tantrums, of people clinging to hierarchies until their fingernails are bloody because they're too contemptuous towards undesirables and offal acquiring even a shred of humanity and dignity.
But it's inevitable, and the clock will not turn back.
But it's inevitable, and the clock will not turn back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The modern conservative panic is fueled by juvenile tantrums, of people clinging to hierarchies until their fingernails are bloody because they're too contemptuous towards undesirables and offal acquiring even a shred of humanity and dignity.
But it's inevitable, and the clock will not turn back.
But it's inevitable, and the clock will not turn back.
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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If you, like me, are having a rough day with the whole "everything is run by unrepentant pedophiles and everywhere you look today is drenched in details of heinous abusive activity and justifications of it," I've added more pictures of Biscuits to her page. Please breathe and enjoy as needed.
Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over
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November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you, like me, are having a rough day with the whole "everything is run by unrepentant pedophiles and everywhere you look today is drenched in details of heinous abusive activity and justifications of it," I've added more pictures of Biscuits to her page. Please breathe and enjoy as needed.
My FIRST EVER keynote. I've been practicing and everything.
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
Got plans this Saturday? Ho ho hold up, you should check out 'Tis the Season: Christmas in Pop Culture, 1900-2000, a virtual conference feat a keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, a closing panel moderated by @lizwfab.bsky.social, & much more! 🗃️
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November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My FIRST EVER keynote. I've been practicing and everything.
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
11am EST this Saturday November 15th on the linked Zoom meeting!
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Got plans this Saturday? Ho ho hold up, you should check out 'Tis the Season: Christmas in Pop Culture, 1900-2000, a virtual conference feat a keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, a closing panel moderated by @lizwfab.bsky.social, & much more! 🗃️
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November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Got plans this Saturday? Ho ho hold up, you should check out 'Tis the Season: Christmas in Pop Culture, 1900-2000, a virtual conference feat a keynote from @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social, a closing panel moderated by @lizwfab.bsky.social, & much more! 🗃️
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If you, like me, are having a rough day with the whole "everything is run by unrepentant pedophiles and everywhere you look today is drenched in details of heinous abusive activity and justifications of it," I've added more pictures of Biscuits to her page. Please breathe and enjoy as needed.
Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over
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November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you, like me, are having a rough day with the whole "everything is run by unrepentant pedophiles and everywhere you look today is drenched in details of heinous abusive activity and justifications of it," I've added more pictures of Biscuits to her page. Please breathe and enjoy as needed.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
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I just drafted an op-ed that I hope I'll get to place somewhere with more reach than my own platforms (but if not I will just post it eventually). 🗃️
The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action.
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The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I just drafted an op-ed that I hope I'll get to place somewhere with more reach than my own platforms (but if not I will just post it eventually). 🗃️
The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action.
1/4
The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action.
1/4
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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ahoy!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
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With the dangerous SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving healthcare, Heightened Scrutiny is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice. HEIGHT...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ahoy!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
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There's a reason they're civic holidays. They're not just days off work or school; they're the only times of year society prompts us to have an ounce of care for other people, and we'd do so much better as a society if we actually practiced the collectivism of Christmas the other eleven months too.
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There's a reason they're civic holidays. They're not just days off work or school; they're the only times of year society prompts us to have an ounce of care for other people, and we'd do so much better as a society if we actually practiced the collectivism of Christmas the other eleven months too.
I knew going in that the chances of a stable career were slim, but I really gotta hand it to the rising fascism on this one, I didn't see "even rejected from volunteer teaching positions" in the cards.
The "sharp end" doesn't even begin to describe the jagged mental health crisis among ECRs.
The "sharp end" doesn't even begin to describe the jagged mental health crisis among ECRs.
Early career researchers feel sharp end of jobs crisis.
As universities shed jobs, those setting out in academia are feeling pain of diminished prospects.
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As universities shed jobs, those setting out in academia are feeling pain of diminished prospects.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I knew going in that the chances of a stable career were slim, but I really gotta hand it to the rising fascism on this one, I didn't see "even rejected from volunteer teaching positions" in the cards.
The "sharp end" doesn't even begin to describe the jagged mental health crisis among ECRs.
The "sharp end" doesn't even begin to describe the jagged mental health crisis among ECRs.
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3. Dynamic duo @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social and @americanstudier.bsky.social teamed up for a new website to share their public scholarship.
As a long time follower of #ScholarSunday since the old days of #AcademicTwitter (sigh), this conversation was delightful
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As a long time follower of #ScholarSunday since the old days of #AcademicTwitter (sigh), this conversation was delightful
theacademicdesigner.com/2025/public-...
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
3. Dynamic duo @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social and @americanstudier.bsky.social teamed up for a new website to share their public scholarship.
As a long time follower of #ScholarSunday since the old days of #AcademicTwitter (sigh), this conversation was delightful
theacademicdesigner.com/2025/public-...
As a long time follower of #ScholarSunday since the old days of #AcademicTwitter (sigh), this conversation was delightful
theacademicdesigner.com/2025/public-...
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Here's 7 Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo) resources for you. Happy writing ✍️💻
Please share with a friend 🫶
1. A live podcast recording about public writing for academics with my friend Lisa Munro, PhD @llmunro.bsky.social. That'll broadcast on YouTube tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12.
#AcademicSky
Please share with a friend 🫶
1. A live podcast recording about public writing for academics with my friend Lisa Munro, PhD @llmunro.bsky.social. That'll broadcast on YouTube tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12.
#AcademicSky
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Here's 7 Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo) resources for you. Happy writing ✍️💻
Please share with a friend 🫶
1. A live podcast recording about public writing for academics with my friend Lisa Munro, PhD @llmunro.bsky.social. That'll broadcast on YouTube tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12.
#AcademicSky
Please share with a friend 🫶
1. A live podcast recording about public writing for academics with my friend Lisa Munro, PhD @llmunro.bsky.social. That'll broadcast on YouTube tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12.
#AcademicSky
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Dickens told us in 1843 that we had to fix our hearts and care about our communities all year round, not just in December.
A century later in 1947 Kris Kringle told us Christmas isn't just a day; it's a frame of mind.
The Grinch and Ralphie learned Christmas isn't just about presents in 66 and 83
A century later in 1947 Kris Kringle told us Christmas isn't just a day; it's a frame of mind.
The Grinch and Ralphie learned Christmas isn't just about presents in 66 and 83
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Dickens told us in 1843 that we had to fix our hearts and care about our communities all year round, not just in December.
A century later in 1947 Kris Kringle told us Christmas isn't just a day; it's a frame of mind.
The Grinch and Ralphie learned Christmas isn't just about presents in 66 and 83
A century later in 1947 Kris Kringle told us Christmas isn't just a day; it's a frame of mind.
The Grinch and Ralphie learned Christmas isn't just about presents in 66 and 83
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Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM
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The American Revolution on PBS
A Historians At The Movies/Ben Franklin’s World Watch Party
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November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM
open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
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I just drafted an op-ed that I hope I'll get to place somewhere with more reach than my own platforms (but if not I will just post it eventually). 🗃️
The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action.
1/4
The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action.
1/4
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I just drafted an op-ed that I hope I'll get to place somewhere with more reach than my own platforms (but if not I will just post it eventually). 🗃️
The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action.
1/4
The gist is that Christmas is an active word. We DO Christmas. Christmas is a call to secular civic action.
1/4
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon