oh for sure; on our campus the event is more a weathervane for how the institution's going to treat us than anything else. I hope it's just students migrating elsewhere! still, for the students who do show, I like to be there, since they're often first-years w/o local community yet.

I can only hope so <3

thanks! if if doesn't I just might throw it up on my blog so at least people can read it and go visit this gd archive, there's enough for at least 2 serious monographs & years of delectably petty fracases

I think about Bryher's life a lot these days, since we are parallel in re: approaching fascism in early middle age (Bryher was 45 in 1939)

currently shopping a public-facing essay about Bryher, will let you know if anyone picks it up! the Beinecke‘s archive is *astonishing*

They do such a fantastic job!! Especially on Finnes 😈

...& who should be better known for writing hundreds of bitchy, brilliant letters* chronicling trans life between the wars via the proleptic trifecta of lay psychoanalysis (excessive), cock puns (bad), & fursonas (elaborate).

*now housed in Yale's Beinecke library -- 200+ boxes, neatly typed.

[whispers quietly] you weren’t a good boy. you were the best

to say more: there’s a fine line bween taking transness unseriously enough to avoid treacly sentiment & letting fear of sentiment turn transness into a bit, replicating the anxious contempt w which the cis world views us. it’s fun to see the diff ways books navigate that line. writers are good!

also nearly all of the new books that have frustrated me in the the most interesting ways, itself an important artistic service

excellent, thank you!

only a few in scholarship citations, and not in order!! adding to my TBR immediately (though it'll be hard to unseat the Bryher x H.D. letters from their throne in my heart -- not as romantic but incredible in so many ways, and alas mostly available only in archives)

truly!! also have you read A.S. Byatt's Possession? the central love story is "what if RB x EBB hushed it up instead of married"

thanks so much. <3 means a lot, been a rough month of having to trunk stuff-of-my-heart bc it didn't sell.

also hello, iirc you are a fellow EBB's Aurora Leigh fan? love her, love the poem, love how it's secretly a rewriting of Dante's Commedia

thanks for saying so -- it's been a really rough month of failure in the ole writing mines, so hearing this is really lovely. <3