As you busily prepare your proposals for a #SRSlyGood conference in our DIAMOND year, why not read this write up by Anouska Lester of a fabulous roundtable on creating collaboration they participated in at #RenSoc25? performingartscollections.org.uk/stories/p/ar...

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

I do love a theatre who will send you a form letter rejection email one day and then the very next day send you an email “invitation” to purchase a $1,000 ticket to their gala lol

I’m so glad I got to write this piece for the @folger.edu’s Collation blog about the work I’m doing as part of my short-term Artistic Research Fellowship! www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Re-writing and Reimagining Early Modern Witchcraft Through Creative Practice | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Okay, I'll admit I've been so much in such a postdoc application/transatlantic move hellscape that I sort of forgot this site existed. But hey, exciting news! I've been at the incredible @folger.edu for my Artistic Research Fellowship for the past month, and today I'm in Staunton, VA for this!

We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here: ereed.org/collections/...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/st... Important action! Under pressure from transphobes, the University of Reading instituted one of the most draconian regimes of trans segregation in the UK just weeks after the SC ruling. We need to push back on this HARD. Sign this and share widely.

Stop the Harm - Reverse the University of Reading’s Trans Exclusionary Policy Change

On 11th June 2025, the University introduced a policy that bans trans people from using single-sex spaces that match their gender identity. Trans staff and students are now expected to use facilities ...

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Gain teaching experience and access a supportive platform for sharing research, approaches and critical perspectives as a CDH Methods Fellow in the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline: 16 July Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/learning/met...

Methods Fellowships 2025/26 - CDH

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when someone tells me I can’t go look at a tomb I really want to look at:

a man in a suit and tie is running down a sidewalk with the words let me in written on it .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is running down a sidewalk with the words let me in written on it .

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evey reidy 🐌@eveyreidy.bsky.social · last yr.

just fell to my knees in Peterborough Cathedral

just fell to my knees in Peterborough Cathedral

Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...

If you’re coming to my workshop at #BSA2025 (would love to have you!) it’s at 2:15pm in the Small Rehearsal Room — meet at Receptions and our lovely conference assistants will help you find it as it’s a bit tricky! ✨

J.K. Rowling is a menace to society whose anti-trans rhetoric is violent and encourages offline violence. Her telling people to take pictures of suspected trans women in bathrooms and disseminate them is sexual harassment. And it puts everyone in the women’s bathroom in danger.

Okay! Here's the new MP letter template to push back on the trans-exclusionary Code the EHRC are trying to bring in. I'm timing this letter to bolster the @transsolidarity.bsky.social Mass Lobby Day (next Wednesday), creating a swell of protest before, during & after. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Template MP letter: 3 asks re the EHRC Code consultation

Letter for MPs. Find your MP here: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP I also recommend that you copy your letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Philippson, via the Women and...

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A very nice surprise to receive this from Roehampton yesterday just a few days before my viva this Thursday! Congrats to all of the staff recognized for their wonderful work, especially my supervisor Dr. Lisa Sainsbury, who received an incredibly well deserved win for Excellence in Supervision. ❣️

Just to give a plug for this talk I'm giving, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the...

In the company of Good Mrs Shakspaire - 27/06/2025 19:00:00

A talk by Dr Matthew Steggle Thursday 27 June

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Took a very worthwhile break from viva prep today to hear the brilliant Lydia speak about race-making in early modern civic performance today, something I’ve thought so much about in terms of my own festive perf. culture work but haven’t had the time to write much about! So many thoughts!

Lucy Holehouse@lucyholehouse.bsky.social · last yr.

5th June, 2-3pm: 'Race-making in Early Modern Civic Performance', Dr Lydia Valentine Civic shows were sites of identity formation where the performance of different cultures constructed distinct racial and national identities. Lydia Valentine explores how these led to a collective 'London' identity.

Here's that story if anyone's interested in it www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/...

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · last yr.

the thing about the NYT releasing a podcast about trans healthcare is that if it’s not the story of how the alliance defending freedom captured the most influential liberal media outlet in the us and got it to provide a veneer of scientism to a bigoted religious crusade, what is it about?

“ok sure they were wrong about condoms and aids and sex ed and abortion and hpv vaccines and whether women are inferior to men and gay sex causes hurricanes but maybe the religious right knows better than the entire medical establishment this time”

Do folks know of good sources on trans eschatology//trans theology?

reading an interview with Jodi Picoult about her book By Any Other Name and she just... says wildly untrue things? I am befuddled, agog, aghast

I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it: This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

The Advocate@advocate.com · last yr.

J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk

“This isn’t just Netanyahu’s genocide. This is the Biden-Harris genocide; the Trump-Vance genocide; the Keir Starmer and David Lammy genocide. It is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s genocide. This is the mainstream media’s genocide. The list goes on.”

What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi

When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?

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UN experts are calling on politicians and lawmakers to protect the human rights of trans+ people in the UK, let’s make them listen! WRITE TO YOUR MP. Find a tempate here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @nancymk.bsky.social @jessothomson.co.uk

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · last yr.

Lordy I hate these people www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)

Conference Panel Bursary | The London Journal

The London Journal is eager to support early career scholars present their work on London at conferences and publish articles based on this work. To that end, the Journal is pleased to annouce a conference panel bursary.

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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you. Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25 #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

Well, it's unsurprising but still disappointing that I'm looking up statistics for violence against women and girls for an article and it is very difficult to find a source that doesn't have some link to T*RF rhetoric or have super vague "EDI" statements that make no mention of LGBTQ+ populations

There are a whole bunch of protests happening this weekend. You can find them here: whatthetrans.com/compilation-... We need to keep organising protests all over the country. It's scaring the shit out of the anti trans MPs in parliament.