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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 17h

Yous are the best!!!

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Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social · 20h

Such a joy to work with Emer and Justine and all our contributors on this special cluster of essays for @shaxbull.bsky.social !!

Big up to @louisegeddes.bsky.social for putting up with me long enough to make this happen 😅🩷🩷

dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 22h

out now in @shaxbull.bsky.social! writing with Justine Nakase, being edited by @norajw.bsky.social and @louisegeddes.bsky.social, being published by SB. positively dreamy. we hope you read! it’s open access too! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - “Between a Mask and a Face”: Race, Nation, and Nontraditional Casting in Ruth Negga’s Shakespeare on Broadway

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1d

It's real & it's here. I'm real & I'm here. There were times during the writing where I didn't think that those sentences could simultaneously be true. So yes I am grinning like a dork.

Pre-order BAD LANGUAGE from Peninsula Press. It's not secondhand yet... 👇🏻

peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

So Mayer, a short, grey-haired white person, holds up copies of Bad Language. There's a sign that says Second-hand Books behind them.

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 22h

out now in @shaxbull.bsky.social! writing with Justine Nakase, being edited by @norajw.bsky.social and @louisegeddes.bsky.social, being published by SB. positively dreamy. we hope you read! it’s open access too! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - “Between a Mask and a Face”: Race, Nation, and Nontraditional Casting in Ruth Negga’s Shakespeare on Broadway

muse.jhu.edu

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sarah margaret (scary) 🍂 @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 2d

I referenced “moe from the simpsons” and when my mom replied “who?” I said “moe szyslak” like that was gonna clear things up for her

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 2d

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society

Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 3d

This is just such a no-brainer win for everybody that I hope that it gets rolled out in a much bigger way.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social · 3d

I still believe a better life is possible.

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 2d

Cursory look at my Apple Music:

Don’t Go Puttin Wishes In My Head; Pick Up That Knife; Tell me I never knew that; Feed Me; Bless Me; I’m Not Going Anywhere; Take A Sexy Picture of Me; Lord, Let That Tesla Crash; I Want You Here; Headphones On; Shut Up Kiss Me

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus Christ

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 3d

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Will you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st...

Stop EU Chat Control

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Will...

action.uplift.ie

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 3d

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...

“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire

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