Jennessa Hester 🍒
@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social
lambda poetry fellow 👸 disney and nintendo studies 🏰 perpetually sleepy 💤 she/her 🏳️⚧️
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Has Wim Wenders ever seen a Wim Wenders movie?
February 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Has Wim Wenders ever seen a Wim Wenders movie?
This Pornhub map is disturbing in that it so clearly shows the rise of anti-sex, anti-queer conservatism in the United States.
This is an ideology that seeks to destroy you, your pleasure, and your love.
This is an ideology that seeks to destroy you, your pleasure, and your love.
February 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
This Pornhub map is disturbing in that it so clearly shows the rise of anti-sex, anti-queer conservatism in the United States.
This is an ideology that seeks to destroy you, your pleasure, and your love.
This is an ideology that seeks to destroy you, your pleasure, and your love.
I'm fascinated by the Black Excellence promo in Disney Emoji Blitz.
Most of the picks are straightforward, but the addition of Powerline invites consideration of how Disney and its affiliates conceptualize race.
The big question: why did Disney include Powerline, an anthropomorphic dog, here? 🧵
Most of the picks are straightforward, but the addition of Powerline invites consideration of how Disney and its affiliates conceptualize race.
The big question: why did Disney include Powerline, an anthropomorphic dog, here? 🧵
February 12, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I'm fascinated by the Black Excellence promo in Disney Emoji Blitz.
Most of the picks are straightforward, but the addition of Powerline invites consideration of how Disney and its affiliates conceptualize race.
The big question: why did Disney include Powerline, an anthropomorphic dog, here? 🧵
Most of the picks are straightforward, but the addition of Powerline invites consideration of how Disney and its affiliates conceptualize race.
The big question: why did Disney include Powerline, an anthropomorphic dog, here? 🧵
Dissertation defense officially scheduled ✨
February 10, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Dissertation defense officially scheduled ✨
Ah yes, the famously apolitical songs "American Idiot" and "Holiday."
Don't trust an article about Green Day if it can't even spell Tré Cool's name right.
Don't trust an article about Green Day if it can't even spell Tré Cool's name right.
February 9, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Ah yes, the famously apolitical songs "American Idiot" and "Holiday."
Don't trust an article about Green Day if it can't even spell Tré Cool's name right.
Don't trust an article about Green Day if it can't even spell Tré Cool's name right.
For clarity on what I'm saying, screenshots from Ninth Letter.
You might have a more extensive list somewhere, but it is not apparent to me, even after searching.
You might have a more extensive list somewhere, but it is not apparent to me, even after searching.
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 AM
For clarity on what I'm saying, screenshots from Ninth Letter.
You might have a more extensive list somewhere, but it is not apparent to me, even after searching.
You might have a more extensive list somewhere, but it is not apparent to me, even after searching.
Here's what I see on Submittable. The website only links to Submittable.
To make sure I'm not having a tech issue, I looked at three other pubs: Copper Nickel, Ninth Letter, and Iron Horse.
All have rules listed on their websites proper, at the top of Submittable, and in the guideline dropdowns.
To make sure I'm not having a tech issue, I looked at three other pubs: Copper Nickel, Ninth Letter, and Iron Horse.
All have rules listed on their websites proper, at the top of Submittable, and in the guideline dropdowns.
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Here's what I see on Submittable. The website only links to Submittable.
To make sure I'm not having a tech issue, I looked at three other pubs: Copper Nickel, Ninth Letter, and Iron Horse.
All have rules listed on their websites proper, at the top of Submittable, and in the guideline dropdowns.
To make sure I'm not having a tech issue, I looked at three other pubs: Copper Nickel, Ninth Letter, and Iron Horse.
All have rules listed on their websites proper, at the top of Submittable, and in the guideline dropdowns.
It is. Here's one of their earlier posts.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
It is. Here's one of their earlier posts.
Interesting to see three horror movies on the charts this week.
February 1, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Interesting to see three horror movies on the charts this week.
yourselves, but cartoon,
Hegelian synthesis edition
Hegelian synthesis edition
January 29, 2026 at 2:49 AM
yourselves, but cartoon,
Hegelian synthesis edition
Hegelian synthesis edition
Happy twentieth anniversary, High School Musical!
