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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social

@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 3d

Excited for this #Queer #Crip #18thC #Lifewriting

Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 9d

Finally on 10 December we're delighted to be joined by @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social who is giving a paper on Michael Clancy and queer/crip life-writing

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 15h

Made my day!

Metro Weekly @metroweekly.bsky.social · 3d

Harvard hires drag performer and scholar Kareem Khubchandani -- better known as “LaWhore Vagistan” -- as a visiting professor in gender and sexuality studies. Conservatives are fuming. 🌈🎓 #LGBTQ #Drag #Harvard

LaWhore Vagistan Goes to Harvard as a Visiting Professor

Harvard hires drag performer and scholar Kareem Khubchandani, known as “LaWhore Vagistan,” to teach gender and sexuality studies.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 2d

Some pictures from @dannyrobins.bsky.social #Canterbury show. It was such a treat. Yes, I also bought another cup and a #BloodyHellKen Tshirt.

Man in red rain coat thinking about ghosts

Stage set design - screens project the words uncanny

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 8d

Good discussion with someone who was initially told he couldn't study computer science at uni because he is blind. Spoiler alert: he could, he did, and he is now employed as a computer scientist. #UKHE really needs to get better at understanding disability
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In Touch - Scottish Venues; A Career in Computer Science - BBC Sounds

Sight Scotland have launched a campaign aiming to make every venue in Scotland accessible.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 3d

I find it interesting that racial capitalism is what gets him shipwrecked in the first place.

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 3d

The cherry blossom in anti-blossom is something to behold @kent.ac.uk

A gorgeous richness of warm oranges and honeyed reds—leaves on grass - wind gently moving them along their way

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 9d

Finally on 10 December we're delighted to be joined by @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social who is giving a paper on Michael Clancy and queer/crip life-writing

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 3d

Excited for this #Queer #Crip #18thC #Lifewriting

Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 9d

Finally on 10 December we're delighted to be joined by @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social who is giving a paper on Michael Clancy and queer/crip life-writing

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 3d

Preparing to lecture on Robinson Crusoe tomorrow. Been a few years since I read it.

An open book with a fish bookmark and a coffee on an oak table

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 14d

Beautiful autumnal colours

A tree outside my office window turning red

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 15d

This is a brilliant thread 🧛‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15d

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Daily Mirror front page shows grainy image of horde of children in a cemetery, and the headline “Amazing scene as hundreds of children rush cemetery”

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 15d

A very enjoyable thread - thank you. I think children were also involved in the Highgate case but maybe someone was conflating the stories.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15d

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 17d

There’s a certain kind of straight man who also sings ‘bananas in pyjamas’ to himself to dog whistle a homophobic slur & in my direct experience that man is always, without exception, wrecked looking. The confidence he must have to pronounce upon anyone should be studied.

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 17d

This is what a sector in crisis looks like. It’s beyond time for support from government.

Rob Jackson @robajackson.bsky.social · 18d

Worrying - Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds | Physics | The Guardian share.google/OloD34Di6p9D...

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds

Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 18d

Very clear protesting a Far Right demo
today in Canterbury that the group I stood with were a real cross section of people: age, gender, ethnicity, religion. The Far Right were quite the opposite. Totally unrepresentative of England in 2025.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 18d

Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here! When refugees are under attack what do we do? Stand up, fight back!

Canterbury is anti-fascist!

Sign says Starmer look at what you’ve wrought

Signs saying among other things: tolerating racism is racism

Sign that says: I can’t get a GP appointment either but I am not harassing children. The far right attack today is on a centre that temporarily houses refugee children in Canterbury.

Sign that says: your racism is not patriotism

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 22d

An empty Tayto packet on an English train. The emptiness I feel is something else.

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 23d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... great to see Maureen Duffy get recognised in this way.

91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo

The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 25d

***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025***
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 23d

Milo walks are the best walks

Milo walking in the south campus of maynooth college

St Joseph’s square blue sky - spire that pierced the heart of Ireland

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25d

Elon Musk just telegraphed a call to violence to a bunch of Right Wing agitators in London and MPs, business, Universities, celebrities, the Royals, writers, academics, you name it are STILL on Twitter/X. Keir Starmer is still on Twitter/X. Still. On. It.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25d

This is hate.

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25d

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25d

Horrendous.

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks, Jordan; hope you are well.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25d

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.

We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

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