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History: especially gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities. British women composers Long-term housebound with severe long covid

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · Jan 30

1/ I’ve been compiling e-resources for exploring black & ethnically diverse composers.

Here’s a thread of ones I’ve found useful (from my inexpert perspective).
#Diversity
#Equality
#Inclusion

This is the first one:
musicbyblackcomposers.org

It specifies the gender of each composer.

Music by Black Composers - Home Page

Music by Black Composers aims to increase diversity in the world of classical music, and inspire Black students to pursue instrumental training.

musicbyblackcomposers.org

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2h

Ha - loving the research!

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2h

Wonderful!

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, loving this news!

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.

www.metroweekly.com

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2h

Music and queerness: this review, and the work in question, seem important interventions in the field

Music Research Annual @mrajournal.bsky.social · 6d

Available Now: Review of the Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness!

In this substantial review essay, Xavier Livermon explores the content and research avenues explored in the recent Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.

Available now at musicresearchannual.org/livermon-oxf...

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 4h

Sounds brilliant!

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 1d

Oh they so are

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve just been taking a little look. So interesting: contributes to understanding why myself and others find using assistive technologies so draining and tiring

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 1d

Brain not yet up to listening to things like that, but hope it goes really well xx

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Oxford people: a talk for the diary. @roseteanby.bsky.social has done brilliant research on C19 female photographers

Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 3d

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...

Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

photooxford.org

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Treat yourself! There’s a London bakery that specialises in them - my daughter’s partner bought a whole one down with him when they came. I hadn’t come across them before either

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

It originated in San Sebastián which is in the Basque 😀 the topping is kind of burnt sugar it’s awesome

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Looks brilliant

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously. It's incredible

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 3d

Yay! Always here for any blossom related chat 😀

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoy, I hope!

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 3d

OMG!!! How on earth did I miss this?!!
Enjoy!

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 4d

Enjoy! Sounds like you need to do Blossom ( I'm obsessed)

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 4d

Enjoy those puddings!

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks - I hadn’t seen this. It’s gorgeous. I’m a big fan.
This is one of my faves:

open.spotify.com/track/3yHNUD...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 6d

btw there was a Guardian crossword clue just for you this morning: ‘Bunthorne’s Bride is game’ [8]

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 6d

One of Britain’s leading composers, Eleanor Alberga

BritSymphCup @britsymphcup.bsky.social · 8d

Born #OTD in 1949, Jamaican-born composer, Eleanor Alberga. Her Violin Concerto No. 2 (2019), subtitled Narcissus, was premiered in 2020 at the Red Hall, NFM Wrocław, Poland by violinist Thomas Bowes, with Joseph Swensen & NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra. open.spotify.com/track/5D0CuK... #britsymphyear

Violin Concerto No. 2 "Narcissus": — (1)

open.spotify.com

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 6d

People working on disability history:

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 6d

I am excited to share this call for papers for a special issue on Conceptualizing Disability in History, which I’m co-editing with Monika Baar for the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies.

Please share among your networks, we are very much looking forward to your contributions!

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 12d

CFA: Conceptualizing Disability in History: Europe in a global context

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157618

Fiesole, 15.11.2025, Austrian Journal of Historical Studies; Monika Baar; Elisa Heinrich, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 6d

💙

Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 6d

A fine example
And that gorgeous blue…

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