Keynotes for GMS26 are @hellomizk.bsky.social @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social @mirabelledomine.bsky.social @lukeewalker.bsky.social. Sessions incl traditional papers, lightning talks, roundtable, creative showcase & exhibition. Please note there will be *no* parallel sessions, so fewer slots than usual.

CFP: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present (15-16 June, @uninorthampton.bsky.social) 🗃️We are interested in how nostalgia – which has often been associated with conservatism – is utilised by individuals, groups and movements that may be characterised as politically radical.

@londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society will be hosting its first colloquium of the academic year on the 22nd November 2025 on the subject of Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages. 😊 You can find the Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/81823681150

Looking forward to presenting this paper today. The organisers are kindly printing out the zine I made to go with my paper because I am presenting it online.

Given the rise in tensions lately, particularly towards the trans and non binary communities our trustee, Heather Paterson, has written an article to coincide with Hate Crime Awareness Week. in which they discuss the importance of solidarity. www.heatherpaterson.co.uk/post/hate-cr...

New post meandering around nostalgia, and food, and Eamon Duffy on memory and loss. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/dill-sour-...

New book review out in Signs of the fantastic A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Great issue too, check out lots of brilliant articles www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)! This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

Paperback of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects is apparently on sale #MedievalSky www.routledge.com/Trans-and-Ge...

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Here are some gorgeous snippets from historical garden writers about bulbs, and flower colours, and general loveliness that might make Monday morning feel a bit better. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-sullen-o...

You‘re invited to this years WELCOME LECTURE delivered by the one and only @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and chaired by Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social! Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂 Details below! ⬇️

Our last Making Space Session raised a perennial question: what do you do when you get stuck with your creative-critical project? Our Guild members came up with lots of excellent suggestions which you can find compiled in the blog post below👇

This was such a wonderful event last week, organised by @sidhepress.bsky.social to fundraise for Gaza. I bought the following books from them too 👇 Keep telling of Gaza ❤️

They're HERE! 💙 If you’d like to get your hands on one of our “This shirt is” t-shirts, now you can! 100% of profits fund gender-affirming care for trans+ people. For a limited time, use the code ‘anne10’ for 10% off ✨ 🔗 merchify.me/AnneHealth/ #AnneHealth #GenderAffirmingCareSavesLives

Such a privilege to participate with readings from Palestinian poets & poets across the globe in aid of Gaza. #KeepTellingOfGaza I shared in reading: We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices, by Amanda Najib (proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/w... I also read a poem of mine. ❤️ @sidhepress.bsky.social

Tonight ✨ So looking forward to sharing this wonderful space of bearing witness & taking action through poetry. Join us.✨

Come back from annual leave to discover that Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists is out now! So proud to have been involved with this wonderful project. wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

I am so looking forward to reading at this event! Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14th August, 7pm BST #Poetry #Community #Palestine

✨It was an absolute pleasure to write this blogpost about my zine making & the workshops I facilitate. ✨ ✨Within this post are many acts of kindness, collegial support & feminist communities of care. Some spoken & others unspoken (due to word limits💜), but I am grateful for each & every one. ✨

Very hand thread

My poem/essay is indebted to @dianewatt.bsky.social concept of ‘overwriting’, @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social ecofeminist reading of Grendel’s Mother’s wetlands, @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social on desire lines, @ellafrears.bsky.social poems wi desire lines, & Finn Mackay on feminist activism in movement 🙏🏻 TY!

If anyone else is threatened by Kathleen Stock - or any of those other GCs who love free speech so much they have defamation lawyers on speed dial - please do get in touch. We employ a full time lawyer to fend off this intellectually dishonest bullshit.

In this post, I'm trying to think through the ways we respond to infertility, loss, and the guilt that can be stirred up by attempts at pregnancy that don't work out, through the lens of a story written nearly 700 years ago. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...

Tomorrow !

I don't normally advocate random petition-signing but sometimes they can make a difference. This petition needs another 21,000 signatures by 28 July & it will force a debate in parliament. If it does there are loads of issues we can get MPs to raise, incl. the PB ban, Levy, proposed hormone ban...

In a country where rape is all but decriminalised, the Daily Rowling asks, 'is the system unfair to men?'

Popping this out there for the evening crowd. It's part of a new writing project - I'm excited and nervous, so any support would be welcome! Here, I'm writing about how a long-ago writer captured grief for a wanted baby that didn't come to be. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...

