Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2026 Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities Deadline: Monday 15th September 9am #CFP #IMC2026 #Medievalsky #Neurodiversity #Neuroqueer

Not only does this sound interesting, but full points for a very appealing social media rollout of the #CFP. #CAA2026 #earlymodern #architecture

With the 30% off back-to-school sale, its a good time to order Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture 👉🏻👉🏽👉🏾✍🏻🕷️💙🩵https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/academic/art-visual-culture/theory-of-art/

On Resistance www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social is having a 30% off newly released academics, ending tomorrow, May 18! Includes my Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play 🔥🩵📖👍 www.bloomsbury.com/us/transform...

Is it okay to say that lovely family lobotomized the wrong kid?

For NYC fans of Louise Bourgeois, object relations, and "off-modern" sculpture, join me this Thursday for a Book Launch and conversation with #douglasmao @phbookstores.bsky.social #louisebourgeois #psychoanalysis #play #louisebourgeois #modernsculpture powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

As an independent scholar of art history, I’m excited to share my new website: www.drlynnsomers.com

Sculpture Journal: Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body arthist.net/archive/44896

Just two weeks to go till @forarthistory.org.uk #AnnualConference2025 at the University of York, UK. If you are attending and work on sculpture, please do join us!

Less than 4 weeks till @forarthistory.org.uk Annual Conference @uniofyork Join me and scholars Victoria MacBeath, Laura Lake Smith, Ivan Knapp, Tess McCoy, Susan Richmond, and Tobias Teutenberg for the panel "The Work of Sculpture: Object encounters within art history and everyday life"

Just 3 weeks to go! Limited tix still available @forarthistory.org.uk #ForArtHistory #AnnualConference2025 #modernsculpture #materialculture #visualculture

Less than 4 weeks till @forarthistory.org.uk Annual Conference @uniofyork Join me and scholars Victoria MacBeath, Laura Lake Smith, Ivan Knapp, Tess McCoy, Susan Richmond, and Tobias Teutenberg for the panel "The Work of Sculpture: Object encounters within art history and everyday life"

Less than a month until our Annual Conference ✨ We’re counting down the days to our three day event at University of York, bringing together international research and critical debate about art history and visual culture. ⬇️

📣 DEADLINE: 28th March 2025 📣 We are looking to appoint new members to our Board of Trustees, who will join other board members, staff and stakeholders to fulfil our mission to advance the study and practice of art history. Full details on our website: forarthistory.org.uk/latest_news/...

At what point is the rest of the country going to catch on to the fact that the executive branch *repeatedly* & *openly* defying Federal judges’ orders, without consequence, means the Constitution is no longer in effect?

Flash sale @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social ! My book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity - very recently published - is 30% off hardback and 40% off ebook. The 84 ebook illus are all colour but then the hardback is lovely to hold. Either way, a bargain! Just sayin.😊 1/2

Available for pre-order, this tome includes my chapter essay "Affect, Attachment, and Loss: The Material Objects of Art History and Psychoanalysis." Congrats to the tenacious editors Tijen Tunali and @brianwink.bsky.social www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

There are just THREE DAYS until @carolinehagood.bsky.social's dual book launch with @lisamariebasile.bsky.social over at Stanza Books 7pm EST! Don't forget to RSVP and preorder copies of DEATH AND OTHER SPECULATIVE FICTIONS, and SAINT OF, right here!

Medical toxicologist here to confirm: all available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

Lovely package arrived today: my first monograph Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture, 1947–2000 @bloomsbury #louisebourgeois #modernsculpture #contemporarysculpture #psychoanalysis #objectrelations #objectrelationtheory #donaldwinnicott #melanieklein #play

As a follow-up to my earlier David Wojnarowicz post, here's something to keep in mind in coming years: a statement from Wojnarowicz—relayed by artist Zoe Leonard—about the importance of embracing beauty in difficult times (via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's "Orwell's Roses" bsky.app/profile/rebe...)

“…the usual renovator worries kept us up at night: tuberculosis, unionization, Jacob Riis… but our dreams kept us going.”

I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.

Wow--a wonderful start on #indiebookshops where you can pre-order Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/9781350... www.wordsbookstore.com/item/nFcFUEs... bookshop.org/p/books/tran... www.watchungbooksellers.com/item/nFcFUEs...

If you'd like to see people lose their minds, mention that the person they're complaining about being annoying has autism and struggles socially. Ableism isn't just about taking up the special parking lot spots. Neurodivergent people experience ableism constantly.

Among my favorite places

Footage of the California fire is horrifying, especially of the elderly and disabled being wheeled out. Really awful and praying for those affected.

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

Being chronically ill means existing in a body that doesn’t function, living a life others can’t understand, suffering nearly 24/7 while being constantly told you’re not good enough. No matter what you do, it’ll never be enough because disabled people are seen as less than. 🧵

Exactly this

"The document won’t open? I’m not sure how I could make this any easier. Okay, I reset the document permissions, but you’ll need to sign into the email [email protected] via the password I texted you via iMessage." #McSweeneysTop24of24

Visited these stunning ceramic vessels and forms from "Wonder Working Power" by #theastergates at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The one with the spiky "collar" calls to mind Agnes Martin's Burning Tree (1961) sculpture. vmfa.museum/exhibitions/...

It is Dec 22 and I have been remiss in not yet posting any bizarre Victorian Christmas cards, so… Here’s a reminder to make sure you remember to give the gift of a severed head with embedded cleaver this Yuletide.

forarthistory.org.uk/the-work-of-... Thrilled to share the terrific line-up of scholars working on sculpture for the #associationforarthistory #Conference2025 at the University of York @forarthistory.bsky.social April 2025

This country wants poor people to die. They want them to suffer from treatable conditions. They are gleeful about it. And that’s why no one cares about an insurance CEO. This is their bed and they get to lie on it.

bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/6744a... Thrilled to share a preview of my book (and pre-order!), Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: Louise Bourgeois's Sculpture, 1947–2000, forthcoming with Bloomsbury. I will happily share discount codes as I receive them.

Once you realize that a lot of men only value their wives in terms of what they do for them or for their children/families, you can't unsee how almost all of the praise from men to their wives has nothing to do with them personally and everything to do with the quality of service.

I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature. Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:

People who think it is easy to fraudulently claim disability benefits should try it. It took me two years, and I'm mostly bedbound.

Just out: I wrote for @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social's online journal about a work that is incredibly relevant right now & should be better known: Norman Parish's c. 1970 painting "Gyrations of American Gothic," which reworks some of America's most iconic symbols journalpanorama.org/article/amer...

Mostly migrated from X. I'm a NY-based art historian who works on 20th and 21st century sculpture, material culture, and disability aesthetics. My first book, Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play, will be out next month with Bloomsbury (see page 6). www.bloomsbury.com/media/rffdbb...

Long before the modern disabled people’s movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity. @profdavidturner.bsky.social investigates the development of disabled people’s activism in Victorian Britain.

"You privately think 'the kids' are alarmingly intolerant of free speech these days, but you’d never say this aloud or online because 'the kids' are your bosses."

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Ayo propping on a shark butt