Three more weeks to submit an abstract for the OOC International Conference on ‘Power and Possession’ (open to graduate students at @oocdtp.bsky.social, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, @stockholm-uni.bsky.social, @mit.edu, Australian National University, and a.r.t.e.s Grad School at Cologne University)

Quick trip up into the mountains (with elks!!) before my flight home

Be gay; eat lunch (@ #Shax2026)

Had lots of fun talking about Diana and queer time at the Comparative Sexualities seminar yesterday at #shax2026. And having a natter about perimenopausal queens with @prof-burzynska.bsky.social ! ❤️

Morning from Denver

I’m on a hunt for 16thC Habsburg women wearing eagle jewellery. Everything now looks like an eagle. Is that an eagle at the very top of Maria of Austria’s head? Or just some sort of flourish that looks a little like an eagle? Am I an eagle?

Submissions are open for our OOC International Conference!! 💚

Lovely time doing my wee paper round in the sun this morning 💚 @cambsgreenparty.bsky.social

Discover the hidden stories of the women who shaped Trinity Hall’s historic law collections with our latest blog post: “Women Behind the Law Books in Trinity Hall’s Old Library.” 👉 oldlibrarytrinityhall.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/w... #WomenInHistory #TrinityHall #OldLibrary #WomenInLaw

I'm currently playing a game of psychological warfare with a man on Goodreads who immediately reads every book I finish and then disagrees with my ratings. Don Quixote is next, mate. Good luck...

Submissions are open for our OOC International Conference!! 💚

The 11th AHRC International Conference will take place 14-16 September 2026 at The Queen's College, Oxford, with the theme Power and Possession. We are calling for submissions from OOC DTP students, as well as our international partner universities, by 8 May 2026. www.oocdtp.ac.uk/borders-and-...

Favourite find in the Rijksmuseum

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every time someone hears my expertise is in queer Shakespeare they’re like, “oh so he was gay?” first of all, Shakespeare doesn’t need to be queer for his plays to be queer—or for us to read & interpret his plays queerly. second of all, yes. yes he was.

Thoroughly enjoying this

Our precious #Shakespeare first folio of 1623 recently underwent some conservation treatment. Read all about it in our latest blog: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31272

Took my embryonic Spanish speaking skills out for a test drive at the Oxford Golden Age Symposium. ¡Qué delicia!

Practicing microfeminism on Duolingo

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Made a metric tonne of soup today with King Lear on in the background #cordeliasmith

European Shakespeare Research Association Conference in beautiful Porto