Sarah Pyke
@sarahpyke.bsky.social
teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
researching and writing various things
close reading forever
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
researching and writing various things
close reading forever
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Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
‘the man who would do this, would do anything’
"He cut the margins of the leaves he preserved, often close round the edge of the text; and the man who would do this, would do anything. Honoured in dishonour, as a Biblioclast John Bagford takes the first place in Mr. Blades's Enemies of Books, and ..."
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
‘the man who would do this, would do anything’
...and what L.L.Bean boots are, and that they're not cheap
This was pre-Internet! I guess I had to ask an adult or just figure it out!
(thank you Anastasia Krupnik/Lois Lowry)
This was pre-Internet! I guess I had to ask an adult or just figure it out!
(thank you Anastasia Krupnik/Lois Lowry)
...having such a funny madeleine moment here. I'm also remembering that these books taught me, reading them in south London in the early 90s, the meaning of the following: sloop, wok, Guam, Filene's Basement, garbage disposal, GSOH, rhinestone, Cadillac, Hill Street Blues
as well as 'crock of shit'
as well as 'crock of shit'
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
...and what L.L.Bean boots are, and that they're not cheap
This was pre-Internet! I guess I had to ask an adult or just figure it out!
(thank you Anastasia Krupnik/Lois Lowry)
This was pre-Internet! I guess I had to ask an adult or just figure it out!
(thank you Anastasia Krupnik/Lois Lowry)
Ashes first Test day one, live
Oh for fuck's sake.
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Ashes first Test day one, live
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WHAT
The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy, as a hate symbol. Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines.
—Washington Post
—Washington Post
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
WHAT
happy Thursday
I'd do work but suddenly can't help but think what the cat's memories of its mother are
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
happy Thursday
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It’s an 8-bit owl compared to a proper and patient nature photo, but all I had was my phone, my torch, and my Sneakers slow walk through the leaf litter. Closing in and zooming out.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It’s an 8-bit owl compared to a proper and patient nature photo, but all I had was my phone, my torch, and my Sneakers slow walk through the leaf litter. Closing in and zooming out.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
A BA student who’s taking the second of two courses with me wants to write a thesis on queer reading & George from the Famous Five OR picturebooks, possibly Julián is a Mermaid
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A BA student who’s taking the second of two courses with me wants to write a thesis on queer reading & George from the Famous Five OR picturebooks, possibly Julián is a Mermaid
Someone recently expressed surprise that I’d moved to my current institution. I would’ve moved anyway, it’s dreamy, but also: THERE ARE NO JOBS. The only other job I was able to apply to in 2023-4 was a 1 year teaching job I wasn’t shortlisted for. I’ve been hugely lucky. There are literally no jobs
All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Someone recently expressed surprise that I’d moved to my current institution. I would’ve moved anyway, it’s dreamy, but also: THERE ARE NO JOBS. The only other job I was able to apply to in 2023-4 was a 1 year teaching job I wasn’t shortlisted for. I’ve been hugely lucky. There are literally no jobs
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All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
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I don’t visit churches often but tonight it was beautiful
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I don’t visit churches often but tonight it was beautiful
am I coming down with something or is it Monday of week 6, in a fifteen-week semester with no reading week
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
am I coming down with something or is it Monday of week 6, in a fifteen-week semester with no reading week
I’ve crossed five things off my to do list since posting this. And yet
I‘m doing Noverwhelmedber
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I’ve crossed five things off my to do list since posting this. And yet
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.
Add a pope, improve a film. I’ll go first:
Snakes on a Pope
Snakes on a Pope
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Add a pope, improve a film. I’ll go first:
Snakes on a Pope
Snakes on a Pope
I’ve seen Conclave and The Two Popes. I am now officially into films about popes. What else should I watch?
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I’ve seen Conclave and The Two Popes. I am now officially into films about popes. What else should I watch?
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This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
there's a nice bit when you're writing and the little internal wheels are turning and you know what one, maybe two more small parts need to do and you have to trust that the whole mechanism, such as it is, will come together after that and the piece will work as a whole ⚙️
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
there's a nice bit when you're writing and the little internal wheels are turning and you know what one, maybe two more small parts need to do and you have to trust that the whole mechanism, such as it is, will come together after that and the piece will work as a whole ⚙️
this is actually such a good reason to write a book
These are the most elaborate love letters to 10 or so actual readers that I can imagine.
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
this is actually such a good reason to write a book
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My kid’s existence and thriving and free movement are all valid. These annihilating vile monsters
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My kid’s existence and thriving and free movement are all valid. These annihilating vile monsters
🎶I did my Admin
but I did not do my Wriiiiiiiting🎶
but I did not do my Wriiiiiiiting🎶
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🎶I did my Admin
but I did not do my Wriiiiiiiting🎶
but I did not do my Wriiiiiiiting🎶
me: oh, the students are writing things down, I'm glad they're finding this useful!!
my students:
my students:
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
me: oh, the students are writing things down, I'm glad they're finding this useful!!
my students:
my students:
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Excited to preorder this important collection edited by my old brilliant friend Sam Cohen with pieces by writers, scholars, librarians, and teachers including freedom to read hero @edrabinski.bsky.social. also it has a great subtitle: www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...
Banning Books in America
This is a book about banned books in the U.S. - about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.Banning Books…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Excited to preorder this important collection edited by my old brilliant friend Sam Cohen with pieces by writers, scholars, librarians, and teachers including freedom to read hero @edrabinski.bsky.social. also it has a great subtitle: www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...