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@jakestefan181.bsky.social

irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️‍⚧️

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Chen Chen@chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 5mo ago

sometimes (often?) someone's feedback in workshop is more about wanting a poem to be easier to read (for them) than about trying to help the poem open into greater (stranger) possibilities

Thinking Gender Justice@thinkinggender2026.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Registration for the conference is now live at this link: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... We are extremely happy to see the variety of responses and the level of interest in the topics of this conference, and we cannot wait to see where this conversation takes us. 🤓

Select tickets – Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation – University College Dublin

Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation – University College Dublin, Wed 17 Jun 2026 - Fri 19 Jun 2026 - Thinking Gender Justice: Oppression, Resistance, Liberation is the second c...

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Sarah Dowling@sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Volume 36 Issue 2-3 | differences | Duke University Press

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differences@differences.bsky.social · 10mo ago

differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Cover of Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 2–3. A yellow cover with black text.
Francesca Brooks@francescabrooks.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This week I'll be submitting the manuscript, with my brilliant co-editor Carl Kears, for our OA volume with UCL Press: 'Beyond Medieval Archives: Rethinking the medieval archive through creative and critical practice'. Still so much work to do before Thursday, but it's exciting!

Screenshot of the title page from the manuscript
jake@jakestefan181.bsky.social · last yr.

What an absolute honour it is to be featured in this magazine, by a poet whose work I admire so much, among all these other fantastic poets!!

Propel Magazine@propelmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

🔵 Propel Issue 16, edited with enormous care by the very brilliant Richard Scott, is OUT NOW! 🔵 We're delighted to share this bumper issue with you, featuring work by: > CJ Wagstaff > Edward Doegar > Jack Westmore > Leusa Lloyd > William Gee > Nóra Blascsók @nblascsok.bsky.social (1/3)

Cover of Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Ed. Richard Scott Contributors listed in thread
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7

Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand Sonja Drimmer Abstract Between 1929 and 1930 a feud over the legitimacy of reproductions of works of art erupted in the pages of the culture periodical Der Kreis. Later dubbed the Hamburg Facsimile Debate, the dispute involved many of the day's most eminent curators and academics in art and art history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most renowned illuminated twelfth-century manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen's visionary summa, Scivias. This essay pits the Facsimile Debate against the facsimile craft of the Eibingen nuns, situating both within the context of new reproductive technologies devised specifically for representing medieval artifacts. It argues for a historicizing approach to the notion of authenticity, which bears on how we think about mediation and the surrogate in our research and teaching today.
Maya Caspari@mayacaspari.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really excited that my pamphlet Almost, with Tenderness is coming out very soon with @outspokenpress.bsky.social 💛🍃 outspokenldn.com/shop/almost bsky.app/profile/outs...

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Out-Spoken Press@outspokenpress.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re delighted to share the cover of Almost, with Tenderness, the debut pamphlet by @mayacaspari.bsky.social “Tenderness manifests, both surreal and hyperreal … This is brilliant” — Anthony V. Capildeo Out 20 March / Pre-order now: outspokenldn.com/shop/almost

Cover of Almost, with Tenderness by Maya Caspari (a yellow background with black and white photo of two hands, palms facing, with a space between them inset in the top right corner overlaid with a watercolour brushstroke
Alicia Spencer-Hall@aspencerhall.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is blowing up, let me formally welcome all new-comers to the Eleanor Rykener fanclub! If you're looking for more premodern trans histories, check out Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography 📖 Paperback www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... 🔗 Free pdf bit.ly/TGQS-OA

Front cover of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography. Collage of medieval manuscript elements with modern queer imagery, include saint waving trans flag Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.
Alicia Spencer-Hall@aspencerhall.bsky.social · 2y ago

More thoughts on Eleanor Rykener in the BL's #MedievalWomen exhibition. Her inclusion is majorly important, not just because of *her* importance as a beacon of trans visibility in the historical record, but also the current anti-trans environment in the UK & elsewhere

Alicia Spencer-Hall@aspencerhall.bsky.social · 2y ago

So excited about this book!! And not just because I have a deeply personal chapter in it lol It also contains updated guidelines on making conferences accessible, essential reading for event organizers #MedievalSky #Skystorians #CripSky #DisabilitySky 🗃️

Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 2y ago

Delighted to share the beautiful cover for our volume, Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, edited by Alexandra R. A. Lee, E. R. P. Champion, and me. Coming soon from @mip-medpub.bsky.social for the Premodern Transgressive Literatures series ✨

A pink and purple background with an image of a medieval manuscript in the centre, containing an illustration of a closed castle. A woman at the top of the castle looks down at a man outside the castle. A modern additional image of a ramp has been placed at the doors of the castle, extending out of the medieval border of the illustration.