Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.
Micah Goodrich, All Trans On Deck
@micahgoodrich.bsky.social
Shrieks when pulled from earth. Transsexual. Premodern trans studies. English Prof at Boston University
Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
To celebrate NCS 2026, we've curated a reading list of essential medieval titles, all available for 30% off until 31 August. If you're attending, visit our stand to browse our latest publications and meet Commissioning Editor Siobhan Poole. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/07...
ko-fi.com/s/96ba5729f2 Hi trans, poetry and medieval bsky! I got a new microchapbook out at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ’s 2026 pride series entitled “the book of dame ærney”. It’s my tribute to trans girlhood and medieval romance, as an anachronistic genre. Please download and donate tips!
Pride Series #21: the book of dame ærney by alice f.z. - fifth wheel press's Ko-fi Shop
The twenty-first title in the fifth wheel press 2026 Pride Microchapbook Series. alice f.z. is a poetess and PhD candidate at UCSB in English, where ...
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Shameful
Carin Ruff@carinr.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵
good morning trans people you do not have to forgive your mother
At Queens College CUNY for Emo Trans 4, yeah (emo as in Early Modern! And some medieval !)
"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time
News from today confirms NYU Langone has still not started care. Mayor Mamdani has yet to push for enforcement of NYC Human rights law against the hospital, which is in his power. He has yet to direct H+H to absorb trans youth patients. He has maintained radio silence.
NYU Langone still silent on NY Attorney General’s call to resume transgender care - Washington Square News
NYU Langone Health remains silent three weeks after the New York attorney general’s deadline for the medical center to restore gender-affirming care for minors. Attorney General Letitia James has not ...
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If you've enjoyed my posting about #QueerBib26, have no fear--Queer Bibliography will be back in 2027! It will be hybrid. The best way to not miss the CfP is to sign up for the QUEERBIB listserv, which you can do at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/QUEERBIB.
It also comes with the most cursed acknowledgements page to have ever been written.
Pack up. I’ve found the most cursed thesis committee ever to exist.
Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline. Please share. tcpipeline.org
Trans Continental Pipeline
Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
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Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
My colleague Tobias Wiggins is holding this amazing seminar series on trans methodologies at McGill! Please spread the word!
An amazing essay by art historian Dr. Denva Gallant. 😇 hyperallergic.com/all-about-lo... for @hyperallergic.com
All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel
A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.
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'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it' - Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855 Poor ol' Chas. It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟 Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that a vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy! 🌈📚🗃️ #histsci #queerhistory
My publisher is giving away 20 finished hardcover copies of my upcoming novel, WRETCH! 🪲🕯️🖤 Please help spread the word if you can! This book is queer and sad and a little gross. I hope you love it! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw
From rising horror star and award-winning author of Thi…
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BOSTON, MA friends: I’ll be at Trident Booksellers on Tuesday, March 24 with Christopher Golden to celebrate the launch of my novel, WRETCH. I really hope to see you there! Register here: eric-la-rocca-event-rpbu7.tripleseattickets.com/registration...
Check out all our great new books releasing this February, including “Sex Isn’t Real,” by @beansvelocci.bsky.social. See our blog for more: buff.ly/yFB1kAQ
Denva Gallant talked to KJZZ 91.5 FM The Show about #RaceB4Race Love and about representations of Blackness in the Middle Ages. "How does race inform the way we conceive of love? And how do we love in times of turmoil?" www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
This art historian says Blackness in the Middle Ages wasn't viewed the same way as it is today
Denva Gallant is an assistant professor of art history at Rice University and she’ll be speaking at the ASU symposium. She’s a medievalist and an art historian, and she studies ideas of Blackness in t...
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Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.
sincere question: if you are writing a lot right now, how
An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃
Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
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