There are also some wonderful books reviewed here, including featured (free to access) reviews of books by @badinfinity2.bsky.social, Roseen Giles, Elizabeth S. Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, and some great translations.
everyone drop what you're doing and read this now!!
gabriel b@gyzyby.bsky.social · 4mo agomy article on George Herbert and trans studies is out in Renaissance Quarterly. It's really only about one poem, but it is THE poem you're thinking of, so you should check it out -- www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
@badinfinity2.bsky.social's Glorious Bodies is simply my favourite thing I've read this year!
The Guild of Queer Early Modernists@emqueerguild.bsky.social · 8mo ago🏳️🌈📚🏳️⚧️Here is 2025 wrapped top ten recently(ish) published queer early modern books 🏳️⚧️📚🏳️🌈 What did we miss? Let us know what your favourites have been! 📚✨
Yesterday's keynote at #BritCult2025 #conference was really impactful, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social highlighting the queer & trans elements in #Medieval & #EarlyModern Christian iconography & texts, from Genesis to Jesus Christ & the Last Judgment #TransStudies #QueerStudies #Theology #ArtHistory
Apparently, Trump created “Transgender For Eveyone” in the past few weeks, which I think is what @badinfinity2.bsky.social has been lobbying for all along, so I guess we’re done here. 🤷🏻♂️
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 9mo agoTrump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
Our reading group returns this Thursday, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social brilliant Glorious Bodies. Join us!
The Guild of Queer Early Modernists@emqueerguild.bsky.social · 12mo ago🥳 Announcing our reading group! Thurs, Sept. 11, 4-5:30 EST, Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble Thurs, Oct. 9, 4-5:30 EST, Glorious Bodies, Colby Gordon. @badinfinity2.bsky.social will join us! Thurs, Nov. 13, 4-5:30 EST, Kinky Renaissance, Gillian Knoll, Joseph Gamble Register here! tinyurl.com/mr3mjauz
🥳 Announcing our reading group! Thurs, Sept. 11, 4-5:30 EST, Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble Thurs, Oct. 9, 4-5:30 EST, Glorious Bodies, Colby Gordon. @badinfinity2.bsky.social will join us! Thurs, Nov. 13, 4-5:30 EST, Kinky Renaissance, Gillian Knoll, Joseph Gamble Register here! tinyurl.com/mr3mjauz
GQEM Reading Group Registration
The second Thursday of each month, from 4-5:30pm EST. September 11th, Sex Lives, by Joseph Gamble October 9th, Glorious Bodies, by Colby Gordon November 13th, The Kinky Renaissance, edited by Gillian ...
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got my top surgery at the government-run grocery store
Daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: Glorious Bodies by @badinfinity2.bsky.social (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and A Magnificent Disturbance by @2coasties.bsky.social (@boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social) #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
41 today, an unimaginable age. I’m glad he got the chance to grow up.
fwiw I think my chapter on Trans Mayhem in Samson Agonistes is the best thing I've ever written
Minerva Victrix@minervavictrix.bsky.social · last yr."This chapter argues that within Milton’s closet play is a quiet celebration of trans mayhem, an account of wounding that embraces rather than recoils from vulnerability, one that rejects 'usefulness' and 'employment' as metrics for assigning value to bodies."
when things are bad, you know what to do (take testosterone)
Wow, @badinfinity2.bsky.social’s suggestion (command?) to transition just became a lot cheaper and more accessible, if this is true!
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last yr.What a rich text
Pretty cool to win @badinfinity2.bsky.social ‘s Glorious Bodies in the raffle at PrEmo Trans Studies III!
Oh also I was on a podcast! Thanks to Jules, who is the best :) open.spotify.com/episode/0W6P...
Renaissance Trans Theologies and History with Colby Gordon
Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast · Episode
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I believe that queer and trans people deserve everything, including religion (if they want it)!
Margaret Middleton@magmidd.bsky.social · last yr.This podcast interview with @badinfinity2.bsky.social about his book Glorious Bodies made me realize we're missing opportunities to interpret queerness *with* religion instead the typical opposition narrative (or more typical: ommission with the assumption of opposition). slate.com/podcasts/out...
One of my fave conferences ever. Thank you @badinfinity2.bsky.social and all.
So glad I decided to go hard and attend the first day of the Early Modern Trans Studies conference today *after* the RSA / SAA twofer! It was a joy to see so many terrific papers and hang w the (rapidly expanding) premodern trans studies crew - and to taste the @badinfinity2.bsky.social book cake 🎂
Next month at Penn: A symposium on Premodern Trans Studies featuring @transliterature.bsky.social, @ldevun.bsky.social, @badinfinity2.bsky.social, @hamlethologram.bsky.social, and Nat Rivkin ! Philly come thru!
That's right, (Pr)EmoTrans 3 is almost upon us! Join us and our mascot Doof Bat for a generous selection of Jesus vaginas, gay plants, trans Dominicans, sissies, circumcision reversals, and so, so many tranimals
thank you so so so much to @badinfinity2.bsky.social for sending me a copy of his amazing book, and for helping motivate me to get my surgery letters done. i have like 2000 pages of secondary sourcing i need to read but idk if i can wait to read this :3 (just nobody tell my advisor)
"Batter my heart, transgender’d god, for yours/is the only ear that hears" Thank you @badinfinity2.bsky.social for the lovely book & the kind note. It truly couldn't have come at a better time - the prior auth for my hysterectomy was just approved! I love trans community so dearly.
