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Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

Leo Bussi, Chris Kraus and Colin Herd — a dreamy trio! Glasgow, 2025.

La Jolla is fresh and wild. 2025

Surreal: giant dinosaurs off the highway. 2025

Palm Springs, modern and wildly cool. Moorten Botanical Garden is a tiny, spiky dreamland. 2025

Joshua Tree, myriad oases of green. 2025

Pioneertown is an extraordinary real life movie set. It was hard to concentrate on my book with that beautiful back garden. 2025

Las Vegas is a spectacular, simulacra, amusement park. We were definitely in Oz! 2025

Zion National Park was so lush! 2025

Glen Canyon and Horseshoe Bend, a day on the water. 2025

Monument Valley is unreal! 2025

A day in the Grand Canyon. 2025

Art in Phoenix. 2025.

Fantastic chat today at @uofglasgow.bsky.social Creative Conversations with 2 of our 3 amazing commissioned writers & Gutter Magazine! Great insights from Lucy Lauder & Joey Simons + full readings. Thanks to Colin Herd for expert chairing! 🙏

"leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to market forces undermines resilient subject provision and economic strategy, with lasting consequences for students and for universities’ ability to serve a public good.” 2/2

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 making a(n unintentional) reference to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

I'm still looking for disabled voices, stories, etc. to include in my book, "Crippled Careers: Navigating the Workplace with a Disability." If you identify as disabled, chronically ill or neurodivergent, I'd love to chat with you about your experiences navigating the workplace.

After sleeping for 15 hours, she was still very tired. Glasgow, 2025.

You make a bed, you go for a shower, you return to find good work undone — but how can you be mad at those culprits?! Glasgow, 2025.

Last week I saw the mighty Sluts of Trust. They were absolutely incredible! Glasgow, 2025.

It was an absolute joy to chat with Hollie about their project. We had some laughs, too! I can’t wait to see the exhibition!

A real life (sort of) Cerberus. Glasgow, 2025.

Abandoned, lost or still looking…? Books on benches. Glasgow, 2025.

Mouths are tricky to control. Glasgow, 2025.

Molly Harrabin (she/her/hers) We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the conference: Queer Lives and Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures. This will take place online 30 March – 1 April 2026 and we hope that you will consider

It turns out the little one is part dolphin! Irvine Beach, 2025.

”Qu‘est que c‘est?“

Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern. Joyful, anarchic, wild, a mix of feeling like being at a club and still feeling so much reverence for the art in front of you. I laughed, I danced, I sang along. Just brilliant! London, 2025.

Vizslas need vitamin D too… Glasgow, 2025.

Little sisters can be so annoying — especially when they steal your favourite tennis ball! Glasgow, 2025.

Join us on 30 April for our next seminar! Florence Oulds, Policy and Public Affairs Officer at @scottishtrans.bsky.social, will share findings from the recent Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report events.bookitbee.com/university-o... #TransMentalHealth #MentalHealth #LGBT

Our next seminar is this afternoon at 4pm GMT. Join us! (online, free)

A lovely week with these three boys.

We are on Substack & our latest post is by our curatorial assistant, Holly Rennie Brown on recent projects and archiving finds alasdairgrayarchive.substack.com

Thanks for sharing Kay. It was fun to write this blog. I am someone who loves a network & who loves connecting with people, so it seemed fitting, given my new job, to write something about it.

For no reason, other than she’s so cute. Glasgow, 2025.

Launch of the British Academy ECRN’s Northwest & North Wales Cluster in Lancaster today was brilliant! I chaired a lovely panel of ECRs who reflected on their experiences of the Network. The energy in the room was really buoyant. Well done team for organising! #BAECRN

Great exhibition of DJCAD students work, supported by the Scottish Working Class Network (I‘m a board member), at Strangefield. So much talent displayed. The exhibition comes down today, but please do pop along to Dalmarnock and support these emerging artists! (I forgot to take photos!)

CFA: Queer Exile https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152855 München, 15.03.2025-15.10.2025, Dr. Janin Afken; Prof. Bettina Bannasch; Prof. Burcu Dogramaci; Liesa Hellmann, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.03.2025

Yesterday I took part in an brilliant ECR-led sandpit workshop at UWS in Paisley, thinking about how we can make space(s) for voices of care-experienced people in higher education. So many brilliant thoughts and such passion!

CfP: Queer Exile, Jahrbuch Exilforschung 2026. Brilliant editors and brilliant topic! arthist.net/archive/43827

I‘m absolutely delighted to finally get my hands on a copy of Jürgen Baldiga‘s Breitseite (Broadside), which is a small collection of his poetry and collages, published in 1980. The additional bonus (kindly sent by the seller and editor of the second collection) of a copy of Schreib-Spuren…

A full day of brilliant #BAECRN meetings. This morning started off a meeting with the Edinburgh contingent of the Consortium, hosted by wonderful colleagues at National Galleries of Scotland. Trying to understand the needs there & to connect them across the city to deepen our network.

Anyone LGBTQIA+ or a migrant to Ireland, Ennis Book Club Festival has a great new project of free creative writing workshops aimed at certain groups- I'll be facilitating these ones and to book just email [email protected]

It’s a new year, so time for a reminder about the British Academy #ECR Network & how to join. The ECRN supports ECRs in SHAPE disciplines to connect, collaborate & offers development opportunities to ECRs (broadly defined). Feel free to msg if you have Qs. Join here: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/BAECRN/

We're pleased to announce a deadline extension for the 'Modernism and Data' Special Issue! The new deadline is January 20th. See below for the CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...

We don’t like the cold in our house. (She did this entirely on her own!) Glasgow, 2025.

Outlier, Glasgow, (on London Rd, right near Trongate) is exceptional! The food, atmosphere, team, everything was stunning! Run, don’t walk!