You never hear dentists saying they can’t enjoy period dramas if the actors have nice teeth.

Absolutely. Without Alice Jones’ witness that day, this wouldn’t have happened.

From seeing a name on a placard to transcribing and co-editing the complete works! Proud and grateful to have played a part in bringing the works of the first composer racialised as Black to publish music in Europe to a modern scholarly edition.

The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive goodlawproject.org/hampstead-he...

Oh God, this lot again. *Logs in to vote*.

Is anyone out there familiar with humdrum, or familiar with someone who is familiar with it? I am all at sea. 🌊

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

There’s nothing incoherent or ironic about the f*r r*ght guy eating Indian food. That’s precisely the latitude that wh*te s*premacy gives him.

There is nothing not glorious about this story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The way this person was only too happy to use her own identity to discredit anti racist efforts.

“I'm only asking for a piece of bread... that's all," a 17-year-old boy at al-Shifa hospital tells the BBC, as food security body the IPC warns more than 1.5 million Gazans are at risk of severe malnutrition/ starvation. Nearly 500,000 are considered to be facing “catastrophe.”

Second day of having to spend ££ on taxis b/c the rail infrastructure is so decrepit. Having to plan and replan travel is just exhausting.

You can skip straight to the final question if you don't have the time or energy. There is a free box at the end you can fill in.

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

Happy 5 year anniversary to Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into Bristol Harbour :D

White pertains to racial markers, and British pertains to statehood. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

They’re Quakers. They’re nice people. This isn’t hard

5 yrs since we witnessed George Floyd's murder. Lots of us have felt pain & racial injustice but this watershed moment had urgency for our tomorrow. Racial justice continues to be struggle that feels out of reach. But we continue for our loved ones, each other & for a just tomorrow. RIP Mr Floyd.

🚨 Four of the five main political parties at Holyrood have written to the Presiding Officer protesting her unlawful and (believed to be) transphobic guidance goodlawproject.org/open-letter-...

One of two paintings recently discovered in Beirut by an art historian which are believed to be the work of Artemisia Gentileschi #womensart

Good God.

Great day to chat Mozart Coronation Mass recordings for BBC Radio 3 Record Review www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Brilliant lecture by Dom Broomfield McHugh. Free to watch, and with some archival discoveries that became available just weeks before the lecture was given! youtu.be/QYlG8IZrXK0?...

It’s really worth a watch!

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”

If this is you, or someone you know, get in touch with me at [email protected].

The absence of trans people from the British media is part of the problem. I'd like to offer mentoring to trans people trying to get into journalism, free of charge. Most of my experience is obviously in political commentary, but I might be passably useful in news and other areas.

I LOVE Sophie’s music. So please to see this scholarship.

It shouldn't have to be like this. An entire minority shouldn't be sitting, terrified, that the UK Supreme Court is going to remove their rights off the back of a decade-long hate campaign. It shouldn't have to be like this.

It's Transgender Visibility Day. Transgender people, like everyone else, deserve to have healthcare, legal recognition of their status and protection under the law. They are on the front line, being used as a wedge to attack all minority groups, and deserve our support.

This is great by Rutherford on the new race science open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...

Good to see a VC stand up for their uni.

These days, if you say you’re English, they whip out a DNA test.

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Wonderful chapter on Lusitano as a neo-Latin author by Maxim Rigaux! And my 1st citation! 🤓

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.

Some of youse haven’t been reading ‘Eating the Other’ and it shows.

One impact of my writing - RISM changed the way they describe Vicente Lusitano's identity because they read my article about him in Early Music America magazine, which followed my and @josephmchardy.bsky.social's Grove Music work and my 2020 @vanmusicmag.bsky.social piece rism.info/new_at_rism/...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... So, I’m a clue on a quiz show this week. Didn’t see that one coming (about 20 minutes in) 🤓

Not the coffee kiosk blasting out ‘I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and Heaven knows I’m miserable now’ at we poor Clapham Junction commuters at 7:30 this morning. 😂

I’d be so grateful to hear from any women who work(ed) in professions *other than* music, but who studied music at HE level, and who might be interested in talking to some young students. If you are someone like that, or could me direct me to someone you know, please DM?

Fix NHS waiting times, make public transport reliable, affordable, accessible THEN you can whine and moan about the ‘long term sick’.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Vicente in Australia!

They say that if you write ‘Diversity’ on a PowerPoint, a creature in the shape of Gordon Brown comes out of the screen and makes you tear up all the copies of European Sacred Music.

Stepping into some Big Shoes presenting Sunday Feature next week. Do give it a listen! Rustin! March on Washington! Lutes! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Hello from Bibioteca Nacional de 🇵🇹, where Manuel de Faria e Sousa is reminiscing about the old days when folks could leave their doors unlocked. In 1639. Looking forward to the bit about the young people and mobile phones.

However this season finds you, I hope you get to show the vale of tears who’s boss 🕊️ ‘Trio’, Edwin Morgan, 1968/70