E. V. Miller
Folklore Graduate Student | Diasporic Sámi | Queer, They/Them 🏳️🌈
Researching Digital Folklore, Contemporary Legends, Indigenous Artists, and Gender Minorities in Sports
- Reposted by E. V. MillerTORONTO im coming to play some songs, supported by Boyhood and Zoon, sat nov.29, 8 pm, tickets are on sale now (also playing shows in Kingston, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Hamilton and Guelph in Nov, www.leannesimpson.ca/shows). Toronto tickets: sl1nk.com/qtGSm
- I'm taking so long with my homework this week because I have to keep putting down Cinderella: A Casebook so I can take deep, calming breaths. 😡 #folklore #gradschool #folklorist
- Reposted by E. V. Millerwait fuck how could I have forgotten the best one
- Reposted by E. V. MillerReminder: When you feel like giving up, remember that you are full of strength and that you didn’t come this far to only come this far. You got this.
- Reposted by E. V. MillerHeartbroken to hear James Dobson has died age 89. It should have been a lot sooner
- Distressing thought: being a graduate student means I have a very limited and rapidly dwindling time to continue playing the "not it" game when I complain that there aren't more contemporary published sources on a given topic. #folklore
- 40 plus appreciation post. Reskeet with a pic if you're on the right side of 40. 41 in two weeks.
- Forgot alt text. Image is a selfie of a white, middle-aged, nonbinary individual with black hair and blue eyes. They are wearing Mothman earrings and black clothing.
- Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.
- #thingsfolkloristsdo #folklore Went out to a community garden to do fieldwork. A gardener stabbed my nonfunctional sunblock spray with scissors so it exploded sunblock all over me and my partner - a last ditch effort to protect my already-burning self. He sent me home with a bag of beets.
- Now it's time to learn how to cook beets.
- Reposted by E. V. MillerWhile I'm at it, this "white men are gonna turn on ICE because they're deporting big booty Latinas" shit is pretty fucked up Already seen one lib org make a video advertisement kinda on that theme just further objectifying women who are already subjected to sexual violence and trafficking
- What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Most folklorists don't study fairy tales.
- Reposted by E. V. MillerClose up from the wood #etching called 'Berber Girl's Gaze'. Another #painting by #indigenous, #Amazigh #artist #MDjaouhar. More about what's behind this piece, progress photos, media, measures, & source material at: mdjaouhar.weebly.com/berber-girls... #art #Berber #Morocco
- Been using my downtime during summer break to read dystopian fic and grow things on my balcony. It's keeping me somewhat calm.
- Reposted by E. V. Millerwww.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/l... This is a great tribute to her career and I’m delighted that they brought up the episode THE NURSES. She was so breathtakingly vulnerable in the scene where she confronts her staff I’ve never forgotten the moment she said “well you were wrong” So human RIP
- Had a moment last week where I realized if I could go through a divorce, Trump's presidency, and having no familial support while working, taking three graduate courses and still maintaining a 4.0 GPA, I am more than capable of handling a doctoral program. Backwards, in heels.
- I AM that good and if no one else is going to tell me so, I guess I need to start saying it more often. (All this to say my imposter syndrome has been doing nothing of value for me and it's going in a pine box.)
- Reposted by E. V. MillerI'm jealous of everyone upstream from Rock Creek park near DC because chances are good you took a shit on RFKjr
- Rescued a plant I found in the trash room of my apartment complex. I’m not the greenest thumb but I am trying very hard to get this guy into better health. I’m pretty sure he’s a Janet Craig dracaena. 🧵
- Hopefully I did the pruning and repotting correctly for the shoots. It’s supposed to be a hardy plant that grows from cuttings this way, so fingers crossed.
- I named him Tam Lin. You get a cookie if you know why.
- Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name: Pope Gnocchi alla Sorrentina X. Pro-LGBTQIA2S+, pro-potatoes.
- I wasn’t permitted to remove my hand from the sacred back tonight. He had plenty of fleece to burrow under, but I guess my hand was preferable. #hedgehog
- Nothing feels quite as lovely as spending an hour playing claw games at an arcade and then drinking strawberry mead and reading for fun to reward myself for finishing Spring term.
- Parents, take note.
- Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
- But did a hedgehog kiss your cheek today?
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- Reposted by E. V. MillerGood for Harvard
- Reposted by E. V. MillerFully restocked on my rainbow and pride pieces and added a few new ones too! 🌈 beadworkbykay.etsy.com
- Reposted by E. V. Millerper @rebeccanagle.bsky.social: "The Kennedy Center withdrew support for an annual Native Pride event bc they refused to remove Drag, Gender-nonconforming, Two-Spirit, & Trans performers from the lineup." Help Crushing Colonialism with the $50,000 they now lack to keep it going. Donate and read here:
- For me for later
- Now available: Whispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society, edited by Jesse A. Fivecoate and Andrea Kitta. Learn more here: uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6040.htm
- Already started this and I'm super engaged/excited to continue.
- La Fin Du Monde by Etat Libre D’Orange felt like a somewhat apt perfume today. May we also become an orange-free state.
- Reposted by E. V. MillerPeople hate asexuals for not submitting to comphet more than the asexuality. They expect women to "lie back and think of England" even when they do not want to have sex. It's the agency. It's the embodiment of saying "I am not going to have sex". That's the Patriarchal crime.
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- The worst things I’ve gotten: -(Sarcastically) “No way!” - “It’s because of all the microplastics.” - “Everyone’s a little autistic.” - One person crosses the street to avoid me whenever he sees me now. I did nothing to him, just told him I’m autistic. - “Have you tried essential oils?”
- Oh, I was also told by someone half my age that autism is a TikTok fad an I was being “cringe”. Honestly funnier than upsetting, tho. Also, I had to sit in on a discussion about how Dracula and other villains are autistic, and that makes them evil.
- Try explaining to a creature the size of your fist that he can’t eat the (safe for pets) soap bubbles. “But what if I eat them anyway?”
- Reposted by E. V. MillerHappy national Handmade day! I take pride in saying that all my work is handmade. Every single bead is stitched on one by one creating beautiful handmade pieces! Head to beadworkbykay.etsy.com to see all my handmade work 🫶🏼
- Reposted by E. V. MillerAutism and POTS both get read as laziness, anxiety, or drama. But what they really share is this - a nervous system that can’t keep up with what the world demands - sensory, cognitive, physical, emotional. You’re not weak.
- Reposted by E. V. Millerwow look at all of these better alternatives to Adobe that exist ask me about Pixelart programs if interested in that aspect specifically because you *definitely* don't need PS for that, lol
- The word "contemporary" sure was a Thing for folklorists back in the early 90s, huh? I need to meet Bill Ellis.
- Reposted by E. V. MillerBooker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.
- Reposted by E. V. MillerThank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
- Historic and iconic.
- Reposted by E. V. MillerThe onlt way to be truly cool tho, is to be cringe unapologetically.
- Reposted by E. V. MillerAlso available in my Etsy shop! beadworkbykay.etsy.com
- 🍓Strawberry Earrings and pins🍓 All styles are still available on my website! Head to beadworkbykay.ca to shop!
- Went out to the mall today and met the cutest, coolest woman. Round about my age, but waaaay out of my league. Total flirt. She gave poor, hapless me some serious butterflies. I did nothing about this, of course - but it’s nice to know I’m not dead. 😳
- Reposted by E. V. MillerWhite "allies" gotta know that when we see you "chastising" us for not doing/saying whatever it is you think we should be doing/saying in this moment, we are not going to respond well. Because we "asked" unsuccessfully for allies to do more than post squares on IG over the years, and you declined.
