Princess Darth Vader and Pink Politics Remixed

I've been seeing a lot of these types of images lately - pink-ified, princess-ified Darth Vader costumes, presumably made at the request of the little girls depicted wearing them (although its status as an emerging meme challenges the spontaneity factor quite a bit, no?). I'm not sure what to make of this...my first reaction was, of course, ZOMG How Amazingly Awesome!!!, but now I'm wondering

Another Cool Conference CFP: Extending Play

Cut-and-paste in full from the notice sent out on the Exploring Childhood Studies mailing list:



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CFP: 2013 Rutgers Media Studies Conference: Extending PlayCan we still define play as an organizing principle in today’stechnologically mediated world?Play can be hard work and serious business, and it’s time to push beyondthe conceptualization of play as