Sacha Coward
@sachacoward.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
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Sacha Coward
@sachacoward.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Remember all my mad book drama?
(If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...)
Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over!
An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social
Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼♂️
(If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...)
Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over!
An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social
Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼♂️
The fugue state I have to go into for 7-45 minutes before doing the thing I actually want to do.
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The fugue state I have to go into for 7-45 minutes before doing the thing I actually want to do.
Do you ever... just think about how we're closer in time to t-rex than they were to stegosaurus?!
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Do you ever... just think about how we're closer in time to t-rex than they were to stegosaurus?!
I'm watching The Two Towers and it's clear the Internet has rotted my brain...
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I'm watching The Two Towers and it's clear the Internet has rotted my brain...
Can't stop laughing at the scene in Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers where it looks like Gandalf flashes King Theoden!
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Can't stop laughing at the scene in Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers where it looks like Gandalf flashes King Theoden!
A time for us all to gather for a meal, a celebration of the birth of a very special child, born miraculously through immaculate conception. Reminding us that what truly matters is what's inside... 🎄
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A time for us all to gather for a meal, a celebration of the birth of a very special child, born miraculously through immaculate conception. Reminding us that what truly matters is what's inside... 🎄
Mum: You staying over?
Me: Well, you've got a friend staying and I don't really want to end up on the tiny foldout bed (Which I don't actually fit on) in your studio (which is also a dumping ground for random crap) again...
Mum: For god's sake Sacha, you won't!!!
Me:
Me: Well, you've got a friend staying and I don't really want to end up on the tiny foldout bed (Which I don't actually fit on) in your studio (which is also a dumping ground for random crap) again...
Mum: For god's sake Sacha, you won't!!!
Me:
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Mum: You staying over?
Me: Well, you've got a friend staying and I don't really want to end up on the tiny foldout bed (Which I don't actually fit on) in your studio (which is also a dumping ground for random crap) again...
Mum: For god's sake Sacha, you won't!!!
Me:
Me: Well, you've got a friend staying and I don't really want to end up on the tiny foldout bed (Which I don't actually fit on) in your studio (which is also a dumping ground for random crap) again...
Mum: For god's sake Sacha, you won't!!!
Me:
Just shoulder pressed more than ever before... please clap. 😠
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Just shoulder pressed more than ever before... please clap. 😠
It's Trans Day of Remembrance
So remember Sylvia Rivera, and every person like her who spoke up despite ridicule and rejection. That is what queer liberation is built upon. Not respectability and comfort. It takes EVERYONE to make a movement happen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-J...
So remember Sylvia Rivera, and every person like her who spoke up despite ridicule and rejection. That is what queer liberation is built upon. Not respectability and comfort. It takes EVERYONE to make a movement happen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-J...
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's Trans Day of Remembrance
So remember Sylvia Rivera, and every person like her who spoke up despite ridicule and rejection. That is what queer liberation is built upon. Not respectability and comfort. It takes EVERYONE to make a movement happen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-J...
So remember Sylvia Rivera, and every person like her who spoke up despite ridicule and rejection. That is what queer liberation is built upon. Not respectability and comfort. It takes EVERYONE to make a movement happen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-J...
I hope my tour group like the smell of wet dog...
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I hope my tour group like the smell of wet dog...
So, honest thoughts? Great performances, beautiful song writing... but narratively flacid.
I'm off to see Hades Town tomorrow...what's the likelihood I make it a central pillar of my entire personality?
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
So, honest thoughts? Great performances, beautiful song writing... but narratively flacid.
It's funny to me when you're gay, and someone online calls you gay as an insult... and you're like...
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's funny to me when you're gay, and someone online calls you gay as an insult... and you're like...
Reposted by Sacha Coward
Visit @queerbritain.bsky.social to meet author @sachacoward.bsky.social, interviewed by Tanaka Mhishi, as they travel from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Saturday 6th December
Tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/31166/...
#London #booksky #queerhistory
Saturday 6th December
Tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/31166/...
