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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thanks! I was just thinking about the Black Gothic, so this is timely!

Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Jun 8

Food prep work for my Super Bowl*

*the Tonys are tomorrow

Tony Award Menu:
Death becomes stir-fry with bok choy’d Collins and operation mincemeat; bread outlaw; chips and dipsy, maybe happy blending (smoothies), just in lime bars

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Jun 4

Stack told Sammie he could drive the car on the way back 😭

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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · May 29

“Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart." For @dfmorgan.bsky.social, this encapsulates MSCL for many viewers: “a single perfect season — that was foundational in our understanding of self.” post45.org/2025/05/intr...

Introduction - Post45

It was the summer of 2006 and I'd just met a guy and couldn’t stop daydreaming about him. He was good looking with piercing blue eyes and dark hair. He was quiet and cool. Beyond those details, I didn...

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · May 29

Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.

Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · May 29

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

Contemporaries - Post45

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · May 23

YOU are the eggman? THEY are the eggmen? IN THIS ECONOMY?!

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · May 3

This was my comedy studies Super Bowl: Brittney Michelle Edmonds, @dfmorgan.bsky.social, Bambi Haggins, and J Finley discussing critical Black humor studies last week at Pomona College.

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Mar 3

PAUL TAZEWELL!!!

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · Feb 28

Listen, I know every Black person's head turned when they heard that line

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Feb 28

“You should be grateful”

I know where I’ve heard that from

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 17

Ana Gasteyer said after this weekend y’all non-Broadway folks are gonna know I’m not playing with these VOCALS!

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 17

I know Rob Schneider can't believe they put him next to Al Sharpton. I LIVE.

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is textbook what evangelicals *should* be opposing, if they’d ever read the Bible, but they’re too busy tormenting trans kids instead

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 5

Some of y’all didn’t go to two services on Sunday and junior church followed by Bible study on Wednesday and it shows because this is like Book of Revelation cliffsnotes.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Feb 5

Trump says "US will take over the Gaza Strip” during joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

Trump Says He Wants U.S. To Take Ownership Of Gaza Strip

Trump renewed his call to Arab nations to relocate displaced Palestinians as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Feb 2

the dog house on fire with an i voted sticker saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal”

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 3

And song of the year too.

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 3

Imagine someone wrote a diss track about you and its record of the year

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Jan 30

Sean Duffy’s most significant transportation experience is that scene from Real World: Boston where he sings “More Than A Feeling” in the car with his housemates, which doesn’t seem like enough...

Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Jan 25

Can you believe that the Tim Curry's first film role was as Dr. Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show? He's so iconic I can hardly stand it.

a close up of a person 's face with the words how ' bout that on the bottom

Alt: a close up of a Tim Curry 's face made up as Dr. Frank N. Furter from Rocky Horror Picture Show with the words "how ' bout that" on the bottom

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday and I spent it exactly how he’d have wanted: trapped in a coffin-sized box with while thumping and screeching sounds close in on me (MRI)

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Jan 19

“If we wait for it to work itself out, it will never be worked out! Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Dec 30

The writers on Saved by the Bell had a lot of wild idea they wanted us to accept, but the wildest was probably when they acted like if Zack and Slater fought that it’d be pretty even with Zack coming out ahead.

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Dec 11

In da clurb, we all fam*

*grading frantically with tears in our eyes

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Dec 1

Yearly reminder that Scrooge’s nephew Fred in Muppet Christmas Carol is hot.

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Nov 29

Where’s the gritty prequel/reboot about Tim Curry’s character in Home Alone 2?

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Danielle Fuentes Morgan @dfmorgan.bsky.social · Nov 29

I want a Christmas movie about the guy that Kevin thinks is his dad and follows in Home Alone 2: Lost in NY. What was his Christmas like once he got to NYC?

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