jake
jakestefan181.bsky.social
jake
@jakestefan181.bsky.social
irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️‍⚧️
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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!
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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The perfect genderqueer shirt doesn't exi--
October 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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!!
🔵 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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July 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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.
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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Two very cool people doing very cool things 🏳️‍⚧️🩷
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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‘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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Well worth 9 minutes of your time
March 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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
March 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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what a poem. in just three lines
March 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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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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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!
March 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Really excited that my pamphlet Almost, with Tenderness is coming out very soon with @outspokenpress.bsky.social 💛🍃

outspokenldn.com/shop/almost

bsky.app/profile/outs...
March 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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happy Friday from Bernadette Mayer
February 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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
February 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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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 🗃️
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 ✨
February 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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I love how tender this is.

By Ada Limón.
February 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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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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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...
link.springer.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Under my administration, all birds get hats, yes they do folks
February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Looking forward to this! ✨
Two days to go! Join us on Thursday for ✨ Trans* Lives, Histories and Activism! ✨

@onnigust.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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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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History says we forgave the executioner.

—Sharif
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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twitter just removed this design + locked my account for the next 12 hours
February 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM