Roberta Mock
@robertamock.bsky.social
Professor at Royal Holloway, London, with focus on performing arts, creative industries, skills development, access, & climate care. 🇨🇦 in UK for a long time now. Tikkun olam 🍉. She/her. Posting in personal capacity only.
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Roberta Mock
@robertamock.bsky.social
· Nov 13
1. Theatre
2. Hotel rooms
3. Live Art
4. Techno
5. Stuffed vine leaves
6. Thrift/2nd hand clothing
7. Korean crime drama
8. Detroit
9. Cats
10. Macaroons
2. Hotel rooms
3. Live Art
4. Techno
5. Stuffed vine leaves
6. Thrift/2nd hand clothing
7. Korean crime drama
8. Detroit
9. Cats
10. Macaroons
Get to know your mutuals. List 10 things you're into!
1. Silent and classic films in general
2. History (all eras)
3. Art
4. Languages learning
5. Traveling
6. Cultures of the world
7. Music
8. Social media
9. Media studies
10. Meditation
1. Silent and classic films in general
2. History (all eras)
3. Art
4. Languages learning
5. Traveling
6. Cultures of the world
7. Music
8. Social media
9. Media studies
10. Meditation
Hi new folks! This is what I said I was into when I joined last year. Not much has changed tbh.
Our book, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre, is now out in paperback, and can now be purchased for £35.99 (which is massively cheaper than the hardback version that came out at the start of 2024). 👇🏻
@methuendrama.bsky.social
@methuendrama.bsky.social
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre
Shortlisted for the 2024 TaPRA Edited Collection PrizeThis is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in…
www.bloomsbury.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Our book, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre, is now out in paperback, and can now be purchased for £35.99 (which is massively cheaper than the hardback version that came out at the start of 2024). 👇🏻
@methuendrama.bsky.social
@methuendrama.bsky.social
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When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
January 31, 2026 at 5:58 PM
When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
Oh no! 🖤
Catherine O’Hara, award-winning actor of big and small screen, dies aged 71
Catherine O’Hara, award-winning actor of big and small screen, dies aged 71
Actor, known for roles in Schitt’s Creek, Home Alone and Best in Show, has died with cause of death unknown
Catherine O’Hara, actor known for Schitt’s Creek, Home Alone and Best in Show, has died at the age of 71.
Her manager confirmed the news to Variety and the cause of death is yet unknown. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Oh no! 🖤
Great advice as always from Pat Thomson for emergent researchers who are wondering about the conventions of abstract writing...
I’m often asked if it’s OK to put citations in abstracts. Here’s an answer patthomson.net/2026/01/30/s...
should abstracts have citations?
When you’re deep into writing a journal article, it’s easy to feel that every claim needs immediate validation, every statement must be backed up by a citation. This impulse becomes par…
patthomson.net
January 30, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Great advice as always from Pat Thomson for emergent researchers who are wondering about the conventions of abstract writing...
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A quick reminder that @feministstudies.bsky.social is accepting submissions for its annual graduate student prize.
January 29, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A quick reminder that @feministstudies.bsky.social is accepting submissions for its annual graduate student prize.
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🎭 2 paid commissions for Scottish South Asian playwrights
£2,750 & license fee & full dramaturgical support
Deadline: 16 March
Details: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/south-asian-...
£2,750 & license fee & full dramaturgical support
Deadline: 16 March
Details: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/south-asian-...
January 26, 2026 at 5:13 PM
🎭 2 paid commissions for Scottish South Asian playwrights
£2,750 & license fee & full dramaturgical support
Deadline: 16 March
Details: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/south-asian-...
£2,750 & license fee & full dramaturgical support
Deadline: 16 March
Details: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/south-asian-...
Okay, I will play...
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
1. Henry Ford Hospital (1932) by Frida Kahlo
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
1. Henry Ford Hospital (1932) by Frida Kahlo
January 27, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Okay, I will play...
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
1. Henry Ford Hospital (1932) by Frida Kahlo
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
1. Henry Ford Hospital (1932) by Frida Kahlo
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Yiddish was spoken by 5 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Yiddish is an absolutely crucial language for Holocaust research.
This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.
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This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.
🧵 1/4
January 27, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Yiddish was spoken by 5 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Yiddish is an absolutely crucial language for Holocaust research.
This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.
🧵 1/4
This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.
🧵 1/4
What I watched tonight. You should too (on Netflix now). www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...
Love Lies Bleeding
Kristen Stewart's Lou falls for a bodybuilder in the pulpy romantic thriller. Read Empire's review.
www.empireonline.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:05 PM
What I watched tonight. You should too (on Netflix now). www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...
"I bet if a new drug came on the market offering the same catalogue of benefits as the arts, most people would want to take it. Instead, many of us see engaging in the arts as a luxury rather than a necessity. Even though they may be exactly what we need to improve our health and wellbeing."
Art could save your life! Five creative ways to make 2026 happier, healthier and more hopeful
Engaging in creativity can reduce depression, improve immunity and delay ageing – all while you’re having fun
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
"I bet if a new drug came on the market offering the same catalogue of benefits as the arts, most people would want to take it. Instead, many of us see engaging in the arts as a luxury rather than a necessity. Even though they may be exactly what we need to improve our health and wellbeing."
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This free online space is offering LGBTQIA+ affirming connection on Christmas Day
This free online space is offering LGBTQIA+ affirming connection on Christmas Day
Queerwell will be opening its Online Sanctuary to provide support and calm for anyone who may be feeling isolated
diva-magazine.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This free online space is offering LGBTQIA+ affirming connection on Christmas Day
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Interested in gender, power, and social justice? 📚
Our MSc in Gender Studies offers interdisciplinary training, an intersectional focus, and specialisation pathways across politics, history, IR, and global futures.
Search 'Gender Studies' to find out more: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/
Our MSc in Gender Studies offers interdisciplinary training, an intersectional focus, and specialisation pathways across politics, history, IR, and global futures.
Search 'Gender Studies' to find out more: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/
December 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Interested in gender, power, and social justice? 📚
Our MSc in Gender Studies offers interdisciplinary training, an intersectional focus, and specialisation pathways across politics, history, IR, and global futures.
Search 'Gender Studies' to find out more: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/
Our MSc in Gender Studies offers interdisciplinary training, an intersectional focus, and specialisation pathways across politics, history, IR, and global futures.
Search 'Gender Studies' to find out more: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/
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"It is a drag, and it is drag doing the gender work expected of 007.
This year Amazon acquired full creative rights to the James Bond franchise. And as the quest for the next 007 drags on, Lauren Eriks Cline reflects on Daniel Craig's legacy in making palpable the character’s coerced masculinity.
This year Amazon acquired full creative rights to the James Bond franchise. And as the quest for the next 007 drags on, Lauren Eriks Cline reflects on Daniel Craig's legacy in making palpable the character’s coerced masculinity.
The Drag of Being Bond
It is a drag, and it is drag doing the gender work expected of 007. One of popular media’s perennial questions, whether the role is currently filled or not, is “who will be the next James Bond?” It…
mid-theory.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"It is a drag, and it is drag doing the gender work expected of 007.
This year Amazon acquired full creative rights to the James Bond franchise. And as the quest for the next 007 drags on, Lauren Eriks Cline reflects on Daniel Craig's legacy in making palpable the character’s coerced masculinity.
This year Amazon acquired full creative rights to the James Bond franchise. And as the quest for the next 007 drags on, Lauren Eriks Cline reflects on Daniel Craig's legacy in making palpable the character’s coerced masculinity.
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'I spent 30 years searching for secret to happiness - the answer isn't what I thought'
Fergal Keane - beautiful, frank and uplifting article so apt for this time of year.
Fergal Keane - beautiful, frank and uplifting article so apt for this time of year.
Fergal Keane on PTSD, depression and the secret to happiness
Prompted by Blue Monday, the BBC's special correspondent reflects on his struggle to find balance and joy in life - and a surprisingly straightforward solution.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
'I spent 30 years searching for secret to happiness - the answer isn't what I thought'
Fergal Keane - beautiful, frank and uplifting article so apt for this time of year.
Fergal Keane - beautiful, frank and uplifting article so apt for this time of year.
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We grieve the loss of life in Sydney, Australia, where gunmen attacked a celebration of the first night of Hanukkah, killing at least 11 people. This was a terrifying incident of hate-fueled violence that no community should face.
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We grieve the loss of life in Sydney, Australia, where gunmen attacked a celebration of the first night of Hanukkah, killing at least 11 people. This was a terrifying incident of hate-fueled violence that no community should face.
A lichtiger Hanukkah, which Risa Dunbar reminds us "does not need to be a time of thinking about re-dedicating a place within the framework of militarism & conquest (but) a time of dedicating ourselves to the unwritten story of this place, the unwritten future that we get to participate in making."🕯️
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December 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A lichtiger Hanukkah, which Risa Dunbar reminds us "does not need to be a time of thinking about re-dedicating a place within the framework of militarism & conquest (but) a time of dedicating ourselves to the unwritten story of this place, the unwritten future that we get to participate in making."🕯️
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Do subtitles really help children learn to read? 📺
New research from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social shows that using subtitles to help children read doesn't always work, despite worldwide campaigns.
Read more: ow.ly/Qv1050XBQiE
New research from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social shows that using subtitles to help children read doesn't always work, despite worldwide campaigns.
Read more: ow.ly/Qv1050XBQiE
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Do subtitles really help children learn to read? 📺
New research from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social shows that using subtitles to help children read doesn't always work, despite worldwide campaigns.
Read more: ow.ly/Qv1050XBQiE
New research from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social shows that using subtitles to help children read doesn't always work, despite worldwide campaigns.
Read more: ow.ly/Qv1050XBQiE
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
"For the 1st time, RSF has classified the state of press freedom globally as in a 'difficult situation' & following several years of decline, conditions for journalism are now rated poor in 1/2 the world’s countries". The top country for press freedom is Norway. UK is 20th, Canada 21st, US 57th.
Reporters Without Borders: Global Press Freedom at Unprecedented, Critical Low
As reporters mark World Press Freedom Day, RSF's 2025 annual ranking reveals press freedom around the world has fallen to a new, unprecedented low.
gijn.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"For the 1st time, RSF has classified the state of press freedom globally as in a 'difficult situation' & following several years of decline, conditions for journalism are now rated poor in 1/2 the world’s countries". The top country for press freedom is Norway. UK is 20th, Canada 21st, US 57th.
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“Every year, when I see 14 beams of light projected into the sky above Mount Royal, I have to catch my breath.
“36 years ago, 14 young women were murdered in one of the most violent examples of misogynistic terrorism Canada has ever known.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#December6
“36 years ago, 14 young women were murdered in one of the most violent examples of misogynistic terrorism Canada has ever known.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#December6
Gender-based violence is an everyday reality, and it starts with minimizing misogyny
As we highlight 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and the upcoming anniversary of the Montreal massacre, can we take a moment to reflect on all the different forms this violence takes?
cultmtl.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Every year, when I see 14 beams of light projected into the sky above Mount Royal, I have to catch my breath.
“36 years ago, 14 young women were murdered in one of the most violent examples of misogynistic terrorism Canada has ever known.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#December6
“36 years ago, 14 young women were murdered in one of the most violent examples of misogynistic terrorism Canada has ever known.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.
#December6
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It's almost the weekend...Enjoy this conversation between Elizabeth Orcutt [guest editor of our current issue MAI15] and performance artist Bobby Baker www.maifeminism.com/domestic-sci... #feminism #performance #art #academicsky
Domestic Scientist & Artist: Bobby Baker’s Portrayals of Feminist Selfhood
The iconic Bobby Baker discusses her radical journey, beginning from a challenging position in the male-dominated art landscape in the UK.
www.maifeminism.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's almost the weekend...Enjoy this conversation between Elizabeth Orcutt [guest editor of our current issue MAI15] and performance artist Bobby Baker www.maifeminism.com/domestic-sci... #feminism #performance #art #academicsky
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Today we mark the 50th yahrzeit of Hannah Arendt, z”l, who died on December 4, 1975.
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Today we mark the 50th yahrzeit of Hannah Arendt, z”l, who died on December 4, 1975.
Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
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December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The show goes on 🎭
New research led by Professor @danrebellato.bsky.social from our Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance shows how UK theatre reinvented itself following the Covid-19 pandemic.
More: ow.ly/kieo50Xz1ti
New research led by Professor @danrebellato.bsky.social from our Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance shows how UK theatre reinvented itself following the Covid-19 pandemic.
More: ow.ly/kieo50Xz1ti
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The show goes on 🎭
New research led by Professor @danrebellato.bsky.social from our Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance shows how UK theatre reinvented itself following the Covid-19 pandemic.
More: ow.ly/kieo50Xz1ti
New research led by Professor @danrebellato.bsky.social from our Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance shows how UK theatre reinvented itself following the Covid-19 pandemic.
More: ow.ly/kieo50Xz1ti