Come hear about our research! I’ll be talking loosely about my book project but also about the Welsh-language poet Rhys Prichard and his 18th-century translator. :)

If you missed our initial registration form but would still like to attend Early Modern European Neurodivergence on the 3rd and 4th of August 2026 either in-person at Swansea University or online via Zoom, please complete the following registration form!📝 forms.office.com/e/RDmhiWqpna

Delighted to share the finalized flyers for my practice-as-research event next month! 🤩 Concluding performance is open to all and will be opened by a critical/contextual talk from me. Happy to set up a Zoom link if anyone is interested in tuning in from beyond Swansea!

Delighted to share the finalized flyers for my practice-as-research event next month! 🤩 Concluding performance is open to all and will be opened by a critical/contextual talk from me. Happy to set up a Zoom link if anyone is interested in tuning in from beyond Swansea!

Early Modern European Neurodivergence: Call for Papers is now live! August 3rd and 4th 2026 at Swansea University. See the link in our bio for the submission form or scan the QR code in this post🤩🎉

Excited to share the CfP for @amendproject.bsky.social ‘s Early Modern European Neurodivergence conference happening in Swansea this August! Info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TQpB...

Excited to share the CfP for @amendproject.bsky.social ‘s Early Modern European Neurodivergence conference happening in Swansea this August! Info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TQpB...

Today! Message for Zoom link. :)

This got rescheduled for next week, btw. Contact me for the Zoom link. :)

We've got another great series of talks coming up this term at Swansea for New Welsh Voices in English Literature! Join us next week (4th Feb) in KH152 for Bridget Bartlett's paper "gRace Making in Early Modern English Literature". Message or email me for a Zoom link.

Exciting news🎉 AMEND will be presenting at Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action. This 2-day conference will be held online from 23–24 January 2026! Tickets are available for purchase here: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/dis.... Hope to see some of you there!🤩

Announcing New Welsh Voices in English Literature - a new research series at Swansea! I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales. I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.

From now through October 3, you can use this link to get a 50% discount on the audio version of my book Neuroqueer Heresies! #books #booksky #audiobooks #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #neuroqueer #autism #autistic #queer #cognition #mind #psychology #somatics www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center, 2026–2027 THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER, an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowships. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/9428-2/

Time for another attempt to try to make a habit out of checking this app. Hi everybody!

🧨Hot off the press!!! Happy to share that my newly edited volume titled SHAPING INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES is now OUT with @edinburghup.bsky.social (in Sonya Freeman Loftis' brand new series on Early Modern Lit and Disability)

Posting to announce: 1. My visa for my postdoc in Swansea has officially been approved! 2. Alice Equestri’s Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture, to which I contributed a chapter, is out now! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

Read "Early Modern Neurodiversity: A Preliminary Research Agenda" by Bridget M. Bartlett and Bradley J. Irish, free in the new issue of ELH #S2O #OpenAccess via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Brad's and my article in ELH is out - and it's OPEN ACCESS!!! We're both still constantly learning on the topics covered, and this might not look exactly the same if we started writing it today. But we're both really proud of it! :) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Brad's and my article in ELH is out - and it's OPEN ACCESS!!! We're both still constantly learning on the topics covered, and this might not look exactly the same if we started writing it today. But we're both really proud of it! :) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Somewhat relatedly, trying to learn Welsh pronunciation when I still haven’t figured out how to sound normal with my new, deepened voice is a trip.

“Bryn” is Welsh for “hill” and also a gender-neutral name I tried unsuccessfully to make happen for myself. Now that I’m moving to Wales I can’t decide if it’s lucky I don’t share my name w a ubiquitous topographical feature or if it’s too bad because “Hill” is a great Nonbinary Noun Name™️

Been busy! But finally getting around to announcing: I’ll be moving to Wales in the coming months to join the AMEND project at Swansea University as a postdoctoral research associate. I am so grateful and fortunate to have this opportunity! 😊

Been busy! But finally getting around to announcing: I’ll be moving to Wales in the coming months to join the AMEND project at Swansea University as a postdoctoral research associate. I am so grateful and fortunate to have this opportunity! 😊

It's notable that rfk describes autistic children as a destroyed "resource" when he complains about autism stopping people from working. Here you see how eugenic ideology functions as a bridge between capital and fascism.

literally who the fuck cares if autistic people never write poems or play baseball or whatever the fuck. you don’t get to do eugenics because you can’t understand that disabled people are fucking people with lives of their own that are worthwhile even if they don’t meet your arbitrary criteria

idk who needs to see this but here is the photo that appears on the american pika's wikipedia page

Anyway I love being autistic and trans and every time these clowns talk about my bodymind as if it's a problem to be solved I will simply be more annoying about it

EVERYONE SHUT UP my kindergarten teacher congratulated me on my PhD 😭

Since it’s World Autism Awareness Day, please be aware that I am now Dr. Bartlett after successfully defending my dissertation on neurodiversity and race in early modern English drama! 😱🤯🥳

Thank you so much to @shakeracepedagogy.bsky.social for having me on! What a fantastic conversation! open.spotify.com/episode/5RnZ...

Please… does anyone at SAA/RSA have a power bank? My phone isn’t charging with a cord and I’m getting desperate. 🙏🏻😵‍💫

Our network for early modern scholars with disabilities is now on Instagram! www.instagram.com/earlymodernc...

This is roughly my understanding of what Minecraft is

I love love love doing the posters every year for EMo Trans! A very small number from the edition will only be available for sale at the conference to non-presenting attendees. Glasses included. (Risograph and Letterpress printed by @meanwhilelttrpress.bsky.social )

Join us!

Introducing Early Modern Community of Care! Inspired by similar affinity networks for premodern scholars, we aim to connect early modern scholars with disabilities for mutual support and opportunities to address topics like accessibility. sites.google.com/view/earlymo...

CFP alert: Continuing on from the success of our 2024 in-person event, we are thrilled to announce that we are running a virtual event for 2025! This will be taking place on the 25th June 2025, on Zoom. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 11th April 2025! #DisHist #CFP

Friends, Andrew Bozio and I made a thing. Please spread the word and consider getting involved. 💜

What if for my two-year hrt anniversary I did one of those “I an x months old” baby photos with a board that says things like “I have __11__ scraggly chin hairs”

Still (just) time to submit!

“I love a little drama; let’s start a bar fight” ok christopher marlowe

Friends, Romans, nonbinary pals…

Free virtual panel on Tue Feb 18 3pm EST on #Disability in #AsianStudies: Blindness and Leprosy in #EarlyModern #Japan, featuring two amazing scholars Wayne Tan and Susan Burns! Register in advance to receive the Zoom link. #DisabilitySky #DisHist #SkyStorians

Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is. They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring. So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.

I'm seeing a lot of posts encouraging folks to buy and read trans literature. In that spirit, I've made the course calendar and some of the readings for my Contemporary Transgender Literature and Cultural Production course available: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Time to promote this essay again, I guess. medium.com/the-sundial-...