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Dr T Pilgrim

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A queer soul wandering 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Medievalist | Feminist | Survivor Mostly on Insta @teresa_pilgrim

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Mar 21

Seems like a good spot to stand and soak up the moment after I signed the contract with MIP and De Gruyter’s New Queer Medievalisms series to write Early Histories of Female Masculinities and Queer Identities 700-1000 (working title). #MedievalSky

Picture of a lake with writing overlaid on the image. Writing on the image says “seems like a good spot to stand and soak up the moment after I signed the contract with MIP and De Gruyter’s New Queer Medievalisms series to write Early Histories of Female Masculinities and Queer Identities, 70O-1000 (working title).

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · 1d

Hooray!! (And thank heavens for OA!)

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Proud Changemakers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @proudchangemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Given the rise in tensions lately, particularly towards the trans and non binary communities our trustee, Heather Paterson, has written an article to coincide with Hate Crime Awareness Week. in which they discuss the importance of solidarity.

www.heatherpaterson.co.uk/post/hate-cr...

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 6d

New post meandering around nostalgia, and food, and Eamon Duffy on memory and loss.
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Dill, Sour Cream, and Memories

The wind is getting up again now.

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 7d

New book review out in Signs of the fantastic A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Great issue too, check out lots of brilliant articles www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A Short History of Trans Misogyny. By Jules Gill-Peterson. Verso, 2024. | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 1

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 9d

My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!

This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 9d

Paperback of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects is apparently on sale #MedievalSky

www.routledge.com/Trans-and-Ge...

Screenshot of book listing on publisher's website, on sale for £30.39

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 25d

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here are some gorgeous snippets from historical garden writers about bulbs, and flower colours, and general loveliness that might make Monday morning feel a bit better.

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'A sullen or smoakie yellow … a Crimson Fooles Coat …': Spring Bulbs in a New Garden

This morning I bought bulbs for a client’s garden.

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Sep 8

You‘re invited to this years WELCOME LECTURE delivered by the one and only @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and chaired by Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social!

Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂

Details below! ⬇️

lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Sep 3

We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!

📩 Comment for details on how to attend!

www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wonderful news!! (Glad I popped over to Bluesky.)

Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Sep 2

Huge congratulations Hope! ✨🙌

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oh wow! Thank you, Laura.

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our last Making Space Session raised a perennial question: what do you do when you get stuck with your creative-critical project?

Our Guild members came up with lots of excellent suggestions which you can find compiled in the blog post below👇

What to do when you’re stuck? Making Space Session 4 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

What do you do when you’re stuck, creatively? When you’re trying to make but the flow isn’t there or you’re feeling too much pressure? When it feels like wading through treacle, you’ve lost the joy, y...

www.guildmedmak.com

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · Aug 17

This was such a wonderful event last week, organised by @sidhepress.bsky.social to fundraise for Gaza. I bought the following books from them too 👇 Keep telling of Gaza ❤️

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you, Anja. It was so wonderful.❤️

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Anne Trans+ Healthcare 🏳️‍⚧️ @annehealthcare.bsky.social · Aug 1

They're HERE! 💙

If you’d like to get your hands on one of our “This shirt is” t-shirts, now you can!

100% of profits fund gender-affirming care for trans+ people.

For a limited time, use the code ‘anne10’ for 10% off ✨

🔗 merchify.me/AnneHealth/

#AnneHealth #GenderAffirmingCareSavesLives

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 15

Such a privilege to participate with readings from Palestinian poets & poets across the globe in aid of Gaza. #KeepTellingOfGaza
I shared in reading: We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices, by Amanda Najib (proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/w...
I also read a poem of mine.
❤️ @sidhepress.bsky.social

A lake in the background with trees overhanging the lake and trees on the bank opposite.

The introductory text to the reading of one of my poems.

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you, Colette. ❤️ It was wonderful to have you with us. I was quite overwhelmed by the experience of such powerful work in the room. So beautiful.

Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 15

It really was such a wonderful experience. I am so glad the landscape resonated with you.

Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 14

Tonight ✨
So looking forward to sharing this wonderful space of bearing witness & taking action through poetry. Join us.✨

Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · Aug 3

www.tickettailor.com/events/sdhep...

Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14 th August, 7 pm BST

#Poetry #Community #Palestine

View from a coastal path in France to the Atlantic. There is heather and a tree in the distance ad a small rock in the middle.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Aug 14

Come back from annual leave to discover that Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists is out now! So proud to have been involved with this wonderful project.
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

Premodern Transgressive Literatures | Medieval Institute Publications | Western Michigan University

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 13

Huge congratulations!

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Aug 4

I am so looking forward to reading at this event!

Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14th August, 7pm BST

#Poetry #Community #Palestine

Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · Aug 3

www.tickettailor.com/events/sdhep...

Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14 th August, 7 pm BST

#Poetry #Community #Palestine

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Dr T Pilgrim @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social · Jul 31

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