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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Everything from toxicfemme.net is glorious. I like the confusion toxicfemme.net/collections/... causes people, and they don't seem to have the Vonnegut one in a shirt anymore, but there are patches at www.etsy.com/listing/8899...

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"You have the vibe of a Unitarian" is kind of a sideways compliment, but you know what? I'll take it.

Your closest neighborhood
Unitarian Universalist Association
merged 1961 · national, urban‐progressive
Post‐Christian seekers in serious community
Your taste lives in the religious tradition that most resembles a graduate seminar in ethics with hymns. UU congregations are post‐Christian in most of America now—humanist, agnostic, drawn from many traditions—and held together by a commitment to social justice, freedom of conscience, and serious community without creed. The cultural neighborhood is NPR, A24, native plants, farmers' markets, and a real instinct for ritual and gathering that doesn't require doctrinal agreement.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My wonderful colleague Eva Boodman put together a zine of her Spring 2026 Queer Disability students' final projects called QUEERING DISABILITY JUSTICE! You can read it all for free at tinyurl.com/queeringDJzine - and please spread the word so it gets to even more people!

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Start-of-semester desk selfie! Cautionary cross-stitch by @arlierman.bsky.social, my beloved

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

y'all know the yaoi I'm talking about, right?

The first of four images, all of which are mid-19th-century images of Abraham Lincoln ascending to Heaven, where he is welcomed by George Washington

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Curry (a good dog) is bedeviled by mommies and their hideous habit of putting ribbons on him.

Curry, a good boy and big yellow dog, perturbed by an orange ribbon around his neck

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

@arlierman.bsky.social and I had a great time today! We met so many lovely people! Saw some students and colleagues! Cheered several enthusiastic supporters! Looked fabulous while we did it! I don’t think anybody recognized my sign’s inspiration, but that’s why I bring this shit to Bluesky.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A brand-new, never-put-on boot versus the exact same model of boot after two years of near-daily use.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Fun times this morning at the College Freedom Forum! And by ‘fun’ I mean some good and scary (but not hopeless!) discussions about authoritarianism.

Raqib Naik and Larry Markowitz on the stage

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Shirt here, from marswright.com, pictured in its natural setting along with @kazedkaz.bsky.social and another of our colleagues. We ran into several of our students, and someone asked us if that was awkward for us, and we were all like, please, our students would be more shocked to NOT see us here.

Three nerd professors decked out for Pride, going beatnik, rainbows, and butch, respectively

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

New haircut to make me look like the brick they threw at Stonewall.

One view of my new haircut, which is short and butchy

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Out for a night at the theatre!

Program for the stage adaptation of Giovanni’s Room

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I spent three hours today across two classes talking about the New Christian Right, the Satanic Panic, Ronald Reagan, and QAnon, and I looked fantastic while I did it.

Selfie of me in my Devil tarot earrings, a skull print jacket, and a necklace made of a coyote vertebra.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Went to protest today in Pitman, with amazing turnout! Alas that my own sign (the first pictured) was lost on pretty much anyone over 30.

Way too much 💩for a sign!
And Jesus wept

Thank you Elon Mush for uniting the left & the right against billionaires like you

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I let some students film in my office today, giving them permission to move stuff around as they needed. I returned to find these stacks placed where they would appear in frame.

A stack of books, with the Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse on top

The Necromomicon (upside-down) and An Archive of Feelings

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This is what it all looks like from my point of view. I’m getting used to responding when someone hollers “Talent!”

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

My usual response is, it depends on how you're definining [term in question]! Because that is both a fun non-answer and an accurate representation of the situation.

Panel from issue #61 of the comic Lucifer, written by Mike Carey and drawn by Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, where Jill says to Rachel, "The trick is, you believe in everything or nothing. It works either way."

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Things are bad, but here is Curry reminding you that things could be better for him, personally, if you procured him some cured meats.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I went to the grocery store this morning and was the only person there NOT in Eagles gear. Maybe I should have worn this, my only relevant piece of apparel, but then again, I have better things to do than get my ass kicked in a South Jersey ShopRite. toxicfemme.net/products/lgb...

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The look of a boy who does not understand what fresh hell has become of his bathroom.

My dog Curry standing forlornly in about an inch of snow

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My paternal grandfather served in the US army in WWII and was gifted a chop by the Chinese soldiers he served with. My mom gave it to me for Christmas, and my little sister said, before you leave, want to get matching tattoos of it? So we did.

The chop itself, with residues of red ink

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My nephew made this card, which is funny already on its own merits, but it has the added comedy aspect that I keep misreading it as “INSHALLAH”.

A drawing of a pig taking a selfie with the text “INSTAHAM”

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Good news, students, I’m tossing out traditional grading metrics this year in favor of giving an A to the first person to bring me an ice-cold Diet Dr Pepper.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Walking back from class, I see a large group of people have gathered in the place protesters usually set up. My mood sours. I see one of my students approach from that direction and flag him down. “Is someone being evil over there?” “No!” he assures me. “It’s a Tom Holland look-alike contest!”

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Portrait mode captures Curry’s true majesty. (He tripped over a pile of leaves like two seconds later.)

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Improving everyone’s deep reading skills at #sblaar24

Me in a shirt that says I ❤️ Jesus and the one part in the “Montero” video by Lil Nas X where he gets nasty with the devil because it was a cool form of self-expression and art

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hello, #sblaar! I’m looking pretty good for someone who just rolled off a couple long flights.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

It’s been a couple days of hostile t-shirts around here.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Proof that bumper stickers don't need bumpers!

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Anyway, I'm going to print a bunch of these and hand them out to any assembled students next time those wastes of space decide they need to commit some self-righteous noise pollution.

A slide that says:
IGNORE THEM
They just want attention.
The more you react, the more they’ll do it.
They don’t actually believe what they’re saying.
Never feed the trolls.

A slide that says:
You know they’re wrong
But do you want to know why they’re wrong?
REL 240: Intro to Bible
REL 219: Approaches to Religion: Religon and Sexuality
PHRE 269: Intro to Queer Theory
REL 320: Christianity
REL 335: Sex and the Bible
Enlightenment brought to you by the Rowan University Department of Philosophy & World Religions

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I love my Religion on Film class, I love our discussions, I love my students' brains, I love how much we laugh, I love making slides that look like shitposts

A slide of Stephen King's writing career, starting in 1973 (the Cocaine Era), moving to 1991 when he gets sober (the brief years of clarity), then to 1999 when he gets hit by a car (Ouch)

Pictures of male Stephen King characters embracing with the text, (And why do all the male heroes in a Stephen King thing feel kinda ... you know?)

Shots of various modern bad-boy vampires with the text, "What's up with these new, soft, sexy, sad (gay????) vampires?"

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

I didn’t get an actual first day of schoolfie this year (for a variety of reasons), but here’s me being real butch at the end of a very long, hot week, with a glimpse of my new office in the background.

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