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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thank you for posting that beautiful essay

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🔥Bad Bunny halftime plus Contra ICE towels 🔥

What to know: text about Contra Ice flags at the Super Bowl

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

(Pple always tell me it doesn't matter if your ideas get scooped/stolen bc yours are always different or better in some way... never makes me feel better!) fwiw @seeshespeak.bsky.social's excellent book is quoted on the "course pledge" page of my History of TV grad seminar at USC!

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I’m visiting Seattle to show my kid where her great-grandparents had a store before the family—including my dad (a citizen)—were incarcerated and interned. This is on the wall next to the old Chihara Jewelry. Stay strong Seattle #LAstrong #handsoffourdemocracy

A wall in Seattle with black and white images of Japanese Americans looking at the names of their war casualties next to pictures of the internment camps, with a mother holding a baby

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Grand Park this morning, turning out to fight to free David Huerta

A large open park filled with people watching a stage in the distance, in downtown Los Angeles, a rally to free David Huerta

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Did I run up the steps? Yes I did!

A short video showing the Philadelphia skyline from the top of the steps in front of the art museum and then the statue of Rocky Balboa the boxer from the Stallone movie

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Just got an email from my friend and mentor (I'm a prof at a SLAC) who has been the DEI associate dean for a few years about the preliminary injunction from the Maryland district court. It prevents federal agencies from continuing their harmful enforcement of the unlawful policies…1/

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is essentially a pithier version of what I wrote about Musk and Tesla derivatives, before Twitter and the election, for Finance Aesthetics.

@rodhilton@mastodon.social
He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
Dec 24, 2022 at 11:32:10 PM

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Instructions were: Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. • 1 album per day for 20 days and no particular order. •No explanations no reviews just covers. “day” 2 #MusicSky #musicchallenge #Music

Michael Jackson a Black man in a white suit reclining on his elbow

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

…in the form of abandoned developments here. The Oceanwide towers in downtown Los Angeles are empty and given over to street artists and base jumpers. They went up with Chinese capital through the EB-5 cash-for-greencard program, before the developer went bust. 2/4

Image of an abandoned skyscraper, from the side, where each floor is tagged by graffiti artists with colorful words.

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This makes me feel 16 (and I’m still gonna post about critical finance) but here goes: Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. • 1 album per day for 20 days and no particular order. •No explanations no reviews just covers. #MusicSky #musicchallenge #Music

Musician Prince on a motorcycle in a fabulous purple jacket business. Fog. Floral stripes down both sides.

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We just keep have to keep working to understand how we got to a place where this is a question

Headline: “Trump Made Big Gains Among Blue-Collar Workers. Is He Really on Their Side?” From Wall Street Journal with picture of Trump and workers in hard hats

Article text: “While campaigning, Trump aggressively courted rank-and-file union members and invited Teamsters President Sean O'Brien to speak at the Republican National Convention in July. At the same time, the former real-estate developer suggested in an interview with Elon Musk, just named to co-head a government efficiency commission, that striking workers should be fired. He recalled at a rally that he ‘hated to give overtime.’”

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Kipo is not a good dog, but she is a good soul. #dogsofbluesky

A tired black dog lying down at the top of a staircase

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #124,929! Fwiw

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #124,929, Michelle Chihara ‪@thisblue.bsky.social‬, joined on Jun 14, 2023"

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Hey academic chat, if you’re headed to MLA, come to out Humanities Without Borders to plenary session!! #MLA2024

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Humanities Without Borders, join us for this plenary session at #MLA2024!!

