Publishing in March! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 'A queer scrapbook' vividly illustrates the diversity of LGBTIQ+ lives across Britain and Ireland since the Second World War. 📖 Pre-order before the 28th Feb to get 30% OFF, just enter code LGBT30 at checkout on our website. @lgbthm.bsky.social #booksky

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...

The CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference 2026 is now LIVE! The theme is Gender & Creativity. The conf will be held in Oxford, 8-10 Sept, abstracts due to me by 13 April. Full details on the GMS website (artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social) medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/

TT job in Native Studies at U of A: iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

“Targeting regional universities and community colleges reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of tenure—as if it were a privilege reserved for a select few rather than an essential working condition for all faculty responsible for teaching and research.” @uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social

hey, this sucks

The Trans Natures special issue (ed by @malentendre.bsky.social and Nat Rivkin) of Medieval Ecocriticisms that I contributed to is available open access ! Enjoy ! scholarworks.wmich.edu/med_ecocriti...

Just registered for @kzooicms.bsky.social #kzoo2026! Definitely stick around for session 1710 on Saturday afternoon for all things Old English and trans studies with me, @parkerchronicle.bsky.social, Caz Batten, and @jdavissecord.bsky.social as our presider.

Hey, #medievalsky - I just launched Compilatio ( oldbooks.humspace.ucla.edu/index.html ), a quick-and-dirty site that assembles completely digitized #medieval #manuscripts (mostly from UK repositories) in one convenient location. Check it out, and do let me know what you think.

Postdoc and PhD positions at Ghent University: Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600 niche-canada.org/2026/01/31/p... #envhist #medieval #envhum

2 year term job, feminist and gender studies, Mount Alison U: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

👀👀👀 #MedievalSky 🗃️

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Announcing the Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars for 2026 Regular registration is open until 26 April 2026. Numbers are limited so please register early to guarantee a place. EXCUSE CROSS-POSTINGS – PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

Update: The Trans bathroom bounty hunter bill in Kansas has just passed the Kansas House. They have rushed it to the Senate for passage. If it passes, the most extreme anti-trans bill in the nation is about to be sent to the Governor's desk. Live here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzwe...

I want to say a bit more about our initiative to hire scholars to 3yr Research Associate positions. None of us know what the twinning of humanities research support and employment will look like in another 5(?) years. But we do know that we need it. As a matter of social and cultural health. 1/

“I love writing about Beowulf,” he said, crying.

Like everyone else I’ve been watching the horrors unfold as emboldened fascists take to the streets and murder people. However seeing people band together and fight back has been heartening and that inspired this piece I drew up this weekend, depicting a good old fashioned peasants’ revolt.

It's relevant that the congressional Dems who voted to fund ICE include one of the most avowedly anti-trans reps (Suozzi) and the four who voted to support Marjorie Taylor Greene's draconian ban on lifesaving care for trans youth (Cuellar, Davis, Gluesenkamp Perez, Gonzalez).

Save 30% on #NewBook "Sex Isn't Real" by Beans Velocci, which traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of #trans life. buff.ly/Yn8UO0i

Happy National Handwriting Day! open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...

It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Þetta er neyðarlegt 🤡

Again, all polls show that abolishing ICE is an incredibly popular position, completely in the mainstream center of American politics. "Centerism" has nothing to do with what's in the center, but is instead an absolute and radical stance against the idea of change

An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."

Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven) archives.yale.edu/repositories...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/... Assistant Professor of Black Studies

A colleague reminded me I needed to do this: if you assign anything I wrote in your classes, I am very happy to zoom in and talk to your students. I consider it the best part of my job.

A vivid illustration of “deliberate assaults” from a copy of Magnus Erikssons landslag from about 1430.

Americans should accept that the US second republic (the one that lasted from the civil war until Trump) has come to an end and a new constitutional convention will be needed to found a third

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.

Happy New Year to everyone except the guy who just got given a knighthood for having axed Medieval English at Leicester...!

This 'crusadercore' aesthetic and its fascist connections has been in my radar for a long time through its connection to the @crusaderkings.com fan-base. But what I found striking reading this and looking at their examples is how seamlessly the ideology shifts between multiple-choice bigotries.

Enjoyed the latest episode from @mmapod.bsky.social on Early Global Insularities www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/early-g... #podcast

Just in time for the new year, my latest article in Medieval Feminist Forum is out! I am so grateful to the award committees for the SMFS Graduate Student Prize and the 2024 Debbie White Gender and Medieval Studies Essay Prize for believing in it. Read illicitly here: tinyurl.com/BAP-BADTRANS...

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

This is nonsense ! Please read my article in The Sundial about weird empire building fantasies in Kalaallit Nunaat. medium.com/the-sundial-...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Part 2 arrives: a first attempt at a timeline of 500 years of Native trans men and transmasc history landbodymind.substack.com/p/notes-towa...

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

"Heyla!" Beowulf By All, 2021 Tarren Andrews and the Flathead Indian Reservation 🇺🇸

Publication day! I am delighted to say that my newest article - "On “Post-ness”: Colonialism, Periodization, and Old Norse-Icelandic Studies" - has been published by Exemplaria, one of my absolute favourite journals! Read it illicitly here: tinyurl.com/POSTNESS-BAP

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

Applications are open for MA and PhD positions in my department. Quite honestly, I think it’s a great place to do grad school in English. Tell your friends! MA: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sotec/g... PhD: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sotec/g... #AcademicSky

Long shot request: do any of my #medievalsky buddies have a modern English translation of Richard Coer de Lyon? I’d love to assign it for a class on medieval heroes and monsters, but I really don’t think that struggling with the Middle English will be productive !

I teach the history of medieval art for goodness’ sake. I’m not going to pretzel myself trying to convince anyone that learning about this subject will make a better [insert job here]. As soon as I agree that it’s a legit ground for debate, I lose. Instead let’s point out the fallacy of the premise.

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Since a decision regarding my and my department’s future is apparently imminent (as in, should happen in the next month or two), I thought this is a good time to repost this. Please keep your fingers crossed for Scandinavian Studies at Tübingen, and for me.

Pipes froze ❄️ I love calamity at the end of the semester!