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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · 4d

Someone in our house is practicing the recorder and…good grief…I’m sorry mum, all the way through primary school plus year 5 and 6!!

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · 7d

Good insights into maintaining friendships by being forgiving of unresponsiveness, and how loneliness impacts negatively on our health.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Want more friends? A better social life? Be like my 85-year-old buddy Gerry

Friendship falters due to the belief it should just happen on its own. The solution: make a conscious effort to be social

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally

Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Israel intercepts aid flotilla but one ship reported to have escaped blockade

Activists from Global Sumud flotilla including Greta Thunberg arrested and taken into custody with one boat reported to be in Palestinian waters • Gaza aid flotilla: around 40 vessels intercepted by Israeli forces – live Israel has said it has stopped a pro-Palestinian flotilla carrying aid from reaching Gaza, after its navy intercepted most of the vessels. However, one boat, the Mikeno, was reported to have escaped the maritime blockade and to have stopped inside Palestinian territorial waters near Gaza’s coast before contact with the vessel was lost. Continue reading...

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · 11d

Hey #booksky #academicsky : Does anyone have or know where to get bell hook‘s little volume of poetry In the Temple of Love: the Female Buddha?

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · 21d

Petition von @msf.de, gesehen am Tag der Kinderrechte beim Stand von Free Palestine, die heute der knapp 20.000 getöteten Kinder in Gaza gedenken.

www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/sich-engagie...

Jetzt Aufruf an die Bundesregierung unterschreiben!

Unterschreiben Sie unseren Aufruf an die Bundesregierung. Weil Regierungen handeln, wenn wir es tun.

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · 22d

#academictwitter help! Does anyone have access to Henry Abelove’s "The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History" from 1995? read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History

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Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · Sep 11

Things are getting real! The website for #britcult2025 has gone live: www.britcult.de/conference20.... Check out our exciting programme, register until October 20, then join us for a 3-day conference on the Re-Orientation of Gender (Studies) in the 21st century. #AcademicConference #GenderStudies

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CORRECTIV @correctiv.org · Sep 4

📣 Schauspiel Köln und CORRECTIV bringen #Journalismus auf die Bühne!

Am 10. September feiert das Theaterstück „GEHEIMPLAN GEGEN DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Nachspiel“ Premiere am Schauspiel Köln. Das Thema: Die CORRECTIV-Enthüllung über das geheime Treffen rechtsextremer Akteure in Potsdam und seine Folgen.

Schauspiel Köln und CORRECTIV präsentieren „GEHEIMPLAN GEGEN DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Nachspiel“: Auftakt zum langfristigen Schwerpunkt „Theater und Journalismus”

Am 10. September 2025 feiert „GEHEIMPLAN GEGEN DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Nachspiel“ Premiere am Schauspiel Köln. Die Aufführung wird zeitgleich kostenlos per Stream auf correctiv.org übertragen.

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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Research Assistant - School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway

full-time, two-year position as a Research Assistant with Professor Marie-Louse Coolahan

universityvacancies.com/university-g...

Research Assistant - School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway 011297 | University Vacancies Ireland

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Aug 12

Ich weiß, den Entscheidern in unseren Mainstream-Medien ist das völlig egal, aber wir werden trotzdem nicht müde, die Fakten zu wiederholen: Eine brandneue Studie hat gezeigt, was schon etliche davor gezeigt haben: Rechtsextreme zu interviewen steigert Rechtsextremismus. WANN LERNT IHR ES ENDLICH!

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · Aug 11

The 'uncertain feelings' idea just fits so well if 'these' refer to democratic thought/politics. We remember them with nostalgia, miss them so much in times like these, and hope for them to return, fear that they may never come back, like the birds…

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Philomena Wolf @philouw.bsky.social · Aug 4

CFP! Anne Rüggemeier and I are organizing a FRIAS conference on silence in literature and culture from April 15-17, 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract by September 15 ✍️ (link below) @uni-freiburg.de @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · Aug 3

"A play is not ONLY its themes and supposed “content” but its shape, its sound, its rhythm, its music, its playfulness (…) Immediacy (see Anna Kornbluh’s book on this) is the presentism trap in which society has fallen in this stage of accelerated lazy capitalism in the West."

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · Aug 2

"there's no healing that can occur in spaces where harm is being sold as repair."

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · Jul 21

i wrote a little something abt plays. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · Aug 3

Yes! I hope new playwrights won‘t forget that they have a right to leave representation behind otherwise there will be no new Churchills, Sarah Kanes, Becketts…

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M Beattie, PhD @thanatos-kalos.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ch 3 is as drafted as it can get until audience research data starts coming in. Currently just over 19K words. Please fill out/share?

#19-2: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#DaVincisInquest:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#RepublicofDoyle:
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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · Jul 31

Great Alison Bechdel exhibit at the comic museum #Basel. These dykes loved it! #graphicnovels #comics #AlisonBechdel

Glass doors with rainbow reflection and self portrait of cartoonist Alison Bechdel. Two people are reflected in the glass.

Several pages of Bechdel‘s graphic novels exhibited on a white wall, a life size cartoon drawing of the artist rollerblading and drawing a line to skate on with a brush. The following Adrienne Rich quote on the wall: „(…) the hard ones, practicing till strength and accuracy became one with the daring to lead into transcendence.“

Two people with short brown hair, one with glasses and a black blouse, one with a flowery blouse smile into the camera in front of an illustration of the title to Bechdel‘s comic strips "Dykes to Watch Out For".

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · Jul 17

Creative strategies to get students into reading - I will definitely try these, students often love a book *after* they’ve read it but to get them excited about the process is often difficult!
#teaching #EnglishLit #reading

Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Jul 16

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term

[writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Jul 17

The V&A exhibition showcases the radical contributions of people with disabilities to design history and culture, and calls for greater visibility, equality and consideration.

Design and Disability at the V&A is a rich, thought-provoking exhibition

The V&A exhibition showcases the radical contributions of people with disabilities to design history and culture, and calls for greater visibility, equality and consideration.

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · Jul 16

Yeeeees you did it! 🙌🏼 Krass, wie du das alles hingekriegt hast! Riesenglückwünsche 💐✨🌈

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Jul 16

Ist die Juristin unbequem, diffamiert man sie als linksextrem.

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Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · Jul 13

If you can, help finance the first internationalist queer pride Frankfurt. Many big prides have become commercial, capitalist events - may we never forget that the first pride was a riot!

www.paypal.com/pool/9grfFjS...

Red and yellow poster of the internationalist queer pride Frankfurt, 26 and 27 July, demonstration starts 4 pm at Hauptwache. Two fotos: one with a banner that reads „police violence is not an accident“ and the other one showing a persons back with the words „queer trans resistance“ written on their jacket.

Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social · Jul 2

Lovingly curated queer book table at the English and Romance Languages‘ department library!

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Linda Hess @timeflieslike.bsky.social · Jun 20

#CDE first panel on Staging Queerness with 3 awesome presentations on recognition, re-directing, glitches, pleasure...🎭💜💫👢

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