This comment absolutely made my day. I've been working really hard with my writing, and it is so lovely to feel as if we're starting to build a real community here on bluesky.

To help understand why the vital work of @refugeetales.bsky.social is more important than ever please read the words of Pious Keku observer.co.uk/culture/inte... #RefugeesWelcome #EndIndefiniteDetention Please will you read Pious’s words and share them.

As we prepare for #RefugeeTales 10th Anniversary of Walking, please read about the important work of @refugeetales.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/opinion... Please share #EndIndefiniteDetention #RefugeesWelcome Now, more than ever we must help create ‘an environment of welcome’

Something must be wrong with the Matrix. An article from the Guardian about trans people that: 1. Centres trans people 2. Quotes trans people 3. Does so honestly 4. Doesn't include a gratuitous quote from one of the transphobic hate campaign groups.

Seconded!! Fantastic conference ✨ @themamoconf.bsky.social and it was lovely to see everyone!

🔈 We’re recruiting for volunteer interpreters/translators! We are especially looking for Arabic, Farsi, French. Amharic, Tigrinya and Spanish speakers, but welcome all applicants. Find out more and apply here:

Join us THIS FRIDAY on 20 June 2025 from 15:30 - 16:30 (BST) for our live #RefugeeDay Webinar to find out more about our MA Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies. Register your place on the webinar here: shorturl.at/7hQvM #RefugeeProtection #ForcedMigration #PostgraduateStudy

In May I ran a series of workshops with Kent Refugee Action Network for their students at the Uni of Kent, with funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk. The workshops responded to the #RefugeeWeek theme 'Community as a Superpower'. Here's a report I wrote about the workshops: www.kent.ac.uk/news/communi...

Full Programme now online at feministgenderequality.network/trans-libera...

We now have a cool banner made up for the @networkgender.bsky.social midsummer conference in Kings College London on Saturday. We have a great line-up and are getting really excited about it. Reminder that ticket sales close at 6.00 pm tomorrow (Wed). Link in next skeet…

Statement Altercation at WESC meeting: A parliamentary incident at a WESC meeting exposes severe distress and rights issues for trans people post-Supreme Court ruling. #TransRights #WESC #GenderCritical #SupremeCourt #HumanRights @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social translucent.org.uk/parliamentar...

Kind of glad to be able to share No Is Not A Lonely Utterance soon as it offers tools to diagnosis ‘campaigns’ such as this. Not that we need more tools.

We're pleased to announce some of our keynote speakers that will be joining us on the 21st June at Bush House. Along with our Co Chair Natacha Kennedy will be the parent of a trans child. For obvious reasons we are not publicising their name publicly https://bit.ly/4e1Z8po

Sit with this, don´t scroll on. And then don't let them normalize this pain, this grief, this horror.

Open to everyone! To book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daisy-blac...

And his travels were recorded by Hugeburc, an English nun in Germany

Writing this summer? Registration is OPEN for the @outspoken_acad Academy Plus 9 week online poetry course with tutors 🔥 Malika Booker 🔥 Joelle Taylor 🔥 Pascale Petit 🔥 16 June–11 August Workshops each Monday 7–9pm UK Info & Register: outspokenldn.com/academy

Looking forward to speaking at this event organised by Aberdeen postgraduates in a few weeks time - come and join us (it’s hybrid!) www.instagram.com/p/DKj_2pbIr6... @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

June 12: I’m giving a public talk this week on the carceral safety politics of the anti-trans backlash in Britain. Join us online or in-person: tinyurl.com/4h2pev86

Here's my post about Mediterranean gardens, the legacies of plants, and the hidden romances that haunt garden writing. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/fragments-...

🪩OUT-SPOKEN LIVE IS BACK NEXT MONTH 🪩 Poetry that hits. Music that moves. A night you won’t forget. Join us at Southbank Centre: ✨ Fiona Benson ✨ Mona Arshi ✨ Susannah Dickey ✨ Alex Apolline ✨ Benjamin Cook 🗓 10 July 📍 Purcell Room 🎟 Book now — www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/out... 🔗

Excited to have proofs of my new book #Refuge: Stories of War and Love. Isn’t it beautiful? And Leone Ross’s quote blew me away. SO grateful🙏🏽. Available for preorders NOW and out in August 2025