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 16/04/2023

I don’t know as much about Harry Carr as perhaps I should, and this book is problematic and nuts, but I just picked it up at an event and I’m really feeling the ink-stained wretches on Pegasus (Pegasi?) as a sign of the greatest civilization

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 06/01/2023

Straight outta 2022, it’s the 2023 New Directions in Print Culture Studies round table! I’m talking cultish tendencies, anticapitalist influencers, and Bullet Journals TM. @profworden @AyendyBonifacio @DarkStars__ Come talk print culture with us Saturday 12pm! #MLA2023

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 18/09/2022

@marxforcats you were missed!! It was great to see people in person. Also I have lost some in-person conference life skills and took no pics of anyone or anything except this sign we saw in a Westwood parking garage

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 13/09/2022

Friday + Saturday, #ASAP13 come talk to us about the dangers + stakes of getting out of your lane, from know-your-place aggression to intellectual freedom! ⁦@hujane⁩ ⁦@JunoRichards⁩ ⁦@jd_schnepf⁩ ⁦@rgreenwaldsmith⁩ ⁦@jdconnor⁩ ⁦@marxforcats⁩🔥

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 11/09/2022

+ for more on BuJo, check out my essay "The Real Productivity: Creative Refusal and Cultish Tendencies in Online Print Journal Communities," in @JesseWSchwartz and @profworden's fantastic volume New Directions in Print Culture Studies, with @DarkStars__ @AyendyBonifacio and more!

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 23/07/2022

The excellent @steffienelson @jorifinkel @StacieStukin and I are reading from the Didion collection in Santa Monica on 8/6!! Come!!

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 17/05/2022

As far as I know, Didion Court is not well known either. I found it through my research, in the assessor's office. (I had to take a cab to visit it before I left Sacto, again, grad student budget and pregnant). This is from my essay, where I wrote about Didion Court in 2020: 3/

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 17/05/2022

As far as I know, Didion Court is not well known either. I found it through my research, in the assessor's office. (I had to take a cab to visit it before I left Sacto, again, grad student budget + pregnant) This pic is from my essay, where I wrote about Didion Court in 2020 3/

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 17/05/2022

I am very glad to be cited in this essay by Caitlin Flanagan for The Atlantic!! The pic is from her essay. (yes this is a Didion 🧵)

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 21/01/2022

“Finish the paragraph. Just put something down and fix it tomorrow. Or this nice rug gets it. I’m hungry. Here, I’ll eat some trash for you.”

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 14/01/2022

Post a picture of a great book. Do not explain your pick. Nominate six persons: @TheBeeGordon @sunsetandecho @anitaconchita @leila_mansouri @drunkenbee @AdamDavidMorton

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 04/11/2021

I start with this ad from the nefarious Prop 22 campaign. It was duplicitous, but it was also sticky. Why? 2/

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 03/11/2021

I start with this ad from the nefarious Prop 22 campaign. It was duplicitous, but it was also sticky. Why? 2/

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 20/09/2021

Somehow, I find the “does not enable remote control of your device” statement less than reassuring.

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 21/07/2021

Everything, particularly writing, feels impossible this morning but the universe also reminded me to read @kwazana's 🔥PMLA essay The Shush, + a note from my daughter left on my keyboard and so... To the barricades!

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 24/03/2021

This is a pic of the garden that the unhoused folks at Echo Park lake built and tended. #EchoParkRiseUp

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 18/12/2020

And so it begins/ so the next phase of the end begins

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 07/11/2020

This is my hood. You can’t see the POC family dancing in the crosswalk the Mexican flag the Lakers and Dodgers gear the people popping bubbly the white dude holding a “thank you Black Women” sign the moto with BLM flag the pink hats or the space suit, but the 🌈 car is in there.

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 06/11/2020

I was going to show off a photo of my tamarind chamoy chile rim grenadine margarita but I just drank most of it while watching CNN and grieving and biting my cheeks and 🤞🏽🤞🏽🙏🏽🤞🏽🙏🏽 Georgia and thinking about LA’s progressive wave

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 28/10/2020

After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 06/03/2020

Come to Whittier on 3/12! @steffienelson @joedjoedonnelly and I are reading from this @rarebirdlit collection.

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Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social · 07/01/2020

#MLA2020 kickoff drinks with @LAReviewofBooks -- LARB Happy Hour Thursday Jan 9!!

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