You can read my scholarship on how gay the series is here: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
You can read my scholarship on how gay the series is here: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
January 20, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Happy twentieth anniversary, High School Musical!
You can read my scholarship on how gay the series is here: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
You can read my scholarship on how gay the series is here: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
babe, she's just not that into you
(because you're awful)
(because you're awful)
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
babe, she's just not that into you
(because you're awful)
(because you're awful)
Happy New Year from the video arcade 💕
(Bonus points if you can tell what game we're in front of.)
(Bonus points if you can tell what game we're in front of.)
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Happy New Year from the video arcade 💕
(Bonus points if you can tell what game we're in front of.)
(Bonus points if you can tell what game we're in front of.)
Opened this vintage mug for Christmas and the conversation immediately turned to @pcbryan.bsky.social's research 🦆
December 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Opened this vintage mug for Christmas and the conversation immediately turned to @pcbryan.bsky.social's research 🦆
Finally, I wrote about Cuban horror cinema—and, more specifically, how Black fear and feeling often gets erased from the genre canon.
From a really exceptional Oxford handbook from the author of Horror Noire: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
From a really exceptional Oxford handbook from the author of Horror Noire: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
December 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Finally, I wrote about Cuban horror cinema—and, more specifically, how Black fear and feeling often gets erased from the genre canon.
From a really exceptional Oxford handbook from the author of Horror Noire: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
From a really exceptional Oxford handbook from the author of Horror Noire: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Second, I talked about how queer the sound design in Banjo-Kazooie is. Gu-huh!
From a lovely special issue on vocalization in video games. Read it here: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
From a lovely special issue on vocalization in video games. Read it here: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Second, I talked about how queer the sound design in Banjo-Kazooie is. Gu-huh!
From a lovely special issue on vocalization in video games. Read it here: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
From a lovely special issue on vocalization in video games. Read it here: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
In 2025, I published three new scholarly articles, all on extremely different subjects. I hope you like them 💕
First up, my piece on the kinky subtext of The Mandalorian. The show made "daddy dom" ageplay hip again!
From this book: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
First up, my piece on the kinky subtext of The Mandalorian. The show made "daddy dom" ageplay hip again!
From this book: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
December 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In 2025, I published three new scholarly articles, all on extremely different subjects. I hope you like them 💕
First up, my piece on the kinky subtext of The Mandalorian. The show made "daddy dom" ageplay hip again!
From this book: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
First up, my piece on the kinky subtext of The Mandalorian. The show made "daddy dom" ageplay hip again!
From this book: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Nah. So famous he even runs with an entourage now.
December 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Nah. So famous he even runs with an entourage now.
At an art gallery here in Lubbock, Texas, we made our presence known.
Trans folks have always been here, and we always will be 🏳️⚧️
Trans folks have always been here, and we always will be 🏳️⚧️
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
At an art gallery here in Lubbock, Texas, we made our presence known.
Trans folks have always been here, and we always will be 🏳️⚧️
Trans folks have always been here, and we always will be 🏳️⚧️
I'm going to have to write the Disney x Hideo Kojima article, aren't I?
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I'm going to have to write the Disney x Hideo Kojima article, aren't I?
New poem out from the wonderful @ninthletter.bsky.social!
It's from my WIP dealing with my time in the scouts.
Read the whole thing at ninthletter.com/2025/11/25/j...
It's from my WIP dealing with my time in the scouts.
Read the whole thing at ninthletter.com/2025/11/25/j...
December 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New poem out from the wonderful @ninthletter.bsky.social!
It's from my WIP dealing with my time in the scouts.
Read the whole thing at ninthletter.com/2025/11/25/j...
It's from my WIP dealing with my time in the scouts.
Read the whole thing at ninthletter.com/2025/11/25/j...
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Read poetry, despite despite despite
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Read poetry, despite despite despite
So Disney Studies (@disnet.bsky.social) friends, which of us is going to write the paper on Zohran Mamdani x Queen of Katwe?
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
So Disney Studies (@disnet.bsky.social) friends, which of us is going to write the paper on Zohran Mamdani x Queen of Katwe?