Ryan Bunch
@ryanbunch.bsky.social
Childhood studies. Children's music, media, and literature. Musical theater. Author of Oz and the Musical: Performing the American FairyTale (Oxford Univ Press). President of the International Wizard of Oz Club.
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I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.
I don't have the stomach to watch, but from what I hear, the President's remarks on autism were as ignorant and harmful as I would expect.
Ignore them. Listen to autistic and neurodivergent people and learn from them instead.
Ignore them. Listen to autistic and neurodivergent people and learn from them instead.
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I don't have the stomach to watch, but from what I hear, the President's remarks on autism were as ignorant and harmful as I would expect.
Ignore them. Listen to autistic and neurodivergent people and learn from them instead.
Ignore them. Listen to autistic and neurodivergent people and learn from them instead.
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This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.
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Secondarily but also importantly, the kids AROUND those little trans kids *also* saw her get on a stage and do that, and it’s going to influence how they see the trans kids around them. It a world where every 4th famous person is saying they’re not important at best and evil at worst, it matters.
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Secondarily but also importantly, the kids AROUND those little trans kids *also* saw her get on a stage and do that, and it’s going to influence how they see the trans kids around them. It a world where every 4th famous person is saying they’re not important at best and evil at worst, it matters.
For me to read later.
COLUMN: An unlikely revolution is brewing to ban phones in school, writes our politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin.
Martin on how Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation” is uniting the left and right 👇
Martin on how Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation” is uniting the left and right 👇
There’s Only One True Bipartisan Issue Left
Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation” has prompted an unlikely bipartisan revolution to ban phones in classrooms.
www.politico.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Finally, I can see where I'm going!
September 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Finally, I can see where I'm going!
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system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended
A transgender girl housed in a male unit of a Washington, D.C., juvenile detention center has been hospitalized after sustaining multiple injuries, including a broken jaw, officials say.
Trans girl housed in male unit has jaw broken at D.C. juvenile detention center
Officials said they've launched a "full review" after the Youth Services Center resident was transported to the hospital following the incident.
nbcnews.to
July 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended
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Call for Papers
Angela Lansbury at 100: Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy
Date: 9th and 10th October 2025
Location: The Exchange, University of Birmingham
Hosted by: Laura Milburn and James Rhodes
angelalansbury100.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Angela Lansbury at 100: Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy
Date: 9th and 10th October 2025
Location: The Exchange, University of Birmingham
Hosted by: Laura Milburn and James Rhodes
angelalansbury100.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Angela Lansbury at 100
Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy
angelalansbury100.wordpress.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Call for Papers
Angela Lansbury at 100: Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy
Date: 9th and 10th October 2025
Location: The Exchange, University of Birmingham
Hosted by: Laura Milburn and James Rhodes
angelalansbury100.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Angela Lansbury at 100: Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy
Date: 9th and 10th October 2025
Location: The Exchange, University of Birmingham
Hosted by: Laura Milburn and James Rhodes
angelalansbury100.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed
July 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed
What makes everything so challenging is I’m a different person every day. (And yet somehow so predictably the same.)
July 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
What makes everything so challenging is I’m a different person every day. (And yet somehow so predictably the same.)
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Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul
July 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul
Rolling down the hill.
June 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Rolling down the hill.
Agenda for today:
1. Sleep through breakfast
2. Roll down a hill
3. Snacks
4. Oz
5. Sing “Over the Rainbow”
6. Lunch
7. Be queer
8. More Oz, singing, and snacks
9. Dinner
10. Have a meeting
11. Check in with friends
12. Stay up too late
1. Sleep through breakfast
2. Roll down a hill
3. Snacks
4. Oz
5. Sing “Over the Rainbow”
6. Lunch
7. Be queer
8. More Oz, singing, and snacks
9. Dinner
10. Have a meeting
11. Check in with friends
12. Stay up too late
June 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Agenda for today:
1. Sleep through breakfast
2. Roll down a hill
3. Snacks
4. Oz
5. Sing “Over the Rainbow”
6. Lunch
7. Be queer
8. More Oz, singing, and snacks
9. Dinner
10. Have a meeting
11. Check in with friends
12. Stay up too late
1. Sleep through breakfast
2. Roll down a hill
3. Snacks
4. Oz
5. Sing “Over the Rainbow”
6. Lunch
7. Be queer
8. More Oz, singing, and snacks
9. Dinner
10. Have a meeting
11. Check in with friends
12. Stay up too late
I was always a good kid. Now I enjoy being a bad adult.
May 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I was always a good kid. Now I enjoy being a bad adult.
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"Why don't you read the books you already own before buying new books" why don't you eat all the food in the house before going shopping? That's what you sound like. That's how crazy you sound right now
May 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"Why don't you read the books you already own before buying new books" why don't you eat all the food in the house before going shopping? That's what you sound like. That's how crazy you sound right now
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Does anyone know if trans people are running into problems applying for Global Entry?
March 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Does anyone know if trans people are running into problems applying for Global Entry?
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The media should stop playing along with the phrasing that ties their racist shit to DEl initiatives. The headlines should read "in their efforts to advance white supremacy," not "to curb DEl" or whatever.
We already have a term for this shit. Let's use it
We already have a term for this shit. Let's use it
March 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The media should stop playing along with the phrasing that ties their racist shit to DEl initiatives. The headlines should read "in their efforts to advance white supremacy," not "to curb DEl" or whatever.
We already have a term for this shit. Let's use it
We already have a term for this shit. Let's use it
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In conservatism it all boils down that if you aren't a white man then you are property women, children, other races. Its why it pairs so well with white supremacy and fascism
March 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In conservatism it all boils down that if you aren't a white man then you are property women, children, other races. Its why it pairs so well with white supremacy and fascism
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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Too much food and drink.
garfield is laying in a chair with a remote in his hand
ALT: garfield is laying in a chair with a remote in his hand
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Too much food and drink.