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Troy, aka Dr Wise
@troywise.bsky.social
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Meaning. Empathy. Design.
PhD in Fashion Critical Communications, UAL CSM

I co-edit Image Amplified, a queer-infused fashion website.

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Troy, aka Dr Wise @troywise.bsky.social · Nov 12
🌤️ I’m a researcher and creative analyst focused on how #design and #communication impact culture and identity. If I get back into practice, expect posts on empathy, curiosity, and social change. Looking forward to taking a breath and having genuine conversations. #HelloBluesky
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Prestige was on my mind for April — not elitist prestige, but prestige as cultural- and self-preservation. As a pluriversal care for excellence. My Culture Clock™ analysis mapped how CSM, LCF, and Parsons may confront prestige mutation in the next several years: imageamplified.com/reclaiming-p...
RECLAIMING PRESTIGE: How Fashion’s Cultural Hierarchies are Being Reimagined | Image Amplified
Troy Wise, PhD & Rick Guzman, Co-Editors and Co-Founders | Image Amplified × Culture Clock™ | April 2025 It’s not ge
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April 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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MEDIA SOVEREIGNTY: How We’re Taking Back Control of Fashion’s Narrative in 2025

To put it bluntly, there is no turning back. We’ve seen behind the curtain. Across the fashion media landscape, the once-deified have revealed themselves. Fashion houses are scrambling. Corporate fashion media is in…
MEDIA SOVEREIGNTY: How We’re Taking Back Control of Fashion’s Narrative in 2025
To put it bluntly, there is no turning back. We’ve seen behind the curtain. Across the fashion media landscape, the once-deified have revealed themselves. Fashion houses are scrambling. Corporate fashion media is in perpetual crisis mode. No longer aspirational, democratizing, or liberating, social media has betrayed us. It’s rigged. Contrived. Creepy. No longer naive or complacent, we recognize how we’ve been feeding the machine that finds new ways to erase us.
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March 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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"NC lawmakers postpone vote to ban DEI in state government, as protesters pack state House..."
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NC lawmakers postpone vote to ban DEI in state government, as protesters pack state House
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April 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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1) Do something autocratic
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat
April 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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boosting because good and we need more good
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 9
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Under the preposterous logic of "AI Artist" Pope Julius II is the artist of the Sistine Chapel because he prompted Michelangelo to do it.

#AIArt #Art #PromptEngineering #SistineChapel #Michelangelo #PopeJuliusII #bluesky #HumansAreGreaterThanMoney #Humans>$
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April 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Cyber-safety for scientists & science communicators:
1) Say less
2) Use Signal for texts
3) Use caution on social media
4) Don't email
5) Be safe outside
#SciComm 🧪

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Federal workers: Here’s how to lock down your communications
Under the new administration there’s an increased need for digital security. Here’s how everyone, even you, can communicate and post safely, from using Signal to thinking twice about what you post on ...
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February 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
troywise.bsky.social
In this article I take a closer look at Catalytic Play, as developed by my husband Rick.

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Reshaping Reality: The Power of Catalytic Play in Career and Culture
“The future is not something we passively enter — it is something we can practice, prepare for, and shape through play.”
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February 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The first chapter in Winterson’s Christmas Days book inspired this new article on Bridging, a concept and methodology I’m developing:

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Christmas, Past and Future: Bridging Traditions Through Innovative Connection
Bridging isn’t just a concept — it’s a practice of turning creative tensions into connections.
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December 27, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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Yesterday Rick gifted me Jeannette Winterson’s Christmas Days, and her first chapter reminded me of the creative tensions that define the holidays. They bring together a patchwork of traditions—childhood memories, cultural rituals, and new practices we create along the way.
December 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Texas Bans Sale Of Luggage To Pregnant Women
Texas Bans Sale Of Luggage To Pregnant Women
AUSTIN, TX—In a sweeping prohibition with immediate implications for the Lone Star State’s potential mothers-to-be, Texas banned the sale of luggage to pregnant women Monday. “With this law, we ensure...
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December 14, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
December 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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What people say they want in local news: “greater transparency + media scrutiny around development projects”; “more explanatory journalism that can break down decision making at different levels of government + empower ppl to participate politically”; “information pertaining to social services” …
What New Yorkers Want From Local News
New York Focus traveled across the state to meet with communities about their local news needs.
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December 11, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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TikTok is pretty wild right now. I don’t think the ruling class is prepared for the cultural shift that’s happening this week.
Screenshot from a TikTok video showing a man with a guitar and the words deny defend depose Screenshot from a TikTok video showing the words sent defend depose and a woman dancing along with a security camera image of the UnitedHealth shooter Screenshot from a TikTok video of a woman excited by the words Deny defend depose Screenshot from a TikTok video New Yorkers reacting to the Defend Deny Depose guy: What about the people he murdered? What murder?
December 6, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

- Isaac Asimov
December 9, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Gilles Blanchard @pierreetgilles_gilles (December 9, 1953)

#therelevantqueer #queeringthecanon #GillesBlanchard #gayexcellence #queerartist #PierreCommoy #queerart #queerpride #queerhistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQIA @troywise.bsky.social ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
📸 #PierreetGilles
December 10, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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Gilles Blanchard @pierreetgilles_gilles (December 9, 1953)

#therelevantqueer #queeringthecanon #GillesBlanchard #gayexcellence #queerartist #PierreCommoy #queerart #queerpride #queerhistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQIA @troywise.bsky.social

📸 #PierreetGilles
December 10, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Gilles Blanchard (December 9, 1953)

#therelevantqueer #queeringthecanon #GillesBlanchard #gayexcellence #queerartist #PierreCommoy #queerart #queerpride #queerhistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQIA @troywise.bsky.social

📸 #PierreetGilles
December 10, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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FINALLY, THIS:

“Misandry..is women’s anger agnst their oppressors. Misogyny is men’s anger agnst those they oppress”

These things are not equal, not in societal active AND tacit support & power, nor in individual & societal impacts

“Both sides-ism” of ths is a political decision to disappear 👆🏽.
remakingmanhood.bsky.social Mark Greene @remakingmanhood.bsky.social · Dec 7
“To this day, fundamentalist Christian churches as well as other faiths define women as subservient to men. There has never been a major world religion that defines men as subservient to women.” - @RemakingManhood remakingmanhood.medium.com/misogyny-vs-...
Misogyny vs. Misandry: One Has Historically Defined the Structural, One Has Not
Refusing to discuss the systems and structures that underpin what language means is an intentionally political act.
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December 8, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Say it louder for the people in the back: priorities, people!
December 9, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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Rankin teams up with actor Barry Keoghan and Hunger Mag to deliver a mix of style in “Family Affair” for the Fall 2024 issue.
Rankin teams up with actor Barry Keoghan and Hunger Mag to deliver a mix of style in “Family Affair” for the Fall 2024 issue.
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December 9, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Required reading. #resist
December 3, 2024 at 8:54 PM