#London #booksky #queerhistory
Meet the Author: Sacha Coward - Queer as Folklore Tickets - London - OutSavvy
Visit Queer Britain Museum to meet author Sacha Coward, interviewed by Tanaka Mhishi, as they travel from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag RaceQueer as Folklore is a Sunday Times Best...
www.outsavvy.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Visit @queerbritain.bsky.social to meet author @sachacoward.bsky.social, interviewed by Tanaka Mhishi, as they travel from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Saturday 6th December
Tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/31166/...
#London #booksky #queerhistory
Saturday 6th December
Tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/31166/...
#London #booksky #queerhistory
Just gave a Dada tour of Tate Britain.
As in my group didn't turn up so the tour didn't happen.
As in my group didn't turn up so the tour didn't happen.
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Just gave a Dada tour of Tate Britain.
As in my group didn't turn up so the tour didn't happen.
As in my group didn't turn up so the tour didn't happen.
PS I'm aware I'm being 'that guy', but I can't help but find it disturbing that a criminal, abuser and possible child molester, is only now having his power base threatened because there's a rumour he did something 'gay'.
As a gay man that is worrying.
As a gay man that is worrying.
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
PS I'm aware I'm being 'that guy', but I can't help but find it disturbing that a criminal, abuser and possible child molester, is only now having his power base threatened because there's a rumour he did something 'gay'.
As a gay man that is worrying.
As a gay man that is worrying.
As an overly earnest ADHD type I take serious psychic damage everytime I hear 'It's not that deep'.
Bro. It is literally always that deep.
Bro. It is literally always that deep.
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
As an overly earnest ADHD type I take serious psychic damage everytime I hear 'It's not that deep'.
Bro. It is literally always that deep.
Bro. It is literally always that deep.
Those who scream 'think of the children', who beg for a return to purity and traditional family values... don't half obsess about other people's sex lives.
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Those who scream 'think of the children', who beg for a return to purity and traditional family values... don't half obsess about other people's sex lives.
Today is bring your son to work day.
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Today is bring your son to work day.
Any scene with Galadriel and Celeborn in Lord Of The Rings.
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Any scene with Galadriel and Celeborn in Lord Of The Rings.
That one scene in Lord Of The Rings where it looks like Gandalf is galloping into a National Trust car park...
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
That one scene in Lord Of The Rings where it looks like Gandalf is galloping into a National Trust car park...
That moment whilst watching the fun k-pop demon film when I had my entire soul eviscerated and my deepest insecurities thrown back at me in 7 words...
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
That moment whilst watching the fun k-pop demon film when I had my entire soul eviscerated and my deepest insecurities thrown back at me in 7 words...
*Me walking around Stroud*
*People looking*
*Me thinking my new jumper must be attracting admiration. Puffs chest and struts.*
Woman: So sorry, but there's a rather large leaf in your beard... I just thought... maybe you didn't... yeah...
*People looking*
*Me thinking my new jumper must be attracting admiration. Puffs chest and struts.*
Woman: So sorry, but there's a rather large leaf in your beard... I just thought... maybe you didn't... yeah...
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
*Me walking around Stroud*
*People looking*
*Me thinking my new jumper must be attracting admiration. Puffs chest and struts.*
Woman: So sorry, but there's a rather large leaf in your beard... I just thought... maybe you didn't... yeah...
*People looking*
*Me thinking my new jumper must be attracting admiration. Puffs chest and struts.*
Woman: So sorry, but there's a rather large leaf in your beard... I just thought... maybe you didn't... yeah...
Everytime I do something incredibly strange and socially awkward but I'm well into my 30s and refuse to do any more work on myself...
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Everytime I do something incredibly strange and socially awkward but I'm well into my 30s and refuse to do any more work on myself...
I took my ADHD meds for the first time in a month (classic...forgot to repeat my prescription) and I just did SO MUCH CLEANING!!!
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I took my ADHD meds for the first time in a month (classic...forgot to repeat my prescription) and I just did SO MUCH CLEANING!!!
I'm off to see Hades Town tomorrow...what's the likelihood I make it a central pillar of my entire personality?
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I'm off to see Hades Town tomorrow...what's the likelihood I make it a central pillar of my entire personality?