The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

💜The embracing emperors💜 Diocletian and Maximian are shown in unified leadership of the Roman empire this #ReliefWednesday. Both have stepped down from their chariots to greet each other. #AncientRome #AncientBluesky🏺

This is hateful and dystopian. I was just on holiday in Kent. Nice to know how welcome queer people (esp children) are there eh? Please, Kent locals, write to your councillors and resist this grossness. #KidLitUK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I did it – I’m officially Dr Di Tuccio! Huge thanks to my supervisors, examiners, and the Dept. of Classics & Ancient History at Durham. This is just the beginning. I’ll keep pushing boundaries and giving voice to ancient sex workers and other marginalised figures in Greek and Roman literature ✨📚🏛️

My lovely students from the Pompeii module are exhibiting their visual reconstruction projects today in @durhamclassics.bsky.social! They’ve produced some excellent work and I am very proud of them. Poster by Eleanor Paxton 😊

In 1492, Pope Alexander VI (aka Roderigo Borgia) banned the yearly prostitute races through the streets of Rome because they would corrupt respectable women viewing them. So his son Cesare compromised by bringing the competition into the Papal Apartments, where only clergy & men could see them.

'I'm nearly dying in the foundry! I'm tied up; I'm being treated like dirt'. The brutality of ancient slavery in a fourth century BC letter incised on a strip of lead. Text from Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 163 (2017), p.49-50 Picture: © Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού, ΕΦΑ Αθηνών

Rainbows in the storm: Navigating hostility and hope in LGBTQ+ lives Following last week's Supreme Court ruling & new data on suicide deaths, @davidwoodhead.bsky.social explores how mental health inequalities are impacting LGBTQ+ people, and how we can tackle these injustices👇 tinyurl.com/mpu2a7px

I recently tried to update my LinkedIn bio to reflect my academic research on the literary portrayal of Greek sex workers (hetairai) in Imperial Graeco-Roman literature. @linkedin.com wouldn’t let me use the term “sex worker”, even in a clearly academic and respectful context.

I came, I wrote, I submitted! Not quite sure how I feel yet, but I can’t wait to defend my work on Graeco-Roman sex workers! (Or should I say… can’t wait to attack?) 💁🏻‍♂️📚

Fabulous fun launch of Epic of the Earth last night at Durham with Katrina Kelly providing superb questions. Thanks so much to Magdalena Zira, Roberto di Tuccio, @profarlenehh.bsky.social Alessandro Vatri, Rory McInnes-Gibbons for sterling support @durhamclassics.bsky.social @classical_association

The final thesis revision is hitting hard. I saw this 3rd-century CE mosaic from Antioch for the first time and almost burst into tears—Glykera, the hetaira (sex worker), standing between Comedy and Menander. Now at the Princeton University Art Museum

Get ready for another exciting Plato event in Durham, organised by me and my amazing friend and colleague Dr Giovanni Trovato! @durhamclassics.bsky.social #plato #ancientmedicine #medicalhumanities #durhamclassics

My last paper as a PhD candidate! It was a pleasure to discuss sex workers in Alciphron’s and Aristaenetus’ letters at Edinburgh University @edinclassics.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @janjasoldo.bsky.social , @gibsonroyk.bsky.social, and Andrew Morrison