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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 1d

Today, two years in, these are the words echoing around my head: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
— James Baldwin

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 7d

I’m singing Kol Nidre tonight for a small gathering of Jews and friends who stand in solidarity with Palestine. I’m not sure what it means to ask forgiveness, or pray for a sweet new year, in the face of the horrors we have witnessed. Yet this is surely a time for honest reflection, in community

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 8d

I’d quite like to do away with the whole set of slogans tbh. But if we’re using them, then yes the “are valid” part adds an extra layer of cringe

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 14d

Being in the woods is the only thing that seems to make much sense at the moment

#fistulinahepatica #fungi #oak #quercuspetrea

Close-up photo of a beefsteak fungus, Fistulina hepatica, on a mature oak . The shelf-like fungus is strikingly red on top, pale cream below, and shows up starkly against the dark hollow of the tree

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 21d

'don't kick Israel out of Eurovision, the arts aren't political' variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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wiley sharp @wiley.pink · Jul 9

for the last two years, I've been a part of the Queering Feminist Geography Collective, a group working to raise issues of queer & trans inclusion within feminist geographic theory and professional practice. to that end, we've drafted a set of viewpoint articles for Gender, Place, and Culture (1/n)

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 23d

This _is_ now a published article, I hope you enjoy it: doi.org/10.1080/0966...

Not just gay penguins: on the importance of queer/trans ecologies for critical geography

Queer/trans Ecologies names a growing and trans-disciplinary body of thought that applies perspectives and sensibilities drawn from queer/trans experience and theory to thinking critically about na...

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 23d

It feels like a huge achievement to have a graphic format manuscript published as a full peer reviewed article (not a portfolio piece) in a major geography journal. It is my hope the comic strip format prompts a different mode of readership, as well as being great for teaching and wider access

Cover spread for the above linked article, including a drawing of penguins at London Zoo beside a banner that reads: “Some Penguins Are Gay, Get Over It”

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 23d

Interested in queer and trans ecologies? Critical geographies of nature and the natural? I’m so pleased this graphic format article finally published and free to read (or better yet - download) at doi.org/10.1080/0966...

Not just gay penguins: on the importance of queer/trans ecologies for critical geography

Queer/trans Ecologies names a growing and trans-disciplinary body of thought that applies perspectives and sensibilities drawn from queer/trans experience and theory to thinking critically about na...

doi.org

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 28d

Spent a couple of hours this morning correcting proofs for our book chapter on Mycelial love, then strolled up the end of the garden to find chanterelles and brown birch bolettes for lunch - yum! (*Kate Marston, Rich White and Scarlet Hall are my partners in queer polyvocality)

Chanterelles and brown birch bolettes sautéeing with a little garlic and Cavolo Nero

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Sep 7

Out of office

Photograph of a valley in North Wales. In the foreground, a hawthorn tree and slate wall. Pasture slopes down between wooded hillsides, and in the distance is a range of low, jagged peaks

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Aug 27

I spend an increasingly large % of time as editor of an academic journal processing articles that appear to be mass submitted (with no relevance to journal’s scope) and trying to determine whether articles are (part)written using (undisclosed) AI. This expenditure of labour feels very bleak

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Aug 28

At the #RGSIBG25? Staying through to the very end? Why not join us to talk about speculative ecologies? TLB seminar room 202 (and online), 16:50 - 18:30

Photo of a sculpture resembling an architectural model. Figures are shown repairing the roof of a house built among rubble. Vegetables grow in a simple polytunnel

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is tomorrow! The speculative and the ecological have been cropping up all over the place this RGS, and I’m looking forward to putting them into conversation. Should be a great session - see you there :)

Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Feb 5

Abstracts are already coming in for this exciting collaborative session on Speculative Ecologies, with Silvia Hassouna at RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK - looking forward to reading yours!

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Aug 27

Looking forward to co-hosting a double session on Geographies of Trans Creativity this afternoon with Ed Kiely and Ezgi Yilmaz. RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham, 14:40-18:30, Muirhead Building, Room 122

A drawing of two gender-expansive individuals drawing in a living room. There is laundry in one corner and a potted plant. The line drawing is shaded in colours of the trans flag.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 25

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wait till you find out who committed the ones in the history books…

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Aug 19

My new studio environs are rather grand…
It’s great to be sharing creative space with some good friends and a short cycle up the hill from my house

Photo of a slightly bare studio space with wooden floor and a large panelled window looking out over trees

Photo of an elegant gothic parlour with highly polished wooden table, heraldic stone fireplace and chandeliers

Photograph looking out through a panelled window at a small courtyard surrounded by Victorian gothic seminary buildings

The front of the college. Our studio window is open, top left.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · Aug 12

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?

http://JOIN.ICE.GOV

photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Aug 4

Lots of beautiful and intriguing mushrooms this weekend. The cep carpaccio is NOT the same species as either of the two mushroom photos, one of which is probably the poisonous caloboletus radicans (lovely blue blush to it) and the other perhaps lurid bolete with an unusual split stem

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Aug 4

More river walking. It’s a blessing to live close to such stunning places

Looki by upstream along the Tees river, just above High Force. The water glimmers silver among black rocks and the banks are a lush green tumble. Moors and heavy cloud loom in the distance

Waterfalls on the river Tees, pines glowing in the sun and clouds bright white against deep blue sky

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Jul 29

I cried so hard the first time my partner bought me flowers

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Jul 28

(That should say mine workings)

Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Jul 28

‘Moron’ is an ableist term with a horrifying eugenic history. It’s also a very reductive framework for understanding why people make political decisions that harm you (and them)

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · Jul 28

Collaborative walk, starting at sunrise from the source of the Deerness and walking our friends home. Encountered an intermittent flow - perhaps due to line workings and/or drought - and an infinitely changeable river, from plastic bag falls to fish-darting pools to suburban ditch. Very queer :)

Bare legs and sodden shoes, ankle deep in buttercup and watercress (don’t eat it, there might be liver fluke)

First steps - a fine cleft but deceptively deep and wet

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