What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

"The only lasting truth / Is Change." On thys daye yn 1947, Octavia E. Butler was born in Pasadena, California, USA. Her giftes to literature, the art of science fictioun, and the worlde of ideas are immeasurable. Her worke prepared us for thys tyme. www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

He Words Me: Men Writing as Women in Early Modern England, edited by Catherine Loomis, collects approximately 300 poems and short prose works from early modern England in which male authors adopt the voice of a female narrator. Read online for free now: https://asu.pressbooks.pub/he-words-me/

The very first issue of *Margaret Cavendish: A Multidisciplinary Journal* has now been published! True to its name, this issue has contributions from philosophy, literature, and history. Cavendishians, consider submitting your work! www.margaret-cavendish-journal.hass.uq.edu.au/index.php/te...

Like 'Coffee, Currants, and Sherbets'? On 19 June, expert scholars from the Warburg, @ox.ac.uk and @unibe.ch will map out the relationship between #migration and #foodhistory in the #Renaissance between 1500-1800, and the ongoing impact of this today. Book now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

technique—technology—technê ‘Technique: Alternate histories of expertise and experiment’—our 2025 double special issue—explores modes of making and questions of functionality, ornamentation, craft, artificiality, skill

Our talk series will begin in only three weeks, and we‘re excited to share the amazing people we have lines up with you! The talks will be online, weekly on Fridays at 3 pm UK time! 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 There is no registration required, you can find the link to join at aroaceresearch.com/events

Young artists could get $2500 to create a project. Please spread the word; deadline Monday!

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧️Fundraising Raffle for MANTIS Collective (supporting trans and queer people in South Asia)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧️ Lots of cool people/books/artwork! I am contributing a 1 hour over coffee/tea/boba in central London; can chat academia, horror, anime, makeup, fashion, skincare www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

Calling all contingent and indie modernist studies scholars! @moderniststudies.bsky.social has a NEW(-ish?) essay prize for contingent & indie scholars sponsored by @cupress.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions is 5/15. Go go go! Self-nom! You rock! www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/nomin...

so. My monograph IRISH SHAKESPEARES is finally coming out this autumn 💚 not available to preorder yet but get your libraries to order!!

One of my quilts on exhibit (Sea Dragon) celebrates this historic carousel which re-opens today. #quilt #quilting #BlackHistory www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

We need poets because they reinfuse language with possibility. I might claim to not believe in love or freedom or beauty or revolution or kindness, and then I read a poem that reactivates these words, making them live again.

Our spring 2026 issue is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

IF WE CANNOT GO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT by Kim Choyeop, an international SF bestseller, is finally out in my English translation on April 26! Reprints have already been issued by popular demand! Here is what it’s about! US: www.simonandschuster.com/books/If-We-... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Questions I learn from Mariame Kaba and Joseph Pierce and Christina Sharpe: What invitations are you issuing? What spaces are you creating? How are you building good relations? How are you working across difference? How are you sounding a note of care? How are you pursuing freedom?

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

Vacancy: 2 PhD positions in a research project on early modern astronomical culture in the Habsburg Netherlands Deadline: May 1 visu.research.vub.be/vacancy-2-ph...

💙 We have had a pretty intense #longcovidawarenessmonth so will be having a quiet few weeks to recoup If you missed our advocacy: 🎙️a super talk with @putrinolab.bsky.social on Medical Education 🎁 a gift of a medical binder to you 📣 podcast with @quietriotpod.bsky.social Catch up with links👇

🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Folk thynke that innovacioun yn academia will come from technologye. It will come ynstead from settinge asyde olde assumptions and hierarchies and givinge people more chances to trulye and radicallye thynke wyth each othir wyth no specific outcome yn mynde.

We’re excited to share today that the Newberry has received a $4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand access to our Indigenous Studies collections and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. www.newberry.org/news/newberr...

On 8 June, we'll be hosting a series of lightning talks by #PGRs working on #earlymodern race. If you are interested in presenting, please submit a bio and paper abstract by 1 May. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Our inaugural session will be delivered by Dr. Patricia Akhimie (@folger.edu) who will speak about an upcoming Folger exhibition on Black woman and Shakespeare. Feb. 9th @ 17:00 (GMT)/12:00 (EST) kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Really pleased to be co-organising this seminar alongside Dr. Eli Cumings, with support from colleagues at CEMS and the Folger. Do sign up! We're hoping this will be a supportive space for work in progress. If you'd be interested in presenting, please do reach out.

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

It's been a while since I've posted about asexual issues, but I wanted to make folks out there aware of a fantastic asexual studies conference at the University of Toronto, from Jan. 5-7. @medrenliza.bsky.social and Ela Przybylo are a part of it! crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...

Thrilled to see this Review Essay nearing publication in postmedieval. In 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', I review four fascinating books on whiteness in art history, fiction, and drama, ranging from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.

Looking forward to participating in this conversation about the role of women in science and philosophy, past and present, on October 27th with @cescapeacock.bsky.social and @jennmpark.bsky.social #womeninSTEM www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-th...

Delighted to share the beautiful cover for our volume, Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, edited by Alexandra R. A. Lee, E. R. P. Champion, and me. Coming soon from @mip-medpub.bsky.social for the Premodern Transgressive Literatures series ✨

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Congratulations to Prof. Miles Grier, whose book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery won the Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social 2024 Book Prize and the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social 2025 First Book Award!

A reminder that workshop and course proposals for our pilot anti-criminalization Communiversity are due this Friday, April 25th! We are looking for proposals that offer engaged and creative ways for people to think and to learn together. Learn more and apply ⬇️

UCU stands with trans people, today and every day. The Supreme Court ruling is not just wrong, it’s dangerous. We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state. She was 25.

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

🚨 Support our Graduate Teaching Assistants! This year has seen a spate of cuts in real terms to GTA pay and conditions across many departments that left an already underpaid and overworked workforce at breaking point. Sign our petition to support crucial staff: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/gta-glasgow/

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

10% of the gaza population is either killed, injured, missing, or detained. 60,250 killed: 54,044 civilians 18,600 children 12,430 women 210 journalists 40,000 orphaned 121,000 injured 4790 disappeared

Busy stall outside Main Gate yesterday as we sought to gain signatures to the national @ucu.org.uk petition to #StopTheCuts Thanks to Diarmid, Jenny, Lina and Rory for donning the pink to support the branch ✊