Cuteness

Oh, here are the categories.

Cute or not.

Actually, that's the title of all of these categories.

Oh.

Oh, it's like rolling into a morph ball.

What do you say? That's pretty cute.

Cute? That's pretty cute.

I'd probably go in for the hug.

Mm-hmm.

And one of them came up called Cuteness and the Avant-Garde.

It was actually about poetry.

Okay.

... or if anyone would agree with that, so I did the special issue and just put out a call for papers all over the world saying, "If you have anything on cute or kawaii, send me your papers, and I'll choose some and publish them." And the s- response I got was really encouraging.

Wow.

So I did the special issue, and after that, uh, I edited a book of essays, co-edited a book on, uh, called The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness, and just kind of went on from there.

Then I did my own book and I did conference presentations, all the things you do to start a new field.