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Claire Mead

@carmineclaire.bsky.social

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sword lesbian historian ⚔️ artist & creator of Girls' School of Knighthood webcomic 🌹trustee at Vagina Museum 🗡️ curator Vestry House Museum 🌈 museum drag king 🥐 she/her

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · Nov 9

Woah thank you for 500+ subscribers! I'm a #swordlesbian historian, museum worker, drag king and comics artist and writer currently publishing my webcomic Girls' School of Knighthood, about a bard who joins a school of knights to seek out the mysterious masked girl she saved...

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 5h

The way they composited real human eyes on these puppets is the raddest, scariest thing I've seen in a while.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcdz...

Madame Tutli-Putli

YouTube video by NFB

www.youtube.com

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Museum Education Roundtable @museumedrt.bsky.social · 27d

We've got active two calls for papers out now!

Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

Journal of Museum Education | 51.3 | Fall 2026
Call for Papers: Trans Museology
Deadline: October 15, 2025

Journal of Museum Education | 51.4 | Winter 2026
Call for Papers: Translating Museum Education
Deadline: October 31, 2025

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 1d

It is the last few days to submit for our special issue on Trans Museology! Deadline is midnight on October 15th. Be sure to get your abstracts to us and be part of this exciting journal issue!

Museum Education Roundtable @museumedrt.bsky.social · 27d

We've got active two calls for papers out now!

Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting!!

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Narsid @narsid.bsky.social · Sep 13

One of my favourite spread from my upcoming comic!

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 7d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 3d

the huntress

fanart of Artemis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit - dark jeans, bra with some sort of laces around the belly -, moon and arrows tattoos on the arms and chest, dark green hair, and a tiny owl standing on her head
she's adjusting her outfit, head slightly tilted down, eyes closed, smiling
she also wears an arrow earring and a moon necklace

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 2d

In my happy place, writing a talk about sword lesbian fashion for a room full of lesbians later on this eve. I really enjoy writing for museum-goers and wider online audiences. But writing for the younger dykes to see themselves through history is pure joy, truly what I was put on this earth to do!

Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 2d

The guy's real first name was Otto but both scaling really difficult mountains and unwittingly creating the most practical lesbian accessory and symbolic shorthand means that Rambo is all too well deserved.

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot sit alone with the fact that the inventor of the carabiner is an early 20th century German mountaineer who went by Rambo Herzog

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🌼 roxy @blackoutseesaw.bsky.social · 4d

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Fiona Creates @fionacreates.bsky.social · 4d

Cat's out the bag! Ladies of the Knight, coming to you in July 2026 in actual bookbook form with Oni Press!!

Complete with shiny new cover!

LADIES OF THE KNIGHT Brings Medieval Flair To New Queer-Normative Historical Fantasy

It’s giving us Ser Brienne of Tarth from ‘Game of Thrones’ vibe, with a love story that will leave fans of YA queer, medieval fan fic in no doubt that this is a story for them. Pu…

www.girltalkhq.com

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Charlie Kirchoff 🔜 Twin Cities Con @charliekirchoff.com · 4d

That is interesting. To my lettering friends, are you familiar with this and what are your opinions about it?

Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve never seen this before! An *inward-indicating* word-balloon tail (that’s the speaker’s right arm descending below the word balloon).

FASCINATING! Does this tail technique have a name? Have folks seen it used elsewhere?? I have so many questions!!! (From HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37)

Photo of HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37… showing an inward indicating word balloon tail

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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 5d

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

A cheery, cute frog looking up and flipping off the camera while saying “fuck off, fascists.”

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YamiNOOOO 😱🔪🩸 @yamino.bsky.social · 7d

No to brag, but uh - *toss toss hair* I think this might be one of my best shop drops yet. 😌✨💅

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 6d

can't imagine a better teacher for this than @thejenna.bsky.social !

Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 13d

happy SPOOKY SEASON, folks!

I'm teaching a virtual class on FOLK HORROR (and how to better understand themes in movies), and there are 10 spots left!

You'll get access to all the required movies.
Subscribers to my patreon or twitch get a 15% discount code!
www.newberry.org/calendar/fol...

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 6d

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
Around a banner that says free shipping

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 8d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Toby Fox @tobyfoxart.bsky.social · Mar 28

If anyone wants to actually learn how to paint a ghibli picture, I have a tutorial for beginners that’s only £1 🩵

tobyfoxart.gumroad.com/l/intro-to-d...

Intro to digital painting - Ghibli-style landscapes

In this 36 page PDF you'll be guided through the process of painting digitally. This tutorial takes you from opening photoshop for the first time to creating a finished illustration. Tools and techniq...

tobyfoxart.gumroad.com

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 8d

"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 8d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 8d

You have to sleep. 90% of your problems are because of or made worse by the fact you're not sleeping

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 11d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 9d

Should I end 2025 with having watched Xena

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 9d

I have not seen Xena. I don't even think that's necessarily weird for my generation or upbringing (France in the 90s and early 2000s) but it is weird given how into warrior women I am

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 10d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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