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irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️‍⚧️
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francescabrooks.bsky.social
This week I'll be submitting the manuscript, with my brilliant co-editor Carl Kears, for our OA volume with UCL Press: 'Beyond Medieval Archives: Rethinking the medieval archive through creative and critical practice'. Still so much work to do before Thursday, but it's exciting!
Screenshot of the title page from the manuscript
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
The perfect genderqueer shirt doesn't exi--
An oversized cotton button-down shirt. The upper portion features a classic shirting panel in pale blue, while the lower half shifts into a playful polka dot print for visual contrast. Diagonally placed floral sequin embellishments sweep across the front forming the border between the two fabrics
October 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
jakestefan181.bsky.social
What an absolute honour it is to be featured in this magazine, by a poet whose work I admire so much, among all these other fantastic poets!!
propelmagazine.bsky.social Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 31
🔵 Propel Issue 16, edited with enormous care by the very brilliant Richard Scott, is OUT NOW! 🔵

We're delighted to share this bumper issue with you, featuring work by:

> CJ Wagstaff
> Edward Doegar
> Jack Westmore
> Leusa Lloyd
> William Gee
> Nóra Blascsók @nblascsok.bsky.social

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Cover of Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Ed. Richard Scott Contributors listed in thread Propel Issue 16 Contents: Introduction by Editor Richard Scott CJ Wagstaff, The Farrier Edward Doegar, Word-ache. Our steps ––gravel and Overcast; a shadow-less March. Frühling Jack Westmore, Oasis Leusa Lloyd, The Snipe William Gee, wildflower(s) Nóra Blascsók, Eating sorrel leaves jake stefan ferguson, after the parade, birmingham pride 2024 Christopher Lloyd, The Tower Billie Manning, Persephone Makes A Brief Consideration Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, The Exhibition Freya Jackson, The Vase Olive Franklin, Shane Stephen de Búrca, My Father (trans. of Jón úr Vör’s ‘Faðir Minn’) Kayleigh Jayshree, Desire Rich Ware, Tangerine Bonnie Hancell, Two dogs and they are running Tom Mason, Little Tombeau Meron Berhanu, Ophelia Emily A. Taylor, My Sunday Roast Sophia Georghiou, Adian Claire Berlyn, The most popular names for girls William Wyld, The Butterfly Bush
July 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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nikgunn.bsky.social
There are so many creative medievalists I follow on here and having a community of practice like this is a great idea. Give them a follow.
guildmedmak.bsky.social The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · Apr 7
We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.

Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com
The Guild of Medievalist Makers
www.guildmedmak.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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basilaprice.bsky.social
Two very cool people doing very cool things 🏳️‍⚧️🩷
pawgmaticytheology.bsky.social alice fulmer-zelinka @pawgmaticytheology.bsky.social · Apr 6
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

Happy to announce Tekla Bude of OSU and I will be organizing a panel for New Chaucer Society, Congress 2026 at the University of Freiburg, Germany! It’s entitled Queer and Trans Temporalities Within Chaucer and the Lancastrian Poets. See link and flyer!
April 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
‘Resentment will keep us estranged from collectivity. Anti-trans discourses work to reaffirm and reproduce economies of separability in order to exile or outlaw us from society’.

Read an extract from Trans Femme Futures by Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift: www.plutobooks.com/blog/trans-f...
March 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
Well worth 9 minutes of your time
March 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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mattbors.bsky.social
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7
Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand Sonja Drimmer Abstract Between 1929 and 1930 a feud over the legitimacy of reproductions of works of art erupted in the pages of the culture periodical Der Kreis. Later dubbed the Hamburg Facsimile Debate, the dispute involved many of the day's most eminent curators and academics in art and art history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most renowned illuminated twelfth-century manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen's visionary summa, Scivias. This essay pits the Facsimile Debate against the facsimile craft of the Eibingen nuns, situating both within the context of new reproductive technologies devised specifically for representing medieval artifacts. It argues for a historicizing approach to the notion of authenticity, which bears on how we think about mediation and the surrogate in our research and teaching today.
March 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
what a poem. in just three lines
And Suddenly It’s Evening by Salvatore Quasimodo, tr. Jack Bevan Everyone is alone on the heart of the earth pierced by a ray of sun: and suddenly it’s evening.
March 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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jstheater.bsky.social
Today is the publication day for Essex Hemphill's *Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems," out from @NewDirections, which Robert Reid-Pharr & I coedited!

Essex Hemphill's work speaks both to its time & compellingly to our current moment. Please order a copy!

www.ndbooks.com/author/essex...
March 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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slavagreenberg.bsky.social
Alternating between these proofs and the news is making me very emotional.

“Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory” is a conversation long overdue and at the same time seems almost too late.

I can’t wait to share this special issue & talk trans-crip activism, theory, film, and art with y’all 🥹

Out in May!
An image of a proof page on a laptop that reads TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 12, Number 2, May 2025 "Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory" Edited by J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg 147 General Editor's Introduction: Bracketed Sites Dylan McCarthy Blackston 152 Toward a Trans[]crip Theory: Introduction J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg
March 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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mayacaspari.bsky.social
Really excited that my pamphlet Almost, with Tenderness is coming out very soon with @outspokenpress.bsky.social 💛🍃

outspokenldn.com/shop/almost

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March 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
happy Friday from Bernadette Mayer
Why fool around with work and stuff How about some short but sweet kisses
February 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
This is blowing up, let me formally welcome all new-comers to the Eleanor Rykener fanclub!

If you're looking for more premodern trans histories, check out Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

📖 Paperback www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
🔗 Free pdf bit.ly/TGQS-OA
Front cover of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography. Collage of medieval manuscript elements with modern queer imagery, include saint waving trans flag Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.
February 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
So excited about this book!! And not just because I have a deeply personal chapter in it lol

It also contains updated guidelines on making conferences accessible, essential reading for event organizers

#MedievalSky #Skystorians #CripSky #DisabilitySky 🗃️
hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Feb 26
Delighted to share the beautiful cover for our volume, Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, edited by Alexandra R. A. Lee, E. R. P. Champion, and me.

Coming soon from @mip-medpub.bsky.social for the Premodern Transgressive Literatures series ✨
A pink and purple background with an image of a medieval manuscript in the centre, containing an illustration of a closed castle. A woman at the top of the castle looks down at a man outside the castle. A modern additional image of a ramp has been placed at the doors of the castle, extending out of the medieval border of the illustration.
February 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
I love how tender this is.

By Ada Limón.
THE RAINCOAT When the doctor suggested surgery and a brace for all my youngest years, my parents scrambled to take me to massage therapy, deep tissue work, osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine unspooled a bit, I could breathe again, and move more in a body unclouded by pain. My mom would tell me to sing songs to her the whole forty-five-minute drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty-five minutes back from physical therapy. Shed say that even my voice sounded unfettered by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang, because I thought she liked it. I never asked her what she gave up to drive me, or how her day was before this chore. Today, at her age, I was driving myself home from yet another spine appointment, singing along to some maudlin but solid song on the radio, and I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I've been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet. Ada Limón
February 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
jakestefan181.bsky.social
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jpkesseler.bsky.social JP @jpkesseler.bsky.social · Feb 20
Being beside @jakestefan181.bsky.social for part of their journey through their eating disorder, seeing the positive differences they've made, has been one the privileges of my life. To now see them use that experience to try and help others makes my heart burst with pride.
Ex-Leeds student opens up on 10 year 'slippery slope' eating disorder
Jake is non-binary and has also lived with borderline personality disorder for four years
www.leeds-live.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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postmedieval.bsky.social
in our latest article, Denise Filios studies heritage items that commemorate margery kempe's pilgrimage to santiago de compostela, focusing on the representation of kempe's racial and religious identity and how the medieval past interacts with today's diverse population of walkers

read the article👇
Heritagizing Margery Kempe on the Camino Inglés - postmedieval
Margery Kempe is the only fifteenth-century English woman who left an account of her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. She is constructed as an intangible heritage resource on the route she follow...
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February 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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h1twom4n.bsky.social
Under my administration, all birds get hats, yes they do folks
February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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pilgrimteresa.bsky.social
Looking forward to this! ✨
lsegender.bsky.social lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Feb 11
Two days to go! Join us on Thursday for ✨ Trans* Lives, Histories and Activism! ✨

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February 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
Extremely iconic of Neko Case to do a book talk with Kathleen Hanna directly during the Super Bowl to make absolutely sure it’s women, NB people and art school grads only. Thank you my queens
February 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
History says we forgave the executioner.

—Sharif
Social Skills Training by Solmaz Sharif Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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sweatermuppet.bsky.social
twitter just removed this design + locked my account for the next 12 hours
February 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM