What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

"The only lasting truth / Is Change." On thys daye yn 1947, Octavia E. Butler was born in Pasadena, California, USA. Her giftes to literature, the art of science fictioun, and the worlde of ideas are immeasurable. Her worke prepared us for thys tyme. www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

Biography: Octavia Estelle Butler

Octavia Butler was a pioneering writer of science fiction. As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards Afric...

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He Words Me: Men Writing as Women in Early Modern England, edited by Catherine Loomis, collects approximately 300 poems and short prose works from early modern England in which male authors adopt the voice of a female narrator. Read online for free now: https://asu.pressbooks.pub/he-words-me/

The very first issue of *Margaret Cavendish: A Multidisciplinary Journal* has now been published! True to its name, this issue has contributions from philosophy, literature, and history. Cavendishians, consider submitting your work! www.margaret-cavendish-journal.hass.uq.edu.au/index.php/te...

Like 'Coffee, Currants, and Sherbets'? On 19 June, expert scholars from the Warburg, @ox.ac.uk and @unibe.ch will map out the relationship between #migration and #foodhistory in the #Renaissance between 1500-1800, and the ongoing impact of this today. Book now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

technique—technology—technê ‘Technique: Alternate histories of expertise and experiment’—our 2025 double special issue—explores modes of making and questions of functionality, ornamentation, craft, artificiality, skill

Our talk series will begin in only three weeks, and we‘re excited to share the amazing people we have lines up with you! The talks will be online, weekly on Fridays at 3 pm UK time! 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 There is no registration required, you can find the link to join at aroaceresearch.com/events

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Strangers to a Story

Writing about common sense and racism in surreal times

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Young artists could get $2500 to create a project. Please spread the word; deadline Monday!

Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency — Interrupting Criminalization

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧️Fundraising Raffle for MANTIS Collective (supporting trans and queer people in South Asia)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧️ Lots of cool people/books/artwork! I am contributing a 1 hour over coffee/tea/boba in central London; can chat academia, horror, anime, makeup, fashion, skincare www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

MANTIS Collective: Fundraising Raffle

Each raffle ticket supports MANTIS, a collective providing mutual aid and resources for trans+ and queer people in South Asia. Your participation is both a chance to win one of our many promises and a...

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Calling all contingent and indie modernist studies scholars! @moderniststudies.bsky.social has a NEW(-ish?) essay prize for contingent & indie scholars sponsored by @cupress.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions is 5/15. Go go go! Self-nom! You rock! www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/nomin...

so. My monograph IRISH SHAKESPEARES is finally coming out this autumn 💚 not available to preorder yet but get your libraries to order!!

Irish Shakespeares: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance in the Twenty-First Century

Irish Shakespeares explores performances, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Irish theatrical contexts, and how they articulate concerns and conversations about gender and sexual politi...

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One of my quilts on exhibit (Sea Dragon) celebrates this historic carousel which re-opens today. #quilt #quilting #BlackHistory www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

We need poets because they reinfuse language with possibility. I might claim to not believe in love or freedom or beauty or revolution or kindness, and then I read a poem that reactivates these words, making them live again.

Our spring 2026 issue is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 2

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IF WE CANNOT GO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT by Kim Choyeop, an international SF bestseller, is finally out in my English translation on April 26! Reprints have already been issued by popular demand! Here is what it’s about! US: www.simonandschuster.com/books/If-We-... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Questions I learn from Mariame Kaba and Joseph Pierce and Christina Sharpe: What invitations are you issuing? What spaces are you creating? How are you building good relations? How are you working across difference? How are you sounding a note of care? How are you pursuing freedom?

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access

Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

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New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

Vacancy: 2 PhD positions in a research project on early modern astronomical culture in the Habsburg Netherlands Deadline: May 1 visu.research.vub.be/vacancy-2-ph...

Vacancy: 2 PhD positions in a research project on early

The Sarton Centre for History of Science and Humanities (Ghent University) and research group Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) (Vrije

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💙 We have had a pretty intense #longcovidawarenessmonth so will be having a quiet few weeks to recoup If you missed our advocacy: 🎙️a super talk with @putrinolab.bsky.social on Medical Education 🎁 a gift of a medical binder to you 📣 podcast with @quietriotpod.bsky.social Catch up with links👇

🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Folk thynke that innovacioun yn academia will come from technologye. It will come ynstead from settinge asyde olde assumptions and hierarchies and givinge people more chances to trulye and radicallye thynke wyth each othir wyth no specific outcome yn mynde.

We’re excited to share today that the Newberry has received a $4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand access to our Indigenous Studies collections and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. www.newberry.org/news/newberr...

Newberry Library Receives $4 Million Grant

Funding will expand access to Indigenous collections, enable community-led research, and strengthen tribal partnerships.

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On 8 June, we'll be hosting a series of lightning talks by #PGRs working on #earlymodern race. If you are interested in presenting, please submit a bio and paper abstract by 1 May. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

CfP: PGR Lightning Talks - 8th June — CEMS KCL Blog

The Race and the Early Modern seminar invites Postgraduate Research Students to present 10-minute lightning talks on their research. The seminar will take place virtually on June 8th 2026 . To apply...

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Our inaugural session will be delivered by Dr. Patricia Akhimie (@folger.edu) who will speak about an upcoming Folger exhibition on Black woman and Shakespeare. Feb. 9th @ 17:00 (GMT)/12:00 (EST) kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Researching Black Women’s Histories at the Folger - Dr. Patricia Akhimie - 9th February — CEMS KCL Blog

The Race in the Early Modern’s inaugural seminar will be delivered by Dr. Patricia Akhimie. Dr. Akhimie is the Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Associate Professo...

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Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog

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