Going Postal would be a way more valuable standard HS text than Gatsby, and I become more convinced of this every day.
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they/she // Henrician and early modernist // Assoc. Prof Gender and Position-Taking in Henrician Verse, 2023 from Amsterdam UP: https://tinyurl.com/5cfrv4af
>get a little chocolate treat from the groce >jumpscare: there is a Donne poem on the wrapper >examine wrapper for some suggestion of why there is early modern poetry in my chocolate >see note “love poem inside!” >the poem inside is Elegy 16 👀
Alright #PCA2026: one last preview! I've posted about the talks in the 1:15 panel; at 11:30, we have a roundtable featuring instructor, intern, and student perspectives on a fan fiction class as resistant queer space. You know you want to hear about a class where these were the discussion groups:
Alright, #PCA2026, let me give you the 3/3 preview for tomorrow's last Fan Studies panel (Fan Studies XIII, at 1:15): Conan Anderson's "Construction of Transmasculinity Through Slash Fiction" (fuller title redacted for Bluesky) Image credits to Newt_L_Young, Lee20 & JamieVoiceOver, & Transicon.
Time for today's sneak peek at Fan Studies XIII, #PCA2026: a little preview of Tammy Vu's "MMOs, Fan Fiction, and the Lived Experiences of Individual Players Within the Confines of a Story," which you can hear Saturday at 1:15
Hey #PCA2026, have a little sneak peak of Fan Studies XIII, featuring Aurora Elledge on "Queering the Canon: Fanfiction and Queer Theory," at 1:15 Saturday. Context-free spoiler:
Heading to #PCA2026 and putting together your schedule? I know where you should start and end! First thing tomorrow, catch Game Studies I for a killer lineup that includes Brandon Westfall’s great arguments on the queer erasures of playersexuality.
Heh #Shax2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social come along to the “Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet at Thirty” seminar tomorrow morning led by @benbroadribb.bsky.social @gemmaallred.bsky.social & me!
OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...
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📚🌈 1 week until our first reading group session of 2026! This month we are talking about The Shapes of Sex by Leah DeVun 📚🌈 📍Where?: over Zoom ⏰ When?: Thursday 12th Feb from 1-2:30pm PT/ 4-5:30pm EST/ 9-10:30pm GMT 📚 To sign-up to the reading group visit: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
An articulation of a thing that bothers me has emerged from my mid-term grading marathon: Some students think that the point of assignments is to show (off) what they KNOW, when what I want is to see what they’ve LEARNED. Only took me 16 years to name, but will be useful going forward!
love when medieval texts use words that aren’t always as tied to gendered/sexed embodiment in ME as they are in modern English. tell me more about the Green Knight’s womb or the male dragon’s womb or maidens marrying maidens, I’m imagining beautiful trans and queer medieval worlds in my mind
“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...
A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.
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Writing groups are really such invaluable tools for making sure time gets carved out for your work. I’m making time for this one as often as I can; I hope I see some of y’all there:
The Guild of Queer Early Modernists@emqueerguild.bsky.social · 10mo agoJoin us for our drop-in writing group, happening tomorrow (Monday) from 4-5:30 EST! We will be off next week (October 6th), so this is your chance for some supportive co-working with us in the next few weeks. Join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/1UIJ...
mfer is literally named "rob tombs", did they summon the spirit of the british museum into an op ed writer
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Acknowledging that, like, by definition all scams are scummy, the near-daily spam texts I am getting about “jobs” feels…just particularly scummy in this moment. Taking advantage of people who are desperate for work while all their options are being actively eroded…gross, gross, gross.
🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by @pennpress.bsky.social. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace 10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura
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May I share with you the small joy that was my dog’s report card from daycare today? (Bonus content: the name of the last dog on her friends list.)
Just finished knitting my first sweater, using Republic of Yarnia’s ( @isasaxonists.bsky.social ) merino Aran!! Extremely pleased with it; already looking forward to the next one
More people voted for Kamala in Texas (4.8 million votes) and in Florida (4.7 million) than in New York State (4.6 million). California had nearly the same number of Trump '24 voters (6.08 million) as Florida (6.11 million), and had only 300k less than Texas. Does anyone else see the problem here?
*Out now in paperback* 'Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen' edited by @edelsemple.bsky.social & Ronan Hatfull is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. bit.ly/3ZcDet2
A couple years ago, I was in a workshop at SAA on using Shakespeare in times of political unrest. And as we moved to including the auditors, someone asked what they could do to support those of us who had done the workshop, almost all of whom worked in red states.