Caroline Gonda (she/her)
@liederfollower.bsky.social
queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
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Anne Seymour Damer: public life, private love
Gossip about Anne Damer's sexuality nearly wrecked her relationships and reputation, but in this queer love story, love outlasts scandal.
www.britishmuseum.org
My blog for the British Museum on Anne Damer is now live - very happy to see this out in the world. #AnneDamer #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #c18th
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ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
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Let's not give up one of the oldest civil rights we have - Stop the government from abolishing the right to trial by jury - Sign the Petition! c.org/V2qnGSvDZv via @UKChange
Sign the Petition
Stop the government from abolishing the right to trial by jury
c.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Let's not give up one of the oldest civil rights we have - Stop the government from abolishing the right to trial by jury - Sign the Petition! c.org/V2qnGSvDZv via @UKChange
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the thing is December is fine. I don’t mind December. December winter is novel, it is fresh. But December carries within it the threat and anticipation of February, a December that is colder, crueler, a December that has aged and grown vengeful. I can already feel February, and it is intolerable
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
the thing is December is fine. I don’t mind December. December winter is novel, it is fresh. But December carries within it the threat and anticipation of February, a December that is colder, crueler, a December that has aged and grown vengeful. I can already feel February, and it is intolerable
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J has solved it, it is of course metablorbo, like metamour.
What do you call your blorbo's blorbo? Is this blorboception
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
J has solved it, it is of course metablorbo, like metamour.
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I like it that the earliest sunset is on St Lucy's Day even if it isn't the day with least time between sunrise and sunset any more.
Are you all ready?!?! The earliest sunset of 2025 in Dublin will be at 16:05:43 on the 13th of December. You know what that means? The #TheGrandStretchIsBack on the 14th!
December 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I like it that the earliest sunset is on St Lucy's Day even if it isn't the day with least time between sunrise and sunset any more.
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Erudite, eloquent, and moving lecture on Shakespeare & the textile imagination by the magnificent @starcrossed2018.bsky.social this evening. The hall was packed with admirers. Good to be reminded how enthralling the best scholarship can be. #Cambridge
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Erudite, eloquent, and moving lecture on Shakespeare & the textile imagination by the magnificent @starcrossed2018.bsky.social this evening. The hall was packed with admirers. Good to be reminded how enthralling the best scholarship can be. #Cambridge
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my book is 50% off on the Columbia site today - for $18 you can have the perfect gift for an uncle you don’t like or that one cousin who won’t stop talking about social reproduction theory
cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
Stitch, Unstitch | Columbia University Press
The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vi... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
my book is 50% off on the Columbia site today - for $18 you can have the perfect gift for an uncle you don’t like or that one cousin who won’t stop talking about social reproduction theory
cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
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Yes, everyone, it's time for another Very Theory Xmas. We're here until early January with Terry Eagleton's chocolate orange, shameless theory puns, and of course #LastZizekIGaveYouTheReal. Rejoice!
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Yes, everyone, it's time for another Very Theory Xmas. We're here until early January with Terry Eagleton's chocolate orange, shameless theory puns, and of course #LastZizekIGaveYouTheReal. Rejoice!
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Creative writer/teacher friends of Bluesky! I’m looking for good pieces of ‘craft’ writing that discuss strategies for implementing peer feedback on creative work. What to take, what to leave. how to make the most of the dialogue, but also take responsibility for the final decision. Any tips?
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Creative writer/teacher friends of Bluesky! I’m looking for good pieces of ‘craft’ writing that discuss strategies for implementing peer feedback on creative work. What to take, what to leave. how to make the most of the dialogue, but also take responsibility for the final decision. Any tips?
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Two weeks ago, my colleague Dr. Badar Khan Suri was ruled deportable by an immigration court. Badar and his family find themselves once again in a terrifying, opaque, and costly legal ordeal.
Please support/share?
Please support/share?
Donate to Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation, organized by MAPHEZE SALEH
Dear friends, colleagues, and all who stand for justice,
T… MAPHEZE SALEH needs your support for Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation
gofund.me
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Two weeks ago, my colleague Dr. Badar Khan Suri was ruled deportable by an immigration court. Badar and his family find themselves once again in a terrifying, opaque, and costly legal ordeal.
Please support/share?
Please support/share?
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🍊 OT Lunchtime Play returns in 2026!
Join us on 16 Jan at 1pm for a script-in-hand performance of Hannah Cowley’s mischievous farce Who’s the Dupe❓ A lively battle of wits with tangled romances and clever disguises ✨
🔗 orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/who...
Join us on 16 Jan at 1pm for a script-in-hand performance of Hannah Cowley’s mischievous farce Who’s the Dupe❓ A lively battle of wits with tangled romances and clever disguises ✨
🔗 orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/who...
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🍊 OT Lunchtime Play returns in 2026!
Join us on 16 Jan at 1pm for a script-in-hand performance of Hannah Cowley’s mischievous farce Who’s the Dupe❓ A lively battle of wits with tangled romances and clever disguises ✨
🔗 orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/who...
Join us on 16 Jan at 1pm for a script-in-hand performance of Hannah Cowley’s mischievous farce Who’s the Dupe❓ A lively battle of wits with tangled romances and clever disguises ✨
🔗 orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/who...
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Even if I knew nothing about Linehan’s current obsessions and general demeanour, this sounds like it would be dire (do any of these people know anything about the US university system? Is it still 1980 in their heads?)
As it is…
As it is…
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Even if I knew nothing about Linehan’s current obsessions and general demeanour, this sounds like it would be dire (do any of these people know anything about the US university system? Is it still 1980 in their heads?)
As it is…
As it is…
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Tonight - please spread the word and show us some love. Trans people are fighting back and caring for each other everywhere - don't ignore that, and paint us as perpetual victims
London people: this Friday, I'll be with Trans Voices holding an evening for trans communities and our loved ones - using sound bath, breathwork, meditation and musical performance to connect, care, and make space for catharsis.
outsavvy.com/event/31390/...
Free tickets - please share
outsavvy.com/event/31390/...
Free tickets - please share
Remembrance in Sound Tickets - London - OutSavvy
To mark Transgender Day of Remembrance, TRANS VOICES invite you to a special one-off vocal sound bath and live performance. REMEMBRANCE IN SOUNDHere's how the night will go:– 7pm – Delivering our sig...
outsavvy.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Tonight - please spread the word and show us some love. Trans people are fighting back and caring for each other everywhere - don't ignore that, and paint us as perpetual victims
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
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Learn more about Amy Levy, a renowned queer Jewish Victorian-era writer, whose personal archive is newly acquired and will be made available for scholarly study at @theul.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/xpCD3ei
🔗 buff.ly/xpCD3ei
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Learn more about Amy Levy, a renowned queer Jewish Victorian-era writer, whose personal archive is newly acquired and will be made available for scholarly study at @theul.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/xpCD3ei
🔗 buff.ly/xpCD3ei
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"no seriously you think it’s so funny that i saw flowers in winter
like oh let’s make fun of the guy who took a risk and put himself out there romantically."
like oh let’s make fun of the guy who took a risk and put himself out there romantically."
Dirtbag Winterreise
“more like suck-blick”
www.criticaldrift.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"no seriously you think it’s so funny that i saw flowers in winter
like oh let’s make fun of the guy who took a risk and put himself out there romantically."
like oh let’s make fun of the guy who took a risk and put himself out there romantically."
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From the government that first refused to allow unaccompanied children seeking asylum to access family reunion, then suspended *all* family reunion.
Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
From the government that first refused to allow unaccompanied children seeking asylum to access family reunion, then suspended *all* family reunion.
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A little treat on my day off, because I deserve it 💚
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A little treat on my day off, because I deserve it 💚
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Excellent library job in Cambridge.👇
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
📜
📜
Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Excellent library job in Cambridge.👇
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Out TODAY! A Funny Thing in paperback!
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Out TODAY! A Funny Thing in paperback!
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Henry Henry's US publisher @unnamedpress.bsky.social is currently running their big holiday sale -- if you want a discounted copy of HH, hardback or paperback, without ordering from Am*z*n, now's your chance.
unnamedpress.com
unnamedpress.com
Unnamed Press
unnamedpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Henry Henry's US publisher @unnamedpress.bsky.social is currently running their big holiday sale -- if you want a discounted copy of HH, hardback or paperback, without ordering from Am*z*n, now's your chance.
unnamedpress.com
unnamedpress.com
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In a bleak, collapsing world, it’s astonishing the Wigmore Hall gives stuff like this away for free*. Do yourself a favour
*(you can always donate if you want to)
*(you can always donate if you want to)
Soprano Nardus Williams and lute-player Elizabeth Kenny present their Four Humours programme this evening, encompassing monodies by Settimia Caccini and Barbara Strozzi ✨
🕰️ 7.30pm
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202511241930
📺 Live stream available on our website from 8.00pm
🕰️ 7.30pm
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202511241930
📺 Live stream available on our website from 8.00pm
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In a bleak, collapsing world, it’s astonishing the Wigmore Hall gives stuff like this away for free*. Do yourself a favour
*(you can always donate if you want to)
*(you can always donate if you want to)
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Soprano Nardus Williams and lute-player Elizabeth Kenny present their Four Humours programme this evening, encompassing monodies by Settimia Caccini and Barbara Strozzi ✨
🕰️ 7.30pm
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202511241930
📺 Live stream available on our website from 8.00pm
🕰️ 7.30pm
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202511241930
📺 Live stream available on our website from 8.00pm
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Soprano Nardus Williams and lute-player Elizabeth Kenny present their Four Humours programme this evening, encompassing monodies by Settimia Caccini and Barbara Strozzi ✨
🕰️ 7.30pm
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202511241930
📺 Live stream available on our website from 8.00pm
🕰️ 7.30pm
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202511241930
📺 Live stream available on our website from 8.00pm
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Cambridge people! Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like material culture? You can hear me talking about BOTH in the Henn Lecture @stcatharines.bsky.social, 1 December, 5.30pm. There will be a reception after the lecture to launch Textile Shakespeare; info here
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Cambridge people! Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like material culture? You can hear me talking about BOTH in the Henn Lecture @stcatharines.bsky.social, 1 December, 5.30pm. There will be a reception after the lecture to launch Textile Shakespeare; info here
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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Seriously, UK establishment, try to show your humane side in this.
International students are reading these headlines, and they are seeing how they’re turned into a political football, not the learners in a very precarious position that they are.
International students are reading these headlines, and they are seeing how they’re turned into a political football, not the learners in a very precarious position that they are.
Props to the first journalist who asks how international students are actually doing while being turned into a political football.
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
Could start with the dangers of reporting bullying and the way university’s research reputations are upheld by those they make most precarious (and try to silence):
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Seriously, UK establishment, try to show your humane side in this.
International students are reading these headlines, and they are seeing how they’re turned into a political football, not the learners in a very precarious position that they are.
International students are reading these headlines, and they are seeing how they’re turned into a political football, not the learners in a very precarious position that they are.