This week I'll be submitting the manuscript, with my brilliant co-editor Carl Kears, for our OA volume with UCL Press: 'Beyond Medieval Archives: Rethinking the medieval archive through creative and critical practice'. Still so much work to do before Thursday, but it's exciting!

The perfect genderqueer shirt doesn't exi--

What an absolute honour it is to be featured in this magazine, by a poet whose work I admire so much, among all these other fantastic poets!!

There are so many creative medievalists I follow on here and having a community of practice like this is a great idea. Give them a follow.

Two very cool people doing very cool things 🏳️‍⚧️🩷

‘Resentment will keep us estranged from collectivity. Anti-trans discourses work to reaffirm and reproduce economies of separability in order to exile or outlaw us from society’. Read an extract from Trans Femme Futures by Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift: www.plutobooks.com/blog/trans-f...

Well worth 9 minutes of your time

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7

what a poem. in just three lines

Today is the publication day for Essex Hemphill's *Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems," out from @NewDirections, which Robert Reid-Pharr & I coedited! Essex Hemphill's work speaks both to its time & compellingly to our current moment. Please order a copy! www.ndbooks.com/author/essex...

Alternating between these proofs and the news is making me very emotional. “Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory” is a conversation long overdue and at the same time seems almost too late. I can’t wait to share this special issue & talk trans-crip activism, theory, film, and art with y’all 🥹 Out in May!

Really excited that my pamphlet Almost, with Tenderness is coming out very soon with @outspokenpress.bsky.social 💛🍃 outspokenldn.com/shop/almost bsky.app/profile/outs...

happy Friday from Bernadette Mayer

This is blowing up, let me formally welcome all new-comers to the Eleanor Rykener fanclub! If you're looking for more premodern trans histories, check out Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography 📖 Paperback www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... 🔗 Free pdf bit.ly/TGQS-OA

So excited about this book!! And not just because I have a deeply personal chapter in it lol It also contains updated guidelines on making conferences accessible, essential reading for event organizers #MedievalSky #Skystorians #CripSky #DisabilitySky 🗃️

I love how tender this is. By Ada Limón.

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in our latest article, Denise Filios studies heritage items that commemorate margery kempe's pilgrimage to santiago de compostela, focusing on the representation of kempe's racial and religious identity and how the medieval past interacts with today's diverse population of walkers read the article👇

Under my administration, all birds get hats, yes they do folks

Looking forward to this! ✨

Extremely iconic of Neko Case to do a book talk with Kathleen Hanna directly during the Super Bowl to make absolutely sure it’s women, NB people and art school grads only. Thank you my queens

History says we forgave the executioner. —Sharif

twitter just removed this design + locked my account for the next 12 hours