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Caroline Gonda (she/her)

@liederfollower.bsky.social

queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT

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HulloThere@jethroreading32.bsky.social · 2d ago

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

478 black-and-white doodles of bony fishes. The first fish is a coelacanth; the last an ocean sunfish.
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 3d ago

The waye to figure out yf you are talkinge wyth a cat on the ynternet ys to aske the person you are talkinge to "have you been fedde" and yf thei saye "no my bowle ys alwayes emptye" BINGO you are talkinge wyth a catte on the internet. The Purring Test.

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 3d ago

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 4d ago

From the govt's press release: "The developer estimates that Jackdaw will create 27 new direct jobs and safeguard 273 existing jobs that would otherwise be lost." Odd that so much is made about this being good for jobs. Your nearest out-of-town supermarket likely generates more jobs.

University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies@cambridgegender.bsky.social · 4d ago

Coming up in a week! See you there!

University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies@cambridgegender.bsky.social · 4w ago

We are thrilled that Prof Bonnie Honig is joining us this term as Middlebrook/Djerassi Visiting Professor! Her public lecture is 5:30, 28 Oct at St John's Div School on "Hippolytus, in Reverse: Metamorphosis Now, with Deleuze, Canetti, and Arendt". More info: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/diane-m...

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 4d ago

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

Iona@singlecrow.bsky.social · 5d ago

you know, it’s not some Great Compromise, and I despise that rhetoric. Trans and nb people and all the ordinary decent people who think they’re fine are co-opted, brutalised & morally injured. Transphobes & bigots aren’t happy, because nothing will satiate that appetite for violence.

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 5d ago

Your occasional reminder that @profchander.bsky.social is writing a book called Browntology and it’s going to be 🎶 amazing 🎶 🤎

Manu Samriti Chander is the author of Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century(Bucknell, 2017) and co-editor, with Tricia A. Matthew, of the Oxford University Press book series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. His second monograph, Browntology (SUNY Press, under contract) considers the philosophical groundings of brownness in Enlightenment European thought in order to show how the figure of the model minority haunts foundational efforts to define the human.
profchander@profchander.bsky.social · last wk.

the title of my talk, “the good, the brown, and the ugly,” is not meant to suggest three discrete categories but rather—like the 80s trio tony toni toné—three ways of saying the same thing. from the enlightenment to the present, i will argue, brownness has been conceived in terms of use value and ae

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm so excited to see this in the print issue - consider buying it, or, if you're attached to the kind of institution that still subscribes to such things, consider asking them to subscribe to the Boston Review?

Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · 6d ago

Haven’t read the essay readers are calling “gorgeous,” “masterful,” “spectacularly good”—“damn fine writing” & “one of the best things I’ve read in ages”? Here it is — online early from our forthcoming issue, @kristingrogan.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath, poetic truth, & letting the unthinkable in:

CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · last wk.

Thinking a lot about how a person fights the fact that the state has made them a second class citizen without internalising a belief that they are, in fact, second class. On the things we have to keep alive is the knowledge that trans people deserve the world - just as every person does.

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · last wk.

We are second class citizens. There’s no other way to put it. And that’s a very hard reality to adjust to. And in some level, psychologically I don’t want to adjust to it. But that brings its own problems.

Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan.bsky.social · last wk.

“Juvenilia is the intolerable record of how badly life fucks us up.” ICYMI I wrote about Sylvia Plath, archives, violence, fantasy, homeopathy, tomato soup cake, and the Epstein files for the Boston Review.

Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · last wk.

“What is so interesting about the poems in Ariel and The Colossus is not that they are the apotheosis of the early experiments but that they constantly send us backward. Plath’s great subject is also the first lesson of psychoanalysis: that we never leave the scene.” — @kristingrogan.bsky.social

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: NHS England know the harm they are doing to trans patients. Their internal assessment reportedly warns of corridor care, treatment delays, outing, discrimination and healthcare avoidance being among the risks identified from their new policy www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

New NHS England policy for trans people could have ‘a number of adverse impacts’, report finds

Exclusive: rules on same-sex wards could lead to delays in care, discrimination and animosity between groups, finds internal assessment

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Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last wk.

a little dispute with the Secretary of State could help in making clear it's her responsibility not to just ape whatever managers & consultants say. And UCU again voted for that. So let's do that dispute now.

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last wk.

"It found UOW and five other universities appeared to overstate their financial problems and went too far in restructures and staff cuts." Actual parliamentary enquiry! Not just copy-pasting management narratives! CAN #UKHE PLEASE DO THIS NOW RATHER THA IN HINDSIGHT? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

The committee recommended banning universities from publicly using their own adjusted figures to justify restructures when they differ from their audited financial statements. Where universities do use adjusted figures, they would need to disclose material differences from their audited results. The NTEU wants all six universities to publish the models, assumptions, consultancy reports and council papers used to justify their restructures.
Robbie Richardson@londonmikmaq.bsky.social · last wk.

Kent Monkman‘s public art sculpture “Colony”, a tribute to beavers and the giant ancient beavers of Cree stories from the Pleistocene, in Toronto; I’m very into the beaver playing a hand drum and singing.

A sculpture of larger than life beavers in a large structure; one is reclining smoking a pipeA sculpture showing a beaver playing a hand drum
Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last wk.

I have now been in rooms with the people in charge of the curriculum review who literally told me I was very persuasive and made good points, and that they’re sorry that people will burn out. But they have to do what they said they were going to do. Completely irresponsible & unaccountable.

David Veevers@davidveevers.bsky.social · last wk.

One thing I noticed in our recent ‘restructuring’ (loathe to use the executive’s neutral wording) was that there was little rationale or logic; instead there was some hidden strategic decision making not available to staff. Nothing we said or did seemed to change an already decided outcome.