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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · 7d

Devastating news from Manchester 💔

Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · 10d

At this point this is just summoning a radical reimagining of Company in a lift and Bobby baby wandering around Manhattan. But with blood.

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · 13d

Hugely proud to have a chapter in this collection! I explore the missing history of theatre cleaners, often a women's history, and traced the fragments of their lives that remain.

University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 14d

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

uolpress.co.uk

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The UK Association for Music Education: Music Mark @musicmarkuk.bsky.social · 16d

We spoke to Laura Hamer about her free course with @openuniversity.bsky.social 🎶

It includes interviews with experts in the field championing the music of women composers, advocating for greater gender equity within the classical music industry 📣

🔗Read more: www.musicmark.org.uk/news/researc...

“When considering why the representation of works by women composers within classical music performance is so low, people often point to the barriers to programming more of their works, such as lack of knowledge of the repertoire, performance editions of their works not being available, and perceptions about audiences not being interested in hearing this music.” Laura Hamer, Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University. Research Shorts.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 16d

It's not "unproven". It's false. A lie. Untrue. Mendacious.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump urges pregnant women to avoid Tylenol over unproven autism link

Some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · 16d

Also can we stop with the "unproven" claims and just say what it is. False claims. Lies.

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Veda Scott @vedascott.bsky.social · 16d

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · 19d

In case you hadn't heard this wonderful late Rodgers and Hart song, please enjoy 'To Keep My Love Alive' www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmXe...

To Keep My Love Alive - Ella fitzgerald

YouTube video by Michael C.

www.youtube.com

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Sep 9

This does not bode well for my decaffeinated brain. Wordle 1,543 5/6

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you go into the event via teams calendar you should get a breakout rooms option, and you can pre set them up. There are some limitations with it but it should work? share.google/5t5tvIXDnDBT...

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.

Here are three ways to fight back.

Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

Three ways to fight back

Email my MP
Call my MP
Meet my MP

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Sep 5

I feel more called out than I needed to be

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Aug 30

Surprised we've not had a complete edited collection on the social cultural significance of Colin the caterpillar cakes. I will write the Christmas mini Colin chapter.

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Aug 25

Meanwhile ProQuest has moved into direct check ins or... threats?

pop up says - "create a my research account? you've been working for a long time, why not create a my research account to save your work?"

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Aug 25

Historic theatre listing or a description of a Phd?

immense aggregation of curiosities and marvels, representing the accumulations of a lifetime of careful study, unremitting labor, and a lavish expenditure of money

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is a hugely important report which gathers together devastating testimony about what is happening and being experienced across the LGBTQ community, and the way in which our trans family are being segregated in daily life. Please take a moment to write to your MP.

CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · Aug 20

A concrete thing every UK person who cares about trans rights can do right now:

1. Email a link of this report to your MP, with highlights from the executive summary in your email. Ask them what it means for your constituency and their party - highlight trans people's legally mandated human rights

Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · Aug 20

TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Aug 5

I think there are wider problems about understanding scale (e.g. deaths during COVID) it becomes invisible when you can't see them - so these figures also aren't keeping track of how the rest of the population is dying/being born. So the "invasion" rhetoric is fed by underlying silence.

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Aug 4

So this is my lovely news!

Royal College of Music @rcmlondon.bsky.social · Aug 4

We’re delighted to announce that Dr Sarah K Whitfield (@sarahinthepark.bsky.social) has been appointed Reader in Musical Theatre at the Royal College of Music and has also been appointed Head of Doctoral Programmes.

Read more about Sarah’s achievements: bit.ly/RCM-Sarah-Wh...

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Jul 29

Word of advice for coming back from leave. If all those emails didn't come in during one day, you cannot actually answer them in one day either. Breathe.

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Jul 17

It's always penalties. Always #SWEENG

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Jul 16

Incredible. This is exactly what I'm going for here.

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Jul 16

What's your favourite niche album? I'm not talking Ella sings Gershwin here, we are thinking the Supremes sing Rogers and Hart, the Disco Sondheim album... rock anthems from your Grandad's shed... the more specific the better

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Jul 15

got to have a serious photo for a work thing, and this may be one of the best options.

me a woman in a pink leopard print jumper, smiling, next to a model raptor, also smiling.

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · Jul 11

Hope no one else wants to go on your train feels like a facetious answer but that is the best option for Euston related ones.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 9

Are you an early career researcher looking to get published?

Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.

Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

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