I do love a theatre who will send you a form letter rejection email one day and then the very next day send you an email “invitation” to purchase a $1,000 ticket to their gala lol

I’m so glad I got to write this piece for the @folger.edu’s Collation blog about the work I’m doing as part of my short-term Artistic Research Fellowship! www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Okay, I'll admit I've been so much in such a postdoc application/transatlantic move hellscape that I sort of forgot this site existed. But hey, exciting news! I've been at the incredible @folger.edu for my Artistic Research Fellowship for the past month, and today I'm in Staunton, VA for this!

We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here: ereed.org/collections/...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/st... Important action! Under pressure from transphobes, the University of Reading instituted one of the most draconian regimes of trans segregation in the UK just weeks after the SC ruling. We need to push back on this HARD. Sign this and share widely.

Gain teaching experience and access a supportive platform for sharing research, approaches and critical perspectives as a CDH Methods Fellow in the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline: 16 July Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/learning/met...

when someone tells me I can’t go look at a tomb I really want to look at:

just fell to my knees in Peterborough Cathedral

Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...

If you’re coming to my workshop at #BSA2025 (would love to have you!) it’s at 2:15pm in the Small Rehearsal Room — meet at Receptions and our lovely conference assistants will help you find it as it’s a bit tricky! ✨

J.K. Rowling is a menace to society whose anti-trans rhetoric is violent and encourages offline violence. Her telling people to take pictures of suspected trans women in bathrooms and disseminate them is sexual harassment. And it puts everyone in the women’s bathroom in danger.

Okay! Here's the new MP letter template to push back on the trans-exclusionary Code the EHRC are trying to bring in. I'm timing this letter to bolster the @transsolidarity.bsky.social Mass Lobby Day (next Wednesday), creating a swell of protest before, during & after. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A very nice surprise to receive this from Roehampton yesterday just a few days before my viva this Thursday! Congrats to all of the staff recognized for their wonderful work, especially my supervisor Dr. Lisa Sainsbury, who received an incredibly well deserved win for Excellence in Supervision. ❣️

Just to give a plug for this talk I'm giving, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the...

Took a very worthwhile break from viva prep today to hear the brilliant Lydia speak about race-making in early modern civic performance today, something I’ve thought so much about in terms of my own festive perf. culture work but haven’t had the time to write much about! So many thoughts!

Here's that story if anyone's interested in it www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/...

“ok sure they were wrong about condoms and aids and sex ed and abortion and hpv vaccines and whether women are inferior to men and gay sex causes hurricanes but maybe the religious right knows better than the entire medical establishment this time”

Do folks know of good sources on trans eschatology//trans theology?

reading an interview with Jodi Picoult about her book By Any Other Name and she just... says wildly untrue things? I am befuddled, agog, aghast

I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it: This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

“This isn’t just Netanyahu’s genocide. This is the Biden-Harris genocide; the Trump-Vance genocide; the Keir Starmer and David Lammy genocide. It is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s genocide. This is the mainstream media’s genocide. The list goes on.”

UN experts are calling on politicians and lawmakers to protect the human rights of trans+ people in the UK, let’s make them listen! WRITE TO YOUR MP. Find a tempate here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @nancymk.bsky.social @jessothomson.co.uk

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you. Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25 #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

Well, it's unsurprising but still disappointing that I'm looking up statistics for violence against women and girls for an article and it is very difficult to find a source that doesn't have some link to T*RF rhetoric or have super vague "EDI" statements that make no mention of LGBTQ+ populations

There are a whole bunch of protests happening this weekend. You can find them here: whatthetrans.com/compilation-... We need to keep organising protests all over the country. It's scaring the shit out of the anti trans MPs in parliament.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

Absolutely encourage any early modernists in London to see 1536 at the Almeida if you’re able — with some understandable and easily forgivable hiccups, it is a thoughtful and passionate engagement with how misogyny operated in the early mod. period and how we have inherited that poisonous legacy

Another thing to now mention to your MP when writing or talking to your MP. The UK fell from 1st place all the way to 22nd in 10 years.

US-based folks -- applying for jobs/postdocs/etc. in the midst of [gestures vaguely at Everything] feels... interesting, but: Does anyone have any good resources on writing/developing Teaching Statements and/or EDI Statements? I've found some from Googling but am wondering if anyone has go-tos.

Rope-Dancing & Female Performance 14 May 5pm UCL ⭐ Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in 17thC Paris Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL) ⭐ Early modern women’s rope-dancing and the editing of Shakespearean drama: Cicely Peadle & The Two Noble Kinsmen Clare McManus (Northumbria) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I went to an all-girls* Catholic high school in Chicagoland, you cannot believe the way my HS friends group chat is blowing up right now

From personal experience I can confidently say you cannot ask for a more dedicated, thoughtful, and supportive supervisor than Clare McManus -- jealous of whoever gets to take on this incredible project!

This organisation does groundbreaking, grassroots essential legal work, please support it if you can. At this time one of the worst human rights situations for a minority in the UK is happening, it affects all people, not just trans, including visitors. www.translegalclinic.com/donate

Nothing More Beautiful: an online creative writing workshop, 22nd May 7-9pm. All proceeds to the Good Law Project and their fight for trans rights in the UK. Everyone welcome; tickets and further information below.

We're collecting data and stories on what the appalling Supreme Court decision means for trans and gender non conforming people. Lawyers will review all responses - please share your story because if we don't know we can't act. (And please share with friends.) goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...

celebrity casting in Shakespeare is wild because how am I in a 90% full house for a three hour long Richard II on a Tuesday night (Jonathan Bailey, that’s how)

I’m mid cleaning this up again after a small technical glitch and close to 2000 signatures from just UK academics! Would be great to get over that line before it’s published…

Today marks the start of #TransHistoryWeek, a new initiative by @wearequeeraf.com 🏳️‍🌈 This year we've launched our new QUEER & TRANS HISTORIES series - and we want your proposals! Ed. by Matt Cook, Jennifer V Evans & @psimonetto.bsky.social #TransRights #TransHistories

Early modernist colleagues — the Classical Theatre of Harlem needs help following the unjust removal of crucial funding under the current administration.

CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Submit by 16th May This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

Historian friends and colleagues! Please read, share and consider signing this letter from historians to UK MPs urging them to speak out in support of trans rights and avoid repeating mistakes that led to widespread discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+ people in the past. 🗃️

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

To celebrate Mayday, Haymarket Books is having a huge sale on books about class war. Check it out, can’t recommend Haymarket enough!

Open letter to Pride events: Stand with trans people, no pride for anti-trans parties

Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.