Does anyone know of examples of Roman (or generally ancient Mediterranean) slotted spoons? Surely they existed, but I’m having trouble finding an example

Join Rachel Lesser, @juliamperroni.bsky.social, and myself tomorrow at 12EDT for the 3rd session of the LCC summer reading group! We will be reading some of Mark Rifkin’s Beyond Settler Time. Sign up here for the zoom link:

Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight

just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”

Off to CAMWS! Please join me at the Queer Theory and Classics workshop I’ve coorganized with the wonderful Ky Merkley, Chiara Graf, and @juliamperroni.bsky.social

It’s not a big step from “we are withholding money for lifesaving research and treatment in order to protect Jews/punish those who threaten Jews” to “angry at the deaths caused as a result? It’s the Jews’ fault.”

Making a passing reference to Ken dolls in my dissertation requires rewatching all of Barbie (2023), right?

So nice to get to attend CAPN/CACW at UBC! I especially enjoyed the staged reading of Thomas Heywood’s The Golden Age which is a truly wild and extremely ace and gay play!

Always fascinated by minor Roman deities- there was one called Viriplaca who apparently offered marriage counseling at her shrine on the Palatine

Now is when Canada should invest heavily in its university system. Not just STEM. We could be a leader in the Social Sciences and Humanities and become a robust research global leader.

My partner @liesljensen.bsky.social is starting this very cool organization with a very fun name that I am taking full credit for. Go check it out!

Hello Bluesky! We are the Guild of Queer Early Modernists - an organization dedicated to supporting queer scholars and scholars of queerness in early modern studies! We are just starting, but have big plans for a mentorship program, and more! Come join! gqem.org

I just contacted them- you should too!

Why is finding a title the worst part of every project?

Excited to head off to the #AIASCS today! My paper "Repeating Nymphs and Repeating Trauma: Queer Time and the Narrative Structure of the Metamorphoses” is on a virtual panel all about queer time on Saturday afternoon so even if you can’t make it in person you can come! The SCS has online reg!

I think the correct choice is clear

a classic holiday sweater to celebrate the true meaning of hanukkah

okay, we're starting with this Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already! Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting) Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

Asexuality studies people, has anyone traced the first use of “ace”? It seems to appear as already pretty well understood around 2008/2009 but it’s not clear to me where it first appeared and was popularized or the reasons people had for it at the time.

As a treat I want to title my next several papers with Chappell Roan lyrics. Now I just need to come up with a paper about Catullus 5…

Currently trying to cure ballots in Nevada and I can confirm that almost no one answers their phones. To be fair, neither do I! Hopefully people respond to texts…

Since I have a number of new followers that honestly makes me feel weird I thought I’d introduce myself! I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Washington working on asexuality in Latin poetry. In my spare time I do baroque dance and some sewing and knitting

Having now received one of these emails I think I am officially a Real Classicist

It’s always interesting when doing research to find every trope of acephobia coming from scholars who had no idea asexuality is even a thing

Had a wonderful time at the CAC this week! So good to be back with the Canadian classics crowd!

Had a great time at my first CAMWS hearing some great papers, presenting, and having lots of wonderful conversations! I even managed to leave the hotel long enough to see a seal at the zoo!

My Latin100 students have been begging for a creative bonus assignment of some sort. Anyone have any brilliant ideas?

I’m looking for suggestions of German classics articles people like (philology, philosophy, history/archaeology) to read as exam practice. Does anyone have favourites?

I feel certain that in the last 2 years I’ve read something pushing back on the idea that Augustan art/literature is “propaganda” on the grounds that Augustus wasn’t centrally dictating the programme. Can anyone think what that might be? Now I can’t find it again! Especially interested in art!

I’ll be presenting my paper Venetrix Animumque Innupta Remansi: Atalanta’s Ovidian Intertextuality and Asexual Motherhood in Statius’ Thebaid at CAMWS this year! Excited to give an asexuality conference paper for the first time!

Does anyone have a good system for absences and getting students caught up? I am sick, so many of my students are sick, and with Latin five days a week even a very brief illness puts them behind so fast. Also any suggestions for lots of students missing quizzes?