{"id":2527,"date":"2025-07-16T23:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:23:35","slug":"pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-23rd-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/07\/16\/pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-23rd-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 23rd July)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As July is Disability Pride Month, the next session of PCTG centres on disability in pop culture, and will take place on&nbsp;<strong>Wednesday 23rd July<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;5-7pm BST<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reading is the video essay &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVQJGvwPtSs&amp;t=12s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Superheroes, Spies and Star Wars: Disability in Popular Culture<\/a>&#8216; by The Writer&#8217;s Bloc, but you&#8217;re welcome to read around and bring some theory along with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, if you don&#8217;t have time to watch the video essay, please still come along, and we&#8217;ll be meeting both online and on-campus. To grab the info about the room booking or the zoom link, email Georgie @\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk\">gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-1024x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As July is Disability Pride Month, the next session of PCTG centres on disability in pop culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-lit","tag-pctg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}