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History: especially gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities. British women composers Long-term housebound with severe long covid

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · Jan 30

1/ I’ve been compiling e-resources for exploring black & ethnically diverse composers.

Here’s a thread of ones I’ve found useful (from my inexpert perspective).
#Diversity
#Equality
#Inclusion

This is the first one:
musicbyblackcomposers.org

It specifies the gender of each composer.

Music by Black Composers - Home Page

Music by Black Composers aims to increase diversity in the world of classical music, and inspire Black students to pursue instrumental training.

musicbyblackcomposers.org

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 5h

There has been some interesting scholarship on ‘fasting girls’ from this period

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 5h

I remember the first time I saw a laptop - it was at the BL. I remember thinking ‘god how excessive’ 🤣

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 5h

I had to google him due to ignorance. It got me curious so I’ve just been listening to a little bit of Bridgerton album! It actually suits me perfectly rn with my dodgy long covid brain as each track is only about 3 min long 😀

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 5h

There’s just no excuse for that kind of behaviour, is there

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 6h

I love that there’s an international shanty festival

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 13h

God yes me too. I have loads of things like that

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 1d

Looks great - congratulations!

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 1d

oooh let us know. But also ditto everything - lunchbox manufacturers looking at you especially. It’s one of the many ways in which I think gender stereotyping has just got worse and worse since, say the 1970s

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a lovely meditation on the importance of human teachers v. AI
Not up to reading v. much atm, but so pleased I managed these paragraphs — totally worth it

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 4d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

therumpus.net

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Your royal family posts are always my faves 😂

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

I’m with him! Think of the catering for one thing

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Great news! A grant to assist the performance of women composers

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Cool new fund from @royalphilsoc.bsky.social:
'We will annually offer a number of grants to encourage UK-based performers, ensembles, venues and festivals to put exceptional yet overlooked music by historic women composers at the heart of their programming'

Introducing the new RPS Ambache Fund

royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Have you seen this @aoyarzabal.bsky.social ?

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Good grief….

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Love it

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 3d

Ha - loving the research!

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 3d

Wonderful!

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, loving this news!

Metro Weekly @metroweekly.bsky.social · 6d

Harvard hires drag performer and scholar Kareem Khubchandani -- better known as “LaWhore Vagistan” -- as a visiting professor in gender and sexuality studies. Conservatives are fuming. 🌈🎓 #LGBTQ #Drag #Harvard

LaWhore Vagistan Goes to Harvard as a Visiting Professor

Harvard hires drag performer and scholar Kareem Khubchandani, known as “LaWhore Vagistan,” to teach gender and sexuality studies.

www.metroweekly.com

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 3d

Music and queerness: this review, and the work in question, seem important interventions in the field

Music Research Annual @mrajournal.bsky.social · 9d

Available Now: Review of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness!

In this substantial review essay, Xavier Livermon explores the content and research avenues explored in the recent Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.

Available now at musicresearchannual.org/livermon-oxf...

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds brilliant!

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 4d

Oh they so are

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations!

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just been taking a little look. So interesting: contributes to understanding why myself and others find using assistive technologies so draining and tiring

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 4d

Brain not yet up to listening to things like that, but hope it goes really well xx

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 5d

Oxford people: a talk for the diary. @roseteanby.bsky.social has done brilliant research on C19 female photographers

Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 6d

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...

Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

photooxford